leadership sayings

Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
- George Patton

A good leader takes a little more than his share of the blame, a little less than his share of the credit.
- Arnold H. Glasgow

Becoming a leader is synonymous with becoming yourself. It is precisely that simple, and it is also that difficult.
- Warren Bennis

Men make history, and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skilful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better.
- Harry S. Truman

Leadership is generally defined as the capacity to make things happen that would otherwise not happen.
- Thomas E. Cronin

There are many elements to a campaign. Leadership is number one. Everything else is number two.
- Bertolt Brecht

Our world is very dishonest, and our leaders encourage dishonesty by setting bad examples- by lying, being corrupt, and using political sleight of hand to sustain power.
- Stuart Wilde

A leader, once convinced that a particular course of action is the right one, must be undaunted when the going gets tough.
- Ronald Reagan

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

Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.
- John Fitzgerald Kennedy

The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it is on a section gang, a football field, in an army, or in an office.
- Dwight David Eisenhower

Leadership is based on inspiration, not domination; on cooperation, not intimidation.
- William Arthur Ward

Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.
- Peter F. Drucker

Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes.
- Peter F. Drucker

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 F. Drucker

Nothing so conclusively proves a man s ability to lead others as what he does from day to day to lead himself.
- Thomas Watson

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

Educationists should build the capacities of the spirit of inquiry, creativity, entrepreneurial and moral leadership among students and become their role model.
- Abdul Kalam

One must change one's tactics every ten years if one wishes to maintain one's superiority.
- Napoleon Bonaparte

The art of leadership. consists in consolidating the attention of the people against a single adversary and taking care that nothing will split up that attention.
- Adolf Hitler