Top 100 Leadership Good Quotes
#1. Leaders must be good listeners. It's rule number one, and it's the most powerful thing they can do to build trusted relationships.
Lee Ellis
#2. When his (the good ruler's) task is accomplished and his work done, The people all say, It happened to us naturally.
Laozi
#3. 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
#4. All our good works and good intentions can't solve our sin problem.
Johnny Hunt
#5. The good leader repeats the good news, keeps the worst to himself.
Sophocles
#6. I like a leader who can, while pointing out a mistake, bring up the good things the other person has done. If you do that, then the person sees that you have a complete picture of him. There is nobody more dangerous than one who has been humiliated, even when you humiliate him rightly.
Nelson Mandela
#7. A good estimate is an estimate that provides a clear enough view of the project reality to allow the project leadership to make good decisions about how to control the project to hit its targets.
Steve McConnell
#8. The single biggest way to impact an organization is to focus on leadership development. There is almost no limit to the potential of an organization that recruits good people, raises them up as leaders and continually develops them.
John C. Maxwell
#10. Leadership does not mean being bossy, always telling others what to do. No, leadership means going ahead, not putting others in the front. Good leaders lead by example, not by decree.
Myles Munroe
#11. Good leaders have vision and inspire others to help them turn vision into reality. Great leaders have vision, share vision, and inspire others to create their own.
Roy Bennett
#12. Professional accountability is a good thing. Without it, excellence is merely a pipe dream and even average performance isn't a realistic expectation.
Lee Ellis
#13. Good general differ from bad generals only in the degree to which they resist the psychopathology of the very organization they serve. Norman Dixon
Patrick Hennessey
#14. When man has nothing but his will to assert
even his good-will
it is always bullying. Bolshevism is one sort of bullying, capitalism another: and liberty is a change of chains.
D.H. Lawrence
#15. She turned back to the rest of us. "They've taken it all," she said. "They've taken every last good thing in the world."
Then she swung the door wide. "Now go and show them your answer.
Sebastien De Castell
#16. Over-communicating is the glue that holds a high-performing team together and keeps them focused in the same direction. And, it circles back to clarity. Without good, consistent communication, you don't have clarity.
Lee Ellis
#17. A leader without the vision, to strive to improve things, is no good. Then you will just stay put, you won't progress.
Lee Kuan Yew
#18. Life of any real value or substance is not formed during good times merely enjoyed.
John Paul Warren
#19. Without leadership ability,a person's impact is only a fraction of what it could be with good leadership.
John C. Maxwell
#20. One mark of a good officer, he remembered, was the ability to make quick decisions. If they happen to be right, so much the better
Larry Niven
#21. 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
#22. You are a good leader when your actions inspire others to do good for themselves and for others.
Debasish Mridha
#23. The man of leadership caliber will work while others waste time, study while others sleep, pray while others play. There will be no place for loose or lazy habits in word or thought, deed or dress. He will observe a soldierly discipline, diet and deportment, so that he may wage a good warfare.
J. Oswald Sanders
#24. 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
#25. He who cannot be a good follower cannot be a good leader.
Aristotle.
#26. TO GROW OUR MIND- We must learn new things. We must CARE for more things. We must TEACH more things. We must SHARE more things. We must RETAIN more things. To grow our mind - We don't need education, We need a good memory.
Lorenzo Victory
#27. If you share a good idea long enough, it will eventually fall on good people.
Jim Rohn
#28. Good leaders understand that they are stewards. They must find the best people they can, giving them the opportunity to join in the journey developing them, and encouraging them to reach their potential. But they must hold on to people lightly. Those who start with you seldom finish with you.
John C. Maxwell
#29. The public sector certainly includes the Department of Labor. Those are jobs that are available. They are open and they are good paying jobs. The government as a whole has been actually retrenching under President Clinton's leadership.
Alexis Herman
#30. There is no "one" way to be a perfect leader, but there are a million ways to be a good one.
