Leadership By Great Leaders Quotes

The greatest leaders mobilize others by coalescing people around a shared vision.

Ken Blanchard

Leadership, Helping Others, People

Ken Blanchard, Garry Ridge (2013). “Improve Your Career Performance (Collection)”, p.53, FT Press

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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.

Ronald Reagan

Inspirational, Leadership, Wisdom

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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.

Vince Lombardi

Motivational, Leadership, Graduation

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Leadership is not so much about technique and methods as it is about opening the heart. Leadership is about inspiration-of oneself and of others. Great leadership is about human experiences, not processes. Leadership is not a formula or a program, it is a human activity that comes from the heart and considers the hearts of others. It is an attitude, not a routine.

Lance Secretan

Inspirational, Leadership, Attitude

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My job is not to be easy on people. My job is to take these great people we have and to push them and make them even better.

Steve Jobs

Motivational, Leadership, Jobs

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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

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Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.

Warren G. Bennis

Inspirational, Motivational, Leadership

"Executive's Portfolio of Model Speeches for All Occasions". Book by Dianna Daniels Booher, 1991.

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Leadership is the art of giving people a platform for spreading ideas that work.

Seth Godin

Leadership, Art, Ideas

Seth Godin (2008). “Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us”, p.63, Penguin

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Outstanding leaders go out of their way to boost the self-esteem of their personnel. If people believe in themselves, it's amazing what they can accomplish.

Sam Walton

Motivational, Leadership, Educational

Attributed in "The 101 Greatest Business Principles of All Time" by Leslie Pockell, November 23, 2004.

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Effort and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.

John F. Kennedy

Inspirational, Leadership, Basketball

John F. Kennedy's Speech at the Coliseum, Raleigh, North Carolina, September 17, 1960.

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All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership.

John Kenneth Galbraith

Inspirational, Motivational, Leadership

"The Age of Uncertainty". Book by John Kenneth Galbraith, 1977.

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Be strong, but not rude; Be kind, but not weak; Be bold, but not bully; Be humble, but not timid; Be prooud, but not arrogant.

Zig Ziglar

Leadership, Strong, Humble

FaceBook post by Zig Ziglar from Dec 27, 2013

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

John C. Maxwell

Inspirational, Leadership, Basketball

"Leadership 101: 3 Key Lessons on Advancing Racial Equity" by Dr. Artika R. Tyner, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 15, 2015.

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Leadership is not a formula or a program, it is a human activity that comes from the heart and considers the hearts of others. It is an attitude, not a routine.

Lance Secretan

Attitude, Heart, Routine

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He who cannot be a good follower cannot be a good leader.

Aristotle

Leadership, Dancing, Followers

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

Pat Riley

Leadership, Basketball, Motivational Sports

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Leadership is lifting a person's vision to high sights, the raising of a person's performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations.

Peter Drucker

Leadership, Life Changing, Helping Others

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The challenge of leadership is to be strong, but not rude; be kind, but not weak; be bold, but not bully; be thoughtful, but not lazy; be humble, but not timid; be proud, but not arrogant; have humor, but without folly.

Jim Rohn

Leadership, Being Strong, Business

FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Sep 24, 2016

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Leadership cannot really be taught. It can only be learned.

Harold Geneen

Leadership, Taught, Born Leaders

"Managing". Book by Harold Geneen, 1984.

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The leaders who work most effectively, it seems to me, never say 'I'. They don't think 'I'. They think 'we'; they think 'team'.

Tom Peters

Leadership, Teamwork, Kids

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

Brian Tracy

Leadership, Helping Others, People

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Earn your leadership every day.

Michael Jordan

Motivational, Leadership, Vision

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To do great things is difficult; but to command great things is more difficult.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Leadership, Excellence, Vision

Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.160, Penguin

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To command is to serve, nothing more and nothing less.

Andre Malraux

Leadership, Military, Vision

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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

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