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 Quotes about LEADERSHIP3
“Wise leaders generally have wise counselors because it takes a wise person themselves to distinguish them.” — Diogenes of Sinope
“You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand.” — Woodrow Wilson
“The greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things. He is the one that gets the people to do the greatest things.” — Ronald Reagan
“A true leader has the confidence to stand alone, the courage to make tough decisions, and the compassion to listen to the needs of others. He does not set out to be a leader, but becomes one by the equality of his actions and the integrity of his intent." — Douglas MacArthur
“The quality of a leader is reflected in the standards they set for themselves.” — Ray Kroc
“I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure, which is: Try to please everybody.” — Herbert Swope
“Becoming a leader is synonymous with becoming yourself. It is precisely that simple and it is also that difficult.” — Warren Bennis
“Control is not leadership; management is not leadership; leadership is leadership. If you seek to lead, invest at least 50 percent of your time in leading yourself--your own purpose, ethics, principles, motivation, conduct. Invest at least 20 percent leading those with authority over you and 15 percent leading your peers.” — Dee Hock
“A good leader takes a little more than his share of the blame, a little less than his share of the credit.” — Arnold Glasow
“The price of greatness is responsibility.” — Winston Churchill
“Do what you have to do until you can do what you want to do.” — Oprah Winfrey
“The highest of distinctions is service to others.” — King George VI
“Doing what is right isn't the problem. It is knowing what is right.” — Lyndon B Johnson
“Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.” — Harold R. McAlindon
“Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.” — Robert Louis Stevenson
“The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.” — William Arthur Ward
“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
“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
“You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing you think you cannot do.” — Eleanor Roosevelt
“Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.” — John F. Kennedy
“The role of leadership is to transform the complex situation into small pieces and prioritize them.” — Carlos Ghosn
“A leader is not an administrator who loves to run others, but someone who carries water for his people so that they can get on with their jobs.” — Robert Townsend
“Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.” — John D. Rockefeller
“To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart.” — Eleanor Roosevelt
“We readily embrace phrases like “servant leadership” and “empowering others,” but when our own gifts and ideas take a back seat to others’, it can feel like one sacrifice too many.” — Mark L. Strauss and Justin A. Irving
“Rowing harder doesn't help if the boat is headed in the wrong direction.” — Kenichi Ohmae, AntiPatterns in Project Management
“One of the most important things for any leader is to never let anyone else define who you are. And you define who you are. I never think of myself as being a woman CEO of this company. I think of myself as a steward of a great institution.” — Ginni Rometty, CEO of IBM
“Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.” — Mother Teresa, Catholic nun
“Leadership is a matter of having people look at you and gain confidence, seeing how you react. If you’re in control, they’re in control.” — Tom Landry, former Dallas Cowboys coach
“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, former U.S. Secretary of State
“Leadership consists of nothing but taking responsibility for everything that goes wrong and giving your subordinates credit for everything that goes well.” — Dwight D. Eisenhower
“I think one of the keys to leadership is recognizing that everybody has gifts and talents. A good leader will learn how to harness those gifts toward the same goal.” — Ben Carson
“If you want to improve the organization, you have to improve yourself and the organization gets pulled up with you.” — Indra Nooyi, Pepsi CEO
“We never know how high we are till we are called to rise. Then if we are true to form our statures touch the skies.” — Emily Dickinson, Collected Poems of Emily Dickinson
“Your position never gives you the right to command. It only imposes on you the duty of so living your life that others may receive your directions without being humiliated.” — John Adair
“Sound leadership—like true love, to which I suspect it is closely related—is all powerful. It can overcome the seemingly impossible and its effect on both leader and led is profound and lasting.” — Sydney Jary, Renowned British Commander, World War II
“Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.” — Albert Einstein
“If you wish to be a leader, you will be frustrated, for very few people wish to be led. If you aim to be a servant, you will never be frustrated.” — Frank F. Warren
“Most geniuses—especially those who lead others—prosper not by deconstructing intricate complexities but by exploiting unrecognized simplicities.” — Andy Benoit, The Case For The... Broncos, Sports Illustrated
“Traits of true leadership have one thing in common—they are focused on making life better for those around us. That’s what it means to be a servant leader.” — Martin C. Jischke, Commencement Address, May 12, 2007
“Associate yourself with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation, for tis better to alone than in bad company.” — George Washington
“You can only lead others where you yourself are prepared to go.” — Lachlan McLean
“Authority is a poor substitute for leadership.” — John Luther
   
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