LEADERSHIP QUOTES V

quotations about leadership

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

ANDREW CARNEGIE

attributed, Managing Software Development Projects: Formula for Success


Leadership is the name that people use to make sense out of complex events and the outcomes of events they otherwise would not be able to explain. In other words, people attribute leadership to certain individuals who are called leaders because people want to believe that leaders cause things to happen rather than have to explain causality by understanding complex social forces or analyzing the dynamic interaction among people, events, and environment.

JOSEPH CLARENCE ROST

Leadership for the Twenty-first Century


Leadership is caring for the most vulnerable.

ELIZABETH CARDNO

"Leadership is caring for the most vulnerable", The Hamilton Spectator, April 26, 2016


In the future, there will be no female leaders. There will just be leaders.

SHERYL SANDBERG

Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead


He who has never learned to obey cannot be a good commander.

ARISTOTLE

Politics

Tags: Aristotle


The right man comes at the right time.

ITALIAN PROVERB


The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully.

WALTER LIPPMANN

The Essential Lippmann

Tags: Walter Lippmann


The first act of leadership is coming to grips with yourself, who you are, where you are, and what is of value to you, and shaping yourself by acts of conscious will into what you want to become.

FENWICK W. ENGLISH

The Art of Educational Leadership


Leadership is a matter of performance not position. The person who sets a good example in your office is a leader. So is the father who proudly watches his daughter sell Girl Scout cookies in their neighborhood, and the teenager who holds the door open for you in the grocery store, even though his friends are snickering in the background. The best leaders help you move from where you are to where you need to be. Most important, they realize and cultivate the potential in others to be a positive influence regardless of their position.

RANDY PENNINGTON

"Leadership Choices for a Positive Future", Huffington Post, April 26, 2016


Today's leaders find the magic in their players.

STEVE CHANDLER & SCOTT RICHARDSON

100 Ways to Motivate Others


A cowardly leader is the most dangerous of men.

STEPHEN KING

Under the Dome

Tags: Stephen King


Those who are successfully to lead their fellow-men, should have once possessed the nobler feelings. We have all known individuals whose magnanimity was not likely to be troublesome on any occasion; but then they betrayed their own interests by unwisely omitting the consideration, that such feelings might exist in the breasts of those whom they had to guide and govern: for they themselves cannot even remember the time when in their eyes justice appeared preferable to expediency, the happiness of others to self-interest, or the welfare of a State to the advancement of a party.

ARTHUR HELPS

Thoughts in the Cloister and the Crowd


The most important quality in a leader is that of being acknowledged as such.

ANDRE MAUROIS

"The Art of Leadership", The Art of Living

Tags: Andre Maurois


What I want is men who will support me when I am in the wrong.

LORD MELBOURNE

attributed, Lord M.


Leadership in today's world requires far more than a large stock of gunboats and a hard fist at the conference table.

HUBERT H. HUMPHREY

speech in Gainesville, Florida, Oct. 20, 1966


It often happens that less depends upon the valor of an army than the skill of the leader.

ARISTOPHANES

attributed, Day's Collacon

Tags: Aristophanes


He who thinketh he leadeth and hath no one following him is only taking a walk.

JOHN C. MAXWELL

Leading from the Lockers


Good leadership is largely invisible.

BRIAN HERBERT & KEVIN J. ANDERSON

Dune: House Harkonnen

Tags: Brian Herbert


The best leaders turn their followers into leaders, realizing that the journey ahead requires many guides.

JAMES M. KOUZES & BARRY Z. POSNER

A Leader's Legacy


The best boss is the one who bosses the least.

RALPH MOODY

Little Britches: Father and I Were Ranchers