Top 99 Leading Leadership Quotes
#1. We can lead others only as far along the road as we ourselves have traveled. merely pointing the way is not enough. If we are not walking, then no one can be following, and ware not leading anyone.
J. Oswald Sanders
#2. Emperors are not made from cowards; they are made from those who take great risk where there stands to be even greater gain.
A.J. Darkholme
#3. There isn't good or bad Leadership. There is Leadership or there is not. You are Leading or you are not.
Chris Whipp
#4. When it comes to leading people, there is no problem that is unique to you.
David Cottrell
#5. I admire Chancellor Merkel for her leadership qualities, but she is leading Europe in the wrong direction.
George Soros
#6. Don't focus so much on who is following you, that you forget to lead.
E'yen A. Gardner
#7. Leadership is all about leading your life with a cause greater than yourself and continuously doing self-development.
Deepak Burfiwala
#8. Quorum and group leaders should provide the leading voice and laboring oar in every ward and branch council regarding retention of converts.
D. Todd Christofferson
#9. Our musical artistry and leadership of people need to work together to create an environment that welcomes participation instead of causing disengagement.
Gangai Victor
#10. Needless to say, you can love people without leading them, but you cannot lead people without loving them.
John C. Maxwell
#11. Remain open-minded, even when you believe yourself to be a king among peasants. You never know what blessings can be gained or crises averted just by listening.
A.J. Darkholme
#12. ISIS has leadership, just like al Qaeda has leadership. It's important to be able to eliminate the individuals that are leading the organization.
James Lankford
#13. In Iraq and Syria, American leadership - including our military power - is stopping ISIL's advance, instead of getting dragged into another ground war in the Middle East, we are leading a broad coalition, including Arab nations, to degrade and ultimately destroy this terrorist group.
Barack Obama
#14. You serve your people by leading them to excellence. That's leadership.
Horst Schulze
#15. 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
#16. The men of England,- the men, I mean, of light and leading in England.
Edmund Burke
#17. It remains for you to save one before saving others, to lead one before leading others.
Dan Groat
#18. When it comes to the arc of your life, leadership is a sacred responsibility.
Paul Gibbons
#19. 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
#20. Leaders make impacts. If your riches don't help you to make impacts, you aren't leading anyone; rather, money is leading you.
Israelmore Ayivor
#21. We must always be mindful of who we are being while we are leading.
Lolly Daskal
#22. Their greatest fear is you may step forward without fear.
Because your courage may become contagious.
Tom Althouse
#23. Patience is important for a man, vital for a leader
James Clavell
#24. Leadership is not about having the charisma or speaking inspirational words, but about leading with example.
Zainab Salbi
#25. In Leading with Honor, Lee uses gripping stories from the POW camps to engage the reader and teach invaluable principles of leadership. I highly recommend this book for developing leaders at all levels in any organization, military of civilian.
William R. Looney III
#26. The point is, a leader does what he thinks is right, not what he thinks the popular thing is.
Bill Maher
#27. We must have faith, first, that the peasant masses are ready to advance step by step along the road of socialism under the leadership of the Party, and second, that the Party is capable of leading the peasants along this road. These two points are the essence of the matter, the main current.
Mao Zedong
#28. Dining is the privilege of civilization ... The nation which knows how to dine has learnt the leading lesson of progress.
Isabella Beeton
#29. By leading ourselves effectively, we can learn to lead others as a whole person: mind, body, and spirit.
Michael Thomas Sunnarborg
#30. 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
#31. It is a rule of leading people, Gideon. You may be confused, or afraid, or overwhelmed, or all three - those who depend on you must never see it.
Daniel M. Ford
#32. You are either supporting the vision or supporting division
Saji Ijiyemi
#33. What Michelle didn't yet know was that there is a vast difference between playing and leading. The point guard position in basketball is one of the great tutorials on leadership, and it ought to be taught in classrooms. Anyone can perfect a dribble with muscle memory;
Pat Summitt
#34. Leading a big company means never allowing a company to take itself too seriously.
