Top 100 Leadership Is About Quotes
#1. 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
#2. I do have the strength. Leadership, leadership is not about attacking people and disparaging people. Leadership is about creating a serious strategy to deal with the threat of our time.
Jeb Bush
#3. Leadership is about three-fourths show-the-way and about one-fourth follow-up.
James E. Faust
#4. Leadership is about being a servant first.
Allen West
#5. the new form of marketing is leadership, and leadership is about building and connecting tribes of like-minded people.
Seth Godin
#6. The art of effective leadership is about navigating the dynamics of growth and success ... holding a vision and leading a team, but arriving at the same time.
Steve Maraboli
#8. Leadership is about doing the right thing, even if it going against a vast number of naysayers and mediocre people.
N. R. Narayana Murthy
#9. Great leadership is about human experiences, not processes.
Lance Secretan
#10. At its core, I believe leadership is about instilling confidence in others
Howard Schultz
#11. I believe a big part of leadership is about winning the moment.
Mike Krzyzewski
#12. Self-leadership is about awareness, tolerance , and not letting your own natural tendencies limit your potential.
Scott Belsky
#13. Leadership is about taking charge and influencing others to follow your vision. It's about going against the odds and accepting responsibility for the outcomes along the way
Robin Crow
#14. Leadership - leadership is about taking responsibility, not making excuses.
Mitt Romney
#15. Leadership is about what's right for the organization, not what feels right for the leader.
Liz Weber
#16. Leadership is about change ... The best way to get people to venture into unknown terrain is to make it desirable by taking them there in their imaginations.
Noel Tichy
#17. True leadership is about pulling forth the gold in everyone and believing in people before they deserve it.
Michael Brodeur
#18. Leadership is about falling in love with the people you serve and the people falling in love with you.
Joyce Banda
#19. Leadership is about making others better as a result of your presence and making sure that impact lasts in your absence.
(Harvard Business School definition of leadership)
Sheryl Sandberg
#20. Leadership is about encouraging women to break their silence and tell their stories to the world.
Zainab Salbi
#21. Ultimately, leadership is about the strength of one's convictions, the ability to endure the punches, and the energy to promote an idea. And I have found that those who do achieve peace never acquiesce to obstacles, especially those constructed of bigotry, intolerance, and inflexible tradition.
Benazir Bhutto
#22. Leadership is not about personality, possessions, or charisma, but all about who you are as a person. I used to believe that leadership was about style but now I know that leadership is about substance, namely character.
James Hunter
#23. Authentic leadership is about leading from the core of who we are to inspire each of us to our best contribution toward a shared mission.
Henna Inam
#24. leadership is about courage and the ability to overcome unsurmountable challenges,
Sudha Menon
#25. Leadership is about focus and concentrations. To be in focus, choose a clear direction. To concentrate, remain in that direction!
Israelmore Ayivor
#26. Leadership is about making the right decision and the best decision before, sometimes, it becomes entirely popular.
Martin O'Malley
#27. Leaders must live by the same principles and values that they expect from their teams and people. Leadership is about action: leaders must do their part before asking others to do theirs. Walk the walk; don't just talk.
Brian Hiner
#28. Fundamentally leadership is about change and influencing people to change.
Pearl Zhu
#30. Management is about arranging and telling. Leadership is about nurturing and enhancing.
Tom Peters
#32. To me, leadership is about encouraging people. It's about stimulating them. It's about enabling them to achieve what they can achieve - and to do that with a purpose.
Christine Lagarde
#33. Leadership is about making people feel safe. When someone feels heard, they feel safe.
Simon Sinek
#34. Leadership is about uncertainty. Deal with it
Andy Stanley
#35. Knowing your value, speaking up, and not flying under the radar - this is what fearless leadership is about.
Carey Lohrenz
#36. Leadership is about inspiration with character, not manipulation with position!
Israelmore Ayivor
#37. Leadership is about going somewhere. If you and your people don't know where you are going, your leadership doesn't matter.
Ken Blanchard
#38. If leadership is about anything, it's about leading. Not leading people back to where they already are, because they don't need that. They're already there.
Robert Reich
#39. Effective leadership is about earning respect, and it's also about personality and charisma
Alan Sugar
#40. Good leadership is about the company's success, not your own.
