Quotes and sayings on leadership

If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.
John Quincy Adams

Good leaders must first become good servants.
Robert Greenleaf

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

I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure: which is: Try to please everybody.
Herbert B. Swope

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

The art of leadership is saying no, not saying yes. It is very easy to say yes.
Tony Blair

The task of leadership is not to put greatness into humanity, but to elicit it, for the greatness is already there.
John Buchan

If you do not look at things on a large scale, it will be difficult to master strategy.
Miyamoto Mursashi

Leadership is action, not position.
Donald H. McGannon

To be able to lead others, a man must be willing to go forward alone.
Harry Truman

The word impossible is not in my dictionary.
Napoleon Bonapart

A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way and shows the way.
John C. Maxwell

The great leaders are like the best conductors - they reach beyond the notes to reach the magic in the players.
Blaine Lee

A leader is most effective when people barely know he exists. When his work is done, his aim fulfilled, his troops will feel they did it themselves.
Lao Tzu

We must become the change we wish to see in the world.
Mahatma Ghandhi

If you go through life convinced that your way is always best, all the new ideas in the world will pass you by.
Morita Akio

Control is not leadership; management is not leadership; leadership is leadership. If you seek to lead, invest at least 50% of your time in leading yourself - your own purpose, ethics, principles, motivation, conduct. Invest at least 20% leading those with authority over you and 15% leading your peers.
Dee Hock

People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader leads, and the boss drives.
Theodore Roosevelt

Leaders aren't born they are made. And they are made just like anything else, through hard work. And that's the price we'll have to pay to achieve that goal, or any goal.
Vince Lombardi