The Great Leader Quotes

#1. The great leader attracts to himself men of kindred character, drawing them towards him as the loadstone draws iron.

Samuel Smiles

#2. Great leaders do not see people for who they are, but who than can become. Further, the great leader compels those that follow them to become that man or woman of the future, likely exceeding the expectations of both.

Chris Alexander

#3. I was writing a chapter of Beautiful Evidence on the subject of the sculptural pedestal, which led to my thinking about what's up on the pedestal - the great leader.

Edward Tufte

#4. In the words of the great leader, Sir Winston Churchill: "Success is not final. Failure is not fatal. It is the courage to continue that counts." Redefining

Russ Harris

#5. The bad leader is he who the people despise; the good leader is he who the people praise; the great leader is he who the people say, We did it ourselves

Peter M. Senge

#6. North Koreans were indoctrinated from birth to believe that their lives were meaningless, that they existed only to serve the State, the Revolution, and the Great Leader.

Max Brooks

#7. When leadership rises to genius it has the power of transforming, of transforming experience into power. And that is what experience is for, to be made into power. The great leader creates as well as directs power.

Mary Parker Follett

#8. In the city of Pyongyang, you don't have to look very far to see an image of the Great Leader, Kim Il Sung. They love the guy. He is responsible for the wonder that is North Korea.

Henry Rollins

#9. The mediocre leader tells. The good leader explains. The superior leader demonstrates. The great leader inspires.

Gary Patton

#10. Instead of looking for a great leader, we are in an era where each of us needs to find the great leader within ourselves.

Werner Erhard

#11. Allow the way to your great work to be guided by your service to others.

Mollie Marti

#12. A great leader must serve the best interests of the people first, not those of multinational corporations. Human life should never be sacrificed for monetary profit. There are no exceptions.

Suzy Kassem

#13. The duty of the people is to tend to their own affairs.
The duty of government is to help them do it.
This is the pasta of politics.
The inspired leader, the true prince, no matter how great, can only be sauce upon the pasta.
Bombolini

Robert Crichton

#14. I'm not a great manager; I try to be a great leader. And for me, that's been going through a process of not how to be a great CEO but how to be a great Evan, and that's really been the challenge.

Evan Spiegel

#15. Great leaders motivate large groups of individuals to improve the human condition.

John P. Kotter

#16. I don't want to be a great leader; I want to be a man who goes around with a little oil can and when he sees a breakdown, offers his help. To me, the man who does that is greater than any holy man in saffron-colored robes. The mechanic with the oil can: that is my ideal in life.

Baba Amte

#17. If you want to become a great leader, you need to prepare yourself to become a great leader, and the best way to do that is to study great leaders.

Bo Schembechler

#18. 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

#19. I am a leader. Leaders always get heat. They're always going against the grain. Jimi Hendrix got heat; Bob Marley got heat; Miles Davis got heat. Every great artist got heat. Heat means you're doing something right.

Ziggy Marley

#20. A great responsibility to bring and give
a new way of watching to the world.
The Religion Of The Blue Circle
Religious Leader Petra Cecilia Maria Hermans
December 25, 2016

Petra Hermans

#21. A great leader must always keep in mind the golden rule: respect for their subordinates.
Tribute to Noah Sealth.

Miguel El Portugues

#22. We always enter markets where the leaders are not doing a great job, so we can go in and disrupt them by offering better quality services.

Richard Branson

#23. To be a great leader, you firstly have to like people. If you don't like people, at the end of the day they will figure this out and you can't lead them too well.

Leonard Lauder

#24. Great leaders genuinely care for and love the people they lead more than they love leading itself.

Rick Warren

#25. He is a great leader by example. Someone whom I have always admired for his ability to remain balanced and have the sense of equanimity about his captaincy.

Rahul Dravid

#26. Every great movement needs an agitator. Every leader of spiritual ideals need a John the Baptist.

William Allen White

#27. Great leaders don't succeed because they are great. They succeed because they bring out the greatness in others.

Jon Gordon

#28. The more noisy Negro leaders, by depicting all whites as natural and implacable enemies to their race, have done it a great disservice. Large numbers of whites who were formerly very
friendly to it, and willing to go to great lengths to help it, are now resentful and suspicious.

H.L. Mencken

#29. The thing about grown ups is that they're always wanting you to be this Great Hero and Leader. What's wrong with being NORMAL, for Thor's sake? What's wrong with just being SO-SO at stuff? They're just totally unrealistic ...

Cressida Cowell

#30. 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

#31. The pope has been called many things, historic figure, spiritual leader, moral force. But a growing chorus of voices has begun to refer to him as John Paul II the Great, in other words, as a saint.

Chris Matthews

#32. 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

#33. A great leader needs to love and respect people, and he needs to be comfortable with himself and with the world. He also needs to be able to forgive himself and others. In other words, a leader needs grace.

Leo Hindery

#34. Especially with the signing of riders with climbing abilities and the new arrival of Tyler Hamilton, who has the strength and ability to become a great leader for the big tours. All in all, I feel this is a very complete team.

