LEADERSHIP QUOTES II

quotations about leadership

People try so hard to believe in leaders now, pitifully hard. But we no sooner get a popular reformer or politician or soldier or writer or philosopher -- a Roosevelt, a Tolstoi, a Wood, a Shaw, a Nietzsche, than the cross-currents of criticism wash him away. My Lord, no man can stand prominence these days. It's the surest path to obscurity. People get sick of hearing the same name over and over.

F. SCOTT FITZGERALD

This Side of Paradise

Tags: F. Scott Fitzgerald


Good leadership is not obtained by issuing orders but by conviction and delegation--genuine leaders recognize and achieve agreement to an exciting and challenging vision.

GERHARD ZAPKE-SCHAUER

The Art of Leadership


People who are not leaders automatically gravitate toward lines--limitations set by others. Many people are taught this in kindergarten when they are instructed to stay within the lines while coloring. But leaders are more creative than that. They look for options and opportunities. They try to take things in a new direction, or beyond the limit. Progress and innovation are made by people who think without lines.

JOHN C. MAXWELL

Developing the Leaders Around You


A person always doing his or her best becomes a natural leader, just by example

JOE DIMAGGIO

attributed, Great Quotes from Great Sports Heroes

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Leadership is about mastering the fundamentals of the internal and external journey, the inner and the outer and using the head to conquer the heart. It is about self-transformation, self-correction and self-revelation. It is about correcting our defective vision by correcting ourselves. When we are able to accomplish this successfully, we are able to transform the pain of ignorance into the wisdom arising from understanding.

RAMNATH NARAYANSWAMY

"Leadership is self-transformation", Deccan Herald, April 20, 2016


Leadership is about building people.

N. K. RANGANATH

The Hindu, April 20, 2016


Leadership is the readiness to stand out in a crowd.

JOHN C. MAXWELL

Leadership Gold


The great leaders are like the best conductors--they reach beyond the notes to reach the magic in the players.

BLAINE LEE

The Power Principle


A wise, right, and true estimate of one's own powers is necessary to their highest and best use. The general who overestimates his forces leads them to defeat; he who underestimates them does not lead them at all.

LYMAN ABBOTT

A Study in Human Nature

Tags: Lyman Abbott


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

PETER F. DRUCKER

attributed, The Fundamentals of Leadership


Woe to the country which hath lost its leader; woe to the ship when its captain is no more.

TALMUD


Our faith in the value of leadership is durable--it survives, again and again, our disappointment with actual leaders.

JOSHUA ROTHMAN

"Shut Up and Sit Down", The New Yorker, February 29, 2016


Those who command themselves, command others.

WILLIAM HAZLITT

Characteristics

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Leadership is defined not by the scale of the opportunity but by the quality of the response.

CHRIS LOWNEY

Heroic Leadership


When there is danger, a good leader takes the front line; but when there is celebration, a good leader stays in the back of the room.

NELSON MANDELA

O: The Oprah Magazine, Apr. 2001


If you want to build a ship, don't drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work, and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea.

ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPERY

attributed, Managing Innovation, Design and Creativity

Tags: Antoine de Saint-Exupery


Control is not leadership; management is not leadership; leadership is leadership is leadership. If you seek to lead, invest at least 50 percent of your time leading yourself--your own purpose, ethics, principles, motivation, conduct. Invest at least 20 percent leading those with authority over you and 15 percent leading your peers. If you don't understand that you work for your mislabeled 'subordinates,' then you know nothing of leadership. You know only tyranny.

DEE HOCK

attributed, 100 Ways to Motivate Others


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

Long Walk to Freedom

Tags: Nelson Mandela


Leadership is the power of one harnessing the power of many.

JOHN C. MAXWELL

Leadership Gold


Leadership is the dream made reality.

JOHN C. MAXWELL

Leadership Gold