Leadership quotes can be powerful and encouraging in personal or business life. Here are some that you may like;
And when we think we lead, we are most led. -Lord Byron
In matters of style, swim with the current;
In matters of principle, stand like a rock. – Thomas Jefferson
Leadership should be born out of the understanding of the needs of those who would be affected by it.
-Marian Anderson
Leadership is understanding people and involving them to help you do a job. That takes all of the good characteristics, like integrity, dedication of purpose, selflessness, knowledge, skill, implacability, as well as determination not to accept failure. -Admiral Arleigh A. Burke
Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life.
-Sandra Carey
Good plans shape good decisions. That’s why good planning helps to make elusive dreams come true.
–Lester R. Bittel
I used to think that running an organization was equivalent to conducting a symphony orchestra. But I don’t think that’s quite it; it’s more like jazz. There is more improvisation. – Warren Bennis
A leader’s role is to raise people’s aspirations for what they can become and to release their energies so they will try to get there. -David R. Gergen
Leadership is action, not position. -Donald H. McGannon
The led must not be compelled; they must be able to choose their own leader. -Albert Einstein
Leadership is practiced not so much in words as in attitude and in actions. -Harold S. Geneen
He that cannot obey cannot command. -Benjamin Franklin
Leadership resources:
The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership: Follow Them and People Will Follow You
Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other. -John Fitzgerald Kennedy
A new leader has to be able to change an organization that is dreamless, soulless and visionless … someone’s got to make a wake up call. –Warren Bennis
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power.
-Abraham Lincoln
Lead and inspire people. Don’t try to manage and manipulate people. Inventories can be managed but people must be lead. -Ross Perot
Leadership should be more participative than directive, more enabling than performing. –Mary D. Poole
The quality of a leader is reflected in the standards they set for themselves. – Ray Kroc
To be able to lead others, a man must be willing to go forward alone. -Harry Truman
Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. -Harold R. McAlindon
The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men, the conviction and the will to carry on.-Walter Lippman
The manager asks how and when; the leader asks what and why. –Warren Bennis
The very essence of leadership is that you have to have a vision. –Theodore Hesburgh
A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don’t necessarily want to go, but ought to be. -Rosalynn Carter
Humans are ambitious and rational and proud. And we don’t fall in line with people who don’t respect us and who we don’t believe have our best interests at heart. We are willing to follow leaders, but only to the extent that we believe they call on our best, not our worst. -Rachel Maddow
The key to successful leadership today is influence, not authority. -Kenneth Blanchard
Most important, leaders can conceive and articulate goals that lift people out of their petty preoccupations and unite them in pursuit of objectives worthy of their best efforts. -John Gardner
The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint to keep from meddling with them while they do it. -Theodore Roosevelt
A leader is a dealer in hope. -Napoleon Bonaparte
Leadership can be thought of as a capacity to define oneself to others in a way that clarifies and expands a vision of the future. –Edwin H. Friedman
I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people.
-Mohandas K. Gandhi
Leaders are more powerful role models when they learn than when they teach.
-Rosabeth Moss Kantor
Good leaders must first become good servants. –Robert Greenleaf