Great Leadership Quotes

I try to work hard. I try to set a good example. I don't look at it as though I've got to be a leader. I just try to behave the way I think I should behave. If that results in a leadership role, great. ~ Matt Holliday

There is an interplay between great leadership, events, trends, the organization, the people in it, the market 'out there' that goes far beyond one person exercising their will over others.

That's not what leadership is any more. ~ Phil Dourado

There was great leadership in this country at the time of World War II. There was also unrelenting resolve at home, in America's factories and on the farms, in the cities and the country. ~ Bob Feller

Crisis is a good revealer of great leadership ~ Lazarus Takawira

California will not wait for our federal government to take strong action on global warming. We won't wait for the federal government. We will move forward because we know it's the right thing to do. We will lead on this issue and we will get other western states involved. I think there's not great leadership from the federal government when it comes to protecting the environment. ~ Arnold Schwarzenegger

Great leadership makes ordinary people into extraordinary people. ~ Jeffrey Fry

Great leadership is not attained by pursuing greatness but by persevering through great tests. ~ Myles Munroe

The leaders who get the most out of their people are the leaders who care most about their people. ~ Simon Sinek

He's very competitive and knows what he wants. He has developed toughness in character and that is what is needed for Indian cricket. Ganguly has proved to be one of the best captains. He has now acquired great leadership qualities. ~ Steve Waugh

As I've progressed in my career, I've come to appreciate - and really value - the other attributes that define a company's success beyond the P&L: great leadership, long-term financial strength, ethical business practices, evolving business strategies, sound governance, powerful brands, values-based decision-making. ~ Ursula Burns

Leaders don't look for recognition from others, leaders look for others to recognize. ~ Simon Sinek

Great leadership usually starts with a willing heart,
a positive attitude, and a desire to make a difference. ~ Mac Anderson

I had the patriotic conviction that, given great leadership of the sort I heard from Winston Churchill in the radio broadcasts to which we listened, there was almost nothing that the British people could not do. ~ Margaret Thatcher

At the heart of great leadership is a curious mind, heart, and spirit. ~ Chip Conley

It's through a leader's actions - what he or she does and says on a daily basis - that the essence of great leadership becomes apparent. ~ Travis Bradberry

A poor leader will tell you how many people work for them. A great leader will tell you how many people they work for. ~ Simon Sinek

America somehow thinks that leadership relates to governance, and it certainly does. But society is much bigger than governance, and some of the truly great leadership of our society is outside the governance arena. ~ Jim Leach

Mom always said that confidence is a great leadership tool. ~ Jerilyn Dufresne

Great leadership is not about giving orders, it's about taking others ~ Saji Ijiyemi

Goodrich is a perfect addition to our Hamilton Sundstrand business. And with a strong portfolio of complementary products, Goodrich also brought great leadership balance, great opportunities to provide more integrated systems. ~ Louis R. Chenevert

A leader is not an administrator who loves to run others, but someone who carries water for his people so that they can get on with their jobs. ~ Robert Townsend

Great leadership is about human experiences, not processes. ~ Lance Secretan

You have a great leadership! You are a Success. ~ Anyaele Sam Chiyson

Great leadership is not the visit of an unexpected fate but rather a flame which is kept burning in spite of the winds of risk and opposition. ~ Mary Anne Radmacher

Do you have the humility to continually grow, to learn from your failures and get back up? Are you utterly relentless for your cause, ferocious for your cause? Can you channel your intensity and intelligence and energy and talents and gifts and ideas outward into something that is bigger and more impactful than you are? That's what great leadership is about. ~ Brent Schlender

Great leadership produces great success.
Weak leadership produces failure. ~ Ellen J. Barrier

Motivation is the desire to do things. It's the difference between staying in bed and getting up in the morning. It's the crucial part of setting and achieving goals. ~ Graham Speechley

Listen with your eyes as well as your ears. ~ Graham Speechley

Emotional security is the hall-mark of great leadership. ~ Krishna Saagar Rao

Real leaders like Lee Iacocca see vast possibilities and sell their dreams to their companies, their employees, their funding sources, their government and their buying public. ~ Mark Victor Hansen

How do you know you have won? When the energy is coming the other way and when your people are visibly growing individually and as a group. ~ John Harvey-Jones

Henry Ford summed it up best. "If I had asked people what they wanted," he said, "they would have said a faster horse." This is the genius of great leadership. Great leaders and great organizations are good at seeing what most of us can't see. ~ Simon Sinek

(We need) leadership that is tough enough to demand a great deal from everyone, and leadership that is tender enough to encourage the heart. ~ Thomas J. Sergiovanni

I speak directly to the people, and I know that the people of California want to have better leadership. They want to have great leadership. They want to have somebody that will represent them. And it doesn't matter if you're a Democrat or a Republican, young or old. ~ Arnold Schwarzenegger

Great leadership is a reflection of honest service ~ Lazarus Takawira

I love free trade, but we need great leadership to have real free trade. And we don't have good leadership. We have leadership that doesn't know what it's doing. ~ Donald Trump

