Leadership Quotes

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“Every time you have to speak, you are auditioning for leadership. ”

James Humes  

“I am not afraid of an army of lions led by a sheep; I am afraid of an army of sheep led by a lion. ”

Alexander the Great  

“A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way. ”

John C. Maxwell  

“If you think you can do a thing or think you can't do a thing, you're right.”

Henry Ford  

“Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help or concluded you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership. ”

Colin Powell  

“Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality. ”

Warren Bennis  

“No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit for doing it. ”

Andrew Carnegie  

“Good management is the art of making problems so interesting and their solutions so constructive that everyone wants to get to work and deal with them. ”

Paul Hawken  

“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  

“Leadership - leadership is about taking responsibility, not making excuses. ”

Mitt Romney  

“It is better to have a lion at the head of an army of sheep than a sheep at the head of an army of lions. ”

Daniel Defoe  

“The only safe ship in a storm is leadership.”

Faye Wattleton  

“The key to successful leadership is influence, not authority. ”

Kenneth H. Blanchard  

“Leaders live by choice, not by accident. ”

Mark Gorman  

“Leadership is an action, not a position.”

Donald McGannon  

“The art of leadership is saying no, not yes. It is very easy to say yes. ”

Tony Blair  

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

Jime Rohn  

“One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes... and the choices we make are ultimately our responsibility.”

Eleanor Roosevelt  

“The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy. ”

Martin Luther King, Jr.  

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

Jack Welch  

“Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help or concluded you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership. ”

Colin Powell  

“Leaders aren’t born they are made. And they are made just like anything else, through hard work. And that’s the price we’ll have to pay to achieve that goal, or any goal. ”

Vince Lombardi  

“Management is about arranging and telling. Leadership is about nurturing and enhancing.”

Tom Peters  

“Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen. ”

Winston Churchill