Top 100 Leader Leadership Quotes
#1. A title or promotion does not make anyone a leader. Leadership emerges from the character, qualities, and capacities of the individual. Make no mistake about it, authentic leadership is personal.
George B. Bradt
#2. The rank of office is not what makes someone a leader. Leadership is the choice to serve others with or without any formal rank.
Simon Sinek
#3. Who aspires to remain leader must keep in advance of his column. His fear must not play traitor to his occasions. The instant he falls into line with his followers, a bolder spirit may throw himself at the head of the movement initiated, and in that moment his leadership is gone.
Christian Nestell Bovee
#4. The leader seeks to communicate his vision to his followers. He captures their attention with his optimistic intuition of possible solutions to their needs. He influences them by the dynamism of his faith.
John Haggai
#5. If you think like a leader, act like a leader, inspire like a leader then you are a leader.
Debasish Mridha
#7. A true leader must be able to command with an iron fist, not just a humble heart.
Evan Meekins
#8. I am my own woman ... and was, long before I became Prime Minister. Attending to my family's needs only made me stronger as a leader because if you know how to run a home and ensure each person's particular need is met, it's the best leadership training you can have.
Kamla Persad-Bissessar
#9. Leader follows his ideology, Leader does not follow his relatives and friends
Imran Khan
#10. Sometimes we exist long enough to lead the next generation; other times, only to plant a seed and let its resonations of our time here on Earth ripple into new waves.
A.J. Darkholme
#11. I believe that in order to be a good leader you must understand the value of praising people to success.
Mary Kay Ash
#12. Leaders are limited by their vision rather than by their abilities.
Roy T. Bennett
#13. If your endeavors result in success of the company in a continuity of at
least a few years, you are a successful manager. If other companies follow
your business approach, you are certainly an important manager with
leader characteristics.
Eraldo Banovac
#14. Great leaders motivate large groups of individuals to improve the human condition.
John P. Kotter
#15. There is the authority of position and the authority of knowledge - 'Authority flows from the one who knows.' But sharing in hardship confers upon a leader something quite rare - moral authority.
John Adair
#17. Spiritual authority is the direct result of God doing a greater work in the deeper areas of a leader's life.
Gary Rohrmayer
#18. The first step for a leader is to be right with yourself. Integrity is the basis of leadership.
Condoleezza Rice
#19. 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
#20. Read The Charisma Factor - How to Develop Your Natural Leadership Ability by Robert J. Richardson and S. Katharine Thayer. It is a superb book for any aspiring leader, or a current one, who seeks to advance to the next level. 195.
Robin S. Sharma
#22. 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
#23. The man who can follow a leader most efficiently, is usually the man who develops into leadership most rapidly. An intelligent follower has many advantages, among them the opportunity to acquire knowledge from his leader. The
Napoleon Hill
#24. The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.
Henry Kissinger
#25. What happens when a leader misses his steps on the ladder is what happens when a train misses the rail. Be on track.
Israelmore Ayivor
#26. You can't gather much if you won't go on risk expedition. Leaders never fear the thorns; they'll still go in for the beautiful roses no matter the number of pricks they'll get.
Israelmore Ayivor
#27. Leaders learn more from blames than praises. Praises make them know what's already done well; blames show them what's yet to be done well.
Israelmore Ayivor
#28. The key to leadership remains influence. What kind of a leader are you and how do you deliberately model your leadership to achieve desired impact on those you influence or you seek to influence?
Archibald Marwizi
#29. A cowardly leader is the most dangerous of men.
Stephen King
#30. In a world full of lions and tigers entertaining the masses, have you ever seen a wolf performing in a circus?
Akilnathan Logeswaran
#31. When a leader buys his own excuses, he also, unfortunately, sells them to his team.
Orrin Woodward
#32. Competition and rivalry between the members of a group are the antithesis of the cooperation and team play needed in an effective management group. This is why team building is an empty abstraction for a group whose leader controls with power.
Thomas Gordon
#33. It is often said that the best leaders are those who serve.
Michael Kirby
#34. The leader should reserve to himself the hiring, compensating, motivating, molding, assessing and firing of his chief lieutenants.
