Born Leaders Quotes:

Leaders aren't born they are made. And they are made just like anything else, through hard work. And that's the price we'll have to pay to achieve that goal, or any goal.

- Vince Lombardi

topic: Motivational, Leadership, Graduation, True Leader, Funny Leadership

Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.

- William Shakespeare

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Success, Most Memorable, Mind Playing

We still think of a powerful man as a born leader and a powerful woman as an anomaly.

- Margaret Atwood

topic: Inspirational, Life, Powerful, Powerful Women, Strong Powerful Women

If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.

- John Quincy Adams

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Top Management, Management Motivation

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

- Orrin Woodward

source: Twitter post from Mar 18, 2016

topic: Motivational, Average, Leader, Inspiring Others, Outstanding Leaders

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

source: Strength to Love (1963) ch. 3

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Inspirational Addiction Recovery, Inspirational Adversity

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

- Jim Rohn

topic: Leadership, Strong, Humor, True Leader, Leaders Motivational

I think I'm a natural-born leader. I know how to bow down to authority if it's authority that I respect.

- Tupac Shakur

topic: Leadership, Respect, Thinking, Respect Me, Born Leaders

Become the kind of leader that people would follow voluntarily; even if you had no title or position.

- Brian Tracy

topic: Leadership, People, Titles, True Leader, Inspiring Leader

The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born-that there is a genetic factor to leadership. This myth asserts that people simply either have certain charismatic qualities or not. That's nonsense; in fact, the opposite is true. Leaders are made rather than born.

- Warren G. Bennis

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Success, True Leader, Funny Leadership

Some are born leaders, some achieve leadership, and some have leadership thrust upon them. Which of these are you, or would you rather not bother?

- Maurice Flanagan

topic: Leader, Achieve, Born, Born Leaders

He who has never learned to obey cannot be a good commander.

- Aristotle

topic: Leadership, True Leader, Commanders, Leadership By Great Leaders, Leadership In Education

Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.

- Albert Schweitzer

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Success, Influencing People, Inspiring Leader

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.

- Peter Drucker

topic: Leadership, Sight, Personality, True Leader, Inspiring Leader

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

- Jack Welch

source: Jack Welch, Janet Lowe (2007). “Jack Welch Speaks: Wit and Wisdom from the World's Greatest Business Leader”, John Wiley & Sons

topic: Leadership, Leader, Growing, Innovative Leadership, Workforce

Leadership cannot really be taught. It can only be learned.

- Harold Geneen

source: "Managing". Book by Harold Geneen, 1984.

topic: Leadership, Taught, Leadership By Famous Leaders, Leadership By Great Leaders, Leadership Skills

The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality.

- Max De Pree

source: Max De Pree (1987). “Leadership is an Art”, Doubleday Business

topic: Leadership, Responsibility, Reality, Funny Leadership, Workforce

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

- Bill Gates

topic: Business Life, Innovation And Leadership, Inspiring Business, Inspiration To Others, Inspiring Leader

I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure - which is: Try to please everybody.

- Herbert Bayard Swope

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Put First Things First, Funny Leadership

Leadership should be born out of the understanding of the needs of those who would be affected by it

- Marian Anderson

topic: Leadership, Understanding, Needs, Women Leadership, Best Leader

A cowardly leader is the most dangerous of men.

- Stephen King

topic: Leadership, Men, Leader, Inspiring Leader, Outstanding Leadership

Leaders are made, they are not born. They are made by hard effort, which is the price which all of us must pay to achieve any goal that is worthwhile.

- Vince Lombardi

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Leadership, Sports Leadership, Leaders Motivational

Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

topic: Leadership, Art, Business, Management Motivation, Funny Leadership

Leaders are not born, they're made.

- Vince Lombardi

topic: Leadership, Discipline, Effort, True Leader, Sports Leadership

When forced to survive in an apocalyptic world, there are some characters that embrace their higher selves with some emerging as natural born leaders, and others succumb to their more base and primal selves and basically transform into savages.

- Laurie Holden

source: Source: collider.com

topic: Character, Self, Leader, Apocalyptic, Higher Self

Be strong, but not rude; Be kind, but not weak; Be bold, but not bully; Be humble, but not timid; Be prooud, but not arrogant.

