Top 100 Leadership Is Not Quotes
#1. 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
#2. In the end, leadership is not intellectual or cognitive. Leadership is emotional.
Judith M Bardwick
#3. True leaders understand that leadership is not about them but about those they serve. It is not about exalting themselves but about lifting others up.
Sheri Dew
#4. 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
#5. Real leadership is not seeking the applause from followers; real leadership is applauding the followers who become leaders.
Onyi Anyado
#6. Leadership is not about titles, positions or flowcharts. It is about one life influencing another.
John C. Maxwell
#7. 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
#8. Sometimes the people don't know what's best for them ... Sometimes the people have to be convinced of things that are necessary. That's what leadership is. Not shouting your head off in support of their every whim.
Patrick Ness
#9. Leadership is not taken, it is given. People give leadership to those that they trust. They allow people that they trust to have influence over their lives.
Henry Cloud
#10. The secret to leadership is not to be a particularly intelligent person. It is to surround oneself with those far smarter than oneself. And try not to kill them.
Kameron Hurley
#11. Leadership is not about me, it's about our country.
Chris Christie
#12. Leadership is not a solo sport; if you lead alone, you are not leading.
D.A. Blankinship
#13. Leadership is not just some empty formulas but establishing deep connection at soul levels through service, integrity, passion, perseverance and equanimity.
Amit Ray
#14. The most powerful demonstration of leadership is not a clenched fist of brute force but an open hand of humble assistance.
Mike Huckabee
#15. Great leadership is not the visit of an unexpected fate but rather a flame which is kept burning in spite of the winds of risk and opposition.
Mary Anne Radmacher
#16. Leadership is not about being important, it's about serving something important.
Vanna Bonta
#17. Leadership is not a title. It's a behavior. LIVE it
Robin Sharma
#18. Leadership is not a raw gift given to a group of people. It is the product of any type of gift everyone one has. It therefore means, any kind of gift is a leadership gift!
Israelmore Ayivor
#19. Leadership is not about being nice. it's about being right and being strong
Paul Keating
#20. Leadership is not about experience, education or talent. It's about choosing to lead.
Michael Hyatt
#21. True leadership is not defined by notoriety, power, prestige, status, or job title...
Angie Morgan
#22. Leadership is not about executive position or title. It is about connection and influence. At its highest, leadership is all about adding value to the world and blessing lives through the work you do.
Robin Sharma
#23. Leadership is not a license to do less; it is a responsibility to do more.
Simon Sinek
#24. No! Leadership is not the business of people who need to be motivated!
Amit Chatterjee
#25. Seventy years after China emerged from the Second World War, the greatest threat facing the nation's leadership is not imperialism but skepticism.
Evan Osnos
#26. Godly leadership is not about attaining recognition or glory; it's about serving others.
John M. Perkins
#28. Leadership is not something you do to people. It's something you do with people.
Ken Blanchard
#29. 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
#30. Great leadership is not about giving orders, it's about taking others
Saji Ijiyemi
#31. 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
#32. Leadership is not about a title, degree or level. Anybody can lead at any time.
Carly Fiorina
#33. Entrepreneurialism, to me, means being able to fail. And I believe that kind of leadership is not necessary only in business, but it's necessary for running countries, too. You've got to be able to believe in something strongly enough that you want to do it even if there's a risk of failure.
Bernard L. Schwartz
#34. Leadership is not about popularity, it is about doing what is right.
Laura Bush
#35. Leadership is not a rank, it's a choice.
Simon Sinek
#37. Courageous leadership is not fearless leadership. What makes you a leader is how you deal with your fears.
Andy Hargreaves
#38. Leadership is not for the faint of heart
Bill Hybels
#39. Leadership is not a matter of authority, it is a matter of influence. A true leader teaches others to understand more, motivates them to be more and inspires them to become more.
Michael Josephson
#40. Personal leadership is not a singular experience. It doesn't begin and end with the writing of a personal mission statement. It is, rather, the ongoing process of keeping your vision and values before you and aligning your life to be congruent with those most important things.