Mark W. Boyer
#31. There are good leaders who actively guide and bad leaders who actively misguide. Hence, leadership is about persuasion, presentation and people skills.
Shiv Khera
#32. I know of no one who would be a good High Commissioner of Palestine except God.
John Chancellor
#33. Part of the challenge with leadership is that it's very driven by gut instinct in most cases - and even worse, everyone thinks they're really good at it. The reality is that very few people are.
Laszlo Bock
#34. When the phonies are expelled from their leadership roles and the Republican Party backs a moderate gubernatorial candidate acceptable to the rank and file with proper financing and the intestinal fortitude to fight the good fight, the rank and file will rejoin the fold.
Carl Paladino
#35. Good leaders teach you how to swim to the shore;
great leaders teach you how to walk on water.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#36. I try to work hard. I try to set a good example. I don't look at it as though I've got to be a leader. I just try to behave the way I think I should behave. If that results in a leadership role, great.
Matt Holliday
#37. They were following me because I was ahead of them, which is no way to choose a leader. Following someone simply because they're out in front is never a good idea, but it happens all the time.
Alan Huffman
#38. It is amazing, the number of business executives and senior leaders who get to be appointed and elevated to positions of authority on the basis of technical competences whilst lacking essential grooming on basic good manners and customs of conduct that must come from the home training process.
Archibald Marwizi
#39. Authentic leadership is leading adaptively from your core, choosing who you're most inspired to be to serve the greatest good in this moment.
Henna Inam
#40. If the only thing that you are good at is convincing others that you are good, then being in biz with you is bad experience.
Orrin Woodward
#41. That's good advice for any young person to remember who aspires to leadership in corporate or public life. Develop a thick skin when it comes to the press. Remember you're never as bad-or as good-as the press says you are.
William Schreyer
#42. The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint to keep from meddling with them while they do it.
Theodore Roosevelt
#43. I mean, Emily Harris was his wife. And she seemed to resent his leadership, but on the other hand, she felt like a good soldier, that he had to be the leader.
Patty Hearst
#44. Good coaching is about leadership and instilling respect in your players. Dictators lead through fear - good coaches do not.
John Wooden
#45. Once a good model gets inside you, it can inform and guide you throughout a lifetime.
Bob Anderson
#46. An act of leadership is to say that whatever's happening now is not good enough and suggest or show that we can do better. If you don't have that, then you don't have the catalyst for continuous improvement.
David J. Anderson
#47. Good leadership means leading the way, not hectoring other people to do things your way.
Chris Hadfield
#48. Every generation has been given the same blueprint to follow for the good of society. When that blueprint is disregarded by parents and those in leadership positions, the chain is broken and the human race suffers.
Ellen J. Barrier
#49. Good commanders look after their troops, and good troops look after their commanders.
Harvey MacKay
#50. 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
#51. Good leaders don't tell people what to do, they give teams capability and inspiration.
Jeffrey R. Immelt
#53. Good leadership consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people.
John D. Rockefeller
#55. Integrity - No one will ever use conjuctions talking about you. "He is a good preacher ... but ... "
Johnny Hunt
#56. Leveraging your personal strengths means you will also need to become clearer about those strengths. It is easier to build on what you are already good at than start from your weaker areas. Take time to list down your strengths and reflect on them.
Archibald Marwizi
#57. All good leaders are optimists. They always see opportunity where others see hardship
Jocelyn Murray
#58. 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
#59. 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
#60. The wise leader settles for good work and then lets others have the floor.
Laozi
#61. The good will of the governed will be starved if not fed by the good deeds of the governors.
Benjamin Franklin
#62. 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
#63. 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
#64. There has been a comparatively greater proportion of good queens, than of good kings.
Sarah Moore Grimke
#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. Leadership is for those who love the public good and are endowed and trained to administer it.
Thornton Wilder
#67. 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
#68. 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
#69. 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
#70. 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
#71. [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
#72. Lord Perrin. He would never get used to that, but maybe that was a good thing.
