LEADERSHIP QUOTES
“The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.”
― William Arthur Ward
“If you want to rebel, rebel from inside the system.That’s much more powerful than rebelling outside the system.”
― Marie Lu
“Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson
“It’s hard to lead a cavalry charge if you think you look funny on a horse.”
― Adlai E. Stevenson
“Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson
“Great leaders create more leaders, not followers.”
― Roy T. Bennett
“You have to be burning with an idea, or a problem, or a wrong that you want to right. If you’re not passionate enough from the start, you’ll never stick it out.”
― Steve Jobs
“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
“Leadership is not about titles, positions or flowcharts. It is about one life influencing another.”
― John Maxwell
“If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work, and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
“If your actions create a legacy that inspires others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, then, you are an excellent leader.”
― Dolly Parton
“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
“Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.”
― Peter Drucker
“Don’t tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.”
― George S. Patton
“…A man can only stumble for so long before he either falls or stands up straight.”
― Brandon Sanderson
“A man can only lead when others accept him as their leader, and he has only as much authority as his subjects give to him. All of the brilliant ideas in the world cannot save your kingdom if no one will listen to them.”
― Brandon Sanderson
“A leader. . .is like a shepherd. He stays behind the flock, letting the most nimble go out ahead, whereupon the others follow, not realizing that all along they are being directed from behind.”
― Nelson Mandela
“Consistency is the true foundation of trust. Either keep your promises or do not make them.”
― Roy T. Bennett
“He who cannot be a good follower cannot be a good leader.”
― Aristotle
“The mark of a great man is one who knows when to set aside the important things in order to accomplish the vital ones.”
― Brandon Sanderson
“Don’t let mental blocks control you. Set yourself free. Confront your fear and turn the mental blocks into building blocks.”
― Dr Roopleen
“Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.”
― Albert Schweitzer
“If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. But do not care to convince him. Men will believe what they see. Let them see.”
― Henry David Thoreau
“If you’re not confused, you’re not paying attention.”
― Tom Peters
“Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.”
― Dwight D. Eisenhower
“He who wishes to be obeyed must know how to command”
― Niccolò Machiavelli
“In the future, there will be no female leaders. There will just be leaders.”
― Sheryl Sandberg
“Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them.”
― John C. Maxwell
“Be with a leader when he is right, stay with him when he is still right, but, leave him when he is wrong.”
― Abraham Lincoln
“I cannot trust a man to control others who cannot control himself.”
― Robert E. Lee
“Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.”
― Peter F. Drucker
“Efficiency is doing the thing right. Effectiveness is doing the right thing.”
― Peter F. Drucker
“Being a leader is making the people you love hate you a little more each day.”
― Patrick Ness
“You do not lead by hitting people over the head — that’s assault, not leadership.”
― Dwight D. Eisenhower
“If you’re offered a seat on a rocket ship, don’t ask what seat! Just get on.”
― Sheryl Sandberg
“The key to successful leadership is influence, not authority.”
― Ken Blanchard
“Leaders are limited by their vision rather than by their abilities.”
― Roy T. Bennett
“Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility.”
― Peter Drucker
“The more you talk about them, the more important they will feel. The more you listen to them, the more important you will make them feel.”
― Roy T. Bennett
“If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.”
― John Quincy Adams
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