The art of leadership is saying no, not yes. It is very easy to say yes.
Tony Blair
The time is always right to do what is right.
Martin Luther King Jr
A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.
Martin Luther King Jr
Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
Mark Twain
Efficiency is doing the thing right. Effectiveness is doing the right thing.
Peter F. Drucker
Effective executives do not make a great many decisions. They concentrate on what is important.
Anonymous
Good leaders must first become good servants.
Robert Greenleaf
Mountaintops inspire leaders but valleys mature them.
Winston Churchill
The less you talk, the more people think about your words.
Anonymous
I never thought in terms of being a leader. I thought very simply in terms of helping people.
John Hume
Lead from the back and let others believe they are in front.
Nelson Mandela
Successful leaders see the opportunities in every difficulty rather than the difficulty in every opportunity.
Reed Markham
A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.
John C. Maxwell
I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the water to create many ripples.
Mother Teresa
If we did the things we are capable of, we would astound ourselves.
Thomas Edison
Don’t follow the crowd, let the crowd follow you.
Margaret Thatcher
The ability to learn is the most important quality a leader can have.
Sheryl Sandberg
Man is still the most extraordinary computer of all.
John F. Kennedy
The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.
John F. Kennedy
People don’t buy what you do, they buy why you do it.
Simon Sinek
Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.
John F.
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.
John Quincy Adams
I am the captain of my soul.
Nelson Mandela
A boss has the title, a leader has the people.
Simon Sinek
A man always has two reasons for doing anything: a good reason and the real reason.
J.P. Morgan
Don’t be so humble – you are not that great.
Golda Meir
We cannot lead anyone farther than we have been ourselves.
John C. Maxwel
Wisdom is knowing what to do next, skill is knowing how to do it, and virtue is doing it.
David Star Jordan
Leaders shouldn’t attach moral significance to their ideas: Do that, and you can’t compromise.
Peter F. Drucker
Show me the man you honor and I will know what kind of man you are.
Thomas John Carlisle
Failing organizations are usually over-managed and under-led.
Warren Bennis
Don’t tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.
George Patton
Leadership is not just about giving energy… it’s unleashing other people’s energy.
Paul Polman
Great leaders are not defined by the absence of weakness, but rather by the presence of clear strengths.
John Zenger
Doing the right thing is more important than doing the thing right.
Peter F. Drucker
A leader is one who sees more than others see, who sees farther than others see, and who sees before others see.
Leroy Eimes
One voice can change a room.
Barack Obama
If you really want the key to success, start by doing the opposite of what everyone else is doing.
Brad Szollose
It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.
Napoleon Hill
He who cannot be a good follower cannot be a good leader.
Aristotle