Free Leadership Quotes

Warren Bennis - Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.

Alexander the Great - 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.

Mitt Romney - Leadership - leadership is about taking responsibility, not making excuses.

Andy Grove - Leaders have to act more quickly today. The pressure comes much faster.

Ralph Nader - The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.

Ivan Illich - Leadership does not depend on being right.

Harvey S. Firestone - The growth and development of people is the highest calling of leadership.

Mao Zedong - The cardinal responsibility of leadership is to identify the dominant contradiction at each point of the historical process and to work out a central line to resolve it.

Ronald Reagan - When you can't make them see the light, make them feel the heat.

Bo Bennett - Without initiative, leaders are simply workers in leadership positions.

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

Harold S. Geneen - Leadership cannot really be taught. It can only be learned.

Bill Owens - True leadership lies in guiding others to success. In ensuring that everyone is performing at their best, doing the work they are pledged to do and doing it well.

Lao Tzu - When the best leader's work is done the people say, 'We did it ourselves’.

Ferdinand Marcos - Leadership is the other side of the coin of loneliness, and he who is a leader must always act alone. And acting alone, accept everything alone.

Arnold H. Glasow - A good leader takes a little more than his share of the blame, a little less than his share of the credit.

Mahatma Gandhi - I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people.

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

Golda Meir - A leader who doesn't hesitate before he sends his nation into battle is not fit to be a leader.

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

Warren Bennis - Leaders must encourage their organizations to dance to forms of music yet to be heard.

Myles Munroe - Character in leadership is the most important balance for leadership. Without character, leaders have no safety. Leadership has no protection without character.

Lao Tzu - 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.

Steve Jobs - Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.

George W. Bush - Leadership to me means duty, honor, country. It means character, and it means listening from time to time.

Henry Kissinger - A leader does not deserve the name unless he is willing occasionally to stand alone.

Seth Berkley - Leadership is about vision and responsibility, not power.

James Buchanan - The test of leadership is not to put greatness into humanity, but to elicit it, for the greatness is already there.

J. Donald Walters - Leadership is an opportunity to serve. It is not a trumpet call to self-importance.

Sam Walton - Outstanding leaders go out of their way to boost the self-esteem of their personnel. If people believe in themselves, it's amazing what they can accomplish.

John F. Kennedy - Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

Tony Blair - The art of leadership is saying no, not saying yes. It is very easy to say yes.

Henry Miller - The real leader has no need to lead - he is content to point the way.

Mwai Kibaki - Leadership is a privilege to better the lives of others. It is not an opportunity to satisfy personal greed.

John Buchan - The task of leadership is not to put greatness into humanity, but to elicit it, for the greatness is already there.

John Naisbitt - Leadership involves finding a parade and getting in front of it.

Thomas Aquinas - If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever.

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

James Cash Penney - Honor bespeaks worth. Confidence begets trust. Service brings satisfaction. Cooperation proves the quality of leadership.

John C. Maxwell - Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them.

Norman Schwarzkopf - Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy.

Simon Sinek - Leadership is not about the next election, it's about the next generation.

Russel Honore - Leadership is working with goals and vision; management is working with objectives.

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

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

Harold S. Geneen - Leadership is practiced not so much in words as in attitude and in actions.

Ken Blanchard - The key to successful leadership today is influence, not authority.

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

Tom Landry - Leadership is getting someone to do what they don't want to do, to achieve what they want to achieve.

Andy Dunn - Leadership is inspiring people. Management is keeping the trains running on time.