Top 100 Great Leader Quotes
#1. Allow the way to your great work to be guided by your service to others.
Mollie Marti
#2. A great leader must serve the best interests of the people first, not those of multinational corporations. Human life should never be sacrificed for monetary profit. There are no exceptions.
Suzy Kassem
#4. The duty of the people is to tend to their own affairs.
The duty of government is to help them do it.
This is the pasta of politics.
The inspired leader, the true prince, no matter how great, can only be sauce upon the pasta.
Bombolini
Robert Crichton
#5. I'm not a great manager; I try to be a great leader. And for me, that's been going through a process of not how to be a great CEO but how to be a great Evan, and that's really been the challenge.
Evan Spiegel
#6. A chair does not make a great leader. But a great leader can make any chair, his throne."
--Dark Mother
Jeffrey B. Thompson
#7. Great leaders motivate large groups of individuals to improve the human condition.
John P. Kotter
#8. Without a terrific leader, you're not going to have a Great Group. But it is also true that you're not going to have a great leader without a Great Group.
Warren G. Bennis
#9. I don't want to be a great leader; I want to be a man who goes around with a little oil can and when he sees a breakdown, offers his help. To me, the man who does that is greater than any holy man in saffron-colored robes. The mechanic with the oil can: that is my ideal in life.
Baba Amte
#10. Great leaders are never too proud to learn.
John Donahoe
#11. If you want to become a great leader, you need to prepare yourself to become a great leader, and the best way to do that is to study great leaders.
Bo Schembechler
#12. There isn't any question about Washington's greatness. If his administration had been a failure, there would have been no United States. A lesser man couldn't have done it ... Washington was both a great administrator and a great leader, a truly great man in every way.
Harry S. Truman
#13. The great leader attracts to himself men of kindred character, drawing them towards him as the loadstone draws iron.
Samuel Smiles
#14. A true leader is one who creates a favourable environment to bring out the energy and ability of his team. A great leader creates more great leaders, and does not reduce the institution to a single person.
Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum
#15. I am a leader. Leaders always get heat. They're always going against the grain. Jimi Hendrix got heat; Bob Marley got heat; Miles Davis got heat. Every great artist got heat. Heat means you're doing something right.
Ziggy Marley
#16. A great responsibility to bring and give
a new way of watching to the world.
The Religion Of The Blue Circle
Religious Leader Petra Cecilia Maria Hermans
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Petra Hermans
#17. You know, I think that President Obama is a person who has a great relationship with a number of people. Colin Powell does, too. I think Colin Powell is a fine American, a great leader and sees things in President Obama that he agrees with. He's entitled to have his opinion.
Pete Sessions
#18. A great leader must always keep in mind the golden rule: respect for their subordinates.
Tribute to Noah Sealth.
Miguel El Portugues
#19. We always enter markets where the leaders are not doing a great job, so we can go in and disrupt them by offering better quality services.
Richard Branson
#20. To be a great leader, you firstly have to like people. If you don't like people, at the end of the day they will figure this out and you can't lead them too well.
Leonard Lauder
#21. Great leaders do not see people for who they are, but who than can become. Further, the great leader compels those that follow them to become that man or woman of the future, likely exceeding the expectations of both.
Chris Alexander
#22. Great leaders genuinely care for and love the people they lead more than they love leading itself.
Rick Warren
#23. He is a great leader by example. Someone whom I have always admired for his ability to remain balanced and have the sense of equanimity about his captaincy.
Rahul Dravid
#24. Every great movement needs an agitator. Every leader of spiritual ideals need a John the Baptist.
William Allen White
#25. 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
#26. Great leaders don't succeed because they are great. They succeed because they bring out the greatness in others.
Jon Gordon
#27. Not everyone is born a great leader, but anyone can foster core leadership competencies for themselves and become actionable, effective leaders.
Ravinder Tulsiani
#28. A great leader makes what is visible in their mind, visible to all.
Ron Kaufman
#29. The more noisy Negro leaders, by depicting all whites as natural and implacable enemies to their race, have done it a great disservice. Large numbers of whites who were formerly very
friendly to it, and willing to go to great lengths to help it, are now resentful and suspicious.
H.L. Mencken
#30. The thing about grown ups is that they're always wanting you to be this Great Hero and Leader. What's wrong with being NORMAL, for Thor's sake? What's wrong with just being SO-SO at stuff? They're just totally unrealistic ...
