38 Leadership Quotes

Fundamentally, leadership is more about the future, but starts at today. ~ Pearl Zhu

Leadership is about empathy. ~ Oprah Winfrey

It's not easy for an entrepreneur to find the time to blog. But for those who do it, it is a great tool to communicate with the various stakeholders in their business and build a reputation for thought leadership. ~ Fred Wilson

There's a void of leadership in a lot of Washington. I think one of the reasons why there's so much angst across the country. ~ Rush Limbaugh

The key to long term success in the marketplace is to build relationships & acquire leadership skills that can build great teams. ~ JR

The importance of momentum in your organization cannot be understated! ~ Miles Anthony Smith

Integrity is the ultimate foundation of leadership. ~ Debasish Mridha

If you are guided by opinion polls, you are not practicing leadership
you are practicing followership. ~ Margaret Thatcher

I once said coaching a first-year team was a religious experience. You do a lot of praying - but most of the time the answer is NO. ~ Bill Fitch

As for leadership, I am the kind who leads reluctantly and more by example than anything else. Someone had to be on the incorporation papers as president. ~ Keith Henson

YESTERDAY IS HISTORY. TOMORROW IS A MYSTERY. TODAY IS A GIFT. THAT'S WHY IT'S CALLED THE PRESENT. WORK HARD, BE HAPPY, AND ENJOY YOUR LIFE IN WAYWARD PINES! ~ Blake Crouch

We had four different sets and built 38 flats to use as walls, so we had a major production going on. It's so much fun when you're controlling it, but it's also so much pressure. ~ Maria Menounos

Leadership is not just a privilege, but a responsibility to which we commit ourselves to helping to elevate those around us. ~ Tanveer Naseer

Or I could see Fish, Just a button up, Like a Mayor, Like a President, Just demands so much from his teammates, Has played with so many great players, But still respects everybody. He's 38 years old, And he has nothing else to prove, And I said, "Fish you wanna come get some shots up with me?" And first thing he says is "Yes." He always wants to learn. Even though he's done so much in this league, Played with so many great players, He always wants to learn, And that motivated me To know that it's never a point Where you can stop getting better. And he's a guy that made me realize that. ~ Kevin Durant

Most Christian leadership is exercised by people who do not know how to develop healthy, intimate relationships and have opted for power and control instead. Many Christian empire-builders have been people unable to give and receive love. ~ Henri Nouwen

Jonathan had been around Washington long enough to know that no offer was exactly what it seemed. ~ Stephen L. Carter

You can't forgive your sin. Only God can. ~ Johnny Hunt

Although data can make a compelling case for something, data rarely create the emotions needed to spur people into action ~ John Maeda

Your outlook affects your outcome ~ John Paul Warren

The three C's of leadership are Consideration,Caring,and Courtesy.Be polite to everyone. ~ Brian Tracy

(Patrick Henry) He understood that the home was the foundation of a stable society and that the authority a man "exercised within the larger society was rooted in the authority exercised at home." Thus ... the training ground for all sound leadership is the family. ~ David J. Vaughan

If you don't know what your barriers are, it's impossible to figure out how to tear them down. ~ John Manning

Superior execution is vital to sustaining the success initiated by an innovative service concept. An innovator's service quality is usually more difficult to imitate than its service concept. This is because quality service comes from inspired leadership throughout an organization, a customer-minded corporate culture, excellent service-system design, the effective use of information and technology, and other factors that develop slowly in a company, if at all. ~ Leonard L. Berry

The Margaret Thatcher syndrome, that is, the woman who achieves seniority, but refuses any gender identification and indeed whose policies harmed many women, highlights that gender sensitivity is more significant in leading change than the biological sex of post-holders. ~ Louise Morley

When a man begins to feel that he is the only one who can lead in this republic, he is guilty of treason to the spirit of our institutions. ~ Calvin Coolidge

Sexism in politics is nothing new when you're standing for election. But don't stand for election and it's almost as bad. Shockingly, David Cameron thought it acceptable to claim this week that my decision not to run for the Labour leadership was because my husband, Ed Balls, stopped [me] from standing. ~ Yvette Cooper

