Leader Quotes - Page 9

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

  John Buchan

  Inspirational, Motivational, Leadership

  57 Copy quote

• A leader's responsibility is to cause a vision and mission to have tangible results in the real world.

  Henry Cloud

  Real, Responsibility, Vision

  9 Copy quote

• A good leader inspires people to have confidence in the leader,
  a great leader inspires people to have confidence in themselves.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Leadership, Confidence

  1130 Copy quote

• I never thought in terms of being a leader. I thought very simply in terms of helping people.

  John Hume

  Leadership, Kids, People

  32 Copy quote

• A competent leader can get efficient service from poor troops, while on the contrary an incapable leader can demoralize the best of troops.

  John J. Pershing

  Leadership, Vision, Troops

  512 Copy quote

• I was not a messiah, but an ordinary man who had become a leader because of extraordinary circumstances.

  Nelson Mandela

  Men, Ordinary, Self Actualization

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

  19 Copy quote

  Show source

• A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Funny, Leadership, Art

  63 Copy quote

• My own definition of leadership is this: The capacity and the will to rally men and women to a common purpose and the character which inspires confidence.

  Bernard Law Montgomery

  Leadership, Motivation, Character

  160 Copy quote

• A good general not only sees the way to victory; he also knows when victory is impossible.

  Polybius

  Leadership, Creative, Victory

  33 Copy quote

• Dictators ride to and fro upon tigers which they dare not dismount. And the tigers are getting hungry.

  Winston Churchill

  Leadership, Dictator, Socialism

  Letter, 11 Nov. 1937, in Step by Step (1939) p. 186. Cf. the proverb "He who rides a tiger is afraid to dismount" (see Concise Oxford Dictionary of Proverbs under rides)

  27 Copy quote

  Show source

• What chance gathers, she easily scatters. A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Inspirational, Leadership, Teamwork

  37 Copy quote

• A leader's role is to raise people's aspirations for what they can become and to release their energies so they will try to get there.

  David Gergen

  Inspirational, Leadership, People

  55 Copy quote

• A true leader always keeps an element of surprise up his sleeve, which others cannot grasp but which keeps his public excited and breathless.

  Charles de Gaulle

  Leadership, Inspiration, Elements

  45 Copy quote

• The leader has to be practical and a realist, yet must talk the language of the visionary and the idealist.

  Eric Hoffer

  Leadership, Coaching, Vision

  Eric Hoffer (1980). “The True Believer”

  30 Copy quote

  Show source

• Mountaintops inspire leaders but valleys mature them.

  Winston Churchill

  Leadership, Moving, Inspiration

  20 Copy quote

• When the effective leader is finished with his work, the people say it happened naturally.

  Laozi

  Inspirational, Leadership, Work

  8 Copy quote

• If you are a leader, it is not possible to be at peace with all and friends with everyone.

  Dan B. Allender

  Challenges, Ifs

  Dan B. Allender (2011). “Leading with a Limp: Take Full Advantage of Your Most Powerful Weakness”, p.172, WaterBrook

  15 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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.

  Nelson Mandela

  Inspirational, Motivational, Inspiring

  113 Copy quote

• In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  Thomas Jefferson (2013). “The Jefferson Bible [annotated]: Original Old English Version and Modern Updates to The Jefferson Bible”, p.139, BookBaby

  255 Copy quote

  Show source

• To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace.

  George Washington

  Inspirational, Leadership, Motivation

  1790 First Annual Address, 8 Jan.

  181 Copy quote

  Show source

• The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Leadership, Motivation, People

  15 Copy quote

• The leaders who work most effectively, it seems to me, never say "I." And that's not because they have trained themselves not to say "I." They don't think "I." They think "we"; they think "team." They understand their job to be to make the team function. They accept responsibility and don't sidestep it, but "we" gets the credit. This is what creates trust, what enables you to get the task done.

  Peter Drucker

  Leadership, Trust, Teamwork

  Peter Drucker (2012). “Managing the Non-Profit Organization”, p.14, Routledge

  368 Copy quote

  Show source

• Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Leadership, Art, Business

  Eisenhower, Dwight D. (1960). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1954”, p.477, Best Books on

  94 Copy quote

  Show source

• It is the leader's role to lift followers out of their everyday selves up to a higher level of awareness, motivation, and commitment.

  Donald T. Phillips

  Motivational, Commitment, Self

  7 Copy quote

• A leader must have a servant's heart. And if he has a servant's heart, he will act like a servant and react like a servant when he is treated like a servant.

  Wayne Mack

  Heart, Servant, Treated

  15 Copy quote