Leadership Quotes

"Feedback is a gift. Ideas are the currency of our next success. Let people see you value both feedback and ideas."

- Jim Trinka and Les Wallace

"Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do."

- John Wooden

"Not one single leadership principle requires permission from anyone other than you."

- Jim Trinka and Les Wallace

"Women need to shift from thinking 'I'm not ready to do that' to thinking 'I want to do that and I'll learn by doing it.'"

- Sheryl Sandberg

"Make sure you're not just waiting for someone else to fix things, or hoping that things will improve...Figure out what's going on and make a plan to improve things."

- Kenneth W. Thomas

"There are three kinds of people: Those who make things happen, those who watch things happen, and those who ask, 'What happened?'"

- Casey Stengel

"Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way."

- Gen. George S. Patton

"Example is not the main thing in influencing others, it is the only thing."

- Albert Schweitzer

"The ability to learn is the most important quality a leader can have."

- Sheryl Sandberg

"It is the nature of man to rise to greatness if greatness is expected of him."

- John Steinbeck

"Pride is the fuel of human accomplishment."

- General Bill Creech

"The most important thing about a commander is his effect on morale."

- Field Marshall Viscount Slim

"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

"The deepest principle of human nature is the craving to be appreciated."

- William James

"Outstanding leaders go out of the way to boost the self-esteem of their personnel. If people believe in themselves, it's amazing what they can accomplish."

- Sam Walton

"There is no chance, no destiny, no fate, that can circumvent or hinder or control the firm resolve of a determined soul."

- Ella Wheeler Wilcox

"Press on: nothing in the world can take the place of perseverance."

- Calvin Coolidge

"Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous impatience."

- Admiral Hyman G. Rickover

"If you stand up and be counted, from time to time you may get yourself knocked down."

- Thomas J. Watson, Jr.

"Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed no help at all."

- Dale Carnegie

"You may have to fight a battle more than once in order to win it."

- Margaret Thatcher

"Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there."

- Will Rogers

"The future is not shaped by those who do not really believe in the future."

- John W. Gardner

"Successful leaders see the opportunities in every difficulty rather than the difficulty in every opportunity."

- Reed Markham

"Whether you think you can or think you can't--you are right."

- Henry Ford

"What counts in life is not the mere fact that we have lived. It is what difference we have made to the lives of others that will determine the significance of the life we lead."

- Nelson Mandela

"Man becomes great exactly in the degree in which he works for the welfare of his fellow men."

- Mahatma Gandhi

"You are not here merely to make a living. You are here to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, and with a finer spirit of hope and achievement."

- Woodrow Wilson

"Our country, right or wrong. When right, to be kept right; when wrong, to be set right."

- Carl Schurz

"All leaders lead by example...whether they intend to or not."