Strong leaders understand that action cures indecision — Toyotomi Hideyoshi
Great leaders are not defined by the absence of weakness, but rather by the presence of clear strengths. — John Peter Zenger
Leaders are focused on using their vision and courage to do great things. — Lewis Howes
Great leaders are not proverbial fence sitters. They judge. They opine. They challenge. They fight for their vision. — Gad Saad
Leaders make things possible. Exceptional leaders make them inevitable. — Lance Morrow
Strong leaders engage their critics and make themselves stronger. Weak leaders silence their critics and make themselves weaker. — Adam Grant
There are many qualities that make a great leader. But having strong beliefs, being able to stick with them through popular and unpopular times, is the most important characteristic of a great leader. — Rudy Giuliani
Great leaders are not afraid to challenge the status quo and embrace change. — Michael Abrashoff
A great team relies on its leaders and they have to make a difference at key moments. — Kylian Mbappe
Great leaders encourage and enable others to become great. — Susan McCann
Leaders make decisions that create the future they desire. — Mike Murdock
Effective leaders help others to understand the necessity of change and to accept a common vision of the desired outcome. — John P. Kotter
The greatest leaders mobilize others by coalescing people around a shared vision. — Ken Blanchard
(We need) leadership that is tough enough to demand a great deal from everyone, and leadership that is tender enough to encourage the heart. — Thomas J. Sergiovanni
Great leaders encourage leadership development. By openly developing themselves — Marshall Goldsmith
Short Strong Leaders Quotes
Leaders can be wrong - but they can not be unclear. — Toyotomi Hideyoshi
Followers who tell the truth, and leaders who listen to it, are an unbeatable combination. — Warren G. Bennis
Great leaders inspire, they don't manipulate. — Andy Mineo
Good leaders make people feel that they're at the very heart of things, not at the periphery. — Warren G. Bennis
Leaders grow; they are not made. — Peter Drucker
Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader. — Tacitus
The best leader brings out the best in those he has stewardship over. — J. Richard Clarke
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.
Strong Leadership Quotes
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
The task of leadership is to create an alignment of strengths so strong that it makes the system's weaknesses irrelevant. — Peter Drucker
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
Your hardest times often lead to the greatest moments of your life. Keep going. Tough situations build strong people in the end.
Be strong, but not rude; Be kind, but not weak; Be bold, but not bully; Be humble, but not timid; Be prooud, but not arrogant. — Zig Ziglar
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
Preparing our city to achieve its destiny will require strong leadership. — Thomas Menino
A strong person loves, forgives, walks away, lets go, tries again, perseveres... No matter what life throws at them.
Building strong relationships and connections with your team is essential for effective leadership. — Michael Abrashoff
There is no greater pillar of stability than a strong, free and educated woman, and there is no more inspiring role model than a man who respects and cherishes women and champions their leadership. — Angelina Jolie
It was leadership here at home that gave us strong American influence abroad, and the collapse of imperial Communism. Great nations have responsibilities to lead, and we should always be cautious of those who would lower our profile, because they might just wind up lowering our flag. — Ronald Reagan
In a climate of uncertainty and fear, without strong and visionary leadership, people panic. — Patrick Dodson
Powerful Leader 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
Never assume that loud is strong and quiet is weak.
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
If you think you are leading and turn around to see no one following, then you are just taking a walk. — Benjamin Hooks
Powerful Leaders Quotes
What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality. — Plutarch
I can't give you the sunset, but I can give you the night. — Erin McCarthy
In the past a leader was a boss. Today's leaders must be partners with their people... they no longer can lead solely based on positional power. — Ken Blanchard
Be a leader by example. Be confident and humble. Love the unloved.
My heart trembles when I reflect that God is just — Thomas Jefferson
The power is detested, and miserable the life, of him who wishes to be feared rather than to be loved. — Cornelius Nepos
A leader has the vision and conviction that a dream can be achieved. He inspires the power and energy to get it done. — Ralph Lauren
Be strong enough to stand alone, be yourself enough to stand apart, but be wise enough to stand together when the time comes.
