30 Most Famous Leadership Quotes...

A leader is a dealer in hope...

~Napoleon Bonaparte~

The very essence of leadership is that you have to have a vision...

~Theodore Hesburgh~

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

~Peter F. Drucker~

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

~Kenneth Blanchard~

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

~Mohandas K. Gandhi

Good leaders must first become good servants...

~Robert Greenleaf~

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~

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

~John Quincy Adams~

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power...

~Abraham Lincoln~

Lead and inspire people. Don’t try to manage and manipulate people. Inventories can be managed but people must be lead...

~Ross Perot~

Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life...

~Sandra Carey~

Good plans shape good decisions. That’s why good planning helps to make elusive dreams come true...

~Lester R. Bittel~

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 Bennis~

The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality... The last is to say thank you...

~Max DePree~

People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. . . The leader works in the open, and the boss in covert... The leader leads, and the boss drives.

~Theodore Roosevelt~

The real leader has no need to lead... he is content to point the way...

~Henry Miller~

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~

The best example of leadership is leadership by example...

~Jerry McClain~

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

~Mary D. Poole

The quality of a leader is reflected in the standards they set for themselves...

~Ray Kroc~

To be able to lead others, a man must be willing to go forward alone...

~Harry Truman~

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

~John Quincy Adams~

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

~Dwight D. Eisenhower~

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

~Harold R. McAlindon~

Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall...

~Stephen R. Covey~

Leadership is action, not position...

~Donald H. McGannon~

He that cannot obey cannot command...

~Benjamin Franklin~

Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other...

~John Fitzgerald Kennedy~

The led must not be compelled; they must be able to choose their own leader...

~Albert Einstein~

Leadership is practiced not so much in words as in attitude and in actions...

~Harold S. Geneen~