MOST EXCITING LEADERSHIP QUOTES THAT WILL MAKE YOU FEEL UNSTOPPABLE
Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them. John C. Maxwell.
Do what is right, not what is easy. (Submitted by the Wisdom Quotes Community)
The art of leadership is saying no, not yes. It is very easy to say yes. Tony Blair
Leading people is the most challenging and, therefore, the most gratifying undertaking of all human endeavors. Jocko Willink
As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others. Bill Gates
In the future, there will be no female leaders. There will just be leaders. Sheryl Sandberg
The secret of leadership is simple: Do what you believe in. Paint a picture of the future. Go there. People will follow. Seth Godin
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
Efficiency is doing the thing right. Effectiveness is doing the right thing. Peter F. Drucker Click to tweet
A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd. Max Lucado Click to tweet
Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision. 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 Patton
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires. William Arthur Ward
You have to be burning with an idea, or a problem, or a wrong that you want to right. If you’re not passionate enough from the start, you’ll never stick it out. Steve Jobs
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The mark of a great man is one who knows when to set aside the important things in order to accomplish the vital ones. Brandon Sanderson
Be strong enough to stand alone, smart enough to know when you need help, and brave enough to ask for it. Unknown
Keep your fears to yourself, but share your inspiration with others. Robert Louis Stevenson
Don’t waste your energy trying to educate or change opinions; go over, under, through, and opinions will change organically when you’re the boss. Or they won’t. Who cares? Do your thing, and don’t care if they like it. Tina Fey
You don’t need a title to be a leader. Mark Sanborn Click to tweet
If your actions create a legacy that inspires others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, then, you are an excellent leader. Dolly Parton
Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate, and doubt to offer a solution everybody can understand. Colin Powell
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
We need to think of the future and the planet we are going to leave to our children and their children. Kofi Annan
I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions. Stephen Covey
Failing organizations are usually over-managed and under-led. Warren Bennis
Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower. Steve Jobs
Becoming a leader is synonymous with becoming yourself. It is precisely that simple and it is also that difficult. Warren Bennis (This is one of my favorite leadership quote. Leave a reply here and let me know what’s yours!)
leadership quotes i alone cannot change the world but i can cast a stone across the water to create many ripples mother teresa wisdom quotes
I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the water to create many ripples. Mother Teresa Click to tweet
leadership quotes a genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus martin luther king jr wisdom quotes
A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus. Martin Luther King Jr Click to tweet
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Lead from the back and let others believe they are in front. Nelson Mandela Click to tweet
Leadership is an action, not a position. Donald McGannon
Leadership is not about titles, positions, or flow charts. It is about one life influencing another. John C. Maxwell
Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality. Warren Bennis
Leadership is the art of giving people a platform for spreading ideas that work. Seth Godin
Real leadership is leaders recognizing that they serve the people that they lead. Pete Hoekstra
Leadership is not just about giving energy… it’s unleashing other people’s energy. Paul Polman
Leadership is about making others better as a result of your presence and making sure that impact lasts in your absence. Sheryl Sandberg (Facebook)
The very essence of leadership is that you have to have a vision. Theodore Hesburgh
Management is doing things right. Leadership is doing the right things. Peter F. Drucker Click to tweet
Leadership is lifting a person’s vision to high sights, the raising of a person’s performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations. Peter F. Drucker
Leadership is liberating people to do what is required of them in the most effective and humane way possible. Max De Pree
Leadership is much more an art, a belief, a condition of the heart, than a set of things to do. Max De Pree
Leadership is like third grade: it means repeating the significant things. Max De Pree
I start with the premise that the function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers. Ralph Nader
