Leadership Quotes

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Leadership quotes illustrating the importance of leadership to personal success as well as to helping others achieve success.

Leadership Quotes

• "If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader." John Quincy Adams

• "Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others.” Jack Welch

• "Being a leader is a lot like being a lady, if you have to tell people you are one, you aren't." Margaret Thatcher

• “A good leader delights in and encourages the success and independence of those he leads and mentors. A weak one wants to perpetuate dependency on them and feels threatened by the followers' success. But worst of all is the leader who deliberately sabotages the success of others so they can remain on top. That is how the entire enterprise eventually fails as no one is allowed to thrive outside of the leader and those who are strong are forced to leave in order to prosper.” Dr Moses Simuyemba

• "Writers write, composers compose, leaders lead. Take action." John C. Maxwell

• "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." Lao Tzu

• "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." Lao Tzu

• “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

• "Followers who tell the truth, and leaders who listen to it, are an
  unbeatable combination." Warren Bennis

• "Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality." Warren Bennis

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• "Titles don't have much value when it comes to leading. True leadership cannot be awarded, appointed or assigned. It comes only from influence, and that cannot be mandated. It must be earned." John C. Maxwell

• "My own definition of leadership is this: The capacity and the will to rally men and women to a common purpose and the character which inspires confidence." General Montgomery

• "Leadership is the art of giving people a platform for spreading ideas that work." Seth Godin

• "I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people." Mahatma Gandhi

• "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

• "A good leader takes a little more than his share of the blame, a little less than his share of the credit." Arnold H. Glasow

• "The quality of a leader is reflected in the standards they set for themselves." Ray Kroc

• "A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus." Martin Luther King, Jr.

• "A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd." Max Lucado

• "People buy into the leader before they buy into the vision." John C. Maxwell
  

Even More Leadership Quotes

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• "Leadership: The art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it." Dwight D. Eisenhower

• "The law of empowerment: Only secure leaders give power to others." John C. Maxwell

• “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 humour, but without folly.” Jim Rohn

• "Without initiative, leaders are simply workers in leadership positions." Bo Bennett

• "The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born-that there is a genetic factor to leadership. That’s nonsense; in fact, the opposite is true. Leaders are made rather than born." Warren Bennis

• "Leadership consists of picking good men and helping them do their best." Chester W. Nimitz

• "You must first lead yourself before you can lead others." Dr Moses Simuyemba

• "Time is neutral and does not change things. With courage and initiative, leaders change things." Jesse Jackson

• "When the best leader's work is done the people say, 'We did it ourselves." Lao Tzu

• "Leadership does not always wear the harness of compromise." Woodrow Wilson

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