1. “The pessimist complains about the wind. The optimist expects it to change. The leader adjusts the sails.” – John Maxwell
2. “Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.” – Peter Drucker3. “A leader is a dealer in hope.” – Napoleon Bonaparte
4. “If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.” – John Quincy Adams
5. “A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.” – John Maxwell
6. “Let him that would move the world first move himself.” – Socrates
7. “Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes.” – Peter Drucker
8. “No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit for doing it.” – Andrew Carnegie
9. “The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.” – Henry A. Kissinger
10. “Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.” – Dwight D. Eisenhower
11. “Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.” – Steve Jobs
12. “The best way to predict the future is to create it.” – Peter Drucker
13. “Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.” – Warren Bennis
14. “Leadership is the art of giving people a platform for spreading ideas that work.” – Seth Godin
15. “Leaders think and talk about the solutions. Followers think and talk about the problems.” – Brian Tracy
16. “What helps people, helps business.” – Leo Burnett
17. “Real leaders are ordinary people with extraordinary determinations.” – John Seaman Garns
18. “Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.” – John F. Kennedy
19. “A lot of people have gone further than they thought they could because someone else thought they could.” – Zig Ziglar
20. “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
21. “I was never the smartest guy in the room. From the first person I hired, I was never the smartest guy in the room. And that’s a big deal. And if you’re going to be a leader – if you’re a leader and you’re the smartest guy in the world – in the room, you’ve got real problems.” – Jack Welch
22. “The key to successful leadership today is influence, not authority.” – Ken Blanchard
23. “The very essence of leadership is that you have to have vision. You can’t blow an uncertain trumpet.” – Theodore M. Hesburgh
24. “Management is about arranging and telling. Leadership is about nurturing and enhancing.” – Tom Peters
25. “Leadership is working with goals and vision; management is working with objectives.” – Russel Honore
26. “The only safe ship in a storm is leadership.” – Faye Wattleton
27. “Leadership is about doing what you know is right – even when a growing din of voices around you is trying to convince you to accept what you know to be wrong.” – Bob Ehrlich
28. “Actions, not words, are the ultimate results of leadership.” – Bill Owens
29. “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
30. “Be willing to make decisions. That’s the most important quality in a good leader.” – George S. Patton
31. “A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.” – Lao Tzu
32. “The task of leadership is not to put greatness into people, but to elicit it, for the greatness is there already.” – John Buchan
33. “To do great things is difficult; but to command great things is more difficult.” – Friedrich Nietzsche
34. “Whatever you are, be a good one.” – Abraham Lincoln
35. “The challenge of leadership is to be strong but not rude; be kind, but not weak; be bold, but not a bully; be humble, but not timid; be proud, but not arrogant; have humor, but without folly.” – Jim Rohn
36. “All good leaders are connectors. They relate well and make people feel confident about themselves and their leader.” – John Maxwell
37. “Leadership is an action, not a position.” – Donald McGannon
38. “Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them.” – John Maxwell
39. “Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help or concluded you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership.” – Colin Powell
40. “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
41. 50. The best leaders are readers of people. They have the intuitive ability to understand others by discerning how they feel and recognizing what they sense. – John C. Maxwell
42. “The art of leadership is saying no, not yes. It is very easy to say yes.” – Tony Blair
43. “Learn to say ‘no’ to the good so you can say ‘yes’ to the best.” – John Maxwell
44. “The secret of getting ahead is getting started.” – Mark Twain
45. “Whether you think you can or you think you can’t, you’re right.” – Henry Ford
46. “People buy into the leader before they buy into the vision.” – John Maxwell
47. “If you spend your life trying to be good at everything, you will never be great at anything.” – Tom Rath
48. “A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them.” – John Maxwell
49. “Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.” – Stephen Covey
50. “Leadership is influence.” – John C. Maxwell
