Leadership Quotes

Hello welcome to my leadership quotes page. Being a great leader takes certain traits. The following quotes are there to inspire you to become a better leader.

• If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.
  John Quincy Adams


• Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence
  Albert Einstein


• Don't tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.
  George S. Patton


• Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputation and social standing, never can bring about a reform. Those who are really in earnest must be willing to be anything or nothing in the world's estimation, and publicly and privately, in season and out, avow their sympathy with despised and persecuted ideas and their advocates, and bear the consequences.
  Susan B. Anthony


• The very essence of leadership is that you have to have vision. You can't blow an uncertain trumpet.
  Theodore M. Hesburgh


• A leader must have the courage to act against an expert's advice.
  James Callaghan


• The leaders who work most effectively, it seems to me, never say "I." And that's not because they have trained themselves not to say "I." They don't think "I." They think "we"; they think "team." They understand their job to be to make the team function. They accept responsibility and don't sidestep it, but "we" gets the credit. This is what creates trust, what enables you to get the task done.
  Peter Drucker


• A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don't necessarily want to go but ought to be.
  Rosalynn Carter


• I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure: which is: Try to please everybody.
  Herbert B. Swope


• Most important, leaders can conceive and articulate goals that lift people out of their petty preoccupations and unite them in pursuit of objectives worthy of their best efforts.
  John Gardner


• A leader is best when people barely know he exists, not so good when people obey and acclaim him, worse when they despise him. But of a good leader who talks little when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: We did it ourselves.
  Lao-Tzu


• A great leader's courage to fulfill his vision comes from passion, not position.
  John Maxwell


• Good leaders must first become good servants.
  Robert Greenleaf


• Leadership can be thought of as a capacity to define oneself to others in a way that clarifies and expands a vision of the future.
  Edwin H. Friedman


• Leaders aren't born they are made. And they are made just like anything else, through hard work. And that's the price we'll have to pay to achieve that goal, or any goal.
  Vince Lombardi


• Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.
  Peter F. Drucker



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