Quotes About Leadership

To do great things is difficult; but to command great things is more difficult.

There are no office hours for leaders.

We need to elect leaders who understand that leadership is about loving and serving people, not about self-advancement.

The learning person looks forward to failure or mistakes. The worst problem in leadership is basically early success.

Leadership is about moving people from where they are to where you hope they'll go.

If you wish to succeed in managing and controlling others - learn to manage and control yourself.

If you're a leader, people's lives should be better because of the influence you've had along the way.

Great leadership is not the visit of an unexpected fate but rather a flame which is kept burning in spite of the winds of risk and opposition.

The chief occupational hazard of leadership is pride.

We must make no secret of the fact that we are a revolutionary party , prepared to give leadership on the streets as well as in the elected chambers & that we are out for a revolutionary state

Leadership is a group project, and all of us are necessary to fill it. Wise leaders will realize this and encourage their groups to develop their own evolving leadership potential.

Efficient management without effective leadership is, as one individual phrased, it, "like straightening deck chairs on the Titanic".

Leadership is stewardship, it's temporary and you're accountable!

Leaders know that the fruit of life is out on a limb.

Great leaders motivate large groups of individuals to improve the human condition.

Leadership is the capacity to influence others through inspiration motivated by passion, generated by vision, produced by a conviction, ignited by a purpose.

Leadership without mutual trust is a contradiction in terms.

Leaders keep their eyes on the horizon, not just on the bottom line.

The secular mind and heart, however gifted and personally charming, has no place in the leadership of the church.

Leadership does not mean being bossy, always telling others what to do. No, leadership means going ahead, not putting others in the front. Good leaders lead by example, not by decree.

Vision, the hallmark of leadership, is less a derivative of spreadsheets and more a product of the mind called imagination.

I realised early on that there were two groups of people in the world: those who made the decisions and those who had the decisions made for them. I wanted to be one of the decision-makers.

When people are placed in positions slightly above what they expect, they are apt to excel.

The prime role of a leader is to offer an example of courage and sacrifice.