Management works in the system; leadership works on the system. ~ Stephen Covey

Great leadership has more to do with character, courage, and conviction than it does with specific skills or competencies. ~ William A. Adams

Great leadership is by definition relentlessly developmental. ~ Bill Hybels

It is clear that through the partnerships between Global Cool and the International Indian Film Academy, Indian cinema has the potential to provide great leadership by exciting its enormous and enthusiastic audience to do their bit to save the planet ~ Prince Charles

Procrastination at the start and sometimes during the project meant there wasn't time to execute the plans well enough. ~ Graham Speechley

The boss depends on authority; the leader on goodwill. ~ Harry Gordon Selfridge

Leaders don't complain about what's not working. Leaders celebrate what is working and work to amplify it. ~ Simon Sinek

No person can be a great leader unless he takes genuine joy in the successes of those under him. ~ W. H. Auden

Leaders grow; they are not made. ~ Peter Drucker

Authorities act with themselves in mind. Leaders act with others in mind. Authorities take. Leaders give. Authorities die. Leaders live on. ~ Simon Sinek

Great leadership involves three things. The ability to realize when you are wrong, a willingness to learn from it, and an eagerness to change course if necessary. ~ Jeffrey Fry

In one of my recent books, 'The Success Principles,' I taught 64 lessons that help people achieve what they want out of life. From taking nothing less than 100 percent responsibility for your life to empowering others, these are the fundamentals to success - and to great leadership. ~ Jack Canfield

I don't think that a leader can control, to any great extent, his destiny. Very seldom can he step in and change the situation if the forces of history are running in another direction. ~ Richard M. Nixon

Spotting talent is one of the essential elements of great leadership. ~ David McCullough

There is no great genius without a tincture of madness. ~ Seneca.

We're trying to take a leadership role in solving the nation's health-care crisis. We want everybody in this country to have health insurance. ~ Steven Burd

The world acquires value only through its extremes and endures only through moderation; extremists make the world great, the moderates give it stability. ~ Paul Valery

Success always calls for greater generosity - though most people, lost in the darkness of their own egos, treat it as an occasion for greater greed. Collecting boot is not an end itself, but only a means for building an empire. Riches would be of little use to us now - except as a means of winning new friends. ~ Cyrus The Great

To seek the praise of men as our motivation is to abandon truly great things, for more often than not truly great things elicit the ire of men far more than they garner their praises. ~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Sometimes, we forget to reflect back on all the great times we had by just ourselves. You can be your own best friend, you know. ~ Gwendolyn Heasley

Life-shaping institutions tend to start with an idea or revelation. They often become mostly about the preservation and expansion of authority, something they relinquish only with the greatest reluctance. ~ Ron Suskind

Ontario's auto sector is a cornerstone of our economy - a key source of our ability to export, innovate and create jobs. In this highly competitive global economy, we need to drive further investment and ensure the sector remains strong. I am confident that this new partnership, with Ray Tanguay's strategic advice and leadership, will allow Ontario to increase our competitiveness, productivity, and market share in the auto sector, and I look forward to their important work contributing to a more prosperous, innovative Ontario economy. ~ Brad Duguid

Indians are great lovers of cricket, they have always been that as far as I can remember - great followers of the game and have knowledge about the game. ~ Garfield Sobers

Progress and motion are not synonymous. ~ Tim Fargo

The Librarian considered matters for a while. So ... a dwarf and a troll. He preferred both species to humans. For one thing, neither of them were great readers. The Librarian was, of course, very much in favor of reading in general, but readers in particular got on his nerves. There was something, well, sacrilegious about the way they kept taking books off the shelves and wearing out the words by reading them. He liked people who loved and respected books, and the best way to do that, in the Librarian's opinion, was to leave them on the shelves where Nature intended them to be. ~ Terry Pratchett

All great things must first wear terrifying and monstrous masks, in order to inscribe themselves on the hearts of humanity. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche

History sometimes reproduces, at a distance of many years, the same combinations of circumstances that generate great achievements. But nothing ever repeats itself in exactly the same way. ~ Valerio Massimo Manfredi

Great teamwork, great results. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The collapse of the state in this large swathe of Africa meant that its people either relied on the charity of outsiders or took to violence. I must have looked bit dejected because Louise tried to lighten my mood. 'From my point of view as a church worker,it's great.'she said.When I go on leave back to the UK and I go into a church on Sunday,I am the youngest person there by a long way. But here in the Congo,I am always the oldest. ~ Tim Butcher

I read and learned and fretted more about Canada after I left than I ever did while I was home. I absorbed anything I could on topics that ranged from Folklore to history to political mainifestos ... I ranted and raved and seethed about things beyond my control. In short I acted like a Canadian. ~ Will Ferguson

If the Church ever succeeds in doing that big thing, that great thing, that unspeakable thing that God purposes that we should do, it can only be when we enter into that Divine compassion of the Son of God. ~ John G. Lake

