Leadership Quotes

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Leadership Quotes:
"If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader." - John Quincy Adams

"If I have the belief that I can do it, I will surely acquire the capacity to do it, even if I may not have it at the beginning." - Mahatma Gandhi

"Leadership is not magnetic personality, that can just as well be a glib tongue. It is not "making friends and influencing people", that is flattery. Leadership is lifting a person's vision to higher sights, the raising of a person's performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations." - Peter F. Drucker

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

"Nothing so conclusively proves a man's ability to lead others as what he does from day to day to lead himself." - Thomas J. Watson, Sr.

Leadership Quotes:
"He that cannot obey, cannot command." - Benjamin Franklin

"My own definition of leadership is this: The capacity and the will to rally men and women to a common purpose and the character which inspires confidence." - General Montgomery

"Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall." - Stephen R. Covey

"Good leadership consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people." - John D. Rockefeller

"As a leader, you're probably not doing a good job unless your employees can do a good impression of you when you're not around." - Patrick Lencioni

Leadership Quotes:
"One of the true tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency." - Arnold H. Glasgow

"Nothing limits achievement like small thinking. Nothing equals possibilities like unleashed thinking." - William Arthur Ward

"There is no power on earth that can neutralize the influence of a high, simple, and useful life." - Booker T. Washington

"Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it." - Dwight Eisenhower

"All who have accomplished great things have had a great aim, have fixed their gaze on a goal which was high, one which sometimes seemed impossible." - Orison Swett Marden

Leadership Quotes:
"Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate, and doubt to offer a solution everybody can understand." - General Colin Powell

"You don't lead by pointing and telling people some place to go. You lead by going to that place and making a case." - Ken Kesey

"The ability to summon positive emotions during periods of intense stress lies at the heart of effective leadership." - Jim Loehr

"Men make history and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better." - Harry Truman

"A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way." - John C. Maxwell

Leadership Quotes:
"Big thinkers are specialists in creating positive, forward-looking, optimistic pictures in their own minds and in the minds of others."
- David J. Schwartz

"The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint to keep from meddling with them while they do it." - Theodore Roosevelt

"The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between, the leader is a servant." - Max DePree

"Leaders are not born. They are made. They are made just like anything else. . . through hard work. That's the price we have to pay to achieve that goal or any goal." - Vince Lombardi

"It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching." - St. Francis of Assisi

Leadership Quotes:
"The guy who takes a chance... who walks the line between the known and unknown... who is unafraid of failure, will succeed."
- Gordon Parks

"Leadership must be based on goodwill. Goodwill does not mean posturing and, least of all, pandering to the mob. It means obvious and wholehearted commitment to helping followers. We are tired of leaders we fear, tired of leaders we love, and of tired of leaders who let us take liberties with them. What we need for leaders are men of the heart who are so helpful that they, in effect, do away with the need of their jobs. But leaders like that are never out of a job, never out of followers. Strange as it sounds, great leaders gain authority by giving it away." - Admiral James B. Stockdale

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