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Leadership Quotes |
Quotes on leadership topics from national and business leaders and writers, offering food for learning and reflection.
"If you do not know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere." - Henry Kissinger "You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing you think you cannot do." Eleanor Roosevelt "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 "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, concerned citizens can change world. Indeed it is the only thing that ever has." - Margaret Mead |
| For Further Exploration : Look at resources on developing vision, sharing vision, or writing mission and vision statements. |
 Quotes on Leadership Character "Charisma becomes the undoing of leaders. It makes them inflexible, convinced of their own infallibility, unable to change." - Peter F. Drucker "A single lie destroys a whole reputation for integrity." - Baltasar Gracian "Leadership is a combination of strategy and character. If you must be without one, be without the strategy." - Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf "Example is not the main thing in influencing others, it is the only thing." - Albert Schweitzer "The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy." - Martin Luther King, Jr. "I am certainly not one of those who need to be prodded. In fact, if anything, I am the prod." - Sir Winston Churchill "Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader." - General George S. Patton Jr. "Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other." - John F. Kennedy |
| For Further Exploration : Look at resources on leadership character, servant leadership or Jesus' leadership style. |
| Quotes on Leadership and Management : "People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. . . . The leader works in the open, and the boss in covert. The leader leads, and the boss drives." - Theodore Roosevelt "Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall." - Stephen R. Covey "You manage things; you lead people." - Grace Murray Hopper |
| For Further Exploration : Our perspective is that leadership and management are complementary. Indeed, good management requires the leadership necessary to make things happen. Explore your leadership style with our online style indicator. |
| Quotes on Leadership and Empowerment "The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers." - Ralph Nadar "As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others." - Bill Gates "The growth and development of people is the highest calling of leadership." - Harvey S. Firestone "The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind in others the conviction and will to carry on." - Walter Lippman |
| For Further Exploration : Look at resources on identifying and unlocking potential, and on coaching and mentoring. |
| Quotes on the Leadership Process "The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between the two, the leader must become a servant and a debtor. That sums up the progress of an artful leader." - Max DePree "People are persuaded by reason, but moved by emotion; [the leader] must both persuade them and move them." - Richard M. Nixon |
| For Further Exploration : Look at resources on the whole process of building and leading teams. |