Leadership Quotes

"The Pessimist complains about the wind. The optimist expects it to change. The leader adjusts the sails."

- John Maxwell

"To me, leadership is not about necessarily being the loudest in the room, but instead being the bridge, or the thing that is missing in the discussion and trying to build a consensus from there."

- Jacinda Ardern

"To do great things is difficult, but to command great things is more difficult."

- Friedrich Nietzsche

"Leadership is about making others better as a result of your presence and making sure that impact lasts in our absence."

- Sheryl Sandberg

"Don’t talk unless you can improve the silence."

- Jorge Luis Borges

"When people go to work, they shouldn’t have to leave their hearts at home."

- Betty Bender

"To handle yourself, use your head. To handle others, use your heart."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"A good leader inspires people to have confidence in the leader; a great leader inspires people to have confidence in themselves."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"The best leaders have a high consideration factor. They really care about their people."

- Brian Tracy

"Great leaders don’t set out to be a leader… they set out to make a difference. It’s never about the role – always about the goal."

- Lisa Haisha

"A boss says ‘Go!’; a leader says ‘Let’s go!’"

- E.M. Kelly

"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

"Leadership is about making others better as a result of your presence and making sure that impact lasts in your absence."

- Sheryl Sandberg

"A good boss is a good teacher."

- Gibran Khalil Gibran

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

- Theodore Roosevelt

"A good boss is better than a good company."

- Chinese Proverb

"You don’t have to be a brilliant leader to be successful, but you do have to be brilliant at leading yourself."

- Simon Sinek

"A leader is not a searchlight, always shining bright, but a lighthouse, guiding others through treacherous waters."

- John C. Maxwell

"The leader who is admired and respected is the one who is able to inspire and empower others."

- John C. Maxwell

"A good boss is a person who can tolerate my complaints and still manage to say hello to me every day."

- Byron Pusifer

"The greatest gift of leadership is a boss who wants you to be successful."

- Jon Taffer

"Women belong in all places where decisions are being made."

- Ruth Bader Ginsburg

"The greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things. They are the one that gets people to do the greatest things."

- Ronald Reagan

"People don’t leave bad jobs; they leave bad bosses. Conversely, they stay because of good leaders."

- Travis Bradberry

"Leaders don’t inflict pain, they share pain."

- Max DePree

"In a country well governed, poverty is something to be ashamed of. In a country badly governed, wealth is something to be ashamed of."

- Confucius

"You can successfully force people to follow a certain course, but you cannot force them to understand it."

- Confucius

"The people may be made to follow a path of action but they may not be made to understand it."

- Confucius

"The best kind of parent you can be is to lead by example."

- Drew Barrymore

"Bill Belichick and Tom Brady are the masters of finding something that you didn’t suspect."

- Deion Sanders