Cressida Cowell
#31. For decades, this great leader, often at Dr. King's side, was denied his rightful place in history because he was openly gay. No medal can change that, but today, we honor Bayard Rustin's memory by taking our place in his march towards true equality, no matter who we are or who we love.
Barack Obama
#32. Leadership is possible in all different ways, and in all different areas of life. Whether it is with friends or family, I expect them to set a great example for me, and hopefully I will do the same for them. And that is all part of being a leader.
Steve Nash
#33. What's important is that I do my job really well, that I build great products and that I'm a great leader. All those things matter independent of gender. But I do think there's a responsibility for me to support other women at Google.
Susan Wojcicki
#34. The pope has been called many things, historic figure, spiritual leader, moral force. But a growing chorus of voices has begun to refer to him as John Paul II the Great, in other words, as a saint.
Chris Matthews
#35. Sometimes servant leaders focus on the servitude part and forget the leader part. Great leadership isn't about abdication of power, it about the benevolent application of that power.
Scott Hammerle
#36. A great leader needs to love and respect people, and he needs to be comfortable with himself and with the world. He also needs to be able to forgive himself and others. In other words, a leader needs grace.
Leo Hindery
#37. Especially with the signing of riders with climbing abilities and the new arrival of Tyler Hamilton, who has the strength and ability to become a great leader for the big tours. All in all, I feel this is a very complete team.
Laurent Jalabert
#38. Sane, reasonable, play-it-safe people are not sufficiently engaged in life to generate great stories. Instead, they sit back and wait for a leader-storyteller to come along and get them caught up in a life worth living.
Dan B. Allender
#39. If I can inspire some leaders, that would be great. I don't know if I want to be a leader.
Joe Wurzelbacher
#40. Great people stand out from others by their visions and not much by their intelligence.
Amit Ray
#41. Any great and inspiring leader or organization that ever existed set out to do something completely unrealistic.
Simon Sinek
#43. Men ever follow willingly a daring leader: most willingly of all, in great emergencies.
Robert Dale Owen
#44. One cannot deny that if a person has the energy to get you interested and excited, then that is half the battle won, like all the great leaders had this quality.
Gale Harold
#45. The great need of the world has always been for leaders. With more leaders we could have more industry. More industry, more employment and comfort for all.
Henry Ford
#46. At the end of the day it's really easy to be a great leader when things are going well. The real test, whether or not you believe in being an emotionally intelligent leader, is when things go wrong.
Kevin Allen
#49. The essential attributes of a great leader are a positive attitude, humility, and gratitude.
Debasish Mridha
#50. I was writing a chapter of Beautiful Evidence on the subject of the sculptural pedestal, which led to my thinking about what's up on the pedestal - the great leader.
Edward Tufte
#51. When you empower others to be great, you become a great leader.
Debasish Mridha
#52. Franklin Roosevelt was a great leader. He saw how to use the levers of power to affect change.
Pete Du Pont
#53. I'm going to be a great leader of this generation.
The stars in the space up there are my witnesses.
Toba Beta
#54. Lead by listening - to be a good leader you have to be a great listener.
Richard Branson
#55. Religious leaders and men of science have the same ideals; they want to understand and explain the universe of which they are part; they both earnestly desire to solve, if a solution be ever possible, that great riddle: Why are we here?
Arthur Keith
#56. 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
#57. All great leaders find a sense of balance through their levels of reception. For instance, those who support a leader may soften him, those who ignore him may challenge him, and those who oppose him may stroke his ego.
Criss Jami
#58. Great leaders make leadership look so easy.
Pat Heim
#59. 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
#60. Preaching the Word is the primary task of the Church, the primary task of the leaders of the Church, the people who are set in this position of authority; and we must not allow anything to deflect us from this, however good the cause, however great the need.
David Lloyd-Jones
#61. Becoming a great leader, a great athlete, or great chef takes more than desire or even knowledge. It takes effort. It takes practice.
Dave Anderson
#62. Great leaders have no need for reputation. Reputation is what you are in public. Character is who you are in private.
Myles Munroe
#63. 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
#64. I believe it is the mark of a great leader to question the decisions that came before him.
Marissa Meyer
#65. What you can't enforce, do not command.
Sophocles
#66. Russia is still the leader in world space exploration. But its position of leader involves great responsibility - we have no right to lag behind. We can and we must move constantly forward.
