Best Leadership By Famous Leaders Quotes

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

It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself.

Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others.

Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.

As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.

You don’t lead by hitting people over the head – that’s assault, not leadership.

Leadership is your ability to hide your panic from others.

Leadership involves finding a parade and getting in front of it.

Leadership cannot just go along to get along. Leadership must meet the moral challenge of the day.

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.

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

Leadership is the challenge to be something more than average.

You must unite your constituents around a common cause and connect with them as human beings.

A leader must have the courage to act against an expert’s advice.

All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership.

The growth and development of people is the highest calling of leadership.

I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure – which is: Try to please everybody.

In this world a man must either be anvil or hammer.

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.

Misfortunes, untoward events, lay open, disclose the skill of a general, while success conceals his weakness, his weak points.

In times of change, learners inherit the earth

I am a man of fixed and unbending principles, the first of which is to be flexible at all times.

To do great things is difficult; but to command great things is more difficult.

The real leader has no need to lead – he is content to point the way.

The only safe ship in a storm is leadership.

Only one man in a thousand is a leader of men — the other 999 follow women.

Leadership cannot really be taught. It can only be learned.

Remember the difference between a boss and a leader. A boss says, Go! A leader says, Let’s go!

A community is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm.

A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done.

Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.

Ill can he rule the great that cannot reach the small.

To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace.

I can’t give you the sunset, but I can give you the night.

Learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.