- If you’re actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader. – John Quincy Adams
- A leader is a dealer in hope. – Napoleon Bonaparte
- Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy. – Norman Schwarzkopf
- In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock. – Thomas Jefferson
- Where there is no vision, the people perish. – Proverbs 29:18
- People don’t care how much you know until they know how much you care. – Theodore Roosevelt
- Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate, and doubt to offer a solution everybody can understand. – Colin Powell
- A highly credible leader under-promises and over-delivers. – John C. Maxwell
- The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality; the last is to say thank you. In between, the leader is a servant. – Max De Pree
- Don’t tell people how to do things, tell them what do and let them surprise you with their results. – George S. Patton
- To lead people, walk beside them. As for the best leaders, the people do not notice their existence … When the best leader’s work is done, the people say, ‘We did it ourselves!’” – Lao Tsu
- Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing. – Albert Schweitzer
- 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
- Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
- The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy. – Martin Luther King, Jr.
- Treat a man as he is and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he can and should be and he will become as he can and should be. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall. – Stephen R. Covey
- Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other. – John F. Kennedy
- Great leadership is about human experiences. It’s not a formula or a program. It is a human activity that comes from the heart and considers the hearts of others. It is an attitude, not a routine. – Lance Secretan
- Leaders aren’t born, they are made. – Vince Lombardi
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