Leadership Quotes

No institution can possibly survive if it needs geniuses or supermen to manage it. It must be organized in such a way as to be able to get along under a leadership composed of average human beings.

Peter Drucker

I'm their leader, I've got to follow them.

Alexandre LedruRollin

We need the kind of leadership exemplified by President Kennedy to just do it! But we must do it as good stewards, aggressively exerting control over the moon. We can best do this by going there.

Wilson Greatbatch

Clearly you need a new team to go out to bat on your behalf to fight for your rights and to report back to you personally and to the leadership of the IFP.

Mangosuthu Buthelezi

Leadership comes in small acts as well as bold strokes.

Carly Fiorina

He who leads Must then be strong and hopeful as the dawnThat rises unafraid and full of joyAbove the blackness of the darkest night.He must be kind to every living thing;Kind as the Krishna, Buddha and the Christ,And full of love for all created life.Oh, not in war shall his great prowess lie,Nor shall he find his pleasure in the chase.Too great for slaughter, friend of man and beast,Touching the borders of the Unseen RealmsAnd bringing down to earth their mystic firesTo light our troubled pathways, wise and kindAnd human to the core, so shall he be,The coming leader of the coming time.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox, from The Le

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

Mahatma Gandhi

Leaders who refuse to listen will eventually be surrounded by people who have nothing significant to say.

Andy Stanley

Justice is the first virtue of those who command, and stops the complaints of those who obey.

Denis Diderot

Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The school made it very clear that women were entitled to positions of authority. That sense of entitlement allowed us to feel that we have a natural place in leadership in the world. That gave me a mental and emotional confidence.

Linda Vester

Humility is a great quality of leadership which derives respect and not just fear or hatred.

Yousef Munayyer

Denmark needs change, Denmark needs to move on and Denmark needs my leadership.

Helle Thorning-Schmidt

Every life is a profession of faith, and exercises an inevitable and silent influence.

Henri Frederic Amiel

He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.

Seneca (Seneca the Elder)

You can lead a whore to culture but you can't make her think.

Dorothy Parker

There is great force hidden in a gentle command.

George Herbert

I start with the premise that the function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.

Ralph Nader

What I've really learned over time is that optimism is a very, very important part of leadership.

Bob Iger

This week you will nominate the most experienced executive to seek the presidency in 60 years in Mitt Romney. He has no illusions about what makes America great, and he doesn't confuse the presidency with celebrity, or loftiness with leadership.

Artur Davis