Steven B. Sample
#35. Perhaps the ultimate test of a leader is not what you are able to do in the here and now - but instead what continues to grow long after you're gone
Tom Rath
#36. A level 4 leader's greatest asset is his ability to engage, empower, and equip his people; this is what creates the momentum for a significant change in the organization. He invests 80% in his people and 20% in the process.
Farshad Asl
#37. Our greatest limitation isn't the leader of the lives; it is the spirit within us.
John F. MacArthur Jr.
#38. The very first task of leadership is to set the vision for the organization. If you don't set the vision, you're not the leader.
Rick Warren
#39. Come forward as servants of Islam, organize the people economically, socially, educationally and politically and I am sure that you will be a power that will be accepted by everybody.
Muhammad Ali Jinnah
#40. Leadership excellence means that you must be accepted as a leader, not forcing yourself upon those you lead. Outside of formal authority, it takes trust for people to accept your leadership. Proven consistent leadership choices and results will earn you invaluable points of trust.
Archibald Marwizi
#41. Being a leader is not about forever, it is about moments ... it is about THIS moment and what you do with it!
Scott Neilson
#42. An election goes on every minute of the business day across the counters of hundreds of thousands of stores and shops where the customers state their preferences and determine which company and which product shall be the leader today and which shall lead tomorrow.
Bruce Barton
#43. The leader is one who mobilizes others toward a goal shared by leaders and followers ... Leaders, followers and goals make up the three equally necessary supports for leadership.
Garry Wills
#44. If the blind must lead the blind, it is as well
that the leader knows he is.
R.D. Laing
#45. The great leader attracts to himself men of kindred character, drawing them towards him as the loadstone draws iron.
Samuel Smiles
#47. 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
#48. There is no greater name for a leader than mother or father. There is no leadership more important than parenthood.
Sheri L. Dew
#49. Your talent and giftedness as a leader have the potential to take you farther than your character can sustain you. That ought to scare you.
Andy Stanley
#50. The shaman/priest/artist/teacher/leader does not operate for the sole benefit of herself and her kind but for the benefit of the people at large and of the universe and its patterns, as becomes what she perceives as fitting into place, into her sense of natural justice.
Judy Grahn
#51. The speed at which progress rolls is not determined by the number of people who started pushing it, but by the number of people who are passionate to hold on doing so.
Israelmore Ayivor
#52. What most new entrepreneurs don't realize is that before you can lead a business, or a family, or a ministry, or even just another person, you have to be the leader of yourself, first.
Kevin J. Donaldson
#53. Nobody is rewarded for occupying a position, but for becoming effective in the position occupied. If you occupy a position, you must have the weight of influence in order to matter!
Israelmore Ayivor
#54. People will follow someone as a leader, who has vision and purpose; often that leader doesn't wear a title.
Beth Ramsay
#55. A leader is one who, out of madness or goodness, volunteers to take upon himself the woe of the people. There are few men so foolish, hence the erratic quality of leadership.
John Updike
#56. Develop your leaders into a competitive advantage. Reconnect your leader-power to success.
Gene Morton
#57. The leader, mingling with the vulgar host, Is in the common mass of matter lost.
Homer
#58. The leader's commandment is made up of pledges to solve local and global problems, and not to create more problems to add to the existing ones.
Israelmore Ayivor
#59. The real heart of strategy is the strategist.
Max McKeown
#60. Remember the difference between a boss and a leader. A boss says, Go! A leader says, Let's go!
George E. M. Kelly
#61. Helping others see the future clearly and feel it deeply, is the most important responsibility of a leader.
Jim Louwsma
#62. A leader tries to perpetuate the conditions which demand his leadership. Thus, the leader requires the outsider.
Frank Herbert
#63. The focus of pastoral leadership is so consistently on the people, in fact, that the spiritual condition of the flock is the only real measure of a leader's success.
Christopher A. Beeley
#64. To be an objective leader means aligning your models with the needs of the organization. There is no question anymore that collaboration, seeking out diverse perspectives and developing new ways to look at challenges and opportunities, is a key leadership competency.
Elizabeth Thornton
#65. If you're a serious minded leader, you will read. You will read all you can. You will read when you feel like it, and you will read when you don't. You will do whatever you have to do to increase your leadership input, because you know as well as I do that it will make you better.
