Quotes on Leadership By Great Leaders

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

A great leader's courage to fulfill his vision comes from passion, not position.

You don't lead by hitting people over the head - that's assault, not leadership.

In times of change, learners inherit the earth

The growth and development of people is the highest calling of leadership.

To lead people, walk behind them.

A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don't necessarily want to go, but ought to be.

I think if you do something and it turns out pretty good, then you should go do something else wonderful, not dwell on it for too long. Just figure out what's next.

Leaders don't create followers, they create more leaders.

The greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things. He is the one that gets the people to do the greatest things.

The task of leadership is not to put greatness into people, but to elicit it, for the greatness is there already.

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

Earn your leadership every day.

Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy.

I am a man of fixed and unbending principles, the first of which is to be flexible at all times.

Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

A leader. . .is like a shepherd. He stays behind the flock, letting the most nimble go out ahead, whereupon the others follow, not realizing that all along they are being directed from behind.

I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure - which is: Try to please everybody.

Great leaders are willing to sacrifice the numbers to save the people. Poor leaders sacrifice the people to save the numbers.

Good leadership consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people.

To have long term success as a coach or in any position of leadership, you have to be obsessed in some way.