A leader is a dealer in hope.
Napoleon Bonaparte-Attribe
A leader leads by example not by Force.
Sun Tzu
To lead the people, walk behind them.
Lao-Tzu
Leadership is action, not position.
Donald H. McGannon
Management is nothing more than motivating other people.
Lee Iacocca
Leaders need to be optimists. Their vision is beyond the present.
Rudy Giuliani
A man is only a leader when a follower stands beside him.
Mark Brouwer
Leaders don’t create followers, they create more leaders.
Tom Peters
Charlatanism of some degree is indispensable to effective leadership.
Eric Hoffer
A leader leads by example, whether he intends to or not.
Author Unknown
You can’t lead anyone else further than you have gone yourself.
Gene Mauch
You don’t have to hold a position in order to be a leader.
Anthony J. D’Angelo
Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.
Albert Schweitzer
You do not lead by hitting people over the head. That’s assault, not leadership.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
One measure of leadership is the caliber of people who choose to follow you.
Dennis A. Peer
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
I suppose that leadership at one time meant muscle; but today it means getting along with people.
Indira Gandhi
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
Leadership is based on a spiritual quality; the power to inspire, the power to inspire others to follow.
Vince Lombardi
Every leader needs to look back once in a while to make sure he has followers.
Author Unknown
The art of leadership is saying no, not yes. It is very easy to say yes.
Tony Blair
Inside my empty bottle I was constructing a lighthouse while all the others were making ships.
Charles Simic
The real leader has no need to lead – he is content to point the way.
Henry Miller
A leader who doesn’t hesitate before he sends his nation into battle is not fit to be a leader.
Golda Meir
The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it.
Theodore Roosevelt
There go my people. I must find out where they are going so I can lead them.
Alexandre Ledru-Rollin
Remember the difference between a boss and a leader; a boss says “Go!” – a leader says “Let’s go!”
E.M. Kelly
Leadership: the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
When trouble arises and things look bad, there is always one individual who perceives a solution and is willing to take command. Very often, that person is crazy.
Dave Barry
Authority without wisdom is like a heavy axe without an edge, fitter to bruise than polish.
Anne Bradstreet
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