Top Leadership Quotes of all Time

Looking for famous quotes about leadership to inspire you? We have rounded up the best leadership quotes, sayings, proverbs, captions, philosophy, status messages, (with images, pictures, wallpapers) to motivate you.
How do you define leadership? A leader is someone who can see how things can be improved and who rallies people to move toward that better vision. Leaders can work toward making their vision a reality while putting people first.
Just being able to motivate people isn’t enough — leaders need to be empathetic and connect with people to be successful and always guide them in the right direction.
Let these words show you what it means to become a leader, and then allow them to empower you to lead well.

Famous Leadership Quotes

  1. “Example is leadership.” – Albert Schweitzer

  2. “Earn your leadership every day.” – Michael Jordan

  3. “The price of greatness is responsibility.” –Winston Churchill

  4. “Don’t follow the crowd, let the crowd follow you.” —Margaret Thatcher

  5. “Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.”- Steve Jobs

  6.  Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality. —Warren Bennis

  7. “Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.” – John F Kennedy

  8. “Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power.”– Abraham Lincoln

  9. “Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.” – Peter Drucker

  10. “A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.” –Martin Luther King Jr.

  11. “A good leader leads the people from above them. A great leader leads the people from within them.”– M. D. Arnold

  12. “I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles, but today it means getting along with people.” – Mahatma Gandhi

  13. “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.”- Lao Tzu

  14. “People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader leads, and the boss drives.” – Theodore Roosevelt

  15. “Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate, and doubt to offer a solution everybody can understand.” — General Colin Powell

  16. “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

  17. “Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.” —Stephen Covey

  18. “As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.” – Bill Gates

Best John C. Maxwell Leadership Quotes

  1. “Leadership is influence.” — John C. Maxwell

  2. “People buy into the leader before they buy into the vision.” — John C. Maxwell

  3. “A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.” — John C. Maxwell

  4. “A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.” — John C. Maxwell

  5. “Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them.” — John C. Maxwell

  6. “Leadership is not about titles, positions, or flowcharts. It is about one life influencing another.” — John C. Maxwell

  7. “A great leader’s courage to fulfill his vision comes from passion, not position.” — John Maxwell

Inspiring Quotes about Leadership

  1.  “Don’t worry about leaving your leadership legacy. Just live it.”

  2. “Leadership is practiced not so much in words as in attitude and in actions.”

  3. “As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.” – Bill Gates

  4. “Management is about arranging and telling. Leadership is about nurturing and enhancing.”

  5. “Leaders who underestimate the intelligence of their employees generally over estimate their own.”

  6. “The growth and development of people is the highest calling of leadership.” — Harvey Firestone

  7. “I start with the premise that the function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.” — Ralph Nader

  8. “A leader is one who sees more than others see, who sees farther than others see and who sees before others see.”

  9. “Great leaders are not defined by the absence of weakness, but rather by the presence of clear strengths.” — John Zenger

Inspirational Leadership Quotes by Women

  1. “Leadership should be more participative than directive, more enabling than performing.” — Mary D. Poole

  2. “Leadership is a series of behaviors rather than a role for heroes.” — Margaret Wheatley, writer

  3. “My father had a simple test that helps me measure my own leadership quotient: When you are out of the office, he once asked me, does your staff carry on remarkable well without you?” – Martha Peak

  4. “A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don’t necessarily want to go, but ought to be.” – Rosalynn Carter, former First Lady

  5. “Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person. Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.” – Mother Teresa

  6. “Leadership is hard to define and good leadership even harder. But if you can get people to follow you to the ends of the earth, you are a great leader.” — Indra Nooyi

  7. “As a leader, it’s a major responsibility on your shoulders to practice the behavior you want others to follow.” — Himanshu Bhatia, Founder and CEO, Rose International.

 

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