Andy said something about angels aren't suitable superheroes, especially English ones. That was all it took and Calista ripped into him. She went on and on about angels and what we've done for the Earth and humanity since the dawn of Creation. Andy snapped back that having wings doesn't make you all that great, and she's nothing more than a molting light flitting around in the sky like a wannabe Tinker Belle. Calista slammed her hand down on the granite, smashed it to bits, and called him a small man who she could crush just as easily. I think he peed his pants! ~ Ashlan Thomas

The Iraqi Baath Socialist Party was modelled in large part on admiration for European National Socialist and Fascist movements, hoped to emulate them especially in their nationalism against the West. But mutated by Saddam Hussein it became also one that very, very much admired, and grew a special moustache in admiration of the work of Yosif Vissarionovitch Dzugashvili, the great Georgian known to us historically as Stalin. So you had him in modern Iraq, a regime in our own time, that was openly, directly modelled upon the two most extreme examples of European totalitarianism. ~ Christopher Hitchens

A good leader is not elected, he is appointed. ~ Andrew-Knox B Kaniki

The great thing about writing is, if you don't like the world, we'll create a different one. ~ Richard Bach

Love stories seek to demonstrate the great truth of love: that we discover eternity in a moment that dies immediately after. ~ Richard Flanagan

Old friend, I am writing to you again
The infamous tale of squandered love

To have my denial broken by myself
To have accepted past for my behove

To have grown into a man of honor
To have embraced the code of chivalry

To have been reborn as a bird of myth
To have caught lies in nightly reverie

Lost myself in this chronic transition
I regret the love wasted, in-between

Who knew life can just be happy or full
If only the great men ere had foreseen

As humbled as I have become due this
I'm failing to see the point of these rhymes

So old friend, do tell me what is better
Death, endured once or a zillion times? ~ Zubair Ahsan

Anecdote: Greatness Means Leading the Way. No stream is large and copious of itself, but becomes great by receiving and leading on so many tributary streams. It is so, also, with all intellectual greatness, It is only a question of someone indicating the direction to be followed by so many affluent; not whether he was richly or poorly gifted originally. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche

The vast accumulations of knowledge - or at least of information - deposited by the nineteenth century have been responsible for an equally vast ignorance. When there is so much to be known, when there are so many fields of knowledge in which the same words are used with different meanings, when every one knows a little about a great many things, it becomes increasingly difficult for anyone to know whether he knows what he is talking about or not. And when we do not know, or when we do not know enough, we tend always to substitute emotions for thoughts. ~ T. S. Eliot

He who knows, does not speak. He who speaks, does not know. ~ Lao-Tzu

I would have you learn this great fact: that a life of doing right is the wisest life there is. 12 If you live that kind of life, you'll not limp or stumble as you run. 13 Carry out my instructions; don't forget them, for they will lead you to real living. ~ Anonymous

Great stories happen to those who can tell them ~ Ira Glass

As man under pressure tends to give in to physical and intellectual weakness, only great strength of will can lead to the objective. ~ Carl Von Clausewitz

Wakings are the worst times
almost before my eyes are open a great weight seems to roll on my heart. ~ Dodie Smith I Capture The Castle

Coco?" I whispered, standing still, hardly able to believe it. "Oh - Coco?" "It is impossible to imagine," a voice behind seemed to be saying from a great distance away, "how the dog could have reached this spot. For three days he has been immovable in his kennel." I dropped on my knees, and took his paw in my hand. He gave the faintest wag of his tail, and tried to raise his head; but it fell back again, and he could only look at me. For an instant, for the briefest instant, we looked at each other, and while we looked his eyes glazed. "Coco - I've come back. Darling - I'll never leave you any more - - " I don't know why I said these things. I knew he was dead, and that no calls, no lamentations, no love could ever reach him again. Sliding down on to the stone flags beside him, I laid my head on his and wept in an agony of bitter grief. Now indeed I was left alone in the world. Even my dog was gone. ~ Elizabeth Von Arnim

I have always admired stylishly confident women who dress with great authority. This lifelong love of elegance began with the humble wardrobe of my late grandmother Mrs. Bennie Frances Davis. ~ Andre Leon Talley

The more sick I am, the more need I have to apply to such a great, compassionate, infallible physician. I cannot heal myself, and why should I wish I could, when he has undertaken my case. Depend upon it, our hearts are all alike. To know that they are deceitful and desperately wicked, and to look to Jesus for mercy, help, and salvation, are, I think, the greatest attainments we can rise to in this imperfect state.63 ~ Tony Reinke

I am single and without children. I'm actually one of those people who's just never had a great desire to have kids. ~ Paula Hawkins

The God of merely traditional believers is the great Absentee of the universe. ~ William Rounseville Alger

But in some cases it is really more creditable to be carried away by an emotion, however unreasonable, which springs from a great love, than to be unmoved. ~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky

May God strengthen you for a great work. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

A great power imposes the obligation of exercising restraint, and we did not live up to this obligation. I think this affected many of the scientists in a subtle sense, and it diminished their desire to continue to work on the bomb. ~ Leo Szilard

He who has found a good wife has found great happiness, but a quarrelsome woman is like a roof that lets in the rain. ~ Andre Maurois

My soul is too glad and too great to be at heart the enemy of any man ~ Martin Luther King, Jr.