Quotes about Leadership

If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.

Of all of our inventions for mass communication, pictures still speak the most universally understood language.

Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision passionately, tirelessly, vividly, and weave it into the fabric of the organization.

Leadership is not about titles, positions or the number of people you have working for you. Leadership is about making a difference.

When I do something, it is all about self-discovery. I want to learn and discover my own limits.

It is the lot of man to suffer, and the mission of life is to enable him to bear his sufferings with fortitude.

The best measure of leadership is influence - the ability to inspire, motivate, and equip others to succeed.

It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.

A good leader can take a group of people who don't know what they want and get them to fight well together for a purpose. - Dwight D. Eisenhower (Politician)

Lead by example and inspire those around you.

Leadership is a choice, not a position.

The best way to predict your future is to create it.

A leader is one of the things that distinguishes a mob from a people. He maintains order.

Good leaders inspire people to have confidence in the leader; great leaders inspire people to have confidence in themselves.

The only thing worse than not reading a book in the last ninety days is not reading a book in the last ninety days and thinking that it doesn't matter.

The best way to predict the future is to create it.

The best leaders don't tell you what to do, they show you how to do it.

A life lived with integrity — even if it lacks the trappings of fame and fortune is a shining star in whose light others may follow in the years to come.

You don’t have to hold a position in order to be a leader.

A ruler must learn to persuade and not to compel.

"The best way to lead is to inspire others to lead themselves."

The challenge of leadership is to be strong, but not rude; be kind, but not weak; be bold, but not a bully; be thoughtful, but not lazy; be humble, but not timid; be proud, but not arrogant; have humor, but without folly.

A leader’s duty is to serve the people with humility and dedication.

I'd say I'm pretty driven. I would like to be doing new things and doing useful things.

The best leaders do not direct, they inspire.

Leadership is not about power, but about service and responsibility.

A good leader inspires people to have confidence in the leader; a great leader inspires people to have confidence in themselves.

A true leader guides with wisdom and compassion.

The people follow the example of those above.

The results you achieve will be in direct proportion to the effort you apply.

The superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.

Everyone of us needs to show how much we care for each other and, in the process, care for ourselves.

A good leader can take people where they want to go. A great leader can take people where they don't necessarily want to go, but ought to be.

The worst thing that can happen in a democracy - as well as in an individual's life - is to become cynical about the future and lose hope.

A coach is someone who can give correction without causing resentment.

The biggest risk is not taking any risk... In a world that's changing really quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks.

The essence of leadership lies in the ability to inspire and uplift.

The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on.

A leader leads by example, not by force.

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.

Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them.

It's fine to celebrate success, but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.

We grew up very poor, and I hated being poor. I was the oldest of five kids, and I never got a pair of skates until I was nine. It was very difficult to get an education back then and play junior hockey.

There's always an opportunity to make a difference.

A leader’s strength is in their ability to unify and direct collective efforts.

I always do a lot of planning in my films. I think that it has to be more precise in animation because it is so expensive, and everything must be done in a precise manner.

The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it. -

Leadership is the art of motivating others to achieve shared goals.