Leadership is about creating, day by day, a domain in which we and those around us continually deepen our understanding of reality and are able to participate in shaping the future. This, then, is the deeper territory of leadership – collectively ‘listening to what is wanting to emerge in the world, and then having the courage to do what is required’. Joseph Jaworski
Leadership is not bullying and leadership is not aggression. Leadership is the expectation that you can use your voice for good, that you can make the world a better place. Sheryl Sandberg (Facebook)
Leadership is unlocking people’s potential to become better. Bill Bradley
A leader is a dealer in hope. Napoleon Bonaparte
You must be the change you wish to see in the world. Mahatma Gandhi
If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulder of giants. Isaac Newton
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
Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much. Helen Keller
The only safe ship in a storm is leadership. Faye Wattleton
Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Change will not come if we wait for some other person, or if we wait for some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek. Barack Obama
Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago. Warren Buffett
Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step. Lao Tzu
I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel. Maya Angelou
To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart. Eleanor Roosevelt Click to tweet
We don’t build services to make money; we make money to build better services. Mark Zuckerberg (Facebook)
I have not failed. I’ve just found 10000 ways that won’t work. Thomas A. Edison
The only way to do great work is to love what you do. Steve Jobs
Your work is to discover your work and then with all your heart to give yourself to it. Buddha
Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself. Leo Tolstoy
A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: We did it ourselves. Lao Tzu
Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve. Napoleon Hill
Be willing to be uncomfortable. Be comfortable being uncomfortable. It may get tough, but it’s a small price to pay for living a dream. Peter McWilliams
Mountaintops inspire leaders but valleys mature them. Winston Churchill
Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value. Albert Einstein
Believe you can and you’re halfway there. Theodore Roosevelt
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To lead people, walk behind them. Lao Tzu Click to tweet
The price of greatness is responsibility. Winston Churchill
We rise by lifting others. Robert Ingersoll
All leaders are readers. Jim Rohn Hire character. Train skill. Peter Schutz
Act or do not act, but do not hedge. Peter F. Drucker What gets measured gets improved. Peter F. Drucker
Discipline equals freedom. Jocko Willink Ego clouds and disrupts everything. Jocko Willink
Faster. Stronger. Smarter. More humble. Less ego. Jocko Willink Victims make excuses. Leaders deliver results. Robin Sharma
Leadership involves finding a parade and getting in front of it. John Naisbitt Earn your leadership every day. Michael Jordan
My life didn’t please me, so I created my life. Coco Chanel There is always room at the top. Daniel Webster
Leaders don’t inflict pain, they share pain. Max De Pree Faith moves mountains, love transforms hearts. John Paul Warren
Don’t find fault, find a remedy. Henry Ford A winner is a dreamer who never gives up. Nelson Mandela
The cautious seldom err. Confucius Click to tweet Whatever you are, be a good one. Abraham Lincoln
A king is one who fears nothing. Seneca Done is better than perfect. Sheryl Sandberg (Facebook)
Leaders live by choice, not by accident. Mark Gorman The test of leadership is, is anything or anyone better because of you? Mark Sanborn
You manage things; you lead people. Rear Admiral Grace Hopper Today a reader, tomorrow a leader. Margaret Fuller
Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm. Publilius Syrus One voice can change a room. Barack Obama
What does your heart say? Jeff Bezos (Amazon)
Our destiny is not written for us, but by us. Barack Obama Click to tweet Inventories can be managed, but people must be led. H. Ross Perot
Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great. John D. Rockefeller If your objective is to be as good as you can be, then you’re going to want criticism. Ray Dalio
The test of organization is not genius. It is its capacity to make common people achieve uncommon performance. Peter F. Drucker
Leadership requires belief in the mission and unyielding perseverance to achieve victory. Jocko Willink
Stop researching every aspect of it and reading all about it and debating the pros and cons of it … Start doing it. Jocko Willink
To be more requires a man who is conceited enough to believe that the world really needs him and depends on his getting into power. Peter F. Drucker
A community is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm. Henrik Ibsen
Time is neutral and does not change things. With courage and initiative, leaders change things. Jesse Jackson
Leadership is a mindset in action. So don’t wait for the title. Leadership isn’t something that anyone can give you – you have to earn it and claim it for yourself. Travis Bradberry
