Strong Leaders use memorable leadership quotes as
tools to support their mission, vision, strategy and expectations for quality
performance. Some of those below;
“Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep
moving. They make mistakes, but they don’t quit.”
- Conrad Hilton, Hilton Hotels
“The right man is the one who seizes the moment.”
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Be enthusiastic as a leader. You can’t light a fire with a wet match.”
- Unknown
“Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead
to motivate them.”
- John Maxwell
“A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes
people where they don’t necessarily want to go, but ought to be.”
- Rosalynn Carter
“There comes a moment when you have to stop reviving up the car and
shove it into gear.”
- David Mahoney
“I would rather regret the things I have done than the things I have
not.”
- Lucille Ball
“Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.”
- John F. Kennedy
“Big thinking precedes great achievement”
- Wilfred
Peterson
“Surround yourself with the best people you can find, delegate
authority, and don’t interfere as long as the policy you’ve decided upon is
being carried out.”
- Ronald
Reagan
“Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership
determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.”
- Stephen R.
Covey
“A desk is a dangerous place from which to view the world.”
- John Le
Care’
“I have yet to find a man, however exalted his station, who did not do
better work and put forth greater effort under a spirit of approval than under
a spirit of criticism.”
- Charles
Schwab
“The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have
stopped leading them.”
- General
Colin Powell
“You can have brilliant ideas, but if you can’t get them across, your
ideas won’t get you anywhere.”
- Lee Iacocca
“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
“The price of greatness is responsibility.”
- Winston
Churchill
“The pessimist complains about the wind. The optimist expects it to
change. The leader adjusts the sails.”
- John Maxwell
“Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked;
leadership is defined by results not attributes.”
- Peter
Drucker
“There is something that is much more scarce, something rarer than
ability. It is the ability to recognize ability.”
- Robert Half
“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
“The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to
where they have not been.”
- Henry
Kissinger
“Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through
argument, debate, and doubt to offer a solution everybody can understand.”-
General Colin Powell
“All leadership is influence.”
- John C.
Maxwell
“Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do
because they want to do it.”
- Dwight
Eisenhower
“Leadership is the activity of influencing people to cooperate toward
some goal which they come to find desirable.”
- Ordway Tead
“There is a powerful driving force inside every human being that once
unleashed can make any vision, dream, or desire a reality.”
- Anthony
Robbins
“Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.”
- Zig Ziglar
“Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes
off your goal.”
- Henry Ford
“If there is a trait which does characterize leaders it is opportunism.
Succesful people are very often those who steadfastly refuse to be daunted by
disadvantage and have the ability to turn disadvantage to good effect. They are
people who seize opportunity and take risks. Leadership then seems to be a
matter of personality and character.”
- John Viney
”Eagles don’t flock.”
- Ross Perot
“Things may come to those who wait, but only what’s left behind by those
that hustle.”
- Abraham
Lincoln
“Don’t wait for your ship to come in, swim out to it.”
- Unknown
“Anything worth doing, is worth doing now!”- Ralph Stayer
”Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who believed
that something inside of them was superior to circumstance.”
- Bruce Barton
“There is no passion to be found in playing small – in settling for a
life that is less than what you are capable of living”
- Nelson
Mandela
“It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped.”
- Anthony
Robbins
“The life which is unexamined is not worth living.”
- Plato
“Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.”
- Anais Nin
“Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.”
- Robert
Francis Kennedy
“It’s never crowded along the extra mile.”
- Wayne Dyer
“Clear your mind of can’t.”
- Samuel
Johnson
“The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without
it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it is on a section gang, a
football field, in an army, or in an office.”
- Dwight D.
Eisenhower
“Beginning is half done.”
- Unknown
