Inspirational Leadership Quotes And Sayings

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“A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd.”
– Max Lucado

“Earn your leadership every day.”
– Michael Jordan

“Leadership – leadership is about taking responsibility, not making excuses.”
– Mitt Romney

“A leader is a dealer in hope.”
– Napoleon Bonaparte

“When I give a minister an order, I leave it to him to find the means to carry it out. ”
– Napoleon Bonaparte

“It is better to lead from behind and to put others in front, especially when you celebrate victory when nice things occur. You take the front line when there is danger. Then people will appreciate your leadership.”
– Nelson Mandela

“Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy.”
– Norman Schwarzkopf

“A ruler should be slow to punish and swift to reward.”
– Ovid

“To have long term success as a coach or in any position of leadership, you have to be obsessed in some way.”
– Pat Riley

“Good management is the art of making problems so interesting and their solutions so constructive that everyone wants to get to work and deal with them.”
– Paul Hawken

“Leadership is lifting a person’s vision to high sights, the raising of a person’s performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations.”
– Peter Drucker

“Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes.”
– Peter Drucker

“So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.”
– Peter Drucker

“A good general not only sees the way to victory; he also knows when victory is impossible.”
– Polybius

“Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.”
– Publilius Syrus

“I start with the premise that the function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.”
– Ralph Nader

“You manage things; you lead people.”
– Rear Admiral Grace Murray Hopper

“The very essence of leadership is that you have to have a vision. It’s got to be a vision you articulate clearly and forcefully on every occasion. You can’t blow an uncertain trumpet.”
– Reverend Theodore Hesburgh

“A general never shows despair. He instills confidence in his troops. He leads them forward, even into the mouth of death.”
– Rick Riordan

“I cannot trust a man to control others who cannot control himself.”
– Robert E. Lee

“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

“Lead and inspire people. Don’t try to manage and manipulate people. Inventories can be managed but people must be lead.”
– Ross Perot

“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.”
– Sam Walton

“He who has great power should use it lightly.”
– Seneca

“True leaders understand that leadership is not about them but about those they serve. It is not about exalting themselves but about lifting others up.”
– Sheri L. Dew

“He who has learned how to obey will know how to command.”
– Solon

“Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out.”
– Stephen Covey

“Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.”
– Stephen Covey

“What you do has far greater impact than what you say.”
– Stephen Covey

“A cowardly leader is the most dangerous of men.”
– Stephen King

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