Leadership Quotes

I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people.

Mohandas Gandhi

Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.

Peter Drucker

 

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

Peter Drucker

No institution can possibly survive if it needs geniuses or supermen to manage it. It must be organized in such a way as to be able to get along under a leadership composed of average human beings.

Peter Drucker

A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better.

Jim Rohn

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

The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it is on a section gang, a football field, in an army, or in an office.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

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

Dwight D. Eisenhower

If a window of opportunity appears, don't pull down the shade.

Tom Peters

If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.

William James

If you command wisely, you'll be obeyed cheerfully.

Thomas Fuller

If you have ideas, you have the main asset you need, and there isn't any limit to what you can do with your business and your life. Ideas are any man's greatest asset.

Harvey S. Firestone

If you think you can do a thing or think you can't do a thing, you're right.

Henry Ford

If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.

William James

People who enjoy meetings should not be in charge of anything.

Thomas Sowell

Practice yourself in little things, and thence proceed to greater.
Epictetus

If you have great talents, industry will improve them; If moderate abilities, industry will supply their deficiencies. Nothing is denied to well-directed labor: nothing is ever to be attained without it.
Sir Joshua Reynolds

There is nothing noble about being superior to some other man. The true nobility is in being superior to your previous self.
Hindu Proverb

What chance gathers she easily scatters. A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader. 
John Quincy Adams 

A willing helper does not wait until he is asked.
Danish Proverb

There is only one person who could ever make you happy, and that person is you.
David Burns, Intimate Connections

The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions—the little soon-forgotten charities of a kiss, a smile, a kind look, a heartfelt compliment in the disguise of a playful raillery, and the countless other infinitessimals of pleasurable thought and genial feeling.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The man is happiest who lives from day to day and asks no more, garnering the simple goodness of life.
Euripides

Happiness consists in activity: such is the constitution of our nature; it is a running stream, and not a stagnant pool.
John M. Good

Happiness is not a state to arrive at, but a manner of traveling.
Margaret Lee Runbeck

Men spend their lives in anticipations,—in determining to be vastly happy at some period when they have time. But the present time has one advantage over every other—it is our own. Past opportunities are gone, future have not come. We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine; but if we defer the tasting of them too long, we shall find that both are soured by age.
Charles Caleb Colton