Leadership Quotes: Guidance for Todays Leaders - Page 2

Empower your leadership journey with quotes from successful leaders. Gain insights to lead effectively and inspire others. Page 2 provides more leadership quotes.

Image of Rush Limbaugh
The Republican leadership thinks the best way to avoid losing elections is to let the Democrats win every controversial issue.
- Rush Limbaugh
Collection: Leadership
Image of Jimmy Reid
Arthur Scargill's leadership of the miners' strike has been a disgrace. The price to be paid for his folly will be immense. He will have destroyed the N.U.M. as an effective fighting force within British trade unionism for the next 20 years. If kamikaze pilots were to form their own union, Arthur would be an ideal choice for leader.
- Jimmy Reid
Collection: Leadership
Image of Viola Davis
The more I'm pushed in a position of leadership and I know I have to be the mouthpiece for so many other people who can't speak for themselves, the more confidence I'm gaining.
- Viola Davis
Collection: Leadership
Image of Natan Sharansky
The message of the free world to any potential Palestinian leadership should be a simple one: Embrace democratic reform and we will embrace you.
- Natan Sharansky
Collection: Leadership
Image of Martin O'Malley
We have now under President Obama's leadership had 29 months in a row of private sector job growth. That stretch of positive private sector job growth hasn't happened since 2005. We still have a long way to go, but we are moving in the right direction.
- Martin O'Malley
Collection: Leadership
Image of Ibrahim Babangida
But no nation can base its survival and development on luck and prayers alone while its leadership fritters away every available opportunity for success and concrete achievement.
- Ibrahim Babangida
Collection: Leadership
Image of Zbigniew Brzezinski
It is important to ask ourselves, as citizens, whether a world power can provide global leadership on the basis of fear and anxiety.
- Zbigniew Brzezinski
Collection: Leadership
Image of Alexander the Great
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
Collection: Leadership
Image of Steve Jobs
Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.
- Steve Jobs
Collection: Leadership
Image of John C. Maxwell
A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.
- John C. Maxwell
Collection: Leadership
Image of Lao Tzu
A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.
- Lao Tzu
Collection: Leadership
Image of Ronald Reagan
When you can't make them see the light, make them feel the heat.
- Ronald Reagan
Collection: Leadership
Image of Colin Powell
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
Collection: Leadership
Image of Henry Ford
If you think you can do a thing or think you can't do a thing, you're right.
- Henry Ford
Collection: Leadership
Image of Theodore Roosevelt
Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.
- Theodore Roosevelt
Collection: Leadership
Image of Nelson Mandela
It is better to lead from behind and to put others in front, especially when you celebrate victory when nice things occur. You take the front line when there is danger. Then people will appreciate your leadership.
- Nelson Mandela
Collection: Leadership
Image of Dwight D. Eisenhower
Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Collection: Leadership
Image of J. P. Morgan
Go as far as you can see; when you get there, you'll be able to see farther.
- J. P. Morgan
Collection: Leadership
Image of Napoleon Bonaparte
A leader is a dealer in hope.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
Collection: Leadership
Image of Martin Luther King, Jr.
A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Collection: Leadership
Image of Thomas Sowell
People who enjoy meetings should not be in charge of anything.
- Thomas Sowell
Collection: Leadership
Image of John F. Kennedy
Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.
- John F. Kennedy
Collection: Leadership
Image of Thomas Aquinas
If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever.
- Thomas Aquinas
Collection: Leadership
Image of Confucius
The cautious seldom err.
- Confucius
Collection: Leadership
Image of Peter Drucker
Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.
- Peter Drucker
Collection: Leadership
Image of Sam Walton
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
Collection: Leadership
Image of Chris Hadfield
Ultimately, leadership is not about glorious crowning acts. It's about keeping your team focused on a goal and motivated to do their best to achieve it, especially when the stakes are high and the consequences really matter. It is about laying the groundwork for others' success, and then standing back and letting them shine.
- Chris Hadfield
Collection: Leadership
Image of Thomas Fuller
In fair weather prepare for foul.
- Thomas Fuller
Collection: Leadership
Image of Arnold H. Glasow
A good leader takes a little more than his share of the blame, a little less than his share of the credit.
- Arnold H. Glasow
Collection: Leadership
Image of George Washington Carver
Where there is no vision, there is no hope.
- George Washington Carver
Collection: Leadership
Image of Roy E. Disney
When your values are clear to you, making decisions becomes easier.
- Roy E. Disney
Collection: Leadership
Image of Warren Bennis
Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.
- Warren Bennis
Collection: Leadership
Image of Tom Peters
If a window of opportunity appears, don't pull down the shade.
- Tom Peters
Collection: Leadership
Image of Max Lucado
A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd.
- Max Lucado
Collection: Leadership
Image of Harold S. Geneen
Leadership is practiced not so much in words as in attitude and in actions.
- Harold S. Geneen
Collection: Leadership
Image of Andrew Carnegie
No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit for doing it.
- Andrew Carnegie
Collection: Leadership
Image of Sun Tzu
He who is prudent and lies in wait for an enemy who is not, will be victorious.
- Sun Tzu
Collection: Leadership
Image of Ray Kroc
The quality of a leader is reflected in the standards they set for themselves.
- Ray Kroc
Collection: Leadership
Image of Bill Bradley
Leadership is unlocking people's potential to become better.
- Bill Bradley
Collection: Leadership
Image of Mahatma Gandhi
I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people.
- Mahatma Gandhi
Collection: Leadership
Image of Bernard Baruch
Millions saw the apple fall, but Newton was the one who asked why.
- Bernard Baruch
Collection: Leadership
Image of Thomas Leonard
Clarity affords focus.
- Thomas Leonard
Collection: Leadership
Image of W. Clement Stone
Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you; be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them.
- W. Clement Stone
Collection: Leadership
Image of Henry Kissinger
The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.
- Henry Kissinger
Collection: Leadership
Image of William James
If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.
- William James
Collection: Leadership
Image of George W. Bush
Leadership to me means duty, honor, country. It means character, and it means listening from time to time.
- George W. Bush
Collection: Leadership
Image of Jim Rohn
Affirmation without discipline is the beginning of delusion.
- Jim Rohn
Collection: Leadership
Image of Stephen Covey
Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out.
- Stephen Covey
Collection: Leadership
Image of Margaret Fuller
Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.
- Margaret Fuller
Collection: Leadership