Top 100 Good Leader Quotes
#1. I believe that in order to be a good leader you must understand the value of praising people to success.
Mary Kay Ash
#2. Well, the first quality of being a good leader is you have to be able to follow. See, a good leader can't just be the leader all the time, I have to be able to follow.
Lisa Leslie
#3. You see, when there is danger, a good leader takes the front line. But when there is celebration, a good leader stays in the back room. If you want the cooperation of human beings around you, make them feel that they are important. And you do that by being humble.
Nelson Mandela
#4. A good leader needs to have a compass in his head and a bar of steel in his heart.
Robert Townsend
#5. I feel that no good leader can let the masses go unfed
Kiera Cass
#6. The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully.
Walter Lippmann
#7. A good leader is one who can tell another how to reach his or her potential; a great leader is one who can help another discover this potential for him or herself.
Bo Bennett
#8. A good leader needs to stand behind his or her followers as often as he or she needs to stand in front of them.
Marilyn Vos Savant
#9. A sign of a good leader is not his position but his vision.
Debasish Mridha
#10. A real good leader is faithful
to a special gift of a near-death experience
Religious Leader Petra Cecilia Maria Hermans
Religion of Blue Circle
October 8, 2016
Babaji
Petra Hermans
#11. If you are a good leader, Who talks little, They will say, When your work is done, And your aim fulfilled, "We did it ourselves." - Lao Tse
Gerald M. Weinberg
#12. His was a profession in which a good leader constantly had to adapt to new weapons, whether he liked them or not,
David Halberstam
#13. Being a good leader requires remembering that you're there for a reason, and the reason certainly isn't to have your way. High-integrity leaders not only welcome questioning and criticism - they insist on it.
Travis Bradberry
#14. The disadvantage to humor, and where a good leader must be vigilant, is that everyone has a different sense of humor and humor can be used as a weapon to humiliate others.
Jim Korkis
#15. The good leader carries water for his people.
Laozi
#16. A good leader will seek the wisdom of others. After all, no man is an island!
Jim George
#17. Lead by listening - to be a good leader you have to be a great listener.
Richard Branson
#18. I would say a good leader brings results. A great leader writes a new story, it's different. Obviously a new story has to incorporate a lot of results. But a story is a chapter in the life of a company that people want to write and want to remember.
Carlos Ghosn
#19. Just because he's a good leader doesn't mean he's a good person.
Sabaa Tahir
#20. You talk about seeing around corners as an element of success. That's what differentiates the good leader. Not many people have it. Not many people can predict that corner. That would be a characteristic of great leaders.
Jack Welch
#21. A good leader should focus on making sure everyone is being given the tools to do their job, not just expecting - poof! - that they're going to produce great work.
Anne Sweeney
#22. A good leader can't dwell on the choices he's made, Threetrees used to tell him, and a good leader can't help dwelling on 'em.
Joe Abercrombie
#23. A good leader must have the wisdom to know when a pursuit is no longer worthy of being pursued - a time when the losses of the present must be accepted - and cut - to preserve the gains and providence of the future.
A.J. Darkholme
#24. People had so much respect for George Mitchell. They wanted to cooperate with him. I think that's a hallmark of a very good leader.
Barbara Mikulski
#25. The problem was that somewhere along the way I had bought into the myth that a good leader has to be good at everything. So I operated under the assumption that I had to upgrade my weaknesses into strengths. After all, who would follow a leader who wasn't well-rounded?
Andy Stanley
#26. A good leader leads from the front. Don't get stuck in the office. Get out, meet people and listen to their stories.
Richard Branson
#27. A good leader inspires people to have confidence in the leader,
a great leader inspires people to have confidence in themselves.
Eleanor Roosevelt
#28. Military leaders aren't made. They are born. To be a good leader, you have to have something in your character to cause people to follow you.
Jimmy Johnson
#29. I am a good leader; I know how to explain men to themselves.
Anna Godbersen
#30. A good leader takes care of those in their charge. A bad leader takes charge of those in their care.
Simon Sinek
#31. The bad leader is he who the people despise; the good leader is he who the people praise; the great leader is he who the people say, We did it ourselves
Peter M. Senge
#33. Good leadership is to know when to go, and you only succeed as a good leader if you've transported someone else in and the company gets stronger. Then you've succeeded as leader.
Tony Fernandes
#35. DONOVAN: Court's a good leader. He doesn't hold my hand or treat anyone like a child. He's kicked a few *sses when guys went off script to make their own moves. Once he even scared the sh*t out of one of the older guys.
Bijou Hunter
#36. A good leader sees everything, overlooks a great deal, and corrects a little.
Pope John Paul II
#37. A good leader sets the right goals, gets things moving, and helps us to discover that we already know what to do.
Donella Meadows
#38. The quality of a good leader therefore is his vision, tenacity, and his capability.
Jack Ma
#39. If you look at anything successful, you will find traces of a good leader in it.
Idowu Koyenikan
#40. A good leader gets people to follow him because they want to, not because he makes them.
Tony Dungy
#41. The difference between a good leader and a great leader is humility.
James C. Collins
#43. A good leader is one who reveals to you your own potential and then inspires and shows you how to reach your potential.
Debasish Mridha
#44. In short, professional competence is not enough to be a good leader; good leaders must truly care about those entrusted to their care.
Simon Sinek
#45. Having a personality of caring about people is important. You can't be a good leader unless you generally like people. That is how you bring out the best in them.
Richard Branson
#46. The mediocre leader tells. The good leader explains. The superior leader demonstrates. The great leader inspires.
Gary Patton
#47. A good leader is always looking for people smarter and more experienced than they are. If you are the smartest one in the room, then you are stupid.