- Zig Ziglar

source: FaceBook post by Zig Ziglar from Dec 27, 2013

topic: Leadership, Strong, Humble, True Leader, Leaders Motivational

The led must not be compelled; they must be able to choose their own leader.

- Albert Einstein

topic: Leadership, Leader, Able, Innovation And Leadership, Leading On

A ruler should be slow to punish and swift to reward.

- Ovid

topic: Leadership, Rewards, Should, True Leader, Leadership By Famous Leaders

Outstanding leaders go out of their way to boost the self-esteem of their personnel. If people believe in themselves, it's amazing what they can accomplish.

- Sam Walton

source: Attributed in "The 101 Greatest Business Principles of All Time" by Leslie Pockell, November 23, 2004.

topic: Motivational, Leadership, Educational, True Leader, Inspirational Self Esteem

High sentiments always win in the end. 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. When it comes to the pinch, human beings are heroic.

- George Orwell

topic: Inspirational, Leadership, Winning, Pinching, Inspiring Leader

To have long term success as a coach or in any position of leadership, you have to be obsessed in some way.

- Pat Riley

topic: Leadership, Basketball, Motivational Sports, Inspiring Leader, Leadership By Famous Leaders

The building of a personality beyond its normal limitations.

- Peter Drucker

topic: Personality, Normal, Building, True Leader, Leadership And Change

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

- Friedrich Nietzsche

topic: Leadership, Difficult, Command, Inspiring Leader, Leaders Motivational

If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform one million realities.

- Maya Angelou

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Inspiring Leader, Leadership Roles

I can't give you the sunset, but I can give you the night.

- Erin McCarthy

topic: Sunset, Night, Giving, Put First Things First, Inspiring Students

He who has learned how to obey will know how to command.

- Solon

topic: Leadership, Command, Inspiring Leader, Leadership By Famous Leaders, Leadership In Education

My job is not to be easy on people. My job is to take these great people we have and to push them and make them even better.

- Steve Jobs

topic: Motivational, Leadership, Jobs, Better Jobs, Leadership By Great Leaders

I believe that anybody with Mandela's capacity to endure hardship and then forgive is a born leader and example to us all.

- Rory McIlroy

source: Source: www.bbc.co.uk

topic: Believe, Leader, Forgiving, Mandela S, Born Leaders

It's hard to lead a cavalry charge if you think you look funny on a horse.

- Adlai E. Stevenson

topic: Inspirational, Funny, Motivational, Funny Leadership, Leaders Motivational

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.

- Dolly Parton

topic: Inspirational, Leadership, Dream, Women Leadership, Leaders Motivational

Rely on your own strength of body and soul. Take for your star self-reliance, faith, honesty and industry. Don't take too much advice - keep at the helm and steer your own ship, and remember that the great art of commanding is to take a fair share of the work. Fire above the mark you intend to hit. Energy, invincible determination with the right motive, are the levers that move the world.

- Noah Porter

topic: Inspirational, Art, Determination, Leadership By Famous Leaders, Outstanding Leadership

Those who try to lead the people can only do so by following the mob.

- Oscar Wilde

source: Oscar Wilde (2000). “Oscar Wilde - The Major Works”, p.279, OUP Oxford

topic: Leadership, People, Trying, Innovation And Leadership, Leading On

A leader. . .is like a shepherd. He stays behind the flock, letting the most nimble go out ahead, whereupon the others follow, not realizing that all along they are being directed from behind.

- Nelson Mandela

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Inspiring, Leadership Skills, Leading On

My husband is a natural-born leader. I quickly learned that I had to find a way of honoring his take-charge personality and not get frustrated about his desire to have the final decision on just about everything. I am not a passive person, but I chose to fall into a more submissive role in our relationship because I wanted to do everything in my power to make my marriage and family work.

- Candace Cameron

topic: Husband, Fall, Personality, Marriage And Family, Born Leaders

David Lloyd George had been to Germany, and been so dazzled by the Führer that he compared him to George Washington. Hitler was a 'born leader', declared the befuddled former British Prime Minister. He wished that Britain had 'a man of his supreme quality at the head of affairs in our country today'. This from the hero of the First World War! The man who had led Britain to victory over the Kaiser!

- Boris Johnson

topic: Country, War, Hero, First World War, Born Leaders