Leadership Development Quotes

• The single biggest way to impact an organization is to focus on leadership development. There is almost no limit to the potential of an organization that recruits good people, raises them up as leaders and continually develops them.

  John C. Maxwell

  Leadership, Organization, Impact

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  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

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• I emphasize self-esteem, self-confidence, and dignity, not as an ideal, but as a real test of community organization. Without leadership development, community organizations do not have staying power.

  Paul Wellstone

  Real, Self Esteem, Self Confidence

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• The growth and development of people is the highest calling of leadership.

  Harvey S. Firestone

  Leadership, Helping Others, People

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• 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

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• Leadership has become a heavy industry. Concern and interest about leadership development is no longer an American phenomenon. It is truly global. Though I will probably be in less demand, I wanted to move on.

  Warren G. Bennis

  Moving, Development, Demand

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• The Leadership Training Institute of America is a cultural think tank providing training and opportunity in leadership development and cultural dynamics.

  Michael C. Burgess

  Opportunity, Thinking, America

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• A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.

  John C. Maxwell

  Inspirational, Leadership, Basketball

  "Leadership 101: 3 Key Lessons on Advancing Racial Equity" by Dr. Artika R. Tyner, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 15, 2015.

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• The more seriously you take your growth, the more seriously your people will take you.

  John C. Maxwell

  Inspirational, Leadership, People

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

  Ralph Nader

  Inspirational, Motivational, Inspiring

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• 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

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• Nobody cares how much you know, until they know how much you care.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Motivational, Inspiring, Leadership

  Theodore Roosevelt (2015). “Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century”, p.5, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Inspirational, Motivational, Friendship

  "My Country", Volume 2, No. 3, published by Litchfield Historical Society, p. 23, September 1968.

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• Leaders aren't born they are made. And they are made just like anything else, through hard work. And that's the price we'll have to pay to achieve that goal, or any goal.

  Vince Lombardi

  Motivational, Leadership, Graduation

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• Leadership development is a lifetime journey, not a quick trip.

  John C. Maxwell

  Leadership, Journey, Development

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• 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

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• As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.

  Bill Gates

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

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  If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.

  John Quincy Adams

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• 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.

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  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

  Motivational, Leadership, Educational

  Attributed in "The 101 Greatest Business Principles of All Time" by Leslie Pockell, November 23, 2004.

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• Leaders aren't born they are made.

  Vince Lombardi

  Inspirational, Leadership, Discipline

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• A new leader has to be able to change an organization that is dreamless, soulless and visionless... someone's got to make a wake up call.

  Warren G. Bennis

  Leadership, Organization, Future Leaders

  "Reinventing Leadership: Strategies to Empower the Organization". Book by Warren G. Bennis and Robert Townsend, December 13, 2005.

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• There is no such thing as a perfect leader either in the past or present, in China or elsewhere. If there is one, he is only pretending, like a pig inserting scallions into its nose in an effort to look like an elephant.

  Liu Shaoqi

  Leadership, Past, Pigs

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• Failing forward is the ability to get back up after you've been knocked down, learn from your mistake, and move forward in a better direction.

  John C. Maxwell

  Inspirational, Leadership, Mistake

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

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Leadership, Hope

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