Anne M. Mulcahy
#41. Myth 2: Leadership is about individuals. In fact, leadership is a distributed or collective capacity in a system, not just something that individuals do. Leadership is about the capacity of the whole system to sense and actualize the future that wants to emerge.
C. Otto Scharmer
#42. Real leadership is about building people up and empowering them. Many leaders feel that empowering someone else will reduce their own authority. I ask you: When Rasulallah salAllahu alayhi wa sallam empowered the sahaba, did that take away from his authority or did it empower him?
Nouman Ali Khan
#43. Leadership is about doing what you know is right - even when a growing din of voices around you is trying to convince you to accept what you know to be wrong.
Bob Ehrlich
#44. I had been looking for leaders, but I realized that leadership is about being the first to act.
Edward Snowden
#45. Most leadership writing today advises us on how to prosper within the system. I believe real leadership is about transforming the system.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
#46. Leadership is about creating a domain in which human beings continually deepen their understanding of reality and become more capable of participating in the unfolding of the world. Ultimately leadership is about creating new realities.
Joseph Jaworski
#47. Leadership is about vision and responsibility, not power.
Seth Berkley
#48. Leadership is about making decisions with the information you have, not the information people will have 12 years later, i kind of feel sorry for my friend Jeb Bush.
Mike Huckabee
#49. Leadership is about tapping the wellsprings of human motivation - and about fundamental relations with one's fellows.
Tom Peters
#50. Exercising adaptive leadership is about giving meaning to your life beyond your own ambition.
Ronald A. Heifetz
#51. Leadership is about having principles. A leader must have a vision and principles that will endure for all time and must always be true to these principles, applying them to changing circumstances
Margaret Thatcher
#52. We think leadership is about rank and power, but better to think of leadership as the responsibility for other human beings. That leadership and rank may not go together. So it manifests in this remarkable way.
Simon Sinek
#53. Polls are no substitute for leadership because, at its very essence, leadership is about giving people what they don't already have - a sense of vision, inspiration, or even an adequate grasp of a particular subject.
Hugh Mackay
#54. Leadership is about integrity, honesty and accountability. All components of trust.
Simon Sinek
#55. Leadership is about taking people from a good place to a better place where they would not regret to be.
Israelmore Ayivor
#57. Management is about persuading people to do things they do not want to do, while leadership is about inspiring people to do things they never thought they could.
Steve Jobs
#58. Leadership is about keeping toilets flushing," the Admiral once said. "Unless you're on the battlefront. Then it's about staying alive. Neither are pleasant.
Neal Shusterman
#59. Leadership is about calling people to do things beyond themselves.
David Gergen
#60. There are good leaders who actively guide and bad leaders who actively misguide. Hence, leadership is about persuasion, presentation and people skills.
Shiv Khera
#61. Leadership is about relationships - whether it's a business deal with a client or a conversation with a family member - our ability to understand and appreciate individual uniqueness and perspective is paramount to living a fulfilled life.
Steve Knox
#62. Leadership is about empathy. It is about having the ability to relate and to connect with people for the purpose of inspiring and empowering their lives.
Daniel H. Pink
#63. Leadership is about moving people from where they are to where you hope they'll go.
Drew Gilpin Faust
#64. We 'can't' always 'cushion' our views..
'Soften' the stance..
'Straight Talk' involves least effort..
No 'beating about the bush'..
Say it as it is..
Ofcourse, stay ready to be unpopular!
Abha Maryada Banerjee
#65. The recent death of Gene McCarthy reminded me of a lesson I spent a long, long time unlearning, so now I have to re-learn it. It's about political courage and heroes, and when a country is desperate for leadership. There are times when regular politics will not do, and this is one of those times.
Molly Ivins
#66. 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
#67. While you're worrying about becoming famous, there is someone out there putting in work and not wasting a second of their time. Which person will you be?
Torron-Lee Dewar
#68. And leadership then is about mobilizing and engaging the people with the problem rather than trying to anesthetize them so you can go off and solve it on your own.
Ronald A. Heifetz
#69. One of the things about leadership is that you've got to show up. And if you want to be president of the United States you've got to make a case to the American people that Barack Obama needs to be dismissed from his position.
