Leadership Quotes

"If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters."

- Colin Powell

"Leadership grows like tall trees. It needs both toughness and flexibility – toughness for accountability – flexibility to adapt to changes with a compassionate & caring heart for self and others."

- Amit Ray

"Real courage is when you know you’re licked before you begin but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what."

- Harper Lee

"It’s important for leaders to diffuse power to people who are in a position to make a difference."

- Kenneth Frazier

"Individual commitment to a group effort – that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work."

- Vince Lombardi

"Bees have no constitution, police, or moral training, but they work together in order to survive. Though they may occasionally squabble, the colony survives on the basis of cooperation."

- Dalai Lama

"Some people don’t like change, but you need to embrace change if the alternative is a disaster."

- Elon Musk

"Accountability breeds response-ability."

- Stephen Covey

"Without accountability, there is no trust, and without trust, there is no leadership."

- Dave Ramsey

"Lessons in leadership: Own your mistakes, celebrate your successes, and know your strengths."

- Kristen Hadeed

"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

"To help others develop, start with yourself."

- Marshall Goldsmith

"Not all readers are leaders, but all leaders are readers."

- Harry S. Truman

"The leader is one who, out of the clutter, brings simplicity… out of discord, harmony… and out of difficulty, opportunity."

- Albert Einstein

"I do the very best I know how – the very best I can; and I mean to keep on doing so until the end."

- Abraham Lincoln

"no path and leave a trail."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"’Restore connection’ is not just for devices, it is for people too. If we cannot disconnect, we cannot lead. Creating the culture of burnout is opposite to creating a culture of sustainable creativity. This is something that needs to be taught in business schools. This mentality needs to be introduced as a leadership and performance-enhancing tool."

- Arianna Huffington

"A leader leads by example not by force."

- Sun Tzu

"Treat your men as you would your own beloved sons. And they will follow you into the deepest valley."

- Sun Tzu

"You don't inspire your teammates by showing how amazing you are. You inspire them by showing them how amazing they are."

- Robyn Benincasa

"Leadership is a matter of having people look at you and gain confidence, seeing how you react. If you're in control, they are in control."

- Tom Landry

"Leaders are tested only when people don’t want to follow."

- Time Magazine 2015

"If you accept the call to leadership, then you must be willing to be misunderstood, criticized, opposed, accused and even rejected."

- Braque Talley

"Leadership is not a license to do less. Leadership is a responsibility to do more."

- Simon Sinek

"be the leaders we wish we had."

- Simon Sinek

"The ability to deal with people is as purchasable a commodity as sugar or coffee and I will pay more for that ability than for any other under the sun."

- John D. Rockefeller

"The best leader is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and the self-restraint to keep from meddling with them while they do it."

- Theodore Roosevelt

"The speed of the leader is the speed of the gang."

- Vince Lombardi

"For so work the honey bees, creatures that by a rule in nature, teach the act of order to a peopled kingdom"

- William Shakespeare

"When I hear a man preach, I like to see him act as if he were fighting bees."

- Abraham Lincoln