Leadership By Great Leaders Quotes

Leaders are not born, they’re made.

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

I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been.

To lead people, walk beside them … As for the best leaders, the people do not notice their existence. The next best, the people honor and praise. The next, the people fear; and the next, the people hate … When the best leader’s work is done the people say, ‘We did it ourselves!

He who cannot be a good follower cannot be a good leader.

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.

Learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.

Leadership is not about titles, positions or flowcharts. It is about one life influencing another.

I am a man of fixed and unbending principles, the first of which is to be flexible at all times.

High sentiments always win in the end. The leaders who offer blood, toil, tears and sweat always get more out of their followers than those who offer safety and a good time. When it comes to the pinch, human beings are heroic.

Become the kind of leader that people would follow voluntarily; even if you had no title or position.

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

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

Be strong, but not rude; Be kind, but not weak; Be bold, but not bully; Be humble, but not timid; Be prooud, but not arrogant.

The greatest leaders mobilize others by coalescing people around a shared vision.

The growth and development of people is the highest calling of leadership.

Leaders aren’t born they are made. And they are made just like anything else, through hard work. And that’s the price we’ll have to pay to achieve that goal, or any goal.