Top 100 Leadership Is Quotes
#1. Divorced from ethics, leadership is reduced to management and politics to mere technique.
James MacGregor Burns
#2. 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
#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. Leadership is lifting a person's vision to higher sights, the raising of a person's performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations. Peter F. Drucker and Joseph A. Maciariello, Management: Revised Edition, 2008, p. 288.
Joseph A. Maciariello
#5. In the words of Max DePree: "Management has a lot to do with answers. But leadership is a function of questions. And the first question for a leader always is: 'Who do we intend to be?' Not 'What are we going to do?' but 'Who do we intend to be?'"
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
#6. I refuse to make a decision that somebody else can make. The first rule of leadership is to save yourself for the big decision. Don't allow your mind to become cluttered.
Richard M. Nixon
#7. Leadership is intangible, and therefore no weapon ever designed can replace it.
Omar N. Bradley
#8. 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
#9. Leadership starts with understanding responsibility, not ability. Leadership is a Stewardship, not a show.
Rick Warren
#10. 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
#11. Leadership rests not only on outstanding ability. It also rests on commitment, loyalty and pride. It rests on followers who are ready to accept guidance. Leadership is the ability to direct people and - more important - to have those people accept that direction.
Vince Lombardi
#12. The beginning and the end of all Christian leadership is to give your life for others.
Henri J.M. Nouwen
#13. 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
#14. The central activity of leadership is teaching - first by example, second by precept.
M. Russell Ballard
#15. Servant-leadership is more than a concept, it is a fact. Any great leader, by which I also mean an ethical leader of any group, will see herself or himself as a servant of that group and will act accordingly.
M. Scott Peck
#16. The highest calling of leadership is to challenge the status quo and unlock the potential of others. We need a leader who will lead the resurgence of this great nation and unlock its potential once again.
Carly Fiorina
#17. The Function of Leadership is to produce more Leaders, Not more Followers.
Ralph Nader
#18. Leadership is based on a spiritual quality; the power to inspire, the power to inspire others to follow
Vince Lombardi
#19. Remember that mentor leadership is all about serving. Jesus said, "For even the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve others and to give his life as a ransom for many" (Mark 10:45).
Tony Dungy
#20. Leadership is never an avenue to be self-serving but,a platform to render great service to people.
Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
#21. Leadership is practiced not so much in words as in attitude and in actions.
Harold S. Geneen
#22. My focus as part of the leadership is to keep talking about the independent voters, independent voters - how do we get the independent voters back?
Henry Cuellar
#23. 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
#24. Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.
Peter F. Drucker
#25. The cost of leadership is self-interest.
Simon Sinek
#26. The difference between government and leadership is that leadership has a soul.
Anna Quindlen
#27. Leadership is all about leading your life with a cause greater than yourself and continuously doing self-development.
Deepak Burfiwala
#28. Leadership is a mindset in which one is unapologetically driven towards their goals and in behaving accordingly, inspires those around them to join in.
Steve Maraboli
#29. Leadership isn't answering the questions others ask. Leadership is asking others to answer their own questions.
Simon Sinek
#30. Leadership is seeing the possibilities in a situation while others are seeing the limitations.
John C. Maxwell
#31. I had been looking for leaders, but I realized that leadership is about being the first to act.
Edward Snowden
#32. All leadership is appreciative leadership. It's the capacity to see the best in the world around us, in our colleagues, and in the groups we are trying to lead.
David Cooperrider
#33. Leadership is the special quality which enables people to stand up and pull the rest of us over the horizon.
James Fisher
#34. Effective leadership is doing important things first. Effective management is knowing what is important.
Debasish Mridha
#36. 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
#38. Leadership is the self-confidence of working with people smarter than you.
Azim Premji
#40. If leadership is the way forward, vision is its walking stick.
Nkem Paul
#41. What should a brand leader advertise?Brand leadership, of course. Leadership is the single most important motivating factor in consumer behavior.
Al Ries
#42. The best form of leadership is to be conscious of the leadership potential with the followers and to let them unleash this potential in a spontaneous way. When a great leader accomplishes this task with effortless ease, the followers say, "We did it ourselves."
Laozi
#43. Leadership is evoking in others the capacity to dream.
John C. Maxwell
#44. Leadership is the ability to get a person to do what you want him to do, when you want it done, in a way you want it done, because he wants to do it.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
#45. One key to successful leadership is continuous personal change. Personal change is a reflection of our inner growth and empowerment.
Robert E. Quinn
#46. At the heart of great leadership is a curious mind, heart, and spirit.
Chip Conley
#47. The topic of leadership is a touchy one. A lot of leaders fail because they don't have the bravery to touch that nerve or strike that chord. Throughout my years, I haven't had that fear.
Kobe Bryant
#48. Change or you will be changed: leaders who neglect the good of their people will be forsaken. Leadership is a service, not a gateway to privilege.
Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum
#49. Leadership is unlocking people's potential to become better.
Bill Bradley
#50. 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
#51. Leadership is one of sports' intangibles. Guys can score, guys can fight, guys can skate faster than anybody else. But not everybody can say, 'Follow me.'
