Famous Leadership Quotes :

Gems of wisdom by the best leaders

-Peter F. Drucker



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

- John Quincy Adams



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

- John C Maxwell



The task of leadership is not to put greatness into people, but to elicit it, for the greatness is there already.

- John Buchan



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

– Theodore M. Hesburgh



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

- Rosabeth Moss Kantor



The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint to keep from meddling with them while they do it.

- Theodore Roosevelt



He that cannot obey, cannot command.

- Benjamin Franklin



All Leadership is influence.

- John C. Maxwell



The only safe ship in a storm is leadership.

- Faye Wattleton



Leadership is not magnetic personality, that can just as well be a glib tongue. It is not "making friends and influencing people", that is flattery. Leadership is lifting a person's vision to higher sights, the raising of a person's performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations.

- Peter F. Drucker



A leader leads by example, whether he intends to or not.

- John Quincy Adams



A community is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm.

- Henrik Ibsen



A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.

- Anon



Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others.

- Jack Welch



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

- Kenneth Blanchard



Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson



I start with the premise that the function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.

- Ralph Nader



Don't tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.

– George S. Patton



Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate, and doubt to offer a solution everybody can understand.

- General Colin Powell



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 humor, but without folly.

- Jim Rohn



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

- Theodore Hesburgh



A good leader inspires people to have confidence in the leader, a great leader inspires people to have confidence in themselves

- Eleanor Roosevelt



Leadership cannot really be taught. It can only be learned.

- Harold Geneen



Leadership is the key to 99 percent of all successful efforts.

- Erskine Bowles



Leadership is the key to 99 percent of all successful efforts.

- Erskine Bowles



Leadership comes in small acts as well as bold strokes.

- Carly Fiorina



Leadership comes in small acts as well as bold strokes.

- Carly Fiorina



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

- Norman Schwarzkopf



Leadership does not depend on being right.

- Ivan Illich



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