Leadership Quotes

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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  

“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 one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.”

John Maxwell  

“The key to successful leadership is influence, not authority.”

Kenneth H. Blanchard  

“A boss has the title, a leader has the people.”

Simon Sinek  

“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  

“Always do right. It will gratify some people and astonish the rest.”

Mark Twain  

“In the simplest terms, a leader is one who knows where he wants to go, and gets up and goes.”

John Erskine  

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

William Arthur Ward  

“A leader is a dealer in hope.”

Napoleon Bonaparte  

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

General Dwight Eisenhower  

“Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson  

“The pessimist complains about the wind. The optimist expects it to change. The leader adjusts the sails. ”

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  

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

John Maxwell  

“I will not follow where the path may lead, but I will go where there is no path, and I will leave a trail.”

Muriel Strode  

“You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing you think you cannot do.”

Eleanor Roosevelt  

“Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.”

Steve Jobs  

“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  

“The greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things. He is the one who gets the people to do the greatest things.”

Ronald Reagan  

“A leader ... is like a shepherd. He stays behind the flock, letting the most nimble go out ahead, whereupon the others follow, not realizing that all along they are being directed from behind.”

Nelson Mandela  

“It’s okay to admit what you don’t know. It’s okay to ask for help. And it’s more than okay to listen to the people you lead–in fact, it’s essential.”

Mary Barra  

“Leadership should be more participative than directive, more enabling than performing.”

Mary D. Poole  

“If your actions create a legacy that inspires others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, then, you are an excellent leader.”

Dolly Parton