Quotes on Outstanding 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.

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.

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

Remember teamwork begins by building trust. And the only way to do that is to overcome our need for invulnerability.

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.

People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader leads, and the boss drives.

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 and learning are indispensable to each other.

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

Leaders aren't born they are made. And they are made just like anything else, through hard work. And that's the price we'll have to pay to achieve that goal, or any goal.

The key to successful leadership today is influence, not authority.

A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.

We're here for a reason. I believe a bit of the reason is to throw little torches out to lead people through the dark.