No one wanted the job. What had seemed one of the least challenging tasks facing Franklin D. Roosevelt as newly elected president had, by June 1933, become one of the most intransigent. As ambas-sadorial posts went, Berlin should have been a plum - not London or Paris, surely, but still one of the great capitals of Europe, and at the center of a country going through revolutionary change under the leadership of its newly appointed chancellor, Adolf Hitler. Depending on one's point of view, Germany was experiencing a great revival or a savage darkening. Upon Hitler's ascent, the country had undergone a brutal spasm of state- condoned violence. Hitler's brown- shirted paramilitary army, the Sturmabteilung, or SA - the Storm Troopers - had gone wild, arresting, beating, and in some cases murdering communists, socialists, and Jews. Storm Troopers established impromptu prisons and torture stations in basements, sheds, and other structures. Berlin alone had fi fty of these so- called bunkers. Tens of thousands of people were arrested and placed in "protective custody" - Schutzhaft - a risible euphemism. An esti-mated fi ve hundred to seven hundred prisoners died in custody; others endured "mock drownings and hangings," according to a police affi davit. One prison near Tempelhof Airport became especially no-torious: Columbia House, not to be confused with a sleekly modern new building at the heart of Berlin called Columbus House. The up-heaval prompted one Jewish leader, Rabbi Step ~ Erik Larson

The role of leaders is not to get other people to follow them but to empower others to lead. ~ Bill George

In COVID19 uncertain conditions and contexts it's vital for leaders to SWIFTLY build psychological capital and GO (Growth Optimised) Mindsets, into their people, in order to ENSURE thriving in these tough VUCA times. ~ Tony Dovale - LifeMasters

Leadership must come from all of us
the private, public, and civil sectors. ~ Eric Lowitt

Who succeeds in forming and leading a Great Group? He or she is almost always a pragmatic dreamer. They are people who get things done, but they are people with immortal longings. Often, they are scientifically minded people with poetry in their souls. ~ Warren G. Bennis

I can understand backward patriarchal reasoning coming from a male, but from a woman - and of all people, a leader of women? It says something profound about leadership - and, if anything - what it says about followers is not very flattering at all. ~ Christina Engela

[T]here's a difference between confident leadership and empty-headed delusion or cheerleading. And this is a difference that many CEOs miss. ~ Henry Blodget

The best way to kill competition is to partner it ~ Siddharth Joshi

A true leader stands up for his own beliefs and convictions,a business man follows public opinions and market researches. ~ Kamil Toume

Then I didn't think much about it, I just did it. I started wearing some of the things he left behind, especially his bathrobe, some shirts too, but only in the house. I read his books, I am embarrassed at this. I also did some things to the place I knew he would like. He always complained about my plants, so I got rid of them. It seems strange to think about it now, but at the time I found some comfort in it. [ACCOUNTANT, AGE 38, SEPARATED AFTER LIVING TOGETHER 13 YEARS] ~ Diane Vaughan

I learned long ago on the battlefields of Vietnam that in a crisis, there is no substitute for clear-eyed leadership. ~ Jim Webb

The American color bar unless speedily removed will be the rock on which our international Good Neighbor policy and our pious claims to moral leadership will founder. ~ Charles Hamilton Houston

The men of England,- the men, I mean, of light and leading in England. ~ Edmund Burke

Its size, the House was an environment in which, as one observer put it, members could be dealt with only in bodies and droves. ~ Robert A. Caro

God is the leader of your team. As you follow Him with all your heart, you will be leading your team in Jesus' steps. ~ Jim George

Millennial women are less likely than Millennial men to agree that the statement "I aspire to a leadership role in whatever field I ultimately work" descried them very well. Millennial women were also less likely than their male peers to characterize themselves as "leaders," "visionaries," "self-confident," and "willing to take risks." (p.16) ~ Sheryl Sandberg

When you are right,you have no need to be angry. When you are wrong, you have no right to be angry. ~ Mahatma Gandhi

Christ can come back at any time so the one thing you want to have in your life is a focused prayer time. ~ Francis Chan

We can rationalize anything and easily quit on ourselves. Leadership is refusing to quit on others. ~ Simon Sinek