THE 46 BEST QUOTES ABOUT LEADERSHIP

1.       Leadership is understanding people and involving them to help you do a job. That takes all of the good characteristics, like integrity, dedication of purpose, selflessness, knowledge, skill, implacability, as well as determination not to accept failure. (Admiral Arleigh A. Burke)

2.       Leadership has a harder job to do than just choose sides. It must bring sides together. (Jesse Jackson)

3.       Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it. (Dwight D. Eisenhower)

4.       Go to the people. Learn from them. Live with them. Start with what they know. Build with what they have. The best of leaders when the job is done, when the task is accomplished, the people will say we have done it ourselves. (Lao Tzu)

5.       He who has never learned to obey cannot be a good commander. (Aristotles)

6.       The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been. (Henry Kissinger)

7.      
Leadership is the ability to get extraordinary achievement from ordinary people. (Brian Tracy)

8.       Leaders make decisions that create the future they desire. (Mike Murdock)

9.       The quality of a leader is reflected in the standards they set for themselves. (Ray Kroc)

10.   The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in comfortmoments, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy. (Martin Luther King)

11.   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 F. Drucker)

12.   I always remember the axiom: a leader is like a shepherd. He stays behind the flock, letting the most nimble go out ahead, whereupon the others follow, not realizing that all along they are being directed from behind. (Nelson Mandela)

13.   The challenge of leadership is to be strong, but not rude; be kind, but not weak; be bold, but not bully; be thoughtful, but not lazy; be humble, but not timid; be proud, but not arrogant; have humor, but without folly. (Jim Rohn)

14.   No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit for doing it. (Andrew Carnegie)

15.   It is better to lead from behind and to put others in front, especially when you celebrate victory when nice things occur. You take the front line when there is danger. Then people will appreciate your leadership. (Nelson Mandela)

16.   No man is good enough to govern another man without that other’s consent.  (Abraham Lincoln)

17.   A good leader can’t get too far ahead of his followers. (Theodore Roosevelt)

18.   A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better. (Jim Rohn)

19.   I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people. (Mohandas Gandhi)

20.   Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other. (John F. Kennedy)

21.   The real leader has no need to lead, he is content to point the way. (Henry Miller)

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

23.   A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together. (Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe)

24.   He who has never learned to obey cannot be a good commander. (Aristoteles)

25.   To do great things is difficult; but to command great things is more difficult. (Friedrich Nietzsche)

26.   The key to successful leadership today is influence, not authority. (Kenneth Blanchard)

27.   Leadership: The art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it. (Dwight D. Eisenhower)

28.   Great minds have purposes; others have wishes. (Washington Irving)

29.   Many people have ideas on how others should change; few people have ideas on how they themselves should change. (Leo Tolstoy)

30.   Accept the challenges so that you may feel the exhilaration of victory. (George S. Patton)

31.   To be able to lead others, a man must be willing to go forward alone. (Harry Truman)

32.   Earn your success based on service to others, not at the expense of others. (H. Jackson Brown, Jr.)

33.   A leader is one who sees more than others, who sees farther than others, and who sees before others. (Leroy Eimes)

34.   I cannot trust a man to control others who cannot control himself. (Robert E. Lee)

35.   You don't have to hold a position in order to be a leader. (Anthony D'Angelo)

36.   A good leader takes a little more than his share of the blame, a little less than his share of the credit. (Arnold H. Glasgow)

37.   Leaders don’t create followers, they create more leaders. (Tom Peters)

38.   Help others get ahead. You will always stand taller with someone else on your shoulders. (Bob Moawad)

39.   You do not lead by hitting people over the head - that's assault, not leadership. (Dwight D. Eisenhower)

40.   Leadership is solving problems. The day the soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help or concluded that you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership. (Karl Popper)

41.   People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader leads, and the boss drives. (Theodore Roosevelt)

42.   The boss says, "Go!"; the leader says, "Let's go!" (Gordon Selfridge)

43.   All men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power. (Abraham Lincoln)

44.   In simplest terms, a leader is one who knows where he wants to go, and gets up, and goes. (John Erskine)

45.   With great power, comes great responsibility. (Stan Lee)

46.   Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them. (John Maxwell)