Now one of the changes that must come to Africa is the idea of limited rule, I mean in term of how long one leader can stay in power. The era of president for life is not gone yet but it is on its way out and that is one of the problems with Mugabe and others. — Chinua Achebe
Never underestimate the power of people who are determined to change life and work with all their might towards it. They are the ones who turn into leaders and revolutionize the world around us. — Peter White
It’s absolutely right that we scrutinise the leaders who after all are going to be in a position of great power. — Liz Truss
Don't follow the crowd, let the crowd follow you. — Margaret Thatcher
Successful Leaders Quotes
We cannot become what we need by remaining what we are. — John C. Maxwell
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
Think positively; Exercise daily; Eat Healthy; Work Hard; Stay strong; Worry less; Dance more; Love often.
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
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
The pessimist complains about the wind. The optimist expects it to change. The leader adjusts the sails.
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
Poor leaders motivate those following them with false promises of promotions, success, and a great tomorrow but rarely deliver on those promises. — Lewis Howes
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
Weak Leaders Quotes
A strong leader accepts blame and gives the credit. A weak leader gives blame and accepts the credit. — John Wooden
Confident and courageous leaders have no problems pointing out their own weaknesses and ignorance. — Thom S. Rainer
Organizations exist to make people's strengths effective and their weaknesses irrelevant. And this is the work of effective leaders. — Frances Hesselbein
A strong woman looks a challenge dead in the eye and gives it a wink.
Misfortunes, untoward events, lay open, disclose the skill of a general, while success conceals his weakness, his weak points. — Horace
When the leader is morally weak and his discipline not strict, when his instructions and guidance are not enlightened, when there are no consistent rules, neighboring rulers will take advantage of this. — Sun Tzu
And the propensity of weak and empty people to follow a leader into the darkness from which there is no return is still flourishing, as ever. — Mary McGrory
People will hate you, rate you, shake you, and break you. But how strong you stand is what makes you.
During critical periods, a leader is not allowed to feel sorry for himself, to be down, to be angry, or to be weak. Leaders must beat back these emotions — Mike Krzyzewski
I have never been over concerned or obsessed with opinion polls or popularity polls. I think a leader who is, is a weak leader. Between being loved and being feared, I have always believed Machiavelli was right. If nobody is afraid of me, I'm meaningless. — Lee Kuan Yew
Weak leaders of churches blame people and circumstances. Breakout church leaders accept responsibility and see God's possibilities in even difficult situations. — Thom S. Rainer
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
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
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 job is not to be easy on people. My job is to take these great people we have and to push them and make them even better. — Steve Jobs
It is now, more than ever, necessary that political leaders be outstanding for honesty, integrity and commitment to the common good. — Pope Francis
The leader works in the open and the boss in covert. The leader leads, and the boss drives. — Theodore Roosevelt
The led must not be compelled; they must be able to choose their own leader. — Albert Einstein
Good Leader Quotes
A good leader can engage in a debate frankly and thoroughly, knowing that at the end he and the other side must be closer, and thus emerge stronger. You don't have that idea when you are arrogant, superficial, and uninformed. — Nelson Mandela
He who has never learned to obey cannot be a good commander. — Aristotle
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
He who neither drinks, nor smokes, nor dances, he who preaches & even occasionally practice piety, temperance and celibacy, is generally a saint, or a mahatma or more likely a humbug but he certainly won't make a leader or for that matter a good soldier — Sam Manekshaw
Good leaders must first become good servants. — Robert Greenleaf
The single biggest way to impact an organization is to focus on leadership development. There is almost no limit to the potential of an organization that recruits good people, raises them up as leaders and continually develops them. — John C. Maxwell
Leadership is hard to define and good leadership even harder. But if you can get people to follow you to the ends of the earth, you are a great leader. — Indra Nooyi
A leader is best when people barely know that he exists. — Witter Bynner