Valentina Tereshkova
#67. Every great leader has a generosity gene.
Jack Welch
#68. St. Louis has always been a great center for medicine. It has been a leader in the nation since the early part of the 20th century. Along with that, we've been a leader in medical science and biomedical science and innovation in medicine.
William Henry Danforth
#69. Just because you have opposition doesn't make you a great leader.
Marco Rubio
#70. Leadership is influence. It is the ability to obtain followers. When the leader lacks confidence, the followers have no commitment. A leader is great not because of his power, but because of his ability to empower others.
John C. Maxwell
#71. It is a great privilege, as well as our responsibility, to pray for our government leaders.
Billy Graham
#72. In the words of the great leader, Sir Winston Churchill: "Success is not final. Failure is not fatal. It is the courage to continue that counts." Redefining
Russ Harris
#73. Our great leader, Chairman Mao, has taught us, 'Every reactionary is the same; if you do not hit him, he will not fall. This is also like sweeping the floor; as a rule, where the broom does not reach, the dust will not vanish by itself.'" Her
Ji-li Jiang
#74. Hines Ward, Plaxico Burress, Jerome Bettis-they are great leaders. I listen to everything they say.
Ben Roethlisberger
#75. The best leaders are the most dedicated learners. Read great books daily.
Robin Sharma
#76. I have tried to be a leader. I have tried in my role of being one of the first women at Google, let alone the first woman to have a baby, to really try to set the tone that this is a great place to work for diversity reasons.
Susan Wojcicki
#77. Great leaders create movements by empowering the tribe to communicate. They establish the foundation for people to make connections, as opposed to commanding people to follow them.
Seth Godin
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#80. A lot of people have said a lot of great things about Steve Jobs. And for good reason: he built the world's second-most valuable company, with billions in profits and products that have improved every aspect of our lives. But Steve didn't get there by being a soft, fluffy, Kumbaya-type leader.
Kevin O'Leary
#81. Workers are on the streets today with a clear message to Europe's leaders. There is a great danger that workers are going to pay the price for the reckless speculation that took place in financial markets.
John Monks
#82. A good leader inspires people to have confidence in the leader,
a great leader inspires people to have confidence in themselves.
Eleanor Roosevelt
#83. I have to continue to be a great leader and contribute in any way that I can, and get guys to follow suit. That's how you turn a team around.
Adrian Peterson
#84. In a servant leadership culture we learn by choice or example that if we want to be great, we have to serve others respectfully.
Vern Dosch
#85. If you want to be a great leader, remember to treat all people with respect at all times. For one, because you never know when you'll need their help. And two, because it's a sign you respect people, which all great leaders do.
Simon Sinek
#86. Great leaders are pragmatists who can deal with difficult realities but still have the optimism and courage to act.
Nitin Nohria
#87. The great political tragedy of our time is that conservative leaders in America have chosen to use their superior messaging and political skills to thwart serious action on global warming.
Joseph J. Romm
#88. I was one of those guys who never wanted to start their own business. I never saw myself as a leader. I saw myself as a great No. 2.
Robert Herjavec
#89. Successful people become great leaders when they learn to shift the focus from themselves to others.
Marshall Goldsmith
#90. You can't be a great leader if all you are serving is yourself.
Jon Gordon
#91. Leadership. I separate myself from the pack at such a great distance that it may be said that I'm a leader - a leader of one with followers of none.
Jarod Kintz
#92. A leader is heard, a great leader is listened too.
Jacob Kaye
#93. Every great leader has a dream, my dream is to dream bigger.
Cole Melanson
#94. I just want to be great. I want to stand out, be a great leader for this defense, and I'm just trying to leave it all out on the field.
Lawrence Timmons
#95. Respect, honesty, responsibility, and hope are the language of a great team leader.
Samuel R. Chand
#96. Great communication depends on two simple skills-context, which attunes a leader to the same frequency as his or her audience, and delivery, which allows a leader to phrase messages in a language the audience can understand.
John C. Maxwell
#97. Great leadership is not about giving orders, it's about taking others
Saji Ijiyemi
#98. He [Hitler] is a very great man. "Fuhrer" is the proper name for him, for he is a born leader, yes, and statesman.
David Lloyd George
#99. 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
#100. Your ancestors invaded Macedonia and the rest of Greece and did us great harm, though we had done them no prior injury; ... [and] I have been appointed leader of the Greeks ...
Arrian
