Top 100 Good Leadership Quotes
#1. The height of ability in the least able consists in knowing how to submit to the good leadership of others.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
#2. Good leadership is always human. It takes time and energy. It is hard work. Which is why good leadership is so special when we find it.
Simon Sinek
#3. But it is my total conviction that all the trappings of good leadership are generic and widely applicable whether you are standing in a khaki queue with your mess tins or on an automobile production line.
Peter Cosgrove
#4. The secret to success is good leadership, and good leadership is all about making the lives of your team members or workers better.
Tony Dungy
#6. Good leadership consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people.
John D. Rockefeller
#7. Good leadership isn't about advancing yourself. It's about advancing your team.
John C. Maxwell
#8. 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
#9. Good leadership is like exercise. We do not see any improvement to our bodies with day-to-day comparisons.
Simon Sinek
#10. The most important thing in good leadership is truly caring.
Dean Smith
#11. Qualities that the world considers virtues will lead a leader to ruin, while those regarded as vices will often bring safety and prosperity. Good leadership requires a prince to "know how to do evil.
Ross King
#12. Leadership is hard to define and good leadership even harder. But if you can get people to follow you to the ends of the earth, you are a great leader.
Indra Nooyi
#13. good leadership can help creative people stay on the path to excellence no matter what business they're in.
Ed Catmull
#14. Good leadership requires you to surround yourself with people of diverse perspectives who can disagree with you without fear of retaliation.
Doris Kearns Goodwin
#15. Good leadership puts the interests of the community as a whole before those of any specific group. Credibility of leadership can only be established through action and not words.
Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum
#16. Good leadership is about the company's success, not your own.
Anne M. Mulcahy
#17. What I know about my country is that when America is challenged, we rise to the occasion. When we're fearful, we become divided. When we're courageous and have good leadership, we unite.
Keith Ellison
#18. Without leadership ability,a person's impact is only a fraction of what it could be with good leadership.
John C. Maxwell
#19. I believe that the mindset that allows you to spend your working life thanking and congratulating people rather than being unpleasant to them is the mainstay of good leadership.
Tim Waterstone
#20. I love free trade, but we need great leadership to have real free trade. And we don't have good leadership. We have leadership that doesn't know what it's doing.
Donald Trump
#21. If there is such a thing as good leadership, it is to give a good example. I have to do so for all the Ikea employees.
Ingvar Kamprad
#22. I believe one of the requirements of good leadership is the ability to listen - really listen - to those in your organization. An effective leader is very good at listening, and it's difficult to listen when you are talking.
John Wooden
#23. Good leadership means leading the way, not hectoring other people to do things your way.
Chris Hadfield
#24. We have good leadership only by chance, not by management.
And we need to change that!
Amit Chatterjee
#25. A good coach always coaches to a leader's potential, not his current level of performance. A good leadership coach will see the potential in you and inspire you accordingly.
Andy Stanley
#26. Good leadership is pervasive, persuasive, and persistent. Bad leadership is poisoned with pedanticism, posturing, self-importance.
Marcia Whicker
#27. Good leadership is hard to measure on a daily basis which is why so many default to doing what's easy to measure instead.
Simon Sinek
#28. I always believe that ultimately, if people are paying attention, then we get good government and good leadership. And when we get lazy, as a democracy and civically start taking shortcuts, then it results in bad government and politics.
Barack Obama
#29. Successful people do what is right no matter how they feel, and by doing right, they feel good.
John C. Maxwell
#30. True leadership has people who follow when they have the freedom not to.
James C. Collins
#31. I learned that leadership is about falling in love with the people and the people falling in love with you. It is about serving the people with selflessness, with sacrifice, and with the need to put the common good ahead of personal interests.
Joyce Banda
#32. Discipline is "the systematic management of your life to prepare and position you for your divine design." Discipline and stewardship are one and the same. Discipline brings order to life and is absolutely required if we're going to be good stewards of the call to leadership.
Kent Ingle
#33. I believe that in order to be a good leader you must understand the value of praising people to success.
Mary Kay Ash
#34. All the good you've ever done does not make it permissible to sin now.
Johnny Hunt
#35. That's the burden of leadership, Logan: making the choice when none of the choices are good.
Brent Weeks
#36. I've been a Democrat, I've been a Republican, and I eventually became an independent because I don't believe either party has a monopoly on good ideas or strong leadership.
