Leaders make things possible. Exceptional leaders make them inevitable. — Lance Morrow
Leaders are focused on using their vision and courage to do great things. — Lewis Howes
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
Great leaders encourage and enable others to become great. — Susan McCann
Great leaders are not defined by the absence of weakness, but rather by the presence of clear strengths. — John Peter Zenger
A great team relies on its leaders and they have to make a difference at key moments. — Kylian Mbappe
Great leaders encourage leadership development. By openly developing themselves — Marshall Goldsmith
The best leader brings out the best in those he has stewardship over. — J. Richard Clarke
Average leaders raise the bar on themselves; good leaders raise the bar for others; great leaders inspire others to raise their own bar. — Orrin Woodward
Great leaders are not proverbial fence sitters. They judge. They opine. They challenge. They fight for their vision. — Gad Saad
Great leaders are not afraid to challenge the status quo and embrace change. — Michael Abrashoff
Strong leaders understand that action cures indecision — Toyotomi Hideyoshi
The best leaders know when to lead — and when not to. — Rand Fishkin
The signs of outstanding leadership appear primarily among the followers. Are the followers reaching their potential? Are they learning? Serving? Do they achieve the required results? Do they change with grace? Manage conflict? — Max De Pree
Be a leader by example. Be confident and humble. Love the unloved.
There is a difference between being a leader and being a boss. Both are based on authority. A boss demands blind obedience; a leader earns his authority through understanding and trust. — Klaus Balkenhol
My theory is, strong people don't need strong leaders. — Ella Baker
You didn't see me on television, you didn't see news stories about me. The kind of role that I tried to play was to pick up pieces or put together pieces out of which I hoped organization might come. My theory is, strong people don't need strong leaders. — Ella Baker
The pessimist complains about the wind. The optimist expects it to change. The leader adjusts the sails.
Producing major change in an organization is not just about signing up one charismatic leader. You need a group - a team - to be able to drive the change. One person, even a terrific charismatic leader, is never strong enough to make all this happen. — John P. Kotter
Leaders must be tough enough to fight, tender enough to cry, human enough to make mistakes, humble enough to admit them, strong enough to absorb the pain, and resilient enough to bounce back and keep on moving. — Jesse Jackson
Women are leaders everywhere you look - from the CEO who runs a Fortune 500 company to the housewife who raises her children and heads her household. Our country was built by strong women and we will continue to break down walls and defy stereotypes. — Nancy Pelosi
Leaders don't force people to follow. They invite others on a journey.
Strong leaders engage their critics and make themselves stronger. Weak leaders silence their critics and make themselves weaker. — Adam Grant
Internationally, President Obama has adopted an appeasement strategy. He believes America's role as leader in the world is a thing of the past. I believe a strong America must - and will - lead the future. — Mitt Romney
You manage things, you lead people. We went overboard on management and forgot about leadership. It might help if we ran the MBAs out of Washington. — Grace Hopper
A strong leader accepts blame and gives the credit. A weak leader gives blame and accepts the credit. — John Wooden
Successful Leaders Quotes
If you're going to be thinking anyway, think big! — Donald Trump
...The final secret is that there is no secret. Devote yourself to your leader. Work hard. Be grateful. Act boldly. Some may deride such suggestions as commonplace, and they'd be right: They are common. But to see them successfully enacted in this world is rare indeed. — Toyotomi Hideyoshi
Add to this the pride of achievement; the desire to rank among the successful souls on earth, and we have the factors which have brought some of the ablest of human beings into the limelight that revealed them to an admiring world, as leaders and examples. — Lewis Howard Latimer
A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.
Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others. — Jack Welch
What distinguishes the greatest leaders of our time it’s that success is very rarely a goal for them; it’s a byproduct of other goals that they have. — Adam Grant
Engage, educate, equip, encourage, empower, energize, and elevate. Those are the methods for maximizing the potential of any individual, team, organization, or institution for ultimate success and significance. Those are the methods of a mentor leader. — Tony Dungy
He who cannot be a good follower cannot be a good leader.
Poor leaders motivate those following them with false promises of promotions, success, and a great tomorrow but rarely deliver on those promises. — Lewis Howes
I can't give you the sunset, but I can give you the night. — Erin McCarthy
The temptation to take the easy road is always there. It is as easy as staying in bed in the morning and sleeping in. But discipline is paramount to ultimate success and victory for any leader and any team. — Jocko Willink
You are indebted to life until you help some less fortunate person, just as you were helped. — Melinda Gates
Powerful Leaders Quotes
Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns, why should we let them have ideas. — Joseph Stalin
In organizations, real power and energy is generated through relationships. The patterns of relationships and the capacities to form them are more important than tasks, functions, roles, and positions. — Margaret J. Wheatley
A leader is someone who demonstrates what's possible.
