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Leadership Quotes

Welcome to these Motivational Quotes about Leadership, Leaders, and Cooperation.

When we step on the battlefield, I will be
The First Boots On and the Last Boots Off.
- LtG. Hal Moore

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When the best leader's work is done the people say, "We did it ourselves."
- Lao Tzu

Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.
- Robert Louis Stevenson

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

Eagles come in all shapes and sizes, but you will recognize them chiefly by their attitudes.
- E. F. Schumacher

Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated; you can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.
- David Lloyd George


Your example is far more influential and inspiring than any words of instruction,
or threats, or even words of encouragement.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.
- Elbert Hubbard

You do not lead by hitting people over the head - that's assault, not leadership.
- Dwight Eisenhower

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals.
- Henry Ford

I cannot trust a man to control others who cannot control himself.
- Robert E. Lee

We must use time wisely and forever realize that the time is always ripe to do right.
- Nelson Mandela

If you wish to experience peace, provide peace for another.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama

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

To go against the dominant thinking of your friends,
of most of the people you see every day,
is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.
- Theodore H. White

Wherever you go, go with all your heart.
- Confucius

Never trust spiritual leader who doesn't dance.
- Miyagi: character in movie The Next Karate Kid

Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?
- Abraham Lincoln

Success is not final, failure is not fatal.
It is the courage to continue that counts.
- Winston Churchill

An invasion of armies can be resisted,
but not an idea whose time has come.
- Victor Hugo

The brightest stars are those who shine for the benefit of others.
- Anonymous

Go to the people
Live among them
Learn from them
Love them
Serve them
Plan with them
Start with what they know
Build on what they have.
- Jimmy Yen (Y. C. James Yen)

Persistence prevails when all else fails!
- Anonymous

The tragedy of life doesn't lie in not reaching your goal.
The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach.
- Benjamin Mays

Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
- Dwight Eisenhower

The lessons of the past provide the path to the future.
- Anonymous

Never tell people how to do things.
Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
- George S. Patton

A man is not old until his regrets take the place of his dreams.
- Yiddish Proverb

I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
- Benjamin Disraeli

You can't be everything to everyone.
- Bill Cosby

Greatness is not in where we stand, but in what direction we are moving.
We must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it -
but sail we must, and not drift, nor lie at anchor.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes

Lead, follow, or get out of the way.
- Thomas Paine

If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.
- Chinese Proverb

Do not follow where the path may lead. Go, instead, where there is no path and leave a trail.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

The art of leadership... consists in consolidating the attention of the people against a single adversary and taking care that nothing will split up that attention.
- Adolf Hitler

If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.
- Joseph Addison

A coach is someone who can give correction without causing resentment.
- John Wooden

Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life.
Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking.
Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice.
And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.
They somehow already know what you truly want to become.
Everything else is secondary.
- Steve Jobs

Being a leader is like being a lady,
if you have to go around telling people you are one, you aren't.
- Margaret Thatcher

Hot heads and cold hearts never solved anything.
- Billy Graham

As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.
- Bill Gates

It is amazing how much you can accomplish when it doesn't matter who gets the credit.
- Anonymous

The man who says he is willing to meet you halfway is usually a poor judge of distance.
- Laurence J. Peter

A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

There is no passion to be found playing small -
in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.
- Nelson Mandela

Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.
- Peter Drucker

The very essence of leadership is that you have to have a vision.
It's got to be a vision you articulate clearly and forcefully on every occasion.
- Theodore Hesburgh

A man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.
- Joseph Addison

Powerful Dreams Inspire Powerful Action.
When you can taste, smell, and touch your dreams, you can enroll the world.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Good business leaders create a vision,
articulate the vision, passionately own the vision,
and relentlessly drive it to completion.
- Jack Welch

No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave.
- Calvin Coolidge


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