It’s not about money or connections – it’s the willingness to outwork and outlearn everyone. Mark Cuban
You can be a leader in your workplace, your neighborhood, or your family, all without having a title. Travis Bradberry
It is well to respect the leader. Learn from him. Observe him. Study him. But don’t worship him. Believe you can surpass. Believe you can go beyond. Those who harbor the second-best attitude are invariably second-best doers. David J. Schwartz
If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work, and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
The important thing is this: to be able to give up in any given moment all that we are for what we can become. DeSeaux
To the highest leadership among women it is given to hold steadily in one hand the sacred vessels that hold the ancient sanctities of life, and in the other a flaming torch to light the way for oncoming generations. Anna Garlin Spencer
The future belongs to those who prepare for it today. Malcolm X Click to tweet
Leaders are people who believe so passionately that they can seduce other people into sharing their dream. Warren Bennis
Obstacles are things a person sees when he takes his eyes off his goal. E. Joseph Cossman
A year from now you will wish you had started today. Karen Lamb
The task of the leader is to get their people from where they are to where they have not been. Henry Kissinger
It’s your unlimited power to create and to love that can make the biggest difference in the quality of your life. Tony Robbins
For me life is continuously being hungry. The meaning of life is not simply to exist, to survive, but to move ahead, to go up, to achieve, to conquer. Arnold Schwarzenegger
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Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day. You shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find the happiness that you had thought could never be yours. Dale Carnegie
Great masters neither want nor need your worship. Your greatest gift to them and yourself is to emulate their divinity by claiming it as your own. Alan Cohen
Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence. Vince Lombardi
When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it. Henry Ford
The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any. Alice Walker
We’re here for a reason. I believe a bit of the reason is to throw little torches out to lead people through the dark. Whoopi Goldberg
The value of achievement lies in the achieving. Albert Einstein Leaders don’t force people to follow – they invite them on a journey. Charles S. Lauer
Being responsible sometimes means pissing people off. Colin Powell
Only one man in a thousand is a leader of men – the other 999 follow women. Groucho Marx
People who enjoy meetings should not be in charge of anything. Thomas Sowell
You either run with lions or walk with sheep. Matshona Dhliwayo
People who don’t take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year. People who do take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year. Peter F. Drucker
In most cases being a good boss means hiring talented people and then getting out of their way. Tina Fey
South African Archbishop Desmond Tutu walked by a construction site on a temporary sidewalk the width of one person. A white man appeared at the other end, recognized Tutu, and said, ‘I don’t make way for gorillas.’ At which Tutu stepped aside, made a deep sweeping gesture, and said, ‘Ah, yes, but I do.’ Walter Wink
Lead me, follow me, or get the hell out of my way. George Patton Click to tweet But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown. Carl Sagan
A man always has two reasons for doing anything: a good reason and the real reason. J.P. Morgan
If you make people think they’re thinking, they’ll love you. If you really make them think, they’ll hate you. Don Marquis
It’s hard to lead a cavalry charge if you think you look funny on a horse. Adlai Stevenson
The most effective way to do it, is to do it. Amelia Earhart Don’t be so humble – you are not that great. Golda Meir
The manager asks how and when; the leader asks what and why. Warren Bennis
A tyrant is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader. Plato
In times of change, learners inherit the Earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists. Eric Hoffer
Wisdom is knowing what to do next, skill is knowing how to do it, and virtue is doing it. David Star Jordan
You are judged in this world by how well you bring things to an end. A messy or incomplete conclusion can reverberate for years to come. Robert Greene
You take people as far as they will go, not as far as you would like them to go. Jeanette Rankin
Leaders shouldn’t attach moral significance to their ideas: Do that, and you can’t compromise. Peter F. Drucker
Being a leader is making the people you love hate you a little more each day. Patrick Ness
To do great things is difficult; but to command great things is more difficult. Friedrich Nietzsche
Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be. Ralph Waldo Emerson
People don’t buy what do you, they buy why you do it. Simon Sinek
