Great Leadership Quotes
The growth and development of people is the highest calling of leadership.
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.
True leadership stems from individuality that is honestly and sometimes imperfectly expressed… Leaders should strive for authenticity over perfection.
To be persuasive we must be believable; to be believable we must be credible; credible we must be truthful.
There is a great man who makes every man feel small. But the real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.
The greatest leaders mobilize others by coalescing people around a shared vision.
The greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things. He is the one that gets the people to do the greatest things.
Outstanding leaders go out of their way to boost the self-esteem of their personnel. If people believe in themselves, it’s amazing what they can accomplish.
Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them.
Leaders have to act more quickly today. The pressure comes much faster.
Leaders think and talk about the solutions. Followers think and talk about the problems.
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.
Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate, and doubt to offer a solution everybody can understand.
Great leaders are not defined by the absence of weakness, but rather by the presence of clear strengths.
Become the kind of leader that people would follow voluntarily, even if you had no title or position.
A strong leader avoids becoming over-confident to the point of impaired judgment.
The task of leadership is not to put greatness into humanity, but to elicit it, for the greatness is already there.
The art of leadership is saying no, not yes. It is very easy to say yes.
The art of leadership is not to spend your time measuring, evaluating. It’s all about selecting the person. And if you believe you selected the right person, then you give that person the freedom, the authority, the delegation to innovate and to lead with some very simple measure.
Sometimes, leadership is planting trees under whose shade you’ll never sit. It may not happen fully until after I’m gone. But I know that the steps we’re taking are the right steps.
