Effective Leadership Quotes:

A true leader has the confidence to stand alone, the courage to make tough decisions, and the compassion to listen to the needs of others. He does not set out to be a leader, but becomes one by the equality of his actions and the integrity of his intent.

- Douglas MacArthur

topic: Inspirational, Leadership, Integrity, Making Tough Decisions, True 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 is unlocking people's potential to become better.

- Bill Bradley

source: "Unlocking Your Potential: The Keys to Discovering Your Hidden Treasure". Book by Wade D. Sadlier, 2011.

topic: Leadership, People, Vision, Untapped Potential, Leadership And Management

The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.

- Henry A. Kissinger

topic: Leadership, Motivation, People, Leadership Skills, Qualities Of A Leader

Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help or concluded you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership.

- Colin Powell

source: Colin L. Powell, Joseph E. Persico (2010). “My American Journey”, p.52, Ballantine Books

topic: Motivational, Inspiring, Leadership, Inspirational Military, Inspiring Leader

Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them.

- John C. Maxwell

topic: Motivational, Inspiring, Leadership, Top Management, True Leader

The main characteristics of effective leadership are intelligence, integrity or loyalty, mystique, humor, discipline, courage, self sufficieny and confidence.

- James Fisher

topic: Loyalty, Confidence, Integrity, Effective Leadership

Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes.

- Peter Drucker

topic: Inspirational, Leadership, Basketball, True Leader, Inspiring Leader

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

- Thomas Jefferson

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Success, Inspirational Character, Inspirational Presidential

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

The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.

- Ralph Nader

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Inspiring, Top Management, True Leader

It is better to lead from behind and to put others in front, especially when you celebrate victory when nice things occur. You take the front line when there is danger. Then people will appreciate your leadership.

- Nelson Mandela

topic: Inspirational, Leadership, Nice, Outstanding Leaders, Nice Things

Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.

- George S. Patton

source: "War As I Knew It". Book by George S. Patton. Chapter "Reflections and Suggestions", 1947.

topic: Inspirational, Positive, Leadership, Innovation And Business, Innovation And Leadership

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

Inventories can be managed, but people must be led.

- Ross Perot

topic: Leadership, Business, People, Managing People, True Leader

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

Leadership does not always wear the harness of compromise.

- Woodrow Wilson

topic: Leadership, Doe, Compromise, True Leader, Inspiring Leader

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.

- Will Durant

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Daily Work, Top Management

Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

- John F. Kennedy

topic: Inspirational, Leadership, Educational, Live And Learn, Top Management

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

- Stephen Covey

topic: Life, Leadership, Insperational, Top Management, Put First Things First

Leadership is the key to 99 percent of all successful efforts.

- Erskine Bowles

topic: Leadership, Successful, Keys, Successful Leaders, Effective Leadership

Leaders are not born, they're made.

- Vince Lombardi

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

Leadership cannot just go along to get along. Leadership must meet the moral challenge of the day.

- Jesse Jackson

topic: Leadership, Challenges, Vision, Getting Along, Effective Leadership

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

topic: Change, Leadership, Men, True Leader, Lack Of Leadership

Leadership has a harder job to do than just choose sides. It must bring sides together.

- Jesse Jackson

topic: Leadership, Jobs, Business, Leadership Development, Leadership Style

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

A leader is best when people barely know that he exists.

- Witter Bynner

topic: People, Boss, Leader, Managing People, Funny Leadership

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

Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.

- Stephen Covey

topic: Inspirational, Inspiring, Leadership, Top Management, Management Motivation

The goal of an effective leader is to recondition your team to be solution focused rather than problem focused.

- Jim Rohn

topic: Leadership, Team, Goal, Effective Leadership

Be the trouble you want to see in the world.

- Joey Comeau

source: "A Softer World". Webcomic by Joey Comeau,

topic: World, Want, Trouble, Social Responsibility, Managing Change

Be the change you want to see.

- Mahatma Gandhi

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Change, Indian Independence Day, Some Nice

Be the compromise you want to see in the world.

- Mahatma Gandhi

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Change, Social Responsibility, Managing Change

Charisma is the result of effective leadership, not the other way around.

- Warren G. Bennis

topic: Way, Results, Charisma, Effective Leadership

Be the change you want to see in your networks

- James H. Fowler

topic: Want, Managing Change, Indian Independence Day, Some Nice, Live Life To Its Fullest

Charlatanism of some degree is indispensable to effective leadership.

- Eric Hoffer

source: Eric Hoffer (1980). “The True Believer”

topic: Leadership, Work, Degrees, Effective Leadership

Build what you want to see in the world.

- Jack Dorsey

topic: World, Want, What You Want, Social Responsibility, Managing Change

The leaders who work most effectively, it seems to me, never say "I." And that's not because they have trained themselves not to say "I." They don't think "I." They think "we"; they think "team." They understand their job to be to make the team function. They accept responsibility and don't sidestep it, but "we" gets the credit. This is what creates trust, what enables you to get the task done.

- Peter Drucker

topic: Leadership, Teamwork, Jobs, Inspirational Team Building, Leadership And Management

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

- John Peter Zenger

topic: Leadership, Weakness, Absence, Outstanding Leaders, Outstanding Leadership

We know that leadership is very much related to change. As the pace of change accelerates, there is naturally a greater need for effective leadership.

- John P. Kotter

topic: Leadership, Needs, Pace, Pace Of Change, Effective Leadership

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

A leader is one who sees more than others see, who sees farther than others see, and who sees before others do." (Leroy Eims)

- John C. Maxwell

source: John C. Maxwell (2007). “The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership: Follow Them and People Will Follow You”, p.38, Thomas Nelson Inc

topic: Leadership, Great Leader, Being A Leader, Inspiring Leader, Effective Leadership

People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader leads, and the boss drives.

- Theodore Roosevelt

topic: Leadership, Differences, People, Management Motivation, Innovation And Leadership

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