Top 100 Leadership Leader Quotes
#1. 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
#2. 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
#3. One of the best ways to influence people is to make them feel important.
Roy T. Bennett
#4. 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
#5. 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
#6. Faith in the ability of a leader is of slight service unless it be united
with faith in his justice
George Washington Goethals
#7. What you do has far greater impact than what you say.
Stephen Covey
#8. 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
#9. 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
#10. Anyone can follow a crowd.
It's the leader that follows the facts.
Richard Diaz
#11. A leader should demonstrate his thoughts and opinions through his actions, not through his words.
Jack Weatherford
#12. 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
#13. 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
#14. Every great movement needs an agitator. Every leader of spiritual ideals need a John the Baptist.
William Allen White
#15. 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
#16. 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
#17. A leader tries to perpetuate the conditions which demand his leadership. Thus, the leader requires the outsider.
Frank Herbert
#18. Helping others see the future clearly and feel it deeply, is the most important responsibility of a leader.
Jim Louwsma
#19. Remember the difference between a boss and a leader. A boss says, Go! A leader says, Let's go!
George E. M. Kelly
#20. The real heart of strategy is the strategist.
Max McKeown
#21. 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
#22. The leader, mingling with the vulgar host, Is in the common mass of matter lost.
Homer
#23. Develop your leaders into a competitive advantage. Reconnect your leader-power to success.
Gene Morton
#24. 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
#25. People will follow someone as a leader, who has vision and purpose; often that leader doesn't wear a title.
Beth Ramsay
#26. Leaders goal: Understand the power of serving a leader further down the road than you because leadership is contagious.
Brian Houston
#27. We are born with the need for a leader, someone to control the conflict between each individual's need. An alpha in the house, an alpha at work, an alpha in the church and in the White House.
Colin McAdam
#28. Mindfulness gives us the power to understand our deep connection with the trees, flowers, stars, sun and the moon.
Amit Ray
#29. Being a leader is making the people you love hate you a little more each day.
Patrick Ness
#30. 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
#31. 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
#32. 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
#33. A leader has to lead otherwise he has no business in politics.
Harry S. Truman
#34. A leader who accepts his own excuses cannot help others overcome theirs.
Orrin Woodward
#35. 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
#36. 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
#37. To function efficiently, any group of people or employees must have faith in their leader.- Capt. Bligh(ret.)
Robert Asprin
#39. 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
#40. 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
#41. Stop praying that God should make you a leader if you are not ready to do hard work.
Bidemi Mark-Mordi
#42. True leadership is servanthood. Put the interests of others at the center of your decisions.
Dave Ramsey
#43. Becoming a Leader of Character changes lives - our lives and the lives of the people we touch.
Dave Anderson
#44. A sign of a good leader is not his position but his vision.
Debasish Mridha
#46. 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
#47. 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
#48. Not everyone is born a great leader, but anyone can foster core leadership competencies for themselves and become actionable, effective leaders.
Ravinder Tulsiani
#49. The spiritual leader should outpace the rest of the church, above all, in prayer.
J. Oswald Sanders
#50. Leadership is an influence relationship among leaders and followers who intend real changes that reflect their mutual purposes.
Joseph C. Rost
#51. 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
#52. 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
#53. 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
#54. 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
#55. The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.
Henry Kissinger
#56. 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
#57. 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
#59. 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
#60. 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
#61. The first step for a leader is to be right with yourself. Integrity is the basis of leadership.
Condoleezza Rice
#62. Spiritual authority is the direct result of God doing a greater work in the deeper areas of a leader's life.
Gary Rohrmayer
#64. 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
#65. Great leaders motivate large groups of individuals to improve the human condition.
John P. Kotter
#66. 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
#67. Leaders are limited by their vision rather than by their abilities.
Roy T. Bennett
#68. I believe that in order to be a good leader you must understand the value of praising people to success.
Mary Kay Ash
#69. 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
#70. Leader follows his ideology, Leader does not follow his relatives and friends
Imran Khan
#71. 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
#72. A true leader must be able to command with an iron fist, not just a humble heart.
Evan Meekins
#74. If you think like a leader, act like a leader, inspire like a leader then you are a leader.
Debasish Mridha
#75. 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
#76. 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
#77. 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
#78. 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
#79. 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
#80. 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
#81. There is no greater name for a leader than mother or father. There is no leadership more important than parenthood.
Sheri L. Dew
#82. 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
#84. The great leader attracts to himself men of kindred character, drawing them towards him as the loadstone draws iron.
Samuel Smiles
#85. If the blind must lead the blind, it is as well
that the leader knows he is.
R.D. Laing
#86. 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
#87. 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
#88. Being a leader is not about forever, it is about moments ... it is about THIS moment and what you do with it!
Scott Neilson
#89. 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
#90. 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
#91. 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
#92. Our greatest limitation isn't the leader of the lives; it is the spirit within us.
John F. MacArthur Jr.
#93. 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
#94. 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
#95. The leader should reserve to himself the hiring, compensating, motivating, molding, assessing and firing of his chief lieutenants.
Steven B. Sample
#96. It is often said that the best leaders are those who serve.
Michael Kirby
#97. 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
#98. When a leader buys his own excuses, he also, unfortunately, sells them to his team.
Orrin Woodward
#99. In a world full of lions and tigers entertaining the masses, have you ever seen a wolf performing in a circus?
Akilnathan Logeswaran
#100. A cowardly leader is the most dangerous of men.
Stephen King