Michael Bloomberg
#37. Politics is noble; it is one of the highest forms of charity, as Paul VI used to say. We sully it when we mix it with business. The relationship between the Church and political power can also be corrupted if common good is not the only converging point.
Pope Francis
#38. A leader is a person who must take special responsibility for what's going on inside of himself or herself ... lest the act of leadership create more harm than good.
Parker J. Palmer
#39. We need the kind of leadership exemplified by President Kennedy to just do it! But we must do it as good stewards, aggressively exerting control over the moon. We can best do this by going there.
Wilson Greatbatch
#40. You may be good. You may even be better than everyone esle. But without a coach you will never be as good as you could be.
Andy Stanley
#41. Sustainable change, after all, depends not upon compliance with external mandates or blind adherence to regulation, but rather upon the pursuit of the greater good.
Douglas B. Reeves
#42. So much of life is about attitude and how we handle what life throws our way. Life is good - even when a situation appears to be the worst.
David Cottrell
#43. Good leaders must know how to reward those who succeed and know when to retrain, move, or fire ineffective staff.
Colin Powell
#44. Having a good definition of spiritual leadership is critical to development
of leadership cultural throughout your church. You need to know what you are
shooting for if you are going to hit the target.
Gary Rohrmayer
#45. A good businessman knows how to make a profit. An engineer makes sure it runs well. We need more leaders who are task oriented.
Phil Mitchell
#46. Lord Perrin. He would never get used to that, but maybe that was a good thing.
Robert Jordan
#47. Good political leadership for me involves getting the big decisions right - however difficult, however controversial, however potentially divisive - and then being able to take people with you.
Charles Kennedy
#48. [Pope Francis] is a humble man. He lives the faith out in his own personal life ... He's here to be a shepherd; he isn't here to be a scold. I think that's a good thing for the church and for the world, frankly.
Rick Santorum
#49. It is good to exercise patience. But never let your patience be the type that will keep you refrained from acting.
Israelmore Ayivor
#50. I have seen competent leaders who stood in front of a platoon and all they saw was a platoon. But great leaders stand in front of a platoon and see it as 44 individuals, each of whom has aspirations, each of who wants to live, each of whom wants to do good.
Norman Schwarzkopf
#51. Zeus energy, which encompasses intelligence, robust health, compassionate decisiveness, good will, generous leadership. Zeus energy is male authority accepted for the sake of the community.
Robert Bly
#52. This women's moment to embrace the power-to for good in life and leadership.
Gloria Feldt
#53. Good NCOs are not just born-they are groomed and grown through a lot of hard work and strong leadership by senior NCOs.
William A. Connelly
#54. When leaders lead in ways that people's brains can follow, good results follow as well.
Henry Cloud
#55. Lincoln's leadership is based on a number of precepts, but my favorite one is that he acted in the name, and for the good, of the people.
Steven Spielberg
#56. Success is mesmerizing, and blinding. Sometimes you need good old fashion failure to open your eyes.
Noel DeJesus
#57. 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
#58. A sign of a good leader is not his position but his vision.
Debasish Mridha
#59. Once you were in the hands of a Grand Vizier, you were dead. Grand Viziers were always scheming megalomaniacs. It was probably in the job description: "Are you a devious, plotting, unreliable madman? Ah, good, then you can be my most trusted minister.
Terry Pratchett
#60. We now realize as we have never before our interdependence on each other; that we cannot merely take, but we must be willing to sacrifice for the good of a common discipline, because without such discipline, no progress is made, no leadership becomes effective.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
#61. We can influence people for bad or good.
Johnny Hunt
#62. Leadership is for those who love the public good and are endowed and trained to administer it.
Thornton Wilder
#63. The challenge has always been that "good people" don't know how to win elections
Fela Durotoye
#64. There was no imminent threat. This was made up in Texas, announced in January to the Republican leadership that war was going to take place and was going to be good politically. This whole thing was a fraud.
Edward Kennedy
#65. His was a profession in which a good leader constantly had to adapt to new weapons, whether he liked them or not,
David Halberstam
#66. Be the start of something that is good, revolutionary and powerful. Everything after that is a bonus!
Carlos Wallace
#67. Good leaders don't tell people what to do, they give teams capability and inspiration.
Jeffrey R. Immelt
#68. If you would be a leader of men you must lead your own generation, not the next. Your playing must be good now, while the play ison the boards and the audience in the seats ... It will not get you the repute of a good actor to have excellencies discovered in you afterwards.
