Leadership Quotes 

120 Leadership Quotes

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Leadership has less to do with position than it does disposition.
John Maxwell

In leadership we teach: Don't send your ducks to eagle school because it won't help. Duck finishes eagle school, sees his first rabbit, makes him a friend.
Jim Rohn

What a leader learns after having learned it all counts most of all.
John Wooden

If each of us hires people who are smaller than we are, we shall become a company of dwarfs. But if each of us hires people who are bigger than we are, we should become a company of giants.
David Ogilvy

The world can always use one more great leader.
Jim Rohn

Leaders are readers.
Jim Rohn

The key to success in any endeavour is the ability to lead others successfully.
John Maxwell

For your leadership to remain effective, it is essential that you take the other influencers within the group with you to the higher levels.
John Maxwell

There is no greater leadership challenge than parenting.
Jim Rohn

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



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

Leadership is the ability to get extraordinary achievement from ordinary people.
Brian Tracy

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

Respect is the key determinant of high-performance leadership. How much people respect you determines how well they perform.
Brian Tracy

The three “C’s” of leadership are Consideration, Caring, and Courtesy. Be polite to everyone.
Brian Tracy

People ‘buy into’ the leader before they ‘buy into’ his or her leadership.
John Maxwell

The growth and development of people is the highest calling of leadership.
John Maxwell

Those closest to the leader will determine the level of success for that leader.
John Maxwell

Great leadership can have an electrifying effect on the performance of any corporation.
David Ogilvy

There appears to be no correlation between leadership and academic achievement.
David Ogilvy



I have always believed that if I could understand how Monsieur Pitard, the head chef, inspired such white-hot morale, I could apply the same kind of leadership to the management of my advertising agency.
David Ogilvy

Place influencers in leadership positions.
John Maxwell

The great leaders I have known have been curiously complicated men. Howard Johnson, the former President of MIT, has described it as ‘a visceral form of spiritual energy which provides the element of mystery in leadership.’
David Ogilvy

It does a company no good when its leader refuses to share his leadership functions with his lieutenants.
David Ogilvy

The more centers of leadership you find in a company, the stronger it will become.
David Ogilvy

Leadership is communicating to people their worth and potential so clearly that they come to see it in themselves.
Stephen Covey

90 percent of all leadership failures are character failures.
Stephen Covey

Management works in the system; Leadership works on the system.
Stephen Covey

Character— doing the right thing—is fundamental to successful leadership.
John Wooden

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



A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better.
Jim Rohn

Leadership is the challenge to be something more than average.
Jim Rohn

You must discipline yourself to do what is expected of you for the welfare of the team. The coach has many decisions to make, and you will not agree with all of them, but you must respect and accept them. Without supervision and leadership and a disciplined effort by all, much of our united strength will be dissipated pulling against ourselves. Let us not be victimized by a breakdown from within.
John Wooden

What the work force really wants is management leadership whose competence and concern they can trust.
Zig Ziglar

Media, I think, are one of the greatest protagonists of diminishing the role of heroes and leadership in our society…
Anita Roddick

Successful leadership is not about being tough or soft, sensitive or assertive, butabout a set of attributes. First and foremost is character.
John Wooden

As officers we will give leadership in becoming tough physically and mentally. Every man in this command will be able to run a mile in fifteen minutes with a full military pack including a rifle!
George S Patton

[On leadership] The biggest challenge is to be fair. No one trains you to be a judge.
Jack Welch

Leadership has always been action, walking the talk…
John Symond

Leadership is not about position.
John Symond



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