Leaders must encourage their organizations to dance to forms of music yet to be heard. Warren Bennis
People buy into the leader before they buy into the vision. John Maxwell Click to tweet
Leadership should be more participative than directive, more enabling than performing. Mary D. Poole
I am not afraid of an army of lions led by a sheep; I am afraid of an army of sheep led by a lion. Alexander the Great
Ninety percent of leadership is the ability to communicate something people want. Dianne Feinstein
I can’t change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination. Jimmy Dean
Show me the man you honor and I will know what kind of man you are. Thomas John Carlisle
If you are rich and powerful but unhappy, what’s the point of being rich and powerful? Thich Nhat Hanh
Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck. Dalai Lama
The manager accepts the status quo; the leader challenges it. Warren Bennis
There is nothing quite so useless as doing with great efficiency something that should not be done at all. Peter F. Drucker
It is not so much that man is a herd animal, said Freud, but that he is a horde animal led by a chief. Ernest Becker
Pity the leader caught between unloving critics and uncritical lovers. John Gardner
More leaders have been made by accident, circumstance, sheer grit, or will than have been made by all the leadership courses put together. Warren Bennis
Great leaders are not defined by the absence of weakness, but rather by the presence of clear strengths. John Zenger
Average leaders raise the bar on themselves; good leaders raise the bar for others; great leaders inspire others to raise their own bar. Orrin Woodward
If you spend your life trying to be good at everything, you will never be great at anything. Tom Rath
If you want something new, you have to stop doing something old. Peter F. Drucker Click to tweet
If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever. Thomas Aquinas
To be happy we need something to solve. Happiness is therefore a form of action. Mark Manson
Doing the right thing is more important than doing the thing right. Peter F. Drucker
There are two ways of being creative. One can sing and dance. Or one can create an environment in which singers and dancers flourish. Warren Bennis
A leader is one who sees more than others see, who sees farther than others see, and who sees before others see. Leroy Eimes
Wise leaders generally have wise counselors because it takes a wise person themselves to distinguish them. Diogenes
When people are financially invested, they want a return. When people are emotionally invested, they want to contribute. Simon Sinek
A good leader is a person who takes a little more than his share of the blame and a little less than his share of the credit. John C. Maxwell
If our drive to get and maintain power drains us and strains our relationships, we never truly enjoy our professional or material success and it’s simply not worth it. Thich Nhat Hanh
You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete. Buckminster Fuller
If you really want the key to success, start by doing the opposite of what everyone else is doing. Brad Szollose
Leaders walk a fine line between self-confidence and humility. Stanley McChrystal
If a man knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable. Seneca
The highest of distinctions is service to others. King George VI Don’t forget to do something for other people. Marc Benioff One of the quickest ways to gain someone’s trust is to help that person. Justin Bariso
You’ve got to help others. Don’t just think about yourself. Help others. Arnold Schwarzenegger
The leaders who get the most out of their people are the leaders who care most about their people. Simon Sinek
Help your people grow and perform at their highest possible levels. Robert K. Greenleaf
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Growing people and helping them to perform at high levels is a key strategy for long-term success. When employees grow, their productive capacity increases. When their productive capacity increases, the capacity of the organization increases–it can do things better, or it can do things it was not able to do before. Kent M. Keith
The servant-leader is servant first. It begins with the natural feeling that one wants to serve, to serve first. Then conscious choice brings one to aspire to lead. Robert K. Greenleaf
It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed. Napoleon Hill
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 De Pree
The leader is the servant who removes the obstacles that prevent people from doing their jobs. Max De Pree
He who cannot be a good follower cannot be a good leader. Aristotle Click to tweet
Above all, leadership is a position of servanthood. Max De Pree We cannot ask others to do what we have not done ourselves. Christiana Figueres
Servant leadership pumps up the team with confidence, which leads to high-performance. Marcel Schwantes
When you’ve worked hard, and done well, and walked through that doorway of opportunity, you do not slam it shut behind you. You reach back, and you give other folks the same chances that helped you succeed. Michelle Obama
