Don’t necessarily avoid sharp edges. Occasionally they are necessary to leadership.
Donald Rumsfeld
He who has great power should use it lightly.
Seneca
Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out.
Stephen Covey
Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them.
John C. Maxwell
I am reminded how hollow the label of leadership sometimes is and how heroic followership can be.
Warren Bennis
I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure, which is: Try to please everybody.
Herbert Swope
In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.
Thomas Jefferson
If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform one million realities.
Maya Angelou
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.
John Quincy Adams
It is absurd that a man should rule others, who cannot rule himself.
Latin Proverb
Lead and inspire people. Don’t try to manage and manipulate people. Inventories can be managed but people must be lead.
Ross Perot
Great leaders are not defined by the absence of weakness, but rather by the presence of clear strengths.
John Zenger
Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy.
Norman Schwarzkopf
Leadership is unlocking people’s potential to become better.
Bill Bradley
Management is about arranging and telling. Leadership is about nurturing and enhancing.
Tom Peters
No man is good enough to govern another man without that other’s consent.
Abraham Lincoln
He who has learned how to obey will know how to command.
Solon
Where there is no vision, the people perish.
Proverbs 29:18
Never give an order that can’t be obeyed.
General Douglas MacArthur
I must follow the people Am I not their leader?
Benjamin Disraeli
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
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.
Vince Lombardi
If you would not be forgotten, as soon as you are dead and rotten, either write things worth reading,
or do things worth the writing.
Benjamin Franklin
Leadership does not always wear the harness of compromise.
Woodrow Wilson
Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether
the ladder is leaning against the right wall.
Stephen Covey
Not the cry, but the flight of a wild duck, leads the flock to fly and follow.
Chinese Proverb
What you do has far greater impact than what you say.
Stephen Covey
The supreme quality of leadership is integrity.
Dwight Eisenhower
The growth and development of people is the highest calling of leadership.
Harvey Firestone
A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week.
George Patton
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.
Bill Owens
The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men, the conviction and the will to carry on.
Walter Lippman
To do great things is difficult; but to command great things is more difficult.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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
To have long term success as a coach or in any position of leadership, you have to be obsessed in some way.
Pat Riley
To command is to serve, nothing more and nothing less.
Andre Malraux
You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look
fear in the face. You must do the thing you think you cannot do.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Whatever you are, be a good one.
Abraham Lincoln
We live in a society obsessed with public opinion. But leadership has never been about popularity.
Marco Rubio
My responsibility is getting all my players playing for the name on the front of the jersey,
not the one on the back.
Unknown
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
A cowardly leader is the most dangerous of men.
Stephen King
I am endlessly fascinated that playing football is considered a training ground for leadership,
but raising children isn’t.
Dee Dee Myers
The greatest leaders mobilize others by coalescing people around a shared vision.
Ken Blanchard
One of the tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency.
Arnold Glasow
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
There are three essentials to leadership: humility, clarity and courage.
Fuchan Yuan
Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you
have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help or concluded you do not care.
Either case is a failure of leadership.
Colin Powell
