Quotes on Outstanding Leadership

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.

If your actions create a legacy that inspires others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, then, you are an excellent leader.

Leadership is a matter of having people look at you and gain confidence, seeing how you react. If you're in control, they're in control.

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 signs of outstanding leadership appear primarily among the followers. Are the followers reaching their potential? Are they learning? Serving? Do they achieve the required results? Do they change with grace? Manage conflict?

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 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.

If you think you are leading and turn around to see no one following, then you are just taking a walk.

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

If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform one million realities.

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

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