Leadership Quotes
When we think we lead we most are led.
I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles but today it means getting along with people.
He said, one time, that no true leader burdened his followers with a greater load than they could ca...
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The cardinal responsibility of leadership is to identify the dominant contradiction at each point of...
Show MoreDefine excellence vividly, quantitatively. Paint a picture for your most talented employees of what ...
Show MoreThere has to be a way to redirect employee's driving ambition and to channel it more productively. T...
Show MoreForcing your employees to follow required steps only prevents customer dissatisfaction. If your goal...
Show MoreYou can't lead if no one will follow.

He keeps his voice kindly but remote. A cross between a pedagogue, soothsayer, and a benevolent uncl...
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Consensus: “The process of abandoning all beliefs, principles, values, and policies in search of som...
Show MoreThought Leadership “The Downing Street Years” Book by Margaret Thatcher“I have a habit of comparing ...
Show MoreDon't follow the crowd, let the crowd follow you.
Do you know that one of the great problems of our age is that we are governed by people who care mor...
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It is not an overstatement to say that the destiny of the entire human race depends on what is going...
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Gen. de Gaulle is only concerned about history, and no jury can dictate the judgment of history." Ge...
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When an actor reaches down into his emotional well and pulls up a deeply personal response, the audi...
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I have no family. My only responsibility is the welfare of Quebec. I belong to the province.
Come forward as servants of Islam, organize the people economically, socially, educationally and pol...
Show MoreThe body fades. A leader who would last relies on more.

To win the big stakes in this changed world, you must catch the spirit of the great pioneers of the ...
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Somebody had said how only 15 paisa of the one rupee sent from the Centre reached the intended benef...
Show MoreA prophet is not someone who first had an idea. He is the one to first believe in it and take it to ...
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He was not ill-fitted to be the head and representative of a community which owed its origin and pro...
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A leader. . .is like a shepherd. He stays behind the flock, letting the most nimble go out ahead, wh...
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... From want of foresight men make changes which relishing well at first do not betray their hidden...
Show More... I believe that he will prosper most whose mode of acting best adapts itself to the character of ...
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He listened to their opinions, stated his own, and supported them with reasons; and from his being c...
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... Whoever becomes master of a city accustomed to live in freedom and does no destroy it, may recko...
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... If instead of colonies you send troops, the cost is vastly greater, and the whole revenues of th...
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He who wishes to be obeyed must know how to command

How ought we to love God, Father?" he asked in a whisper."By loving men, my son""And how ought we to...
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In accordance with the prevailing conceptions in the U.S., there is no infringement on democracy if ...
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All that technical expertise isn't worth a damn if you don't get the best out of people, though. . ....
Show MoreWe are very quiet there, but it is the quiet of a storm centre. .
At an unprecedented time with the worst attack ever on our soil, our President displayed extraordina...
Show MoreI would follow such beauty, said something inside Ender. I would see as those eyes see.

You accomplish exactly as much as the people who serve you decide you'll accomplish, and nothing mor...
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Political judgment is the ability to hear the distant hoofbeats of the horse of history.
The newly-minted captain is told to let nothing stop him but to do nothing that would risk his ship ...
Show MoreHis (Lenin's)humanitarianism was a very abstract passion. It embraced humanity in general but he see...
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Fear cannot be banished, but it can be calm and without panic; it can be mitigated by reason and eva...
Show MoreIf you shoot at a king you must kill him.
The key to every man is his thought. Sturdy and defying though he look, he has a helm which he obeys...
Show MoreOur chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.
They stood there, King of the Hill, Top of the Heap, Ruler of All They Surveyed, Unimpeachable Monar...
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The first thing that has to be recognized is that one cannot train someone to be passionate--it's ei...
Show MoreA thing can be fine on paper but utterly crummy in the field.
He had learned that close-held secrets could often be cracked by going all the way to the top and th...
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I cannot trust a man to control others who cannot control himself.
Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.
...as we proceed to higher and higher levels of expertise, and as the stakes get higher and higher, ...
Show MoreHe hadn’t asked to become a leader, but did that absolve him of responsibility? People needed him. T...
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Most businesses think that product is the most important thing, but without great leadership, missio...
Show MoreAlas! in the clothes of the greatest potentate, what is there but a man?

Pique or policy. We would never know.

Radio was theater of the mind.
I discovered that night (in his college's student politics) that an audience has a feel to it, and, ...
Show MoreI was not a great communicator, but I communicated great things.
The greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things. He is the one that gets...
Show MoreI would like to be known as a person who is concerned about freedom and equality and justice and pro...
Show MoreBecause “we human beings are imaginative by nature, we cannot choose to live by the routine of the a...
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Leading means running fast enough to keep ahead of your people

Outstanding leaders go out of their way to boost the self-esteem of their personnel. If people belie...
Show MoreNo true individual has existed yet, able to live, able to die. Only diseased, tragic, or dismal and ...
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And a young prince must be prudent like that,giving freely while his father livesso that afterwards,...
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In a battle between two ideas, the best one doesn't necessarily win. No, the idea that wins is the ...
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Leadership is the art of giving people a platform for spreading ideas that work.

The secret of leadership is simple: Do what you believe in. Paint a picture of the future. Go there....
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Leaders lead when they take positions, when they connect with their tribes, and when they help the t...
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Leadership, on the other hand, is about creating change you believe in.

How was your day? If your answer was "fine," then I don't think you were leading.

Statecraft and kingship were not for the faint of heart

On Lee as commander: "He had a cheerful dignity and could praise them (his men) without seeming to c...
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A visitor asked Lincoln what good news he could take home from an audience with the august executive...
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Men who find themselves late are never sure. They are all the things the civics books tell us the go...
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In spite of his Cold War credentials, Kennedy still believed in the power of words.

They loved the sound of their own voices. No decision would be reached anytime soon.

He had been around politicians for a long time, and he was prepared for some outburst.

Jonathan had been around Washington long enough to know that no offer was exactly what it seemed.

You have to be burning with an idea, or a problem, or a wrong that you want to right. If you're not ...
Show MoreIt doesn't make sense to hire smart people and then tell them what to to , We hire smart people so t...
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Great things in business are never done by one person,They are done by a team of people

If soldiers are punished before they have grown attached to you, they will not prove submissive;and,...
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Regard your soldiers as your children, and they will follow you into the deepest valleys; look upon ...
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How often does a man ruin his disciples by remaining always with them! When men are once trained, it...
Show MoreGive up the idea that by ruling over others you can do any good to them. But you can do just as much...
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Once you were in the hands of a Grand Vizier, you were dead. Grand Viziers were always scheming mega...
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The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and se...
Show MoreTis skill, not strength, that governs a ship
Tis skill, not strength, that governs a ship
Tis skill, not strength, that governs a ship
Tis skill, not strength, that governs a ship
Tis skill, not strength, that governs a ship
Tis skill, not strength, that governs a ship
Tis skill, not strength, that governs a ship
Tis skill, not strength, that governs a ship
Your friend Plato holds that commonwealths will only be happy when either philosophers rule or ruler...
Show MoreThe power to lead is the power to mislead, and the power to mislead is the power to destroy.
Some are young people who don't know who they are, what they can be or even want to be. They are afr...
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Every act of conscious learning requires the willingness to suffer an injury to one's self-esteem. T...
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