1. “If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.” — John Quincy Adams
2. “Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.” — Warren Bennis
3. “You don’t lead by pointing and telling people some place to go. You lead by going to that place and making a case.” –Ken Kesey
4. “Leadership is all about people. It is not about organizations. It is not about plans. It is not about strategies. It is all about people-motivating people to get the job done. You have to be people-centered.” — Colin Powell
5. “A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd.” — Max Lucado
6. “No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself, or to get all the credit for doing it.” — Andrew Carnegie
7. “Outstanding leaders go out of their way to boost the self-esteem of their personnel. If people believe in themselves, it’s amazing what they can accomplish.” — Sam Walton
8. “The challenge of leadership is to be strong, but not rude; be kind, but not weak; be bold, but not bully; be thoughtful, but not lazy; be humble, but not timid; be proud, but not arrogant; have humor, but without folly.” — Jim Rohn
9. “Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy.”– Norman Schwarzkopf
10. “Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.” — Publilius Syrus
11. “Successful leaders see the opportunities in every difficulty rather than the difficulty in every opportunity.”– Reed Markham
12. 7. “The greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things. He is the one that gets the people to do the greatest things.” — Ronald Reagan
13. “To add value to others, one must first value others.” — John Maxwell
14. “A true leader has the confidence to stand alone, the courage to make tough decisions, and the compassion to listen to the needs of others. He does not set out to be a leader, but becomes one by the equality of his actions and the integrity of his intent.” — Douglas MacArthur
15. “There are no office hours for leaders.” — Cardinal J. Gibbons
16. “I can give you a six-word formula for success: Think things through–then follow through.” — Edward Rickenbacker
17. “One of the tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency.” — Arnold Glasow
18. “I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure, which is: Try to please everybody.” –Herbert Swope
19. “True leadership lies in guiding others to success–in ensuring that everyone is performing at their best, doing the work they are pledged to do and doing it well.” — Bill Owens
20. “Control is not leadership; management is not leadership; leadership is leadership. If you seek to lead, invest at least 50 percent of your time in leading yourself–your own purpose, ethics, principles, motivation, conduct. Invest at least 20 percent leading those with authority over you and 15 percent leading your peers.” — Dee Hock
21. “The growth and development of people is the highest calling of leadership.” — Harvey S. Firestone
22. “Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right thing.” — Peter F. Drucker
23. “The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.” — Ralph Nader
24. “Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.” — Warren G. Bennis
25. “Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results, not attributes.” — Peter F. Drucker
26. “A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.” — John Maxwell
27. “Leaders think and talk about the solutions. Followers think and talk about the problems.” — Brian Tracy
28. “Become the kind of leader that people would follow voluntarily, even if you had no title or position.” — Brian Tracy
29. “You manage things; you lead people.” — Grace Murray Hopper
30. “Leadership is not about titles, positions, or flowcharts. It is about one life influencing another.” — John C. Maxwell
31. “People buy into the leader before they buy into the vision.” — John C. Maxwell
32. “Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others.” — Jack Welch
33. “Leadership is lifting a person’s vision to high sights, the raising of a person’s performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations.” — Peter F. Drucker
34. “Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.” — John F. Kennedy
35. “The role of leadership is to transform the complex situation into small pieces and prioritize them.” — Carlos Ghosn
36. “Real leadership is leaders recognizing that they serve the people that they lead.” — Pete Hoekstra
37. “All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership.” — John Kenneth Galbraith
38. “The task of leadership is not to put greatness into humanity, but to elicit it, for the greatness is already there.” — John Buchan
39. “Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate, and doubt to offer a solution everybody can understand.” — Colin Powell
40. Leadership is not magnetic personality, that can just as well be a glib tongue. It is not ‘making friends and influencing people,’ that is flattery. 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
41. “Great leaders are not defined by the absence of weakness, but rather by the presence of clear strengths.” — John Zenger
42. “The supreme quality of leadership is integrity.” — Dwight D. Eisenhower
43. “As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.” — Bill Gates
44. “Leadership is an action, not a position.” — Donald McGannon
45. “Good leaders set vision, missions, and goals. Great leaders inspire every follower at every level to internalize their purpose, and to understand that their purpose goes far beyond the mere details of their job. When everyone is united in purpose, a positive purpose that serves not only the organization but also, hopefully, the world beyond it, you have a winning team.” — Colin Powell
