Leadership By Famous Leaders Quotes

• Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  87 Copy quote

• The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.

  Ralph Nader

  Inspirational, Motivational, Inspiring

  85 Copy quote

• Good leaders must first become good servants.

  Robert K. Greenleaf

  Leadership, Future Leaders, Firsts

  127 Copy quote

• 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 Drucker

  Leadership, Life Changing, Helping Others

  86 Copy quote

• Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.

  Mother Teresa

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  626 Copy quote

• 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

  Inspirational, Leadership, Wisdom

  726 Copy quote

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

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Leadership, Spiritual, People

  56 Copy quote

• 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

• A community is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm.

  Henrik Ibsen

  Leadership, Community Living, Preparation

  Henrik Ibsen (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henrik Ibsen (Illustrated)”, p.2145, Delphi Classics

  94 Copy quote

  Show source

• Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

  John F. Kennedy

  Inspirational, Leadership, Educational

  Undelivered Speech to the Dallas Citizens Council, delivered 22 November 1963, Trade Mart, Dallas, Texas

  68 Copy quote

  Show source

• Be gentle and you can be bold; be frugal and you can be liberal; avoid putting yourself before others and you can become a leader among men.

  Laozi

  Leadership, Humility, Army

  21 Copy quote

• He who has learned how to obey will know how to command.

  Solon

  Leadership, Learning, Knowing

  91 Copy quote
• 

  Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others.

  Jack Welch

  Leadership, Educational, Inspiration

  Jack Welch, Janet Lowe (2007). “Jack Welch Speaks: Wit and Wisdom from the World's Greatest Business Leader”, John Wiley & Sons

  122 Copy quote

  Show source

• The only safe ship in a storm is leadership.

  Faye Wattleton

  Leadership, Business, Storm

  34 Copy quote

• Leaders are more powerful role models when they learn than when they teach.

  Rosabeth Moss Kanter

  Leadership, Powerful, Role Models

  35 Copy quote

• I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Leadership, People, Vision

  8 Copy quote

• Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  Albert Schweitzer, William Larimer Mellon (1996). “Brothers in Spirit: The Correspondence of Albert Schweitzer and William Larimer Mellon, Jr”, p.18, Syracuse University Press

  77 Copy quote

  Show source

• What you do has far greater impact than what you say.

  Stephen Covey

  Leadership, Impact, Best Leader

  66 Copy quote

• Good leaders make people feel that they're at the very heart of things, not at the periphery.

  Warren G. Bennis

  Inspirational, Relationship, Leadership

  Warren G. Bennis (1997). “Managing People is Like Herding Cats”, Executive Excellence Pub

  47 Copy quote

  Show source

• Leadership cannot really be taught. It can only be learned.

  Harold Geneen

  Leadership, Taught, Born Leaders

  "Managing". Book by Harold Geneen, 1984.

  57 Copy quote

  Show source

• Earn your leadership every day.

  Michael Jordan

  Motivational, Leadership, Vision

  31 Copy quote

• 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

• 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

• You can't blow an uncertain trumpet.

  Theodore Hesburgh

  Leadership, Blow, Common Vision

  Interview with Philip Scarpino, tobiascenter.iu.edu. January 6, 2009.

  69 Copy quote

  Show source

• You manage things, you lead people. We went overboard on management and forgot about leadership. It might help if we ran the MBAs out of Washington.

  Grace Hopper

  Inspirational, Leadership, Basketball

  "The Wit and Wisdom of Grace Hopper". The OCLC Newsletter, No. 167, www.cs.yale.edu. March/April 1987.

  60 Copy quote

  Show source