Leadership Quotes

The best leadership quotes and leadership sayings. Want to be inspired by the leadership of another? One of our quotes on leadership will truly inspire.

One of my favorite leadership quotes is by Grace Hopper... "If it's a good idea, go ahead and do it. It is much easier to apologize than it is to get permission." Apply this throughout your professional life and good chance you'll excel in every career. I know it worked for me. I do not recall having to apologize much at all for taking a chance and getting it right.

Quotes on leadership continued...

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"A leader is a dealer in hope." Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes on Leadership

"A leader is best when people barely know he exists, not so good when people obey and acclaim him, worse when they despise him. But of a good leader who talks little when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: We did it ourselves." Lao-Tzu Leadership Quotes

"A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd." James Crook Quotes about Leadership

"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 Quotes on Leadership

"Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of humility." St. Augustine Quotes About Leadership

"I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?" Benjamin Disraeli Leadership Quotations

"If it's a good idea, go ahead and do it. It is much easier to apologize than it is to get permission." Admiral Grace Hopper

"It is a terrible thing to look over your shoulder when you are trying to lead -- and find no one there." Franklin D. Roosevelt Quotes on Leadership

"It's amazing how many cares disappear when you decide not to be something, but to be someone." Coco Chanel Quotes About Leadership

"Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it." Dwight Eisenhower Leadership Quotations

"Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely." Karen Kaiser Clark

"Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes." Lewis Grizzard

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

"The very essence of leadership is that you have to have vision. You can't blow an uncertain trumpet." Theodore M. Hesburgh Leadership Quotations

"What you cannot enforce, do not command." Sophocles

"Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with the important matters." Albert Einstein

"You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing you think you cannot do." Eleanor Roosevelt

"You have been oriented that you must pay a price in order to get somewhere, and in the process, you’ve come to believe that getting there must be really important, therefore, it must be your purpose. And we say, but if you’re not getting to joy, then you’ve gotten nowhere. Joy is really where you’re going." Abraham Hicks Leadership Quotes