Jack Welch
#35. Each day you are leading by example. Whether you realize it or not or whether it's positive or negative, you are influencing those around you.
Rob Liano
#36. Whats happening in America today is parents are emphasizing their relationship with their children instead of leadership. Anyone in leadership will tell you you cannot have a warm, fuzzy relationship with someone youre in charge of leading.
John Rosemond
#37. True leadership, true and genuine leading requires intelligence, an independent mind, the ability to delay gratification, the ability to think long term, and above all else a spine.
Aaron Clarey
#38. Your men will not take the hill if you're simply yelling commands from the safety of the rear.
Noel DeJesus
#39. Leading in a complex world means recognizing the simple things you can do to make things better.
Condoleezza Rice
#40. The most important aspect of leading is knowing oneself. Know yourself, know the people around you, and then get on with it.
Mervyn Davies
#41. What originally led us to serve others by leading them seldom remains our North Star.
Dan B. Allender
#42. Leaders learn by leading, and they learn bestby leading in the face of obstacles. As weather shapes mountains, problems shape leaders.
Warren G. Bennis
#43. Throw me to the wolves and I will return leading the pack.
Anonymous
#44. Leading means running fast enough to keep ahead of your people.
S.M. Stirling
#45. Good leaders sacrifice for others to survive; bad leaders sacrifice others to survive
Saji Ijiyemi
#46. Good leadership means leading the way, not hectoring other people to do things your way.
Chris Hadfield
#48. Leadership is less about the position you hold than the influence you have. It's about doing world-class work, playing at your peak,
and leaving people better than you found them. It's about Leading Without a Title.
Robin Sharma
#49. Leadership is leading the way, guiding the way, living the way ...
Jayce O'Neal
#50. Good leaders are always in the "act" of leading. They listen as much to others as they listen to themselves.
Maureen Chiquet
#51. Leadership is more about purpose than it is about position.
Michele Jennae
#52. We do have special forces, we do have trainers, we do have the military personnel who are helping with the airstrikes that the United States is leading so that we can try to take out ISIS infrastructure, take out their leadership.
Hillary Clinton
#53. All leading from the rear gets you, is first place at the back of the line.
Mark W. Boyer
#54. If you think you are leading and turn around to see no one following, then you are just taking a walk.
Benjamin Hooks
#55. We are all leaders-whether we want to be or not. There is always someone we are influencing-either leading them to good-or away from good.
Leif Erikson
#56. Let go of a need for personal recognition. Heap kudos on others and they'll perform even better next time. Leaders are only as good as those who follow them and followers are at their best when leaders are quick to give credit for successes.
Steve Goodier
#57. The only service to be done for our downtrodden sisters and brother, is to give them education to develop their individuality. We must give them ideas, alongside cultivating their living conditions.
Abhijit Naskar
#58. If you fail to offer yourself for leadership then accept the blind man who is leading you.
Fenley Douglas
#59. Leadership is not a solo sport; if you lead alone, you are not leading.
D.A. Blankinship
#60. Because sometimes the best leaders are the ones who have no interest in leading. Those are often the ones who are most interested in doing what is right, not what is popular.
Joelle Charbonneau
#61. Politics is a matter of leading other people. Admittedly not where they want to go, but where they ought to go.
Peter Prange
#62. We must humble ourselves before [others] so we may learn from what others have lived. It is only when we have added their expertise to our own that we can truly excel towards our most ambitious goals and reach our fullest potential.
A.J. Darkholme
#63. If you can lead yourself when nobody is following, people will follow when you are not leading
Saji Ijiyemi
#64. The litmus test for our success as Leaders is not how many people we are leading, but how many we are transforming into leaders
Kayode Fayemi
#65. 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
#67. 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
#68. The day the soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help them or concluded that you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership.
Colin Powell
#69. 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
#70. PRESIDENT, n. The leading figure in a small group of men of whom - and of whom only - it is positively known that immense numbers of their countrymen did not want any of them for President.
Ambrose Bierce
#71. Before we ask where the leaders are, we should look in a mirror and ask the person we see "Why are you not leading"?
