Leadership Quotes

You do not lead by hitting people over the head-that's assault, not leadership.

In the great mass of our people there are plenty individuals of intelligence from among whom leadership can be recruited.

Herbert Hoover

Leadership must be established from the top down.

Sam Rayburn

Leadership is a noble calling. In addtion to meeting well-defined strategic objectives, leaders must also help their organizations make meaningful contributions to social issues, economic growth, and political stability. That's why effective organizational leadership plays a vital role in shaping our world.

Robert L. Joss

Leaders don't create followers, they create more leaders.

Tom Peters

One measure of leadership is the caliber of people who choose to follow you.

Dennis A. Peer

A man is only a leader when a follower stands beside him.

Mark Brouwer

A leader is a dealer in hope.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Any leader who doesn't support the heart of evolving humanity is not a leader worthy of being followed.

Vanna Bonta

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

An army of sheep led by a lion is better than an army of lions led by a sheep.

Alexander III

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

Ralph Nader

A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.

John C. Maxwell

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

Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them.

John Maxwell

Leadership is practiced not so much in words as in attitude and in actions.

Harold S. Geneen

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

Leaders aren't born, they are made. And they are made just like anything else, through hard work. And that's the price we'll have to pay to achieve that goal, or any goal.

Vince Lombardi

Leadership is the challenge to be something more than average.

Jim Rohn

Leadership is much more an art, a belief, a condition of the heart, than a set of things to do. The visible signs of artful leadership are expressed, ultimately, in its practice.

Max Depree

Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.

Stephen R. Covey

One of the true tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency.

Arnold H. Glasgow

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

James Buchanan

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