Leadership Quotes

"The size of your dreams must always exceed your current capacity to achieve them."

- Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

"Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit."

- Conrad Hilton

"Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go."

- T.S. Eliot

"Don't be afraid to take a big step when one is indicated. You can't cross a chasm in two small steps."

- David Lloyd George

"You've got to go out on a limb sometimes because that's where the fruit is."

- Will Rogers

"The men who have done big things are those who were not afraid to attempt big things, who were not afraid to risk failure in order to gain success."

- B.C. Forbes

"Trust is the essence of Leadership."

- Colin Powell

"You have to enable and empower people to make decisions independent of you."

- Tom Ridge

"When people feel trusted, they'll do almost anything under the sun not to disappoint the person who gave them the gift of trust."

- Rob LeBow

"Fear is a cancer in any organization."

- Mike Abrashoff

"A leader is one who sees more than others see, who sees farther than others see and who sees before others see."

- Leroy Eimes

"Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate and doubt to offer a solution everybody can understand."

- Gen. Colin Powell

"As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others."

- Bill Gates

"In the simplest terms, a leader is one who knows where he wants to go, and gets up and goes."

- John Erskine

"Trust is fundamental, reciprocal, and pervasive. If it is present, anything is possible. If it is absent, nothing is possible."

- George P. Shultz

"The leaders who offer blood, toil, tears and sweat always get more out of their followers than those who offer safety and a good time."

- George Orwell

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

- President Ronald Reagan

"Always do right. It will gratify some people and astonish the rest."

- Mark Twain

"Leadership is a combination of strategy and character. If you must be without one, be without the strategy."

- U.S. Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf

"People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader leads, and the boss drives."

- President Theodore Roosevelt

"What you do has far greater impact than what you say."

- Stephen Covey

"Leadership is the capacity to transform vision into reality."

- Warren G. Bennis

"To lead people, walk beside them."

- Lao Tzu

"The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on."

- Walter Lippmann

"The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been."

- Henry Kissinger

"Earn your leadership every day."

- Michael Jordan

"He who is not a good servant will not be a good master."

- Plato

"Come, follow me, and I will send you out to fish for people."

- Jesus

"We need authentic leaders, people of the highest integrity, committed to building enduring organizations."