Bill Hybels
#66. Every age fraught with discord and danger seems to spawn a leader meant only for that age, a political giant whose absence, in retrospect, seems inconceivable when the history of that age is written.
Dan Simmons
#67. The way of the Christian leader is not the way of upward mobility in which our world has invested so much, but the way of downward mobility ending on the cross.
Henri J.M. Nouwen
#68. A leader should demonstrate his thoughts and opinions through his actions, not through his words.
Jack Weatherford
#69. Anyone can follow a crowd.
It's the leader that follows the facts.
Richard Diaz
#70. So if you see no one like you, no one who agrees, don't worry. There are actually hundreds of people like you, and they're waiting for a leader. That person is you.
Julien Smith
#71. The definition of strong leadership is not about making decisions that are popular. Making popular decisions is easy - you don't need to be a leader to do that. The definition of strong leadership is to make decisions that are unpopular, but are nevertheless sound.
Henry Blodget
#72. What you do has far greater impact than what you say.
Stephen Covey
#73. Faith in the ability of a leader is of slight service unless it be united
with faith in his justice
George Washington Goethals
#74. When you choose to act on your problems, you cease to be a victim of circumstance and become a force of change; that's when you transition to not only being a survivor, but to being a leader or hero too, and an inspiration to those still in the victim's mindset.
Innocent Mwatsikesimbe
#75. Always hear others out and remain open-minded; the day you think you know everything is the day you have the most yet to learn.
A.J. Darkholme
#76. One of the best ways to influence people is to make them feel important.
Roy T. Bennett
#77. A tale is told of a man in Paris during the upheaval in 1948, who saw a friend marching after a crowd toward the barricades. Warning him that these could not be held against the troops, that he had better keep way, he received this reply, " I must follow them. I am their leader."
Abbott Lawrence Lowell
#78. Every great movement needs an agitator. Every leader of spiritual ideals need a John the Baptist.
William Allen White
#79. Leadership is an influence relationship among leaders and followers who intend real changes that reflect their mutual purposes.
Joseph C. Rost
#80. The spiritual leader should outpace the rest of the church, above all, in prayer.
J. Oswald Sanders
#81. Not everyone is born a great leader, but anyone can foster core leadership competencies for themselves and become actionable, effective leaders.
Ravinder Tulsiani
#82. 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
#83. The time it takes to fall from the top of a mountain to the floor it shorter than what it takes to climb from the floor to the top. Only leaders with character can maintain their trusts.
Israelmore Ayivor
#85. A sign of a good leader is not his position but his vision.
Debasish Mridha
#86. Becoming a Leader of Character changes lives - our lives and the lives of the people we touch.
Dave Anderson
#87. True leadership is servanthood. Put the interests of others at the center of your decisions.
Dave Ramsey
#88. Stop praying that God should make you a leader if you are not ready to do hard work.
Bidemi Mark-Mordi
#89. It is interesting to note that an overwhelming majority of citizens in the world's three largest democracies have different religions: India (81 percent Hindu), the United States (76 percent Christian), and Indonesia (87 percent Muslim). Two of them have elected women as leaders of their government.
Jimmy Carter
#90. Leaders goal: Understand the power of serving a leader further down the road than you because leadership is contagious.
Brian Houston
#92. To function efficiently, any group of people or employees must have faith in their leader.- Capt. Bligh(ret.)
Robert Asprin
#93. The efforts of a leader will be emulated. Depending on the quality of appointed leadership, this can be medicine or poison to a living business.
Steve Maraboli
#94. 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
#95. A leader who accepts his own excuses cannot help others overcome theirs.
Orrin Woodward
#96. A leader has to lead otherwise he has no business in politics.
Harry S. Truman
#97. God is the leader of your team. As you follow Him with all your heart, you will be leading your team in Jesus' steps.
Jim George
#98. To be the best next-generation leader you can be, you must enlist the help of others. Self-evaluation is helpful, but evaluation from someone else is essential. You need a leadership coach. Coaching enables a leader to go further faster.
Andy Stanley
#99. 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
#100. Being a leader is making the people you love hate you a little more each day.
Patrick Ness
