Inspirational Leadership Quotes And Sayings

by allinspiration.com

“Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.”
– John F. Kennedy

“A competent leader can get efficient service from poor troops, while on the contrary an incapable leader can demoralize the best of troops.”
– John J Pershing

“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

“We know that leadership is very much related to change. As the pace of change accelerates, there is naturally a greater need for effective leadership.”
– John Kotter

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

“People buy into the leader before they buy into the vision.”
– John Maxwell

“A great leader’s courage to fulfill his vision comes from passion, not position. ”
– John Maxwell

“A good leader is a person who takes a little more than his share of the blame and a little less than his share of the credit.”
– John Maxwell

“The single biggest way to impact an organization is to focus on leadership development. There is almost no limit to the potential of an organization that recruits good people, raises them up as leaders and continually develops them.”
– John Maxwell

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

“Every great leader can take you back to a defining moment when they decided to lead.”
– John Paul Warren

“If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.”
– John Quincy Adams

“Great leaders are not defined by the absence of weakness, but rather by the presence of clear strengths.”
– John Zenger

“Even if it’s your dog, you’ve got authority over somebody. Start treating him better.”
– Joyce Meyer

“Women‘s philanthropic leadership is fundamental to their advancement in society.”
– Kay Ballard

“The greatest leaders mobilize others by coalescing people around a shared vision.”
– Ken Blanchard

“You don’t lead by pointing and telling people some place to go. You lead by going to that place and making a case.”
– Ken Kesey

“The key to successful leadership today is influence, not authority.”
– Kenneth Blanchard

“There is a difference between being a leader and being a boss. Both are based on authority. A boss demands blind obedience; a leader earns his authority through understanding and trust.”
– Klaus Balkenhol

“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

“When the best leader’s work is done the people say, ‘We did it ourselves.’”
– Lao Tzu

“It is absurd that a man should rule others, who cannot rule himself.”
– Latin Proverb

“I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people.”
– Mahatma Gandhi

“We live in a society obsessed with public opinion. But leadership has never been about popularity.”
– Marco Rubio

“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, concerned citizens can change world. Indeed it is the only thing that ever has.”
– Margaret Mead

“Leadership should be born out of the understanding of the needs of those who would be affected by it.”
– Marian Anderson

“Leaders live by choice, not by accident.”
– Mark Gorman

“My father had a simple test that helps me measure my own leadership quotient: When you are out of the office he once asked me, does you staff carry on remarkable well without you?”
– Martha Peak

“A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.”
– Martin Luther King Jr.

“The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between, the leader is a servant.”
– Max DePree

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