Carlos Wallace
#72. In nearly every case, trying to lead everyone results in leading no one in particular.
Seth Godin
#73. Leading a missional church is not for the faint of heart. It takes courage to push yourself beyond your comfort zone and to lead the church beyond it personal limits.
Gary Rohrmayer
#74. Leaders are the human catalyst that overcomes our desire for the status quo.
Scott Hammerle
#75. Leading fools is like leading no one.
Following a fool is like following no one.
The wise make the best leaders and followers.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#76. Leading an organization is as much about soul as it is about systems. Effective leadership finds its source in understanding
Herb Kelleher
#78. The art of leading, in operations large or small, is the art of dealing with humanity, of working diligently on behalf of men, of being sympathetic with them, but equally, of insisting that they make a square facing toward their own problems.
Samuel Lyman Atwood Marshall
#79. I think a captain is someone who captains on the cricket field but, most of the leadership that happens is off the cricket field. It's very easy to captain people on the cricket field, but if you can start leading them off the cricket field, and show them that trust, what you have in them.
Gautam Gambhir
#80. How was your day? If your answer was "fine," then I don't think you were leading.
Seth Godin
#81. In every situation, you must lead with your real self, because if you're going to be on the leading edge of management, you sometimes must be on the emotional edge as well.
James Autry
#82. And how does one lead? We lead by doing; we lead by being.
Bryant McGill
#83. By the 1890s, the leading Wall Street bankers were becoming increasingly disgruntled with their own creation, the National Banking System ... while the banking system was partially centralized under their leadership, it was not centralized enough.
Murray Rothbard
#84. Go out and lead the world; but never forget to begin by leading yourself first at home. You can't lead the environment if you can't lead yourself in it.
Israelmore Ayivor
#85. I think the most important leadership lessons I've learned have to do with understanding the context in which you are leading. Universities are places with enormously distributed authority and many different sorts of constituencies, all of whom have a stake in that institution.
Drew Gilpin Faust
#86. Communication is the conduit of leadership from the Prime Minister down to the leading hand of a small group of council workers fixing the roads. Leadership uncommunicated is leadership unrequited!
Peter Cosgrove
#87. Your purpose will be clear only when you listen to your heart.
Lolly Daskal
#88. The length of life takes the leading place among inquiries about events following birth.
Ptolemy
#89. NOTORIETY, n. The fame of one's competitor for public honors. The kind of renown most accessible and acceptable to mediocrity. A Jacob's-ladder leading to the vaudeville stage, with angels ascending and descending.
Ambrose Bierce
#90. 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
#91. In a world that is changing as rapidly as this one, we need to think differently about leadership. Leading is not done by those few in high places, but by parents and teachers and managers and those governing
all working together to create the world that we want.
Susan Collins
#92. I will not be able to carry the physical burden of leading the Party at the next general election. I hope it will soon be possible for the customary processes of consultation to be carried on within the Party about its future leadership.
Harold Macmillan
#93. Leading from your inner world ultimately produces better results in your leadership.
John Townsend
#94. The United States has renewed our leadership in the Asia-Pacific, prime Minister Abe is leading Japan to a new role on the world stage.
Shinzo Abe
#95. Whom the society deems worthless, once they discover their special inclination, it will change the very course of their lives as well as the shape of the very society that distastes them.
Abhijit Naskar
#96. Being a leader is not about finding ways to get others to serve you, but knowing how to serve your followers.
A.J. Darkholme
#97. Having a person of Dr. Berthiaume's calibre leading Library and Archives Canada will be a solid asset to the organization. His extensive experience in the management of large cultural organizations and his strong leadership are important qualifications for this position.
Shelly Glover
#98. If you plan for failure, then you are expecting to fail. If you plan for success, you'll be successful. Once you start making a 'Plan B', you distract from 'Plan A', and the moment you start believing there are other options, you start settling for less.
A.J. Darkholme
#99. Who succeeds in forming and leading a Great Group? He or she is almost always a pragmatic dreamer. They are people who get things done, but they are people with immortal longings. Often, they are scientifically minded people with poetry in their souls.
Warren G. Bennis
