Quotes About Leadership

The leadership instinct you are born with is the backbone.  You develop the funny bone and the wishbone that go with it.  

Elaine Agather

Leaders are visionaries with a poorly developed sense of fear and no concept of the odds against them.  

Robert Jarvik

Nothing so conclusively proves a man's ability to lead others as what he does from day to day to lead himself.  

Thomas J. Watson

A good leader is a person who takes a little more than his share of the blame and a little less than his share of the credit.  

John C. Maxwell

I suppose that leadership at one time meant muscle; but today it means getting along with people.  

Indira Gandhi

A leader who doesn't hesitate before he sends his nation into battle is not fit to be a leader.  

Golda Meir

Leadership is based on a spiritual quality; the power to inspire, the power to inspire others to follow.  

Vince Lombardi

Leadership:  the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.  

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Authority without wisdom is like a heavy axe without an edge, fitter to bruise than polish.  

Anne Bradstreet

There go my people.  I must find out where they are going so I can lead them.  

Alexandre Ledru-Rollin

A leader has the vision and conviction that a dream can be achieved.  He inspires the power and energy to get it done. 

Ralph Nader

I am more afraid of an army of one hundred sheep led by a lion than an army of one hundred lions led by a sheep.  

Charles Maurice

Remember the difference between a boss and a leader; a boss says "Go!" - a leader says "Let's go!" 

E.M. Kelly

If two or three persons should come with a high spiritual aim and with great powers, the world would fall into their hands like a ripe peach.  

Ralph Waldo Emerson