Leadership Quotes

"Authentic leaders do not lead for the sake of validation. They are validated by the impact of their contribution."

- Gift Gugu Mona

"People would rather follow a leader that is real than one that is always right."

- Craig Groeschel

"A good leader leads the people from above them. A great leader leads the people from within them."

- M.D. Arnold

"There are three essentials to leadership: humility, clarity, and courage."

- Chan Master Fuchan Yuan

"Real leadership is about transforming limitations into possibilities."

- Robin Sharma

"A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way."

- John C. Maxwell

"Real leadership is being the person others will gladly and confidently follow."

- John C. Maxwell

"When you become a leader, success is all about growing others."

- Jack Welch

"Listening (the first competence of leadership) is not a skill, it is a discipline. All you have to do is keep your mouth shut."

- Peter Drucker

"Communication is the real work of leadership."

- Nitin Nohria

"Great leaders communicate and great communicators lead."

- Simon Sinek

"When the trust account is high, communication is easy, instant, and effective."

- Stephen Covey

"I love watching the Serengeti, the way lions live. The only way the king lion loses his crown is by somebody physically defeating him."

- Ray Lewis

"I am not afraid of an army of lions led by a sheep; I am afraid of an army of sheep led by a lion."

- Alexander the Great

"If you want something said, ask a man. If you want something done, ask a woman."

- Margaret Thatcher

"Women will never be as successful as men because they have no wives to advise them."

- Dick van Dyke

"Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other."

- John F. Kennedy

"Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower."

- Steve Jobs

"The true mark of a leader is the willingness to stick with a bold course of action — an unconventional business strategy, a unique product-development roadmap, a controversial marketing campaign — even as the rest of the world wonders why you're not marching in step with the status quo. In other words, real leaders are happy to zig while others zag. They understand that in an era of hyper-competition and non-stop disruption, the only way to stand out from the crowd is to stand for something special."

- Bill Taylor

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

- Theodore M. Hesburgh

"In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock."

- Thomas Jefferson

"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, concerned citizens can change the world. Indeed it is the only thing that ever has."

- Margaret Mead

"Leaders grasp nettles."

- David Ogilvy

"I start with the premise that the function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers."

- Ralph Nader

"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

"A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better."

- Jim Rohn

"If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader."

- President John Quincy Adams

"Leadership is the art of giving people a platform for spreading ideas that work."

- Seth Godin

"I am the captain of my fate, the boss of my dreams, the king of my goals!"

"A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus."