Leadership Quotes

"The influence of teachers extends beyond the classroom, well into the future. It is they who shape and enrich the minds of the young, who touch their hearts and souls. It is they who shape a nation's future."

- F. Sionil Jose

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

- Theodore Roosevelt

""Find the smartest people you can and surround yourself with them.""

- Marissa Meyer

""A leader must inspire or his team will expire.""

- Orrin Woodward

""Failing organizations are usually over-managed and under-led.""

- Warren Bennis

""Time is neutral and does not change things. With courage and initiative, leaders change things.""

- Jesse Jackson

""If you pick the right people and give them the opportunity to spread their wings-and put compensation as a carrier behind it-you almost don’t have to manage them.""

- Jack Welch

""Leadership is much more an art, a belief, a condition of the heart, than a set of things to do.""

- Max de Pree

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

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

"My challenge when I came back was to face the young talent, dissect their games, and show them maybe that they needed to learn more about the game than just the money aspect."

- Michael Jordan

"Trust gives you the permission to give people direction, get everyone aligned, and give them the energy to go get the job done. Trust enables you to execute with excellence and produce extraordinary results. As you execute with excellence and deliver on your commitments, trust becomes easier to inspire, creating a flywheel of performance."

- Doug Conant

"Leadership is not about a title or a designation. It’s about impact, influence, and inspiration."

- Robin Sharma

"Leadership is not about a title or a designation. It’s about impact, and inspiration. Impact involves getting results, influence is about spreading the passion you have for your work, and you have to inspire team-mates and customers."

- Robin Sharma

"A leader is a person you will follow to a place you would not go by yourself."

- Joel Osteen

"A competent leader can get efficient service from poor troops; while, on the contrary, an incapable leader can demoralize the best of troops."

- Gen. John J. Pershing

"Employees engage with employers and brands when they’re treated as humans."

- Meghan M. Biro

"Contrary to popular opinion, leadership is not a reserved position for a particular group of people who were elected or appointed, ordained or enthroned. Leadership is self-made, self-retained, self-inculcated and then exposed through a faithful, sincere and exemplary life."

- Israelmore Ayivor

"Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them."

- John C. Maxwell

"We desperately need seers who can see through the mist- Christian leaders with prophetic vision. Unless they come soon it will be too late for this generation. And if they do come we will no doubt crucify a few of them in the name of our worldly orthodoxy."

- A.W. Tozer

"We desperately need seers who can see through the mist- Christian leaders with prophetic vision.  Unless they come soon it will be too late for this generation.  And if they do come we will no doubt crucify a few of them in the name of our worldly orthodoxy."

- A.W. Tozer

"Don't tell people how to do things; tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results."

- George S. Patton

"Don’t tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results."

- George S. Patton

"It is a proud privilege to be a soldier – a good soldier … [with] discipline, self-respect, pride in his unit and his country, a high sense of duty and obligation to comrades and to his superiors, and a self confidence born of demonstrated ability."

- George S. Patton

"Men make history and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better."

- Harry S. Truman

"In science the credit goes to the man who convinces the world, not to the man to whom the idea first occurs."

- William Osler

"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

"Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision."

- Peter F. Drucker

"If you lead your thoughts, your actions will surely follow."

"I marvel at your confidence and desire to make the world a better place. Happy birthday, my future leader."

"Like a boss."