Stephen R. Covey
#41. The goal of leadership is not to be likable or loved but to be proven trustworthy and respected.
Miles Anthony Smith
#42. 2. God commanded both male and female to have dominion (v. 27). Both men and women have been given the ability and authority to lead. Leadership is not gender specific.
John C. Maxwell
#43. Remember that the mantle of leadership is not the cloak of comfort, but the robe of responsibility. Accountability is not for the intention but for the deed. You must continue to choose the harder right, instead of the easier wrong.
Thomas S. Monson
#44. Leadership is not about having the charisma or speaking inspirational words, but about leading with example.
Zainab Salbi
#45. Listening (the first competence of leadership) is not a skill, it is a discipline. All you have to do is keep your mouth shut.
Peter Drucker
#46. It is sad that the Republican leadership is not as interested as they say they are in protecting the institution of marriage as they are in waging a campaign to divide and distract the American people from the real issues that need to be addressed.
Kendrick Meek
#47. The mantle of leadership is not the cloak of comfort but rather the robe of responsibility.
Thomas S. Monson
#48. If there is anything I would like to be remembered for it is that
I helped people understand that leadership is helping other people grow and succeed.
To repeat myself, leadership is not just about you. It's about them
Jack Welch
#49. Great leadership is not attained by pursuing greatness but by persevering through great tests.
Myles Munroe
#50. Leadership is not defined by the exercise of power but by the capacity to increase the sense of power among those led. The most essential work of the leader is to create more leaders.
Mary Parker Follett
#51. Leadership is not learned by watching your brothers beat each other bloody. Nor is it learned by letting them fail their tests.
Anthony Ryan
#52. However, leadership is not confined to the CEO. Leadership is better understood as a process that can take place at any level of an organization.16
Jody Hoffer Gittell
#53. American leadership is not simply a matter of going it alone and bearing all of the burden ourselves.
Barack Obama
#54. Leadership is not about your ambition. It is about bringing out the ambitions of your team.
Cheryl A. Bachelder
#55. Successful leadership is not about being tough or soft, sensitive or assertive, but about a set of attributes. First and foremost is character
Warren G. Bennis
#56. Leadership is not something that is added, but rather built in the DNA of creation, an orderly creation (1 Corinthians 12:12; 14:38-45; Titus 1:5; Genesis 1; 2). The real question is whether humanity has high-jacked Leadership?
Jonah Books
#57. Leadership is not achieved by an individual. Leadership is bestowed by the group.
Simon Sinek
#58. Learning to let go, to put the team's will first, is an empowering experience that leads to the most wonderful of all experiences: being a member of a high-performing, gungho, high-five team. Remember, leadership is not all about you.
Kenneth H. Blanchard
#59. Leadership is not a voice crying in the wilderness, aloof and apart. It requires an ability to command as well as to inspire, to learn in the process of collaboration and to build a team with a common purpose that can take action and execute the change they envision.
Bob Rae
#60. The essence of leadership is not giving things or even providing visions. It is offering oneself and one's spirit.
Lee Bolman
#61. As Antiquus's son, I was next in line to be the leader of my village ... But leadership is not inherited. It is earned through action.
Tony DiTerlizzi
#62. Leadership is not a rank or a position, it is a choice - a choice to look after the person to the left of us & the person to the right of us.
Simon Sinek
#63. Truly remarkable leadership is not just about motivating others to follow, it's about inspiring them to become leaders themselves and setting the stage for even greater opportunities for future generations.
Condoleezza Rice
#64. Leadership is not just about what you do but what you can inspire, encourage and empower others to do.
Jon Gordon
#65. Leadership is not only about producing results or measuring success with statistics. Leadership is doing something with significance that makes families, organizations, societies, nations, and the world a better place before you die.
Farshad Asl
#66. Leadership is not just about giving orders. It's about being prepared to put your body and soul on the line to protect those who look to you for command. Any leader who won't isn't worth the name.