Laurent Jalabert

#35. One cannot deny that if a person has the energy to get you interested and excited, then that is half the battle won, like all the great leaders had this quality.

Gale Harold

#36. The great need of the world has always been for leaders. With more leaders we could have more industry. More industry, more employment and comfort for all.

Henry Ford

#37. At the end of the day it's really easy to be a great leader when things are going well. The real test, whether or not you believe in being an emotionally intelligent leader, is when things go wrong.

Kevin Allen

#38. The essential attributes of a great leader are a positive attitude, humility, and gratitude.

Debasish Mridha

#39. Franklin Roosevelt was a great leader. He saw how to use the levers of power to affect change.

Pete Du Pont

#40. I'm going to be a great leader of this generation.
The stars in the space up there are my witnesses.

Toba Beta

#41. Religious leaders and men of science have the same ideals; they want to understand and explain the universe of which they are part; they both earnestly desire to solve, if a solution be ever possible, that great riddle: Why are we here?

Arthur Keith

#42. I would say a good leader brings results. A great leader writes a new story, it's different. Obviously a new story has to incorporate a lot of results. But a story is a chapter in the life of a company that people want to write and want to remember.

Carlos Ghosn

#43. You talk about seeing around corners as an element of success. That's what differentiates the good leader. Not many people have it. Not many people can predict that corner. That would be a characteristic of great leaders.

Jack Welch

#44. Preaching the Word is the primary task of the Church, the primary task of the leaders of the Church, the people who are set in this position of authority; and we must not allow anything to deflect us from this, however good the cause, however great the need.

David Lloyd-Jones

#45. A good leader should focus on making sure everyone is being given the tools to do their job, not just expecting - poof! - that they're going to produce great work.

Anne Sweeney

#46. I believe it is the mark of a great leader to question the decisions that came before him.

Marissa Meyer

#47. Russia is still the leader in world space exploration. But its position of leader involves great responsibility - we have no right to lag behind. We can and we must move constantly forward.

Valentina Tereshkova

#48. St. Louis has always been a great center for medicine. It has been a leader in the nation since the early part of the 20th century. Along with that, we've been a leader in medical science and biomedical science and innovation in medicine.

William Henry Danforth

#49. Leadership is influence. It is the ability to obtain followers. When the leader lacks confidence, the followers have no commitment. A leader is great not because of his power, but because of his ability to empower others.

John C. Maxwell

#50. Our great leader, Chairman Mao, has taught us, 'Every reactionary is the same; if you do not hit him, he will not fall. This is also like sweeping the floor; as a rule, where the broom does not reach, the dust will not vanish by itself.'" Her

Ji-li Jiang

#51. The best leaders are the most dedicated learners. Read great books daily.

Robin Sharma

#52. I have tried to be a leader. I have tried in my role of being one of the first women at Google, let alone the first woman to have a baby, to really try to set the tone that this is a great place to work for diversity reasons.

Susan Wojcicki

#53. Great leaders create movements by empowering the tribe to communicate. They establish the foundation for people to make connections, as opposed to commanding people to follow them.

Seth Godin

#54. A lot of people have said a lot of great things about Steve Jobs. And for good reason: he built the world's second-most valuable company, with billions in profits and products that have improved every aspect of our lives. But Steve didn't get there by being a soft, fluffy, Kumbaya-type leader.

Kevin O'Leary

#55. Workers are on the streets today with a clear message to Europe's leaders. There is a great danger that workers are going to pay the price for the reckless speculation that took place in financial markets.

John Monks

#56. A good leader inspires people to have confidence in the leader,
a great leader inspires people to have confidence in themselves.

Eleanor Roosevelt

#57. Great leaders are pragmatists who can deal with difficult realities but still have the optimism and courage to act.

Nitin Nohria

#58. The great political tragedy of our time is that conservative leaders in America have chosen to use their superior messaging and political skills to thwart serious action on global warming.

Joseph J. Romm

#59. Successful people become great leaders when they learn to shift the focus from themselves to others.

Marshall Goldsmith

#60. Leadership. I separate myself from the pack at such a great distance that it may be said that I'm a leader - a leader of one with followers of none.

Jarod Kintz

#61. I just want to be great. I want to stand out, be a great leader for this defense, and I'm just trying to leave it all out on the field.

Lawrence Timmons

#62. Respect, honesty, responsibility, and hope are the language of a great team leader.

Samuel R. Chand

#63. Great communication depends on two simple skills-context, which attunes a leader to the same frequency as his or her audience, and delivery, which allows a leader to phrase messages in a language the audience can understand.

John C. Maxwell

#64. He [Hitler] is a very great man. "Fuhrer" is the proper name for him, for he is a born leader, yes, and statesman.

David Lloyd George

#65. Your ancestors invaded Macedonia and the rest of Greece and did us great harm, though we had done them no prior injury; ... [and] I have been appointed leader of the Greeks ...

