Top 122 Leadership Quotes

A hand-organized collection of 122 leadership quotes from notable authors and thinkers. Browse the full set, find the lines that resonate, and turn any quote into a shareable image.

The influence of mankind on climate is trivially true and numerically insignificant.
Richard Lindzen
Richard Lindzen
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Leadership is building a bridge that connects the vision with the purpose, in order to empower those who are around us.
David Walker
David Walker
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The first key to leadership is self-control.
Jack Weatherford
Jack Weatherford
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There is good management and bad management: good management is like air - you don't know it's there until it's gone away.
Charles Strous
Charles Strous
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Everyone is responsible and no one is to blame.
William Schutz
William Schutz
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A hockey team is like a puzzle. Every piece is vital.
Bob Hartley
Bob Hartley
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Now that I have seen I am responsible. faith without deeds is dead.
Brooke Fraser
Brooke Fraser
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My own definition of leadership is this: The capacity and the will to rally men and women to a common purpose and the character which inspires confidence.
Samuel Z. Morrison
Samuel Z. Morrison
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The key to successful leadership is influence, not authority.
Kenneth H. Blanchard
Kenneth H. Blanchard
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I think leadership is service and there is power in that giving: to help people, to inspire and motivate them to reach their fullest potential.
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
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In a culture of honor, leaders lead with honor by courageously treating people according to the names God gives them and not according to the aliases they receive from people.
Unknown
Unknown
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The black man in America as well as the black man abroad has never been able to provide good leadership for himself under Christianity, because Christianity is not the true religion of God. It is a
division of religions and uses a division of God
division of religions and uses a division of God
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I remember one time I'm batting against the Dodgers in Milwaukee. They lead, 2 - 1, it's the bottom of the ninth, bases loaded, two out and the pitcher has a full count on me. I look over to the Dodger dugout and they're all in street clothes.
Bill Virdon
Bill Virdon
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The best leaders operate in four dimensions: vision, reality, ethics, and courage.
Peter Koestenbaum
Peter Koestenbaum
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You're only as good as the sum of your parts, and one person can't be a team.
David Schwimmer
David Schwimmer
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A person, who no matter how desperate the situation, gives others hope, is a true leader.
Daisaku Ikeda
Daisaku Ikeda
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Leadership, at its core, is about making other people better as a result of your presence – and making sure that the impact lasts in your absence.
Patrice Fred
Patrice Fred
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Great leaders are not defined by the absence of weakness, but rather by the presence of clear strengths.
Jim Dever Zenger
Jim Dever Zenger
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There are no office hours for leaders.
James Gibbons
James Gibbons
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Not all readers are leaders, but all leaders are readers.
Harry S. Truman
Harry S. Truman
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Public Relations is the management of communication between an organization and its publics.
James E. Grunig
James E. Grunig
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Leadership comes with consistency.
Junior Seau
Junior Seau
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Not finance. Not strategy. Not technology. It is teamwork that remains the ultimate competitive advantage, both because it is so powerful and so rare.
Patrick Lencioni
Patrick Lencioni
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Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.
Margaret Fuller
Margaret Fuller
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Leaders who refuse to listen, will eventually be surrounded by people who have nothing helpful to say.
Jordy Starner
Jordy Starner
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With great responsibility comes great power.
Mark Manson
Mark Manson
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