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
Freedom, by definition, is people realizing that they are their own leaders. — Diane Nash
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
Woe to the people that fails to honor its heroes! It will cease producing them, cease knowing them. Heroes spring from the essence of their people. A people without heroes is a people without leaders, for only a heroic leader is a true leader able to withstand the challenge of difficult times. — Rudolf Hess
The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born. — Warren G. Bennis
A leader has to be one of two things: he either has to be a brilliant visionary himself, a truly creative strategist, in which case he can do what he likes and get away with it; or else he has to be a true empowerer who can bring out the best in others. — Henry Mintzberg
The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born-that there is a genetic factor to leadership. This myth asserts that people simply either have certain charismatic qualities or not. That's nonsense; in fact, the opposite is true. Leaders are made rather than born. — Warren G. Bennis
Leadership is standing with your people. People say you have to live to fight another day, but sometimes you have to show you are a true leader. — Leymah Gbowee
If in the darkness of ignorance, you don’t recognize a person’s true nature, look to see whom he has chosen for his leader. — Rumi
Wise Leaders Quotes
It is not wise, or even possible, to divorce private behavior from public leadership.... By its very nature, true leadership carries with it the burden of being an example. — Gordon B. Hinckley
Wise leaders generally have wise counselors because it takes a wise person themselves to distinguish them. — Diogenes
Leadership is a group project, and all of us are necessary to fill it. Wise leaders will realize this and encourage their groups to develop their own evolving leadership potential. — Arnold Mindell
People imitate their leader. Lead by example. — Barbara Corcoran
Wise leaders understand that the single greatest determinant of whether followers will ever own a vision deeply is the extent to which whose followers believe the leader will own it. — Bill Hybels
Wise leaders should have known that the human heart cannot exist in a vacuum. If Christians are forbidden to enjoy the wine of the Spirit they will turn to the wine of the flesh....Christ died for our hearts and the Holy Spirit wants to come and satisfy them. — Aiden Wilson Tozer
The future lies with those wise political leaders who realize that the great public is interested more in government than in politics. — Franklin D. Roosevelt
We need to seek wise leaders who will seek common ground among Americans instead of dividing us further for political gain. As citizens, we must embrace those who embrace ideas, thoughtfulness, civility and kindness to others no matter what their political beliefs. — James McGreevey
You are keeping the possibility [of peace] open. No wise leader would do anything less — Patrick Ness
Any group has a sense of who it is and what is values, but this sense often remains beneath the surface. A wise leader can discern these unspoken beliefs and articulate them. — Diane Dreher
Good Leadership Quotes
Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there. — Stevie Wonder
You are good. But it is not enough just to be good. You must be good for something. You must contribute good to the world. The world must be a better place for your presence. And the good that is in you must be spread to others. — Gordon B. Hinckley
Good generals select intelligent officers, thoughtful advisors, and brave subordinates. They oversee their troops like a fierce tiger with wings. — Zhuge Liang
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
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
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
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
By the time I stepped down as Xerox's CEO in 2009 - and as chairman in January 2010 - Xerox had become the vibrant, profitable and revitalized company that it still is today. What made the difference was a strong turnaround plan, dedicated people and a firm commitment from company leaders. — Anne M. Mulcahy
As an actor, it's great to play a strong leader with a heart of gold. — John C. McGinley
The difference between successful people and others is how long they spend time feeling sorry for themselves. — Barbara Corcoran
I've always felt fine about Putin. I think he is a strong leader, he's a powerful leader, he's represented his country the way - the country is being represented. — Donald Trump
A leader, once convinced that a particular course of action is the right one, must....be undaunted when the going gets tough. — Ronald Reagan
A strong leader is not necessarily a bad leader. — Paul Kagame
Strong people do not need strong leaders. — Ella Baker
