Being A Leader Quotes - Page 2

• In this world a man must either be anvil or hammer.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Leadership, Work, Character

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1839). “Hyperion: A Romance”, p.203

  18 Copy quote

  Show source

• I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.

  Michael Jordan

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  491 Copy quote

• A ruler should be slow to punish and swift to reward.

  Ovid

  Leadership, Vision, Empowering Others

  13 Copy quote

• To do great things is difficult; but to command great things is more difficult.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Leadership, Excellence, Vision

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.160, Penguin

  16 Copy quote

  Show source

• A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don't necessarily want to go, but ought to be.

  Rosalynn Carter

  Motivational, Leadership, People

  389 Copy quote
• 

  Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes.

  Peter Drucker

  Inspirational, Leadership, Basketball

  275 Copy quote

• Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.

  Stephen Covey

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Leadership

  Stephen R. Covey (2016). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change Interactive Edition”, p.120, Mango Media Inc.

  26 Copy quote

  Show source

• Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out.

  Stephen Covey

  Life, Leadership, Insperational

  Stephen R. Covey (2012). “The Wisdom and Teachings of Stephen R. Covey”, p.56, Simon and Schuster

  14 Copy quote

  Show source

• There goes my people. I must follow them, for I am their leader.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Leadership, Spiritual, People

  56 Copy quote

• The art of leadership is saying no, not saying yes. It is very easy to say yes.

  Tony Blair

  Motivational, Leadership, Art

  74 Copy quote

• The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born - that there is a genetic factor to leadership. This myth asserts that people simply either have certain charismatic qualities or not. That's nonsense; in fact, the opposite is true. Leaders are made rather than born.

  Warren G. Bennis

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  "Managing People Is Like Herding Cats". Book by Warren G. Bennis, January 1997.

  89 Copy quote

  Show source

• Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.

  Warren G. Bennis

  Inspirational, Motivational, Leadership

  "Executive's Portfolio of Model Speeches for All Occasions". Book by Dianna Daniels Booher, 1991.

  565 Copy quote

  Show source

• The led must not be compelled; they must be able to choose their own leader.

  Albert Einstein

  Leadership, Born Leaders, Able

  Albert Einstein (2011). “The World As I See It”, p.14, Open Road Media

  18 Copy quote

  Show source

• Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Leadership, Hope

  17 Copy quote
• 

  If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform one million realities.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Maya Angelou (1997). “The Heart of a Woman”, Bantam

  74 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  Inspirational, Motivational, Leadership

  "The Age of Uncertainty". Book by John Kenneth Galbraith, 1977.

  37 Copy quote

  Show source

• Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.

  Bill Gates

  Leadership, Business, Motivation

  Bill Gates (2009). “Business @ the Speed of Thought: Succeeding in the Digital Economy”, p.86, Hachette UK

  175 Copy quote

  Show source

• That's nonsense; in fact, the opposite is true. Leaders are made rather than born.

  Warren G. Bennis

  Leadership, Opposites, Future Leaders

  Warren Bennis, Steven B. Sample, Rob Asghar (2015). “The Art and Adventure of Leadership: Understanding Failure, Resilience and Success”, p.15, John Wiley & Sons

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  266 Copy quote

• The very essence of leadership is that you have to have vision. You can't blow an uncertain trumpet.

  Theodore Hesburgh

  Leadership, Business, Blow

  79 Copy quote

• A leader is one who sees more than others see, who sees farther than others see, and who sees before others do." (Leroy Eims)

  John C. Maxwell

  Leadership, Great Leader, Inspiring Leader

  John C. Maxwell (2007). “The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership: Follow Them and People Will Follow You”, p.38, Thomas Nelson Inc

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• To lead people, walk beside them ... As for the best leaders, the people do not notice their existence. The next best, the people honor and praise. The next, the people fear; and the next, the people hate ... When the best leader's work is done the people say, 'We did it ourselves!

  Laozi

  Leadership, Hate, People

  18 Copy quote

• Men make history and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better.

  Harry S. Truman

  Change, Leadership, Men

  225 Copy quote

• The manager asks how and when; the leader asks what and why.

  Warren G. Bennis

  Leadership, Managers, Asks

  Warren G. Bennis (1997). “Learning to Lead: A Workbook on Becoming a Leader”, Basic Books (AZ)

  28 Copy quote

  Show source

• He who cannot be a good follower cannot be a good leader.

  Aristotle

  Leadership, Dancing, Followers

  80 Copy quote