Quotes

Discover our favourite lists of leadership quotes. We hope they inspire you to the greatness.

Don't tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.

~ George S. Patton

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

~ Dwight Eisenhower

A leader is a dealer in hope.

~ Napoleon Bonaparte

Delegating work works, provided the one delegating works, too.

~ Robert Half

The only safe ship in a storm is leadership.

~ Faye Wattleton

Management has a lot to do with answers. Leadership is a function of questions. And the first question for a leader always is: 'Who do we intend to be?' Not 'What are we going to do?' but 'Who do we intend to be?'
~ Max DePree, Hermann Miller

Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

~ John Fitzgerald Kennedy

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

~ John Maxwell

One true tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency.

~ Arnold H. Glasgow

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

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

~ Stephen R. Covey