QUOTES ON LEADERSHIP

Leadership

Power Wielders may treat people as things. Leaders my not.

-James MacGregor Burns

Leadership

Fail to honor people,

They fail to honor you;

But of a good leader, who talks little,

When his work is done, his aim fulfilled,

They will all say, “We did this ourselves.”

-Lao Tzu

Leadership

Leaders succeed only when they embody and express, for better or worse, values rooted in the social character of a group, class, or nation.

-Michael Maccoby

Leadership

Managers do things right. Leaders do the right thing.

-Warren Bennis and Burt Nanus

Leadership

People only trust leaders who articulate a moral code, who care about people and are competent in the exercise of power.

-Michael Maccoby

Leadership

Leadership: The art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.

-Dwight D. Eisenhower

Leadership

The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on.

-Walter Lippmann

Leadership

Far better it is to dare might things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the grey twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.

-Theodore Roosevelt

Leadership

One man with courage makes a majority.

-Andrew Jackson

Leadership

It is easier to ask for forgiveness than to gain permission.

-Grace Hopper

Leadership

A good leader inspires others with confidence in him; a great leader inspires them with confidence in themselves.

-anonymous

Leadership

You can’t manage a man into combat, you must lead him. You manage things; you lead people.

-Grace Hopper

Leadership

Leaders manage the dream.

-William Bennis

Leadership

The first responsibility of a leader is to define responsibility. The last is to say thank you. In between, the leader is a servant.

-Max De Pree

Leadership

In dreams begin responsibility.

-W. B. Yeats

Leadership

The first and last task of a leader is to keep hope alive.

-John W. Gardner

Leadership

If you treat a man as his is, he will remain as he is; if you treat him as if he were what he could be, he will become what he could be.

-Goethe

Leadership

If you expect and reward mediocrity, that’s what you’ll get; however, if you expect and reward excellence and quality, you have a probability of getting it.

-Mark Silber, Ph.D.

Leadership

Life is tough, it’s tougher if you’re stupid

-John Wayne

Leadership

Leadership is not a spectator sport.

-Kouzes and Posner