Woodrow Wilson
#69. The essence of community, its heart and soul, is the non-monetary exchange of value; things we do and share because we care for others, and for the good of the place.
Dee Hock
#70. I think leadership is never singular. In a good organization, it's plural.
Mike Krzyzewski
#71. He was very good, it turned out, at outlining the flaws in the government as long as someone else was in charge of the government.
David Halberstam
#72. I probably felt more resentment for what I personally was to suffer than for the wrong they were doing to anyone and everyone. But at that time I was determined not to put up with badly behaved people more out of my own interest than because I wanted them to become good people.
Augustine Of Hippo
#73. As is often the case with children, the rule of 'monkey see, monkey do' plays out in the workplace. It's hard to be good role model, and it's one of the greatest challenges of leadership.
Lee Ellis
#74. Without courage, it doesn't matter how good the leader's intentions are.
Orrin Woodward
#75. Observe calmly; secure our position; cope with affairs calmly; hide our capacities and bide our time; be good at maintaining a low profile; and never claim leadership.
Deng Xiaoping
#76. The good will of the governed will be starved if not fed by the good deeds of the governors.
Benjamin Franklin
#77. A good manager will always have the big picture in mind and guide the employees through a series of small targets in order to achieve overall success.
Abhishek Ratna
#78. The wise leader settles for good work and then lets others have the floor.
Laozi
#79. Quaker author Parker Palmer said, "A leader is a person who must take special responsibility for what's going on inside of himself or herself . . . lest the act of leadership create more harm than good."[5]
Lance Witt
#80. His was the strong soul, gentle, but tempered with fire, fervent, heroic and good, the helper and friend of mankind. It is such as he who make progress possible.
Thomas W. Martin
#81. Good units walk a thin line between indiscipline and ineffectiveness. Ignore the rules too often and you've got a mob, but enforce the rules too strictly and you've got a herd.
Henry V. O'Neil
#82. Let go of a need for personal recognition. Heap kudos on others and they'll perform even better next time. Leaders are only as good as those who follow them and followers are at their best when leaders are quick to give credit for successes.
Steve Goodier
#83. If you're a good experienced player, you wknow what it takes to do. If you're in trouble, you know how to change. One hundred percent of my game is instinct. I never stop and think I'm going to hit a ball crosscourt or down the line. I just do it.
Bjorn Borg
#84. The American color bar unless speedily removed will be the rock on which our international Good Neighbor policy and our pious claims to moral leadership will founder.
Charles Hamilton Houston
#85. I'll practice as good as I can, but I know that I play even better, with the qualities I have - leadership, my ability to make something happen in games, winning.
Tim Tebow
#86. We are all leaders-whether we want to be or not. There is always someone we are influencing-either leading them to good-or away from good.
Leif Erikson
#87. Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.
Jack Welch
#88. Collaboration begins with focusing on the collective good rather than personal gain.
Jane Ripley
#89. Good management has considerable impact on engagement levels of the employees and drives them towards excellent performances.
Abhishek Ratna
#91. Have you ever made a decision that sounded good at the time but then led to unanticipated results?
Holly Elissa Bruno
#92. If you spend your life trying to be good at everything, you will never be great at anything.
Tom Rath
#93. When leaders learn and live good values, they make themselves more valuable and lift the value of other people. That is the foundation of positive leadership.
John C. Maxwell
#94. People might consider you eccentric for being different, but this is good. Leaders and visionaries are not conformists afraid of standing out.
Fennel Hudson
#95. You're only as good as the people you hire.
Ray Kroc
#96. There definitely comes a time where a fresh pair of eyes and fresh leadership would be good, and the Conservative Party has got some great people coming up - the Theresa Mays, and the George Osbornes, and the Boris Johnsons.
David Cameron
#97. A good leader inspires people to have confidence in the leader,
a great leader inspires people to have confidence in themselves.
Eleanor Roosevelt
#98. While it's good that we maintain high standards for companies seeking to claim environmental leadership, I can't help but ponder the hypocrisy of it all: how much more we expect of companies than of ourselves.
Joel Makower
#99. All good leaders are optimists. They always see opportunity where others see hardship
Jocelyn Murray
#100. The amount of good luck coming your way depends on your willingness to act.
Barbara Sher