Tim Pawlenty
#71. The lift is about SPEED and COMFORT, but the stairs are about CERTAINTY! The lift may go wrong but stairs seldom do, you can always take the stairs. They are BOUND to take you UP and to the END as long as you continue to climb!
Abha Maryada Banerjee
#72. While once it was the rank and file that cheered with all the partisan passions at their heights, today it is the party leaders who are cheering themselves; and all by themselves. The mob that is their audience is in one vast universal trance, thinking about something else.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
#73. Leadership is more about purpose than it is about position.
Michele Jennae
#74. Girls playing sports is not about winning gold medals. It's about self-esteem, learning to compete and learning how hard you have to work in order to achieve your goals.
Jackie Joyner-Kersee
#75. Vis a vis the Golan Heights, the present government of Israel, under my leadership, is the first government that is ready to speak about a withdrawal.
Yitzhak Rabin
#76. Quality effective leaders have the confidence to trust others to try, succeed, and sometimes to fail. We very often confuse personality with leadership. In other words, leadership is not about being a nice person or not a nice person.
Simon Sinek
#77. Leadership can't be fabricated. If it is fabricated and rehearsed, you can't fool the guys in the locker room. So when you talk about leadership, it comes with performance. Leadership comes with consistency.
Junior Seau
#78. Leadership is not about me, it's about our country.
Chris Christie
#79. 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
#80. At the end of the day, man-management is all about managing people's sense and sensitivity...
Sandhya Jane
#81. What nourishes us at home and in school is what inspires us. When we get awareness and learn about the great potential that we all human beings have, we are able to discover our leadership.
Vicente Fox
#82. When we 'know' what is totally unacceptable..we learn to say 'No'..
Knowing the 'No' gives clarity about what to say 'Yes' to..
Abha Maryada Banerjee
#83. If you do not have the courage & conviction to talk about yourself..
Who on Earth will ever listen to you or ever talk about you..NO ONE! Confidence has nothing to do with HUMILITY,it is pure CONVICTION!
Abha Maryada Banerjee
#84. There is no mystery about successful business ... Exclusive attention to the person who is speaking to you.
Charles William Eliot
#85. Leadership is helping other people grow and succeed. it is not just about you. It's all about them ... everyone deserves a chance ... you can never let yourself be a victim.
Jack Welch
#86. 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
#87. The family of God is about enjoying the bounty of God's table and fellowship with one another and with the Holy Spirit.
Ross Parsley
#88. Leadership is all about people ... and getting the most out of people.
Colin Powell
#89. One of the most common ways to overcome resistance to change is to educate people about it beforehand. Communication of ideas helps people see the need for and the logic of a change. The education process can involve one-on-one discussions, presentations to groups, or memos and reports.
John P. Kotter
#90. Godly leadership is not about attaining recognition or glory; it's about serving others.
John M. Perkins
#91. Being a leader is not about finding ways to get others to serve you, but knowing how to serve your followers.
A.J. Darkholme
#92. Leadership is not about sitting and presiding, it's about a going somewhere. To be buoyant, you must not only ignite passion around a common quest, you must also mobilize your team to take a journey with you toward a common destination, or what I call a "real ambition."
Kevin Allen
#93. The fact is five months ago this was an issue that people weren't really talking that much about. Because of the president's leadership, because he's brought it to people's attention, it's now a top issue.
Ken Mehlman
#94. Leadership is not about popularity, it is about doing what is right.
Laura Bush
#95. I think that leadership more than anything is about setting a course and describing a vision for people.
Barack Obama
#96. Leading an organization is as much about soul as it is about systems. Effective leadership finds its source in understanding
Herb Kelleher
#97. Most employees are never made or allowed to understand the real meaning behind the work that they are doing. So, for how long can someone remain motivated about chasing something without knowing what he is chasing and why?
Abhishek Ratna
#98. Unlearn your knowledge about what WAS working to understand what is working NOW
Roger James Hamilton
#99. Leadership is all about people. It is not about organizations. It is not about plans. It is not about strategies. It is all about people-motivating people to get the job done. You have to be people-centered.
Colin Powell
#100. Inspirational leaders need to have a winning mentality in order to inspire respect. It is hard to trust in the leadership of someone who is half-hearted about their purpose, or only sporadic in focus or enthusiasm.
Sebastian Coe
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