Arrian

#66. The x factor of a great leader is humility combined with will.

James C. Collins

#67. Gods not looking for the next great Preacher or worship leader he is looking for a BROKEN PERSON WHO WILL BE FOUND IN THE PLACE OF PRAYER!!!!!

Joe Joe Dawson

#68. A great leader often sacrifices greatly in the service of others.

Debasish Mridha

#69. Great leaders don't play by the existing rules.

Mark V. Hurd

#70. The Christian life doesn't work because we are such great followers. It works because Christ is such a great Leader.

David McGee

#71. No man can become a great leader of men unless he has the milk of human kindness in his own heart, and leads by suggestion and kindness, rather than by force.

Napoleon Hill

#72. There is something to be said for government by a great aristocracy which has furnished leaders to the nation in peace and war for generations; even a Democrat like myself must admit this.

Theodore Roosevelt

#73. Wright is a visionary with a great strategic mind, and he's a strong business leader with outstanding people skills, ... He's a terrific guy and will be a key force in guiding the company's future growth.

Jack Welch

#74. To its great credit, Wimbledon has been a leader in bringing about change and improvement in the sport.

Fred Perry

#75. If a country has a fascist leader, this is a great horror for that country; but there is much greater horror: The existence of ignorant and unethical masses who support that primitive leader!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#76. Ted Turner is still a leader. And he sets a great example. His ability financially has been reduced, but his influence and his example still is an important asset to the whole environmental movement.

Maurice Strong

#77. When Simplicity is broken up, it is made into instruments. Evolved individuals who employ them, are made into leaders. In this way, the Great System is United.

Laozi

#78. People caught up in the excitement of mutiny could not maintain for long that union which allows great things to be accomplished. A ring leader of mutineers never has anything but an uncertain power in his hands.

Jules Verne

#79. The major factor that makes a great leader to fail emerge from the decision of people who surround him/her.

Israelmore Ayivor

#80. A great director or leader knows his people, creates a great team, and then makes a great movie that can influence millions more than the readers of his column.

Warren Bennis

#81. He ran a gas station down in St. Louis ... No, Mahatma Gandhi was a great leader of the 20th century.

Hillary Clinton

#82. The male-dominated systems know they cannot maintain their current power structures if and when the woman is restored to her natural and powerful state as a great leader and co-creator.

Bryant McGill

#83. The difference between a good leader and a great leader is humility.

James C. Collins

#84. Leaders know the great deal of productivity that comes out of a strong self-esteem. They help others to develop this esteem so that productivity can increase.

Israelmore Ayivor

#85. Never let yourself be persuaded that any one Great Man, any one leader, is necessary to the salvation of America. When America consists of one leader and 158 million followers, it will no longer be America.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

#86. As a leader of people, you have to be a great listener, a great motivator, be very good at praising and bringing out the best in people.

Richard Branson

#87. And I'm supposed to believe that Reagan was a great leader? This is who he chose as the Secretary of Education ...

William Bennett

#88. Great leaders don't blame the tools they are given. Great leaders work to sharpen them.

Simon Sinek

#89. My father was a great business leader and humanitarian who dedicated his life to the company and the community. He also was a wonderful family man, a loving husband, father, grandfather and great-grandfather. He will be greatly missed by everyone who knew him, yet he will continue to inspire us all.

William Clay Ford Jr.

#90. He is not the leader of great causes, but the broker of little ones.

Robert A. Caro

#91. When you find the way to empower others, you will find that you are a great leader.

Debasish Mridha

#92. In other words, don't expect to always be great. Disappointments, failures and setbacks are a normal part of the lifecycle of a unit or a company and what the leader has to do is constantly be up and say 'we have a problem, let's go and get it'.

Colin Powell

#93. He has become a great leader of his team, a guy that has evolved in terms of his role within the team.

David Blatt

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Madonna Ciccone

#95. I'll bet every great thinker and leader we've got
Could see all kinds of things other people could not!
So then why get upset if somebody like me
Tries to look at the world just a bit differently?

Al Yankovic

#96. The true leader is a different sort; he seeks effective activity which has a truly beneficient purpose. He inspires others to follow in his wake, and holding aloft the torch of wisdom, leads the way for society to realize its genuinely great aspirations

Haile Selassie

#97. The Them hesitated. Loyalty was a great thing, but no lieutenants should be forced to choose between their leader and a circus with elephants. They left.

Terry Pratchett

#98. When a leader has an attitude of gratitude, it can create great differences in the lives of others.

Debasish Mridha

#99. Neither my great-grandfather an NAACP founder, my grandfather Dr. Martin Luther King, Sr. an NAACP leader, my father Rev. A. D. Williams King, nor my uncle Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. embraced the homosexual agenda that the current NAACP is attempting to label as a civil rights agenda,

Alveda King

#100. Sex energy is the creative energy of all geniuses. There never has been, and never will be a great leader, builder or artist lacking in the driving force of sex.

Napoleon Hill