Mina Carter
#67. Leadership is not about a title or a designation. It's about impact, influence and inspiration. Impact involves getting results, influence is about spreading the passion you have for your work, and you have to inspire team-mates and customers.
Robin S. Sharma
#68. But leadership is not inherited. It is earned through action. You are a leader, Eva Nine. A hero. And you are my WondLa -Rovender
Tony DiTerlizzi
#69. Real leadership is not about prestige, power, or status. It is about responsibility.
Robert L. Joss
#70. The most essential quality for leadership is not perfection but credibility. People must be able to trust you.
Rick Warren
#71. The responsibility of leadership is not to come up with all the ideas but to create an environment in which great ideas can thrive.
Simon Sinek
#72. Leadership is not a title, a position or an Office but a function
Kayode Fayemi
#73. Leadership is not rank, privileges, title or money. It is responsibility.
Peter Drucker
#74. As a former minority leader who became the first Republican Speaker of the House in Florida since Reconstruction, I know that leadership is not an easy task.
Dan Webster
#75. Leadership is not just a privilege, but a responsibility to which we commit ourselves to helping to elevate those around us.
Tanveer Naseer
#76. Leadership is not a popularity contest; it's about leaving your ego at the door. The name of the game is to lead without a title.
Robin S. Sharma
#77. Leadership is not about the next election, it's about the next generation.
Simon Sinek
#78. Leadership is not just one quality, but rather a blend of many qualities; and while no one individual possesses all of the needed talents that go into leadership, each man can develop a combination to make him a leader.
Vince Lombardi
#79. Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes.
Peter F. Drucker
#80. Leadership is not communicating what we need. Leadership is communicating what we can contribute.
Simon Sinek
#81. Buoyant leadership is not a management technique, it's a leadership principle based on the belief that leading isn't presiding, it's taking people on a journey, and on any hero's journey there will be a setback.
Kevin Allen
#82. Leadership is not about power. It's not about control; it's about helping people live according to the vision.
Kenneth H. Blanchard
#83. Leadership is not a position or a title, it is action and example.
Cory Booker
#84. Leadership is not only having a vision, but also having the courage, the discipline, and the resources to get you there.
George Washington
#85. The goal of leadership is not to eradicate uncertainty but rather to navigate it.
Andy Stanley
#86. Leadership is not about forcing your will on others. It's about mastering the art of letting go.
Phil Jackson
#87. The task of leadership is not to put greatness into humanity, but to elicit it, for the greatness is already there.
John Buchan
#88. I think leadership is not something you learn; it's something you discover.
Myles Munroe
#89. The end point of leadership is not just the position of power we reach, but the continual change and deepening we experience that makes a difference in our lives, our work, our world. Our leadership journeys are only at midpoint when we have achieved a position of power.
Janet Hagberg
#90. 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
#91. 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
#92. You'll attract the employees you need if you can explain why your mission is compelling: not why it's important in general, but why you're doing something important that no one else is going to get done.
Peter Thiel
#93. Is it or is it not a matter of importance that a young man starts out in life with an ability to shut his jaw hard and say "I will," or "I will not," and mean it?
John William Heisman
#94. Really, people are not a school of fish. Finding the leaders of the future is a question of recognizing those people who give leadership in a crisis.
Grace Lee Boggs
#95. The Internet is disrupting every media industry ... people can complain about that, but complaining is not a strategy. And Amazon is not happening to book selling, the future is happening to book selling.
Jeff Bezos
#96. 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
#97. If [President Obama] does not go on the offensive against ISIS ... they are coming here. This is just not about Baghdad, this is just not about Syria, this is about our homeland. And if we get attacked because he has no strategy to protect us, then he will have committed a blunder for the ages.
Lindsey Graham
#98. We need to know not only what is done but what is purposed and said by those who shape the destines of states and realms." Horace Greeley
Harold Holzer
#99. 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
#100. Leadership is a journey, not a destination. It is a marathon, not a sprint. It is a process, not an outcome. (quoting John Donahoe)
Bill George
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