Powerful Leaders Quotes:

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

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

Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.

- Steve Jobs

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Best Success, Social Innovation

Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.

- Warren G. Bennis

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Leadership, True Leader, Mission And Vision

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

Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

- John F. Kennedy

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

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

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

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

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

- Albert Schweitzer

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

Leaders are not born, they're made.

- Vince Lombardi

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

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

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

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

People buy into the leader before they buy into the vision. Many people who approach the area of vision in leadership have it backwards. They believe that if the cause is good enough, people will automatically buy in and follow. But that's not how leadership works. People don't follow worthy causes; they follow worthy leaders with a cause they can believe in. They buy into the leader first.

- John C. Maxwell

topic: Believe, People, Leader, True Leader, Leadership And Vision

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

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

You don't lead by pointing and telling people some place to go. You lead by going to that place and making a case.

- Ken Kesey

topic: Motivational, Inspiring, Leadership, Pointing, True Leader

In this world a man must either be anvil or hammer.

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

topic: Work, Character, Men, Being A Leader, Powerful Leaders

I'd rather regret the things I've done than regret the things I haven't done.

- Lucille Ball

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Inspiring, Strong Motivational, Strong Women Motivation

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

- Ovid

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

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

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

- Friedrich Nietzsche

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

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

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

To lead people, walk beside them ... As for the best leaders, the people do not notice their existence. The next best, the people honor and praise. The next, the people fear; and the next, the people hate ... When the best leader's work is done the people say, 'We did it ourselves!

- Laozi

topic: Leadership, Hate, People, Leadership By Great Leaders, Leading On

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

Leaders are more powerful role models when they learn than when they teach.

- Rosabeth Moss Kanter

topic: Leadership, Powerful, Role Models, Leadership By Famous Leaders, Leadership Roles

If you think you are leading and turn around to see no one following, then you are just taking a walk.

- Benjamin Hooks

topic: Leadership, Thinking, Walks, Funny Leadership, Empowering Others

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

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

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

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 most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure , the process is its own reward.

- Amelia Earhart

source: "The Official Website of Amelia Earhart/ Quotes". www.ameliaearhart.com.

topic: Inspirational, Decision, Acting, Make The Right Choice, Inspiration And Life

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

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

The building of a personality beyond its normal limitations.

- Peter Drucker

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

Often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.

- Helen Keller

source: Helen Keller (2000). “To Love this Life: Quotations”, p.25, American Foundation for the Blind

topic: Doors, Long, Looks, Daily Work, Always Happy

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

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

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

- Witter Bynner

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

Do not follow where the path may lead.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

topic: Path, Bikers, May, Solo Travel, Journey Inspirational

Earn your leadership every day.

- Michael Jordan

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

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