I think leadership is service and there is power in that giving: to help people, to inspire and motivate them to reach their fullest potential. Denise Morrison
Employees of servant leaders are more helping and creative than those working with leaders who scored lower on servant leadership. Marcel Schwantes
You cannot be a leader, and ask other people to follow you, unless you know how to follow, too. Sam Rayburn
Shine your light and make a positive impact on the world; there is nothing so honorable as helping improve the lives of others. Roy T. Bennett
No matter what accomplishments you make, somebody helped you. Althea Gibson
The ability to learn is the most important quality a leader can have. Sheryl Sandberg (Facebook)
The teacher who awakens and encourages in students a sense of possibility and responsibility is, to me, the ultimate leader. Stanley McChrystal
Knowledge is useless to executives unless it has been translated into deeds. Peter F. Drucker
Leaders are more powerful role models when they learn than when they teach. Rosabeth Moss Kantor
I am a man of fixed and unbending principles, the first of which is to be flexible at all times. Everett Dirksen
Taking charge of your own learning is a part of taking charge of your life, which is the sine qua non in becoming an integrated person. Warren Bennis
The growth and development of people is the highest calling of leadership. Harvey S. Firestone
Let the improvement of yourself keep you so busy that you have no time to criticize others. Roy T. Bennett
For everyone of us that succeeds, it’s because there’s somebody there to show you the way out. The light doesn’t always necessarily have to be in your family; for me it was teachers and school. Oprah Winfrey
It’s not the absence of leadership potential that inhibits the development of more leaders; it’s the persistence of the myth that leadership can’t be learned. This haunting myth is a far more powerful deterrent to leadership development than is the nature of the person or the basics of the leadership process. James Kouzes and Barry Posner
Part of company culture is path-dependent – it’s the lessons you learn along the way. Jeff Bezos (Amazon)
Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world. Nelson Mandela Click to tweet
Mastery of reading and writing requires a master. Still more so life. Marcus Aurelius
Leaders know the importance of having someone in their lives who will unfailingly and fearlessly tell them the truth. Warren Bennis
The teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron. Horace Mann
Don’t be intimidated by what you don’t know. That can be your greatest strength and ensure that you do things differently from everyone else. Sara Blakely
In a time of drastic change, it is the learners who inherit the future. The learned find themselves equipped to live in a world that no longer exists. Warren Bennis
People who cannot invent and reinvent themselves must be content with borrowed postures, secondhand ideas, fitting in instead of standing out. Warren Bennis
Being humble doesn’t mean that you lack self-confidence, or that you never stand up for your own opinions or principles. It does mean recognizing that you don’t know everything – and that you’re willing to learn from others. Justin Bariso
When you put together deep knowledge about a subject that intensely matters to you, charisma happens. You gain courage to share your passion, and when you do that, folks follow. Jerry Porras
Inexperience is an asset. Embrace it. Wendy Kopp
It takes two flints to make a fire. Louisa May Alcott The effective executive does not make staffing decisions to minimize weaknesses but to maximize strength. Peter F. Drucker
Large organization is loose organization. Nay, it would be almost as true to say that organization is always disorganization. G. K. Chesterton In leadership writ large, mutually agreed upon purposes help people achieve consensus, assume responsibility, work for the common good, and build community. Joseph Rost
The most effective leaders aren’t extraverts or introverts. They’re ambiverts: people who strike a balance of talking and listening. Adam Grant
Individually, we are one drop. Together, we are an ocean. Ryunosuke Satoro
Leadership and management are not synonymous. Travis Bradberry A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together. Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Leaders come in two flavors, expanders and containers. The best leadership teams have a mix of both. Barbara Corcoran
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
If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself. Henry Ford
If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants. Isaac Newton Click to tweet
My jobs as a leader is to make sure everybody in the company has great opportunities, and that they feel they’re having a meaningful impact. Larry Page (Google)
Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships. Michael Jordan You have to learn the rules of the game. And then, you have to play it better than anyone else. Albert Einstein