Leadership Quotes
Leadership is a combination of strategy and character. If you must be without one, be without the strategy.Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf
The very essence of leadership is that you have to have a vision.Theodore Hesburgh
The leaven of true leadership cannot lift others unless we are with and serve those to be led.Spencer W. Kimball
Leadership and learning are indispensible to each other.John Fitzgerald Kennedy
The only safe ship in a storm is leadership.Faye Wattleton
A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done.Dwight D. Eisenhowe
Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.Dwight D Eisenhowe
Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.Warren Bennis
Leadership has a harder job to do than just choose sides. It must bring sides together.Jesse Jackson
The only real training for leadership is leadership.Anthony Jay
Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out.Stephen Covey
From 4 to 6 percent of the presidential office is not in administration but in morals, politics, and spiritual leadership. He has to guide a people in the greatest adventure ever undertaken on the planet.William Allen White
Leadership is based on inspiration, not domination; on cooperation, not intimidation.William Arthur Wood
The leadership instinct you are born with is the backbone. You develop the funny bone and the wishbone that go with it.Elaine Agathe
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
Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.John F. Kennedy, speech prepared for delivery in Dallas the day of his assassination, November 22, 1963
Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.Peter Drucke
When the leadership is right and the time is right, the people can always be counted upon to follow - - To the end at all costs.Harold J. Seymou
There are many elements to a campaign. Leadership is number one. Everything else is number two.Bernd Breche
Leadership is practiced not so much in words as in attitude and in actions.Harold Geneen, Chairman, ITT Corp.
Leadership should be born out of the understanding of the needs of those who would be affected by it.Marian Anderson
Whether a man is burdened by power or enjoys power; whether he is trapped by responsibility or made free by it; whether he is moved by other people and outer forces or moves them - - This is of the essence of leadership.Theodore H. White, The Making of the President, 1960
I start with the premise that the function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.Ralph Nade
Good leadership consists in showing average people how to do the work of superior people.John D. Rockefelle
Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked leadership is defined by results not attributes.Peter Drucke
One of the tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency.Arnold Glasgow
The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it is on a section gang, a football field, in an army, or in an office.Dwight D Eisenhowe
