Leadership Quotes and Messages

Earn your leadership every day.

Leadership is an action, not a position.

Leadership is an ever-evolving position.

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

Leaders don’t create followers, they create more leaders.

Leadership is unlocking people’s potential to become better.

Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.

A star wants to see himself rise to the top. A leader wants to see those around him rise to the top.

Entrepreneurial leadership requires the ability to move quickly when opportunity presents itself.

You take people as far as they will go, not as far as you would like them to go.

Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

Real leadership is leaders recognizing that they serve the people that they lead.

You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.

Conscience is the root of all true courage; if a man would be brave let him obey his conscience.

Integrity is the most valuable and respected quality of leadership. Always keep your word.

The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.

No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself, or to get all the credit for doing it.

Live so that when your children think of fairness, caring, and integrity, they think of you.

Ninety per cent of leadership is the ability to communicate something people want.

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

The true test of leadership is how well you function in a crisis.

The key responsibility of leadership is to think about the future. No one else can do it for you.

The most effective way to lead is to lead from within.

The supreme quality of leadership is integrity.

Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality

As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.

Those who let things happen usually lose to those who make things happen.

Leadership is the capacity to transform vision into reality.

To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart.

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power.

Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice.

Leaders never use the word failure. They look upon setbacks as learning experiences.

Deciding what not to do is as important as deciding what to do.

You get in life what you have the courage to ask for.

No person will make a great business who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit.

Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.

If you really want to grow as an entrepreneur, you’ve got to learn to delegate.

The pessimist complains about the wind. The optimist expects it to change. The leader adjusts the sails.

The question isn’t who’s going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me.

You take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing, no one to blame.

Always choose the future over the past. What do we do now?

Stop wearing your wishbone where your backbone ought to be.

Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out.

Courage starts with showing up and letting ourselves be seen.

The key to success is action.

What you do has far greater impact than what you say.

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

The way to right wrongs is to turn the light of truth upon them.

Leaders think and talk about the solutions. Followers think and talk about the problems.

My best successes came on the heels of failures.

We must believe that we are gifted with something and that this thing, at whatever cost, must be attained.

The best leaders have a high consideration factor. They really care about their people