Quotes About Leadership

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These are some of my favourite quotes about leadership gathered from many great men and women. Be inspired and encouraged to bring out the leader in you.

Quotes About Leadership

• "One of the lessons of leadership worth emphasizing is that you want to get to know other great leaders and take their advice. At some point in your development, it's only people who've been in the seat of having to be leaders who can help you in a deep way." Jim Yong Kim

• "Well, I think that - I think leadership's always been about two main things: imagination and courage." Paul Keating

• "I believe in servant leadership, and the servant always asks, 'Where am I needed most?" Mike Pence

• "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

• "You learn far more from negative leadership than from positive leadership. Because you learn how not to do it. And, therefore, you learn how to do it." Norman Schwarzkopf

• "Leadership is a matter of having people look at you and gain confidence, seeing how you react. If you're in control, they're in control." Tom Landry

• "Leadership is hard to define and good leadership even harder. But if you can get people to follow you to the ends of the earth, you are a great leader." Indra Nooyi

• "Leadership is about vision and responsibility, not power." Seth Berkley

• "Different times need different types of leadership." Park Geun-hye

• "One thing that somebody told me is that leadership is a lonely role - some people can do it, and some people can't." Kyrie Irving

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• "Courageous leadership simply means that I have developed: 1. Convictions that are stronger than my fears 2. Vision that is clearer than my doubts 3. Spiritual sensitivity that is louder than popular opinion 4. Self-esteem that is deeper than self-protection 5. Appreciation for discipline that is higher than my desire for leisure 6. Dissatisfaction that is more forceful than the status quo 7. Poise that is more unshakable than panic 8. Risk-taking that is stronger than safety-seeking 9. Right actions that are more robust than rationalisation 10. A desire to see potential reached more than to see people appeased." John C. Maxwell


• "Trust is the foundation of leadership. You cannot continually break trust and continue to influence people. That's the law of Solid Ground." John C. Maxwell


• "The task of leadership is not to put greatness into humanity, but to elicit it, for the greatness is already there." John Buchan

• "Leadership is a choice, not a position." Stephen Covey

• "Leadership cannot just go along to get along. Leadership must meet the moral challenge of the day." Jesse Jackson

• "Actions, not words, are the ultimate results of leadership." Bill Owens

• "Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy." Norman Schwarzkopf

• "Leadership is about making the right decision and the best decision before, sometimes, it becomes entirely popular." Martin O'Malley

• "True leadership isn't about having an idea. It's about having an idea and recruiting other people to execute on this vision." Leila Janah

• "One secret of leadership is that the mind of a leader never turns off. Leaders even when they are sightseers or spectators, are active; not passive observers." James Humes
  

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• "Leadership is absolutely about inspiring action, but it is also about guarding against mis-action." Simon Sinek

• "I think one of the keys to leadership is recognizing that everybody has gifts and talents. A good leader will learn how to harness those gifts toward the same goal." Ben Carson

• "Inability to make decisions is one of the principal reasons executives fail. Deficiency in decision-making ranks much higher than lack of specific knowledge or technical know-how as an indicator of leadership failure." John C. Maxwell

• "Leadership appears to be the art of getting others to want to do something you are convinced should be done." Vance Packard

• "I think leadership is service and there is power in that giving: to help people, to inspire and motivate them to reach their fullest potential." Denise Morrison

• "The art of communication is the language of leadership." James Humes

• "A big part of leadership is just being comfortable with the fact that some decisions really are only yours." Helene D. Gayle

• "Real leadership means tackling tough problems ourselves and not leaving them to our children." Jon Kyl

• "You were born to lead as mothers and fathers, because nowhere is righteous leadership more crucial than in the family." Sheri L. Dew

• "In any leadership position, you're always going to be disappointing somebody." Biz Stone
  

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