Leadership Quotes

The day the soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help them or concluded that you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership. (Colin Powell)
The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it is on a section gang, a football field, in an army, or in an office. View quote
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it. View quote
Dwight D. Eisenhower
We must recognize that as the dominant power in the world we have a special responsibility. In addition to protecting our national interests, we must take the leadership in protecting the common interests of humanity. View quote
George Soros
I start with the premise that the function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers. View quote
Ralph Nader
Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy. View quote
Norman Schwarzkopf, Jr.
Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality. View quote
Warren Bennis
Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things. View quote
Peter Drucker
The art of leadership is saying no, not saying yes. It is very easy to say yes. View quote
Tony Blair
You do not lead by hitting people over the head -- that's assault, not leadership. View quote
Dwight D. Eisenhower
A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done. (Dwight D. Eisenhower)
A leader is one who, out of madness or goodness, volunteers to take upon himself the woe of the people. There are few men so foolish, hence the erratic quality of leadership in the world. View quote
John Updike
Leadership is the art of accomplishing more than the science of management says is possible. View quote
Colin Powell
All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership. View quote
John Kenneth Galbraith
I don't agree with all-male leaderships. Men cannot be left to run things on their own. I think it's a thoroughly bad thing to have men-only leadership. View quote
Harriet Harman
Example is leadership. View quote
Albert Schweitzer
Charlatanism of some degree is indispensable to effective leadership. View quote
Eric Hoffer
Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other. View quote
John F. Kennedy
On the other hand, the waging of peace as a science, as an art, is in its infancy. But we can trace its growth, its steady progress, and the time will come when there will be particular individuals designated to assume responsibility for and leadership of this movement. View quote
Fredrik Bajer
There is an irresistible demand to strengthen the leadership of the constructive forces of the world at the present momentous time. This is true because of stupendous, almost unbelievable changes which have taken place in recent years on every continent. View quote
John Mott
Leadership cannot really be taught. It can only be learned. (Harold Geneen)
Leadership appears to be the art of getting others to want to do something you are convinced should be done. View quote
Vance Packard
Leadership is standing with your people. People say you have to live to fight another day, but sometimes you have to show you are a true leader. View quote
Leymah Gbowee
I urge the Iraqi leadership for sake of its own people... to seize this opportunity and thereby begin to end the isolation and suffering of the Iraqi people. View quote
Kofi Annan
Leadership is the capacity and will to rally men and women to a common purpose and the character which inspires confidence. View quote
Bernard Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein