Thoughtful Quotes About Leadership (Page 2 of 2)

Without strong visionary leadership, no strategy will be executed effectively.

Leadership is a matter of how to be -- not how to do it.

To help others see their own paths, spark the fuel of their personal passions.

I think in a lot of ways, I handle the leadership role a little different than others. I'm not going to rah-rah or slap you across the helmet or push you. I'm going to talk to you.

My purpose is to help people understand that leadership skills are useful and relevant for pursuing meaningful aspirations in all aspects of life, and that this is a choice, a decision, not a default.

The supreme quality of leadership is integrity.

A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together.

When people talk, listen completely.

Leadership is seeing the possibilities in a situation while others are seeing the limitations.

Good leadership isn't about advancing yourself. It's about advancing your team.

The difference between mere management and leadership is communication.

Leadership is the art of accomplishing more than the science of management says is possible.

The more seriously you take your growth, the more seriously your people will take you.

The most improper job of any man, even saints (who at any rate were at least unwilling to take it on), is bossing other men. Not one in a million is fit for it, and least of all those who seek the opportunity.

The leader works in the open and the boss in covert. The leader leads, and the boss drives.

Leadership is the power of one harnessing the power of many.

A good leader can't get too far ahead of his followers.

The greatest leaders mobilize others by coalescing people around a shared vision.

Leadership is the readiness to stand out in a crowd.

The exercise of true leadership is inversely proportional to the exercise of power.

When I give a minister an order, I leave it to him to find the means to carry it out.

Leadership is lifting a person's vision to high sights, the raising of a person's performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations.

Knowing what must be done does away with fear.

No one can whistle a symphony. It takes a whole orchestra to play it.

The boss inspires fear; the leader inspires enthusiasm.

When the leader lacks confidence, the followers lack commitment.

Always try to associate yourself with and learn as much as you can from those who know more than you do, who do better than you, who see more clearly than you.

Real leadership is being the person others will gladly and confidently follow.

Leaders grow; they are not made.

The single biggest way to impact an organization is to focus on leadership development. There is almost no limit to the potential of an organization that recruits good people, raises them up as leaders and continually develops them.

The leader sees leadership as responsibility rather than as rank and privilege.

Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others.

Leaders think and talk about the solutions. Followers think and talk about the problems.

Leadership is influence.

Keep your promises and be consistent. Be the kind of person others can trust.

It is a curious thing, Harry, but perhaps those who are best suited to power are those who have never sought it. Those who, like you, have leadership thrust upon them, and take up the mantle because they must, and find to their own surprise that they wear it well.

The challenge of leadership is to be strong but not rude; be kind, but not weak; be bold, but not a bully; be humble, but not timid; be proud, but not arrogant; have humor, but without folly.

If we did the things we are capable of, we would astound ourselves.

I am the captain of my soul.

Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.

Forget about the fast lane. If you really want to fly, just harness your power to your passion.

Even a small reduction in errors and rework can have a significant impact.

A truly equal world would be one where women ran half our countries and companies and men ran half our homes.

If a man knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable.

If you really want the key to success, start by doing the opposite of what everyone else is doing.

When people are financially invested, they want a return. When people are emotionally invested, they want to contribute.

Average leaders raise the bar on themselves; good leaders raise the bar for others; great leaders inspire others to raise their own bar.

Great leaders are not defined by the absence of weakness, but rather by the presence of clear strengths.

More leaders have been made by accident, circumstance, sheer grit, or will than have been made by all the leadership courses put together.

Wisdom is knowing what to do next, skill is knowing how to do it, and virtue is doing it.

Lead me, follow me, or get the hell out of my way.

Leadership requires belief in the mission and unyielding perseverance to achieve victory.

To the highest leadership among women it is given to hold steadily in one hand the sacred vessels that hold the ancient sanctities of life, and in the other a flaming torch to light the way for oncoming generations.

Our destiny is not written for us, but by us.

Leaders live by choice, not by accident.

A winner is a dreamer who never gives up.

Faith moves mountains, love transforms hearts.

Hire character. Train skill.

Leadership is like third grade: it means repeating the significant things.

Leadership is the art of giving people a platform for spreading ideas that work.

If your actions create a legacy that inspires others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, then, you are an excellent leader.

The mark of a great man is one who knows when to set aside the important things in order to accomplish the vital ones.

In the future, there will be no female leaders. There will just be leaders.

You manage things; you lead people.

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

Lead from the back and let others believe they are in front.

Mountaintops inspire leaders but valleys mature them.

If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.

Open the window of your mind. Allow the fresh air, new lights and new truths to enter.

You get in life what you have the courage to ask for.

With a hint of good judgment, to fear nothing, not failure or suffering or even death, indicates that you value life the most. You live to the extreme; you push limits; you spend your time building legacies. Those do not die.

It is the responsibility of intellectuals to speak the truth and expose lies.

Wise leaders generally have wise counselors because it takes a wise person themselves to distinguish them.

None of us is as smart as all of us.

Absolute identity with one's cause is the first and great condition of successful leadership.

Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.

The manager accepts the status quo; the leader challenges it.

The manager asks how and when; the leader asks what and why.

As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you think.

In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.

If you command wisely, you'll be obeyed cheerfully.

It does not make sense that everybody should duplicate efforts when we could be working together.

Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.

Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out.

Good leaders must first become good servants.

Individually, we are one drop. Together, we are an ocean.

The quality of a leader is reflected in the standards they set for themselves.

Leadership is intangible, and therefore no weapon ever designed can replace it.

Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.

I think leadership is not something you learn; it's something you discover.

Character in leadership is the most important balance for leadership. Without character, leaders have no safety. Leadership has no protection without character.

A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.

When the whole world is silent, even one voice becomes powerful.

When you're in a leadership role, you can never please all of the people all of the time. There's also a lot of responsibility that goes along with it that others may not realize.

Leadership involves finding a parade and getting in front of it.

Everything rises and falls on leadership.

People buy into the leader before they buy into the vision.

A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.

A person always doing his or her best becomes a natural leader, just by example.

A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better.

Women are the largest untapped reservoir of talent in the world.

A leader does not deserve the name unless he is willing occasionally to stand alone.

Don't find fault, find a remedy.

The real leader has no need to lead -- he is content to point the way.

A community is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm.

It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.

The only safe ship in a storm is leadership.

To be persuasive we must be believable; to be believable we must be credible; credible we must be truthful.

You don't lead by hitting people over the head -- that's assault, not leadership.

Never give an order that can't be obeyed.

I think we need the feminine qualities of leadership, which include attention to aesthetics and the environment, nurturing, affection, intuition and the qualities that make people feel safe and cared for.

The role of leadership is to transform the complex situation into small pieces and prioritize them.

The amount of good luck coming your way depends on your willingness to act.

Force always attracts men of low morality.

I am not in favour of quotas. Just put the best person into the job. It is not about gender; it is about experience, leadership and vision.