Robert Jordan
#73. 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
#74. 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
#75. All the good you've ever done does not make it permissible to sin now.
Johnny Hunt
#76. You have to find that love within yourself. If you love yourself, you feel good about yourself, and sports help you feel good about yourself.
Gail Devers
#77. The best ever spiritual coach you can ever have is Jesus Christ; our model of true leadership! You can do all things through Christ your and my spiritual coach!
Israelmore Ayivor
#78. The House has passed several bipartisan bills to ensure all Americans have the opportunity to secure a good job to provide for their families. All of these jobs bills deserve the support of our Senators and a strong show of leadership from the president.
Joe Heck
#79. To focus on technique is like cramming your way through school. You sometimes get by, perhaps even get good grades, but if you don't pay the price day in and day out, you'll never achieve true mastery of the subjects you study or develop an educated mind.
Stephen Covey
#80. Let's remember that our leadership is defined not just by our defence against threats, but by the enormous opportunities to do good and promote understanding.
Barack Obama
#81. Free and open expression coupled with visionary leadership generally encourages good decision-making.
M. Russell Ballard
#82. 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
#83. I've prided myself on being in excellent condition-as good as any man in my profession. Now this doesn't come from sitting around on your rear end. This comes from hard, hard work.
Wilt Chamberlain
#84. There are a lot of good men out there who just need a little direction and leadership in order for them to offer what they have to young men and boys.
John Eldredge
#85. The mediocre leader tells. The good leader explains. The superior leader demonstrates. The great leader inspires.
Gary Patton
#86. I'm a firm believer in quiet confidence. By that I mean knowing inwardly that you are good, and not exhibiting a boastful attitude outwardly. If an athlete doesn't believe in himself, no one else will.
Dick Van Arsdale
#87. When you feel good about the value you offer the organization, communicating and demonstrating your value to others is much easier.
Bonnie Marcus
#88. Meet your people where they are. They may not be as good as they can be, but they are as good as they believe they can be. They are waiting for you to lead them.
Susan C. Foster
#89. 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
#90. Live Foods and Exercise = Good Health and Happiness. Make eating the right foods and daily workouts a top priority.
Bradford Winters
#91. None of us really pushes hard enough. People always talk about playing over your head when you are up against someone really good. Maybe you don't play over your head at all. Maybe it's just potential you never knew you had.
Fran Tarkenton
#92. Because "we human beings are imaginative by nature, we cannot choose to live by the routine of the ant-heap. If deprived of the imagery of virtue" - imaginative depictions of the truly good life - "we will seek out the imagery of vice.
Russell Kirk
#93. Good leaders know who they are - their strengths, weaknesses, passions, talents, and values. And, developing leaders always starts with self-awareness.
Lee Ellis
#94. Good leadership is like exercise. We do not see any improvement to our bodies with day-to-day comparisons.
Simon Sinek
#95. Good sportsmanship we hail, we sing, It's always pleasant when you spot it. There's only one unhappy thing: You have to lose to prove that you've got it.
Richard Armour
#96. Effective leaders are good spotters. They are on the lookout for
potential leaders. They have the ability to look beyond other's deficiencies to
see their possibilities.
Gary Rohrmayer
#97. The best thing you can give as a leader is a reason to trust. People want to trust. They're hungry for it. But they're selective. They'll only give it to a motivator, a communicator, a teacher, a real person. Someone who in good times and bad always does the right thing.
Jeffrey R. Immelt
#98. Those who turn good organizations into great organizations are motivated by a deep creative urge and an inner compulsion for sheer unadulterated excellence for its own sake.
James C. Collins
#99. Courageous leaders face unpleasant and even devastating situations with equanimity, then act firmly to bring good from trouble, even if their action is unpopular. Leadership always faces natural human inertia and opposition. But courage follows through with a task until it is done.
J. Oswald Sanders
#100. We have a tendency to measure ourselves against the people around us. They become our point of reference. A good coach will evaluate your performance against your potential.
... if we are wise enough to listen, they will help us go further, faster.
Andy Stanley
