“A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.” – John C. Maxwell
“Leadership is not about being in charge. It is about taking care of those in your charge.” – Simon Sinek
“The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.” – Ralph Nader
“A leader is best when people barely know he exists.” – Lao Tzu
“Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.” – Steve Jobs
“Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.” – Warren Bennis
“The challenge of leadership is to be strong, but not rude; kind, but not weak; bold, but not bully; thoughtful, but not lazy; humble, but not timid; proud, but not arrogant; have humor, but without folly.” – Jim Rohn
“Leadership is about making others better as a result of your presence and making sure that impact lasts in your absence.” – Sheryl Sandberg
“Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others.” – Jack Welch
“A good leader inspires people to have confidence in the leader; a great leader inspires people to have confidence in themselves.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
“Leadership is unlocking people’s potential to become better.” – Bill Bradley
“Leaders think and talk about the solutions. Followers think and talk about the problems.” – Brian Tracy
“The art of leadership is saying no, not saying yes. It is very easy to say yes.” – Tony Blair
“Great leaders are not defined by the absence of weakness, but by the presence of clear strengths.” – John Zenger
“Leadership is the art of giving people a platform for spreading ideas that work.” – Seth Godin
“The greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things. He is the one that gets people to do the greatest things.” – Ronald Reagan
“To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
“Leadership is practiced not so much in words as in attitude and in actions.” – Harold Geneen
“Leadership is not about titles, positions, or flowcharts. It is about one life influencing another.” – John C. Maxwell
“A true leader has the confidence to stand alone, the courage to make tough decisions, and the compassion to listen to the needs of others.” – Douglas MacArthur
“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
“The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.” – Henry Kissinger
“The quality of a leader is reflected in the standards they set for themselves.” – Ray Kroc
“You don’t need a title to be a leader.” – Mark Sanborn
“Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.” – John F. Kennedy
“Lead from the back—and let others believe they are in front.” – Nelson Mandela
“Successful leaders see the opportunities in every difficulty rather than the difficulty in every opportunity.” – Reed Markham
“A leader is a dealer in hope.” – Napoleon Bonaparte
“Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Leadership is about taking responsibility, not making excuses.” – Mitt Romney
“The best way to predict the future is to create it.” – Peter Drucker
“In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.” – Thomas Jefferson
“Leadership is not about being the best. It is about making everyone else better.” – Unknown
“Leadership requires two things: a vision of the world that does not yet exist and the ability to communicate it.” – Simon Sinek
“Leadership is an action, not a position.” – Donald McGannon
“A leader must inspire or his team will expire.” – Orrin Woodward
“True leadership lies in guiding others to success—in ensuring that everyone is performing at their best, doing the work they are pledged to do, and doing it well.” – Bill Owens
“Good leaders organize and align people around what the team needs to do. Great leaders motivate and inspire people to achieve what they never thought they could.” – Unknown
“Leaders don’t create followers, they create more leaders.” – Tom Peters
“Leadership is about vision and responsibility, not power.” – Seth Berkley
“A great leader’s courage to fulfill his vision comes from passion, not position.” – John C. Maxwell
“Leadership is about empathy. It is about having the ability to relate to and connect with people for the purpose of inspiring and empowering their lives.” – Oprah Winfrey
“The key to successful leadership today is influence, not authority.” – Ken Blanchard
“Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them.” – Colin Powell
“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 Maxwell
“The price of greatness is responsibility.” – Winston Churchill
“Leadership is the capacity to influence others through inspiration, motivated by passion, generated by vision, produced by a conviction, ignited by a purpose.” – Myles Munroe
“It’s not about the role; it’s about the goal.” – Unknown
“Leadership is about making others better as a result of your presence and making sure that impact lasts in your absence.” – Unknown
“A great leader is someone who empowers others to lead.” – Unknown