Outstanding Leaders Quotes:

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

- Theodore Roosevelt

source: Theodore Roosevelt (1926). “The Works of Theodore Roosevelt”

topic: Leadership, Boss, Outstanding Leaders, Leaders Motivational, Leadership Training

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

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

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

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

- John C. Maxwell

source: "Leadership 101: 3 Key Lessons on Advancing Racial Equity" by Dr. Artika R. Tyner, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 15, 2015.

topic: Inspirational, Leadership, Basketball, Young Entrepreneurs, 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

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

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 very essence of leadership is that you have to have vision. You can't blow an uncertain trumpet.

- Theodore Hesburgh

source: Interview with Philip Scarpino, tobiascenter.iu.edu. January 6, 2009.

topic: Leadership, Business, Blow, True Leader, Innovative Leadership

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

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

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

No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit for doing it.

- Andrew Carnegie

topic: Inspirational, Leadership, Confidence, Put First Things First, True Leader

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

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

topic: Inspirational, Inspiring, Leadership, Leadership Potential, Molding

The growth and development of people is the highest calling of leadership.

- Harvey S. Firestone

topic: Leadership, Helping Others, People, Innovation And Leadership, Leadership And Service

Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.

- Robert Louis Stevenson

topic: Inspirational, Strength, Success, Inspiring Leader, Leadership And Management

A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd.

- Max Lucado

topic: Motivational, Strength, Leadership, Funny Leadership, Inspiring Leader

If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. Men will believe what they see.

- Henry David Thoreau

topic: Believe, Men, Doe, Outstanding Leaders, Outstanding Leadership

Remember teamwork begins by building trust. And the only way to do that is to overcome our need for invulnerability.

- Patrick Lencioni

source: Patrick M. Lencioni (2010). “The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable”, p.58, John Wiley & Sons

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Inspiring, Inspiring Team Building, Inspiring Teamwork

Power isn't control at all-power is strength, and giving that strength to others. A leader isn't someone who forces others to make him stronger; a leader is someone willing to give his strength to others that they may have the strength to stand on their own.

- Beth Revis

source: Beth Revis (2011). “Across the Universe”, p.250, Penguin

topic: Motivational, Inspiring, Leadership, Outstanding Leaders, Outstanding Leadership

There is a difference between being a leader and being a boss. Both are based on authority. A boss demands blind obedience; a leader earns his authority through understanding and trust.

- Klaus Balkenhol

topic: Leadership, Differences, Boss, Outstanding Leaders, Outstanding Leadership

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

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

Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

topic: Inspirational, Leadership, Hope, Innovation And Leadership, Leadership Development

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

- Brian Tracy

topic: Inspirational, Thinking, Leader, True Leader, Inspiring Leader

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

- Witter Bynner

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

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

The building of a personality beyond its normal limitations.

- Peter Drucker

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

Leaders are not born, they're made.

- Vince Lombardi

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

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

Earn your leadership every day.

- Michael Jordan

topic: Leadership, Inspiring Leader, Leadership By Famous Leaders, Leadership By Great Leaders, Motivational Leadership

A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don't necessarily want to go, but ought to be.

- Rosalynn Carter

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

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

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

topic: Relationship, Leadership, Business, Managing People, Innovation And Leadership

Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

- John F. Kennedy

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

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

The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.

- William Arthur Ward

source: William Arthur Ward (1968). “Thoughts of a Christian Optimist: The Words of William Arthur Ward”

topic: Motivational, Leadership, Basketball, Joy Of Learning, Inspirational Education

We're here for a reason. I believe a bit of the reason is to throw little torches out to lead people through the dark.

- Whoopi Goldberg

topic: Motivational, Inspiring, Leadership, Women Leadership, Outstanding Leaders

A great leader's courage to fulfill his vision comes from passion, not position.

- John C. Maxwell

topic: Inspirational, Success, Leadership, True Leader, Inspirational Passion

To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart.

- Eleanor Roosevelt

topic: Inspirational, Heart, Use, Great Minds, Inspiration To Others

The key to successful leadership today is influence, not authority.

- Ken Blanchard

topic: Inspirational, Successful, Keys, Top Management, Influencing People

A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.

- Laozi

topic: Inspirational, Leadership, Wisdom, Managing People, Funny Leadership

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

I cannot trust a man to control others who cannot control himself.

- Robert E. Lee

topic: Motivational, Inspiring, Trust, Military Leadership, Self Discipline

Outstanding leaders have a sense of mission, a belief in themselves and the value of their work.

- Brian Tracy

source: Brian Tracy (2008). “Effective Leadership”, p.13, Jaico Publishing House

topic: Leader, Belief, Missions, Outstanding Leaders

When you meet these outstanding leaders who have been through a programme that empowers them to take positive action, to make things better for people, for animals and for the environment - when you watch them interact and they start brainstorming, you realise you can relax, because they have got it right. They understand that there's more to this life than just money.

- Jane Goodall

source: Source: www.egonzehnder.com

topic: Animal, People, Leader, Outstanding Leaders