Robert Kiyosaki
#48. I think Enda Kenny has shown himself to be a good leader in the sense that he can accept that people might have differences of opinion with him, but at the same time can see that it's useful to have them involved and part of the team and I very much appreciate that.
Lucinda Creighton
#49. It takes a good leader, with integrity, to enhance a leader with passion.
Steven Cuoco
#50. Sometimes doing the right thing was hard ... and potentially messy. But a good leader always did the right thing.
Shannon Hale
#51. To be a good leader, you don't have to know what you're doing; you just have to act like you know what you're doing.
Jordan Carl Curtis
#52. I pray to be a good servant to God, a father, a husband, a son, a friend, a brother, an uncle, a good neighbor, a good leader to those who look up to me, a good follower to those who are serving God and doing the right thing.
Mark Wahlberg
#54. The qualities required to be a good leader are usually incompatible with the qualities required to become a leader.
Francis Mont
#55. He who cannot be a good follower cannot be a good leader.
Aristotle.
#56. A good leader brins the lady partner dance level to a superior level.
Donnie Burns
#57. You are a good leader when your actions inspire others to do good for themselves and for others.
Debasish Mridha
#58. A good leader shares information, even if they don't know the whole story. Without any information, people create their own, which causes fear and paranoia.
Simon Sinek
#59. A good leader doesn't have to know everything. Nobody knows everything that's why you surround yourself with people who are experts in different areas.
"That's what makes a good leader.
Patience Johnson
#60. I think one of the keys to leadership is recognizing that everybody has gifts and talents. A good leader will learn how to harness those gifts toward the same goal.
Ben Carson
#61. You know you're a good leader when people follow you out of curiosity.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
#62. LEGACY plays an important role in defining a good leader at any age.
Farshad Asl
#63. If you fail to honor your people, They will fail to honor you; It is said of a good leader that When the work is done, the aim fulfilled, The people will say, "We did this ourselves."
Laozi
#64. When we're trying to decide whether a leader is a good leader or a bad one, the question to ask is: 'Is he with the Ten Commandments or is he against them?' Then you can determine if the leader is a true messiah or another Stalin.
Isaac Bashevis Singer
#65. You can't be a good leader without good character.
Tony Boselli
#66. Every good leader is part manager and every good manager is part leader.
Condoleezza Rice
#67. A good leader has a compass in their head and a magnet in their heart.
Howard G. Hendricks
#68. I plan on being a friend, a good leader and a good governor over these next three years.
John Rowland
#70. A leader inspires others to dream more. The actions of a really good leader will show how to achieve that dream.
Debasish Mridha
#71. A good leader encourages followers to tell him what he needs to know, not what he wants to hear.
John C. Maxwell
#72. The good leader repeats the good news, keeps the worst to himself.
Sophocles
#73. Ganguly is a very good leader. His return to the field brings a spring in the steps of the Indians. He is a great player.
Ricky Ponting
#74. A good leader must be fair.
Yao Ming
#75. There is no real magic to being a good leader. But at the end of every week, you have to spend your time around the things that are really important: setting priorities, measuring outcomes, and rewarding them.
Jeffrey R. Immelt
#76. I'm merely teaching you to be someone of pride and to be a good leader and that's the message I want you to take away from my music.
Sizzla
#77. While a good leader sustains momentum, a great leader increases it.
John C. Maxwell
#78. I always imagine a good leader is surrounded by people who call their mothers at the end of the day and tell them, 'Mom, you can't believe what I did today. Let me tell you about it.'
James Altucher
#79. Ask others the same questions you ask of yourself: "Am I a good leader? Am I trustworthy? Am I inspiring?
Rob Roy
#80. Being a good leader today doesn't mean you'll be a good leader 10 years from now. You have to adapt to the times.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
#81. A good leader is not necessarily the most popular person in their business, but the best ones are liked because they are respected for their clarity and vision.
Alan Sugar
#82. If you wish to be a good Leader, have a all round personality. Read psychology, philosophy,history,anthropology, sociology, finest works, scriptures and even Law.
Moutasem Algharati
#83. No one is born a good citizen or a good democrat or a good leader; it takes time and education.
Kofi Annan
#84. A good leader ... maintains a balance between emotional drive and sound thinking.
Haile Selassie
#85. A good leader is someone who knows what he's bad at, and hires someone who's good at it to take care of it for him.
John Flanagan
#87. A good banker isn't careless with pennies; a good leader isn't sloppy about details.
John Wooden
#88. A good leader leads with compassion and love, not fear and blood. A country that harms its people because they are not happy with the leader
is not a country that belongs to the people, but to the leader.
Suzy Kassem
#89. Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim to what I call the 'ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome'. You must be willing to fire.
T. Boone Pickens
#90. Being a good leader does not require you possessing a fancy title, no more than possessing a fancy title makes you a good leader.
Mark W. Boyer
#91. If your leadership is truly grounded in love, you'll always land in the category of a good leader.
Glenn C. Stewart
#92. An important mark of a good leader [is] to know you don't know it all and never will.
Anne M. Mulcahy
#93. 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
#94. A good leader can engage in a debate frankly and thoroughly, knowing that at the end he and the other side must be closer, and thus emerge stronger. You don't have that idea when you are arrogant, superficial, and uninformed.
Nelson Mandela
#95. A good leader remains focused. Controlling your destination is better than being controlled by it
Jack Welch
#98. Well, good for you, a breakthrough. The Neanderthals will be pleased to have their leader back.
Kate Stewart
#99. Everyone has the spark of greatness; a leader's role is to pour oxygen onto it forming the fire within.
Orrin Woodward
#100. Bad leaders care about who is right. Good leaders care about what is right
Simon Sinek