Strong leaders don't plead with individuals to perform. — Bill Walsh
Ensure that you do things differently from everyone else — Sara Blakely
If we were united and strong, we'd elect our own emir (leader) and give allegiance to him... Take my word, if 6-8 million Muslims unite in America, the country will come to us. — Siraj Wahhaj
Dhoni has the respect of all other playing. nations. I've found him to be a really strong. leader — Glenn McGrath
The arts significantly boost student achievement, reduce discipline problems, and increase the odds students will go on to graduate from college. As First Lady Michelle Obama sums up, both she and the President believe 'strongly that arts education is essential for building innovative thinkers who will be our nation's leaders for tomorrow.' — Arne Duncan
Nixon is a strong leader with a good grasp of the world's problems. He knows that the only way to argue with the communists is from a position of strength. — Mohammed Reza Pahlavi
I do think there are some dogs - although it's very, very rare - that do have to be kept away from all other dogs and all humans except for the one strong pack leader whom they trust. But I think I've run into less than a handful of dogs that were like that in my entire career. — Cesar Millan
The core of a scientific lifestyle is to change your mind when faced with information that disagrees with your views, avoiding intellectual inertia, yet many of us praise leaders who stubbornly stick to their views as "strong." — Max Tegmark
Get the hell out of my way! — Ayn Rand
My hope that the Church will emerge as a strong leader in society is just that a hope. What I described in The Catholic Moment is not a prophecy but the outline of a possibility. There are no guarantees that my hopes expressed in The Catholic Moment will ever be realised. — Richard John Neuhaus
Strong leaders are harassed, imprisoned or assassinated, which are great deterrents if you want to silence a firebrand and suppress a revolt. — Gary Yourofsky
Strong leaders encourage you to do things for your own benefit, not just theirs. — Tim Tebow
The United States is a strong and ardent ally of Israel. The fact of the matter is that friends can disagree. I think what's important is that world leaders are able to sit down with one another, have frank conversations and move forward. — Valerie Jarrett
In coming to Atlantic City, we believed strongly that we were right. In fact, it was just right for us to come to challenge the seating of the regular Democratic Party from Mississippi. But we didn't think when we got there that we would meet people, that actually the other leaders of the Movement would differ with what we felt was right. — Fannie Lou Hamer
Sometimes it seems like most people are being pulled into a negative energy, but then you meet strong individuals or strong leaders and they are free from it. — Sakyong Mipham
USE this time of fresh beginnings. Use it as an impetus, the force or energy toward change. Become stronger, a better leader, more focused in your thoughts. Exert more influence over your dreams by bringing them closer to your thoughts, every day. — Mary Anne Radmacher
The leaders in business and
industry all have at least one thing
in common - they are mentally
strong. Mental strength is an
absolute prerequisite for a
successful, commercial career in
our fast moving world. Although
there are relatively few people
who develop mental strength,
anyone can. — Bob Proctor
It is the misfortune of contemporary leaders, across the whole spectrum of Australian life, that the community's demand for strong leadership is growing in direct proportion to our lack of confidence in ourselves. The end of this century is an unusually difficult time to be a leader in Australia. — Hugh Mackay
The definition of strong leadership is not about making decisions that are popular. Making popular decisions is easy - you don't need to be a leader to do that. The definition of strong leadership is to make decisions that are unpopular, but are nevertheless sound. — Henry Blodget
I worry that business leaders are more interested in material gain than they are in having the patience to build up a strong organization, and a strong organization starts with caring for their people. — John Wooden
A strong case can be made for religious leaders to speak out on political issues. — Tony Campolo
President Hinckley's strong, continuing challenge to us is retention, which requires full cooperation between the missionary, the leaders and members. — James E. Faust
I place the blame with our own leaders who are not defending our interests. A strong euro is ruining our economy. — Marine Le Pen
It is unfortunate that some in our party have lost sight of the importance of conservation and environmental protection for keeping America strong, healthy, prosperous, and secure. It's time for all of our Republican leaders to recognize that conservation is conservative. — David Jenkins
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