We still think of a powerful man as a born leader and a powerful woman as an anomaly. — Margaret Atwood
Storytelling is the most powerful way to put ideas into the world today. — Robert McKee
The authority by which the Christian leader leads is not power but love, not force but example, not coercion but reasoned persuasion. Leaders have power, but power is safe only in the hands of those who humble themselves to serve. — John Stott
What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality. — Plutarch
Leadership By Great Leaders Quotes
The greatness of a leader is measured by the achievements of the led. This is the ultimate test of his effectiveness. — Omar N. Bradley
He who has learned how to obey will know how to command. — Solon
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
He who has never learned to obey cannot be a good commander. — Aristotle
Victims love entertainment. Leaders love education.
Truly remarkable leadership is not just about motivating others to follow, it's about inspiring them to become leaders themselves and setting the stage for even greater opportunities for future generations. — Condoleezza Rice
A competent leader can get efficient service from poor troops, while on the contrary an incapable leader can demoralize the best of troops. — John J. Pershing
Victims love entertainment, leaders love education.
My own definition of leadership is this: The capacity and the will to rally men and women to a common purpose and the character which inspires confidence. — Bernard Law Montgomery
...there is no tool for development more effective than the empowerment of women. — Kofi Annan
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 true leader is a different sort; he seeks effective activity which has a truly beneficient purpose. He inspires others to follow in his wake, and holding aloft the torch of wisdom, leads the way for society to realize its genuinely great aspirations. — Haile Selassie
Inspiring Leadership Quotes
Management is about persuading people to do things they do not want to do, while leadership is about inspiring people to do things they never thought they could. — Steve Jobs
It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit. — Harry S. Truman
If life gives you lemons, you should make lemonade. And try to find somebody who's life gives them vodka, and have a party. — Ron White
What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us. — Henry David Thoreau
The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it. — Michelangelo
Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there. — Stevie Wonder
Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced. — James A. Baldwin
Lead from the back — and let others believe they are in front. — Nelson Mandela
People who are role models for the principles and values of the organization, who buy in and understand the vision of what the organization is trying to accomplish, and have the personality to inspire other people to the vision. You know, that’s what team chemistry and leadership is all about. — Nick Saban
It is not enough to stare up the steps, we must step up the stairs. — Vaclav Havel
Appraisals are where you get together with your team leader and agree what an outstanding member of the team you are, how much your contribution has been valued, what massive potential you have and, in recognition of all this, would you mind having your salary halved. — Theodore Roosevelt
Appraisals are where you get together with your team leader and agree what an outstanding member of the team you are, how much your contribution has been valued, what massive potential you have and, in recognition of all this, would you mind having your salary halved. — Guy Browning
It is now, more than ever, necessary that political leaders be outstanding for honesty, integrity and commitment to the common good. — Pope Francis
The led must not be compelled; they must be able to choose their own leader. — Albert Einstein
I am reminded how hollow the label of leadership sometimes is and how heroic followership can be. — Warren G. Bennis
A cowardly leader is the most dangerous of men. — Stephen King
The best leader is the one who has the sense to surround himself with outstanding people and self-restraint not to meddle with how they do their jobs. — Unknown
Outstanding leaders appeal to the hearts of their followers -- not their minds. — Unknown
Power isn't control at all-power is strength, and giving that strength to others. A leader isn't someone who forces others to make him stronger; a leader is someone willing to give his strength to others that they may have the strength to stand on their own. — Beth Revis
Outstanding leaders have a sense of mission, a belief in themselves and the value of their work. — Brian Tracy
Those who try to lead the people can only do so by following the mob. — Oscar Wilde
It is absolutely necessary... for me to have persons that can think for me, as well as execute orders. — George Washington
I am not the representative of guerrilla in this hemisphere. I would say that the representative would be Fidel Castro which was the leader of our revolution and who had the most outstanding role in the direction of the revolutionary struggle and directs the strategy of the Cuban government. — Che Guevara
When you meet these outstanding leaders who have been through a programme that empowers them to take positive action, to make things better for people, for animals and for the environment - when you watch them interact and they start brainstorming, you realise you can relax, because they have got it right. They understand that there's more to this life than just money. — Jane Goodall
Wright is a visionary with a great strategic mind, and he's a strong business leader with outstanding people skills, ... He's a terrific guy and will be a key force in guiding the company's future growth. — Jack Welch
There were so many outstanding women in scripture that were leaders. And, you know, the organized church sometimes puts boundaries on us that the Bible doesn't. — Anne Graham Lotz
It is now, more than ever, necessary that political leaders be outstanding for honesty, integrity and commitment to the common good. Thus will they be able to marshal the moral resources needed to face the demands of the present, and to pass on to coming generations a society of authentic justice, solidarity and peace. — Pope Francis
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