40 best Leadership Quotes for becoming a good leader
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
I must follow the people. Am I not their leader
-Benjamin Disraeli
You manage things; you lead people
-Rear Admiral Grace Murray Hopper
Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality
-Warren Bennis
Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way.
-General George Patton
Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others
-Jack Welch
A leader is a dealer in hope.
-Napoleon Bonaparte
You don’t need a title to be a leader
-Multiple Attributions
A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way
-John Maxwell
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, concerned citizens can change world. Indeed it is the only thing that ever has.
-Margaret Mead
The nation will find it very hard to look up to the leaders who are keeping their ears to the ground
-Sir Winston Churchill
To command is to serve, nothing more and nothing less
-Andre Malraux
He who has never learned to obey cannot be a good commander
-Aristotle
Become the kind of leader that people would follow voluntarily; even if you had no title or position
-Brian Tracy
I start with the premise that the function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers
-Ralph Nader
Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes
-Peter Drucker
Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm
-Publilius Syrus
A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together
-Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Leadership is influence
-John C. Maxwell
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
When I give a minister an order, I leave it to him to find the means to carry it out
-Napoleon Bonaparte
People buy into the leader before they buy into the vision
-John Maxwell
So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work
-Peter Drucker
The art of leadership is saying no, not saying yes. It is very easy to say yes
-Tony Blair
The key to successful leadership today is influence, not authority.
-Kenneth Blanchard
A good general not only sees the way to victory; he also knows when victory is impossible
-Polybius
A great leader’s courage to fulfill his vision comes from passion, not position
-John Maxwell
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
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
-Sam Walton
A ruler should be slow to punish and swift to reward
-Ovid
No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself, or to get all the credit for doing it
-Andrew Carnegie
Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it
-General Dwight Eisenhower
The leader has to be practical and a realist yet must talk the language of the visionary and the idealist
-Eric Hoffer
A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd
-Max Lucado
Leaders think and talk about the solutions. Followers think and talk about the problems
-Brian Tracy
Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
-General George Patton
Education is the mother of leadership
-Wendell Willkie
Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out.
-Stephen Covey
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
Great leaders are not defined by the absence of weakness, but rather by the presence of clear strengths.
-John Zenger
He who has great power should use it lightly.
-Seneca
I am reminded how hollow the label of leadership sometimes is and how heroic followership can be
-Warren Bennis
Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other
-John F. Kennedy
Leadership cannot just go along to get along. Leadership must meet the moral challenge of the da
-Jesse Jackson
Leadership does not always wear the harness of compromise
-Woodrow Wilson