Leadership Training Quotes

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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People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader leads, and the boss drives.

Theodore Roosevelt

Leadership, Differences, People

Theodore Roosevelt (2015). “Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century”, p.4, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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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.

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

Harvey S. Firestone

Leadership, Helping Others, People

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

Rosabeth Moss Kanter

Leadership, Powerful, Role Models

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No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Inspirational, Motivational, Happiness

Quoted in Vidette-Messenger (Valparaiso, Ind.), 7 June 1941 See Channing 1

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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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Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.

Peter Drucker

Inspirational, Change, Leadership

"Seven Habits of Highly Effective People" by Stephen R. Covey, (p. 101), 1989.

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A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd.

Max Lucado

Motivational, Strength, Leadership

Max Lucado (2010). “Chronicles of the Cross Collection”, p.205, Harper Collins

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

Peter Drucker

Inspirational, Leadership, Basketball

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The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality.

Max De Pree

Leadership, Responsibility, Reality

Max De Pree (1987). “Leadership is an Art”, Doubleday Business

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The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it is on a section gang, a football field, in an army, or in an office.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Inspirational, Success, Leadership

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Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Leadership, Art, Business

Eisenhower, Dwight D. (1960). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1954”, p.477, Best Books on

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You don't lead by hitting people over the head - that's assault, not leadership.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Funny, Relationship, Leadership

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The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.

William Arthur Ward

Motivational, Leadership, Basketball

William Arthur Ward (1968). “Thoughts of a Christian Optimist: The Words of William Arthur Ward”

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The key to successful leadership today is influence, not authority.

Ken Blanchard

Inspirational, Leadership, Basketball

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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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The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them.

Colin Powell

Leadership, Military, Army

Colin L. Powell (1995). “My American Journey”, Random House Incorporated

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The only real training for leadership is leadership.

Antony Jay

Leadership, Real, Coaching

Antony Jay (1994). “Management and Machiavelli: discovering a new science of management in the timeless principles of statecraft”, Jossey-Bass

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A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.

Laozi

Inspirational, Leadership, Wisdom

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

Theodore Hesburgh

Leadership, Business, Blow

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A leader is best when people barely know that he exists.

Witter Bynner

Leadership, People, Boss

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The worst thing you can do is nothing.

Terry Pratchett

Motivational, Change, Positive

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Leadership is defined by results not attributes.

Peter Drucker

Leadership, Future Leaders, Great Leader

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