Paul Coffey
#52. True leadership is often the mantle of the meek, who are rarely are prepared for such responsibility; which builds character in those who embrace it.
M.J. Stoddard
#53. Leadership is simply the ability of an individual to coalesce the efforts of other individuals toward achieving common goals. It boils down to looking after your people and ensuring that, from top to bottom, everyone feels part of the team.
Frederick W. Smith
#54. 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
#55. Every year is different and every team is different. Your talent is different, how it gets is different, your leadership is different. That's one of the things that I really enjoy about it [coaching] - trying to maximize the potential of your team relative to how it changes every year.
Pete Lembo
#56. One of the first steps to successful leadership is to forget your age and remember your dream.
Israelmore Ayivor
#57. Leadership is building a bridge that connects the vision with the purpose, in order to empower those who are around us.
David Walker
#58. Leadership is not just about what you do but what you can inspire, encourage and empower others to do.
Jon Gordon
#59. 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
#60. Leadership is a group project, and all of us are necessary to fill it. Wise leaders will realize this and encourage their groups to develop their own evolving leadership potential.
Arnold Mindell
#62. The problem of leadership is inevitably: Who will play God?
Muad'Dib
Frank Herbert
#64. When leaders die to pushing their own agendas and realize that leadership is the act of dying to self, those around them are profoundly transformed. Selfless leadership opens a space for God to flow into.
Mark Sayers
#65. Leadership is the other side of the coin of loneliness, and he who is a leader must always act alone. And acting alone, accept everything alone.
Ferdinand Marcos
#66. 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
#67. The greatest act of leadership is mentoring. No matter how much you may learn, achieve, accumulate, or accomplish, if it all dies with you, then you are a generational failure.
Myles Munroe
#68. Bosses push, Leaders pull. Real leadership is servant leadership.
Dave Ramsey
#69. 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
#70. Leadership is an active, living process. It is rooted in character, forged by experience, and communicated by example.
John Baldoni
#71. 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
#72. Service-based leadership is a mindset: you work for your people. It is not complex; often it's the small acts of service that have the greatest impact on morale and camaraderie.
Courtney Lynch
#73. There is a science to managing high tech businesses, and it needs to be respected. One of them is that in technology businesses, leadership is temporary. It's constantly recycling. So the asset has limited lifetime.
Eric Schmidt
#74. Mankind's history has proved from one era to another that the true criterion of leadership is spiritual. Men are attracted by spirit. By power, men are forced. Love is engendered by spirit. By power, anxieties are created.
Malcolm X
#75. The essence of leadership is not giving things or even providing visions. It is offering oneself and one's spirit.
Lee Bolman
#76. I think one of the keys to leadership is recognizing that everybody has gifts and talents. A good leader will learn how to harness those gifts toward the same goal.
Ben Carson
#77. leadership is communicating others' worth and potential so clearly that they are inspired to see it in themselves. Right
Stephen R. Covey
#78. The role of leadership is to transform the complex situation into small pieces and prioritize them.
Carlos Ghosn
#79. Leadership is the key to 99 percent of all successful efforts.
Erskine Bowles
#80. I'd like to see where boys and girls end up if they get equal encouragement - I think we might have some differences in how leadership is done.
Sheryl Sandberg
#81. 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
#82. Do not imagine, comrades, that leadership is a pleasure! On
George Orwell
#83. 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
#85. Leadership is not achieved by an individual. Leadership is bestowed by the group.
Simon Sinek
#86. Leadership is a way of thinking, a way of acting and, most importantly, a way of communicating.
Simon Sinek
#87. The power for authentic leadership is found not in external arrangements, but in the human heart.
Parker J. Palmer
#88. America's leadership is essential. America's resources are vast. America's opportunities are unprecedented.
Gerald R. Ford
#89. People will not follow a leader with moral incongruities for long. Every time you compromise character you compromise leadership. The foundation of firm leadership is character.
Bill Hybels
#90. Leadership is the cigarette that's smoked once the change has been consummated.
Andy Hargreaves
#91. I don't know what leadership is. You can't touch it. You can't feel it. It's not tangible. But I do know this: you recognize it when you see it.
Bob Ehrlich
#92. Learning to receive feedback from each other is what leadership is all about.
Sheila Heen
#93. Leadership is the influence of a person(s) on another person(s) which guides their efforts in a specific direction, with more purpose, clarity, and unity than they would have held on their own.
Michael A. Wood Jr.
#94. The mantle of leadership is not the cloak of comfort but rather the robe of responsibility.
Thomas S. Monson
#95. Leadership is a skill learned through many venues.
Todd Stocker
#96. Leadership isn't about simply being in charge and treating your people like soldiers and barking orders. Leadership is sharing your knowledge and your direction so that others grow and reach their potential.
Cal Ripken Jr.
#97. 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
#99. Leadership is demonstrated at the moment of need.
You learn to be a leader by acting, by doing
Carlos Ghosn
#100. A fundamental responsibility of leadership is make sure that everybody knows the mission, understands it, lives it.
Peter Drucker
