Quotes on Becoming A Leader

The very essence of leadership is that you have to have vision. You can't blow an uncertain trumpet.

It is better to lead from behind and to put others in front, especially when you celebrate victory when nice things occur. You take the front line when there is danger. Then people will appreciate your leadership.

A true leader has the confidence to stand alone, the courage to make tough decisions, and the compassion to listen to the needs of others. He does not set out to be a leader, but becomes one by the equality of his actions and the integrity of his intent.

No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit for doing it.

The leader has a clear idea of what he wants to do professionally and personally, _x000D_ _x000D_ and the strength to persist in the face of setbacks, even failures

Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.

Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.

Becoming a leader is synonymous with becoming yourself. It is precisely that simple, and it is also that difficult.

A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.

A leader leads by example not by force.

Become the kind of leader that people would follow voluntarily; even if you had no title or position.

It is impossible to imagine anything which better becomes a ruler than mercy.

You manage things, you lead people. We went overboard on management and forgot about leadership. It might help if we ran the MBAs out of Washington.

The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it.

There goes my people. I must follow them, for I am their leader.