The most important ingredient of leadership is character. Most of the proficiencies can be learned, but what's inside you is something that's difficult to change.
- Jesse Robredo
To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.
- Marilyn vos Savant
Life is like a dogsled race. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
- Lewis Grizzard
Do not tell them how to do it. Show them how to do it and do not say a word. If you tell them, they will watch your lips move. If you show them, they will want to do it themselves.
- Maria Montessori
Leaders don't create followers, they create more leaders.
- Tom Peters
Keep your thoughts positive because your thoughts become your words. Keep your words positive because your words become your behavior. Keep your behavior positive because your behavior becomes your habits. Keep your habits positive because your habits become your values. Keep your values positive because your values become your destiny.
- Mahatma Gandhi
A true leader has the confidence to stand alone, the courage to make tough decisions, and the compassion to listen to the needs of others. He does not set out to be a leader, but becomes one by the equality of his actions and the integrity of his intent.
- Douglas MacArthur
A good leader inspires people to have confidence in the leader, a great leader inspires people to have confidence in themselves.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
- Abraham Lincoln
Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success.
- Henry Ford
Walls turned sideways are bridges.
- Angela Davis
Leadership is no longer about your position. It's now more about your passion for excellence and making a difference You can lead without a title
- Robin Sharma
The challenge of leadership is to be strong, but not rude; be kind, but not weak; be bold, but not bully; be thoughtful, but not lazy; be humble, but not timid; be proud, but not arrogant; have humor, but without folly.
- Jim Rohn
When you are right,you have no need to be angry. When you are wrong, you have no right to be angry.
Nobody cares how much you know, until they know how much you care.
- Theodore Roosevelt
Remember upon the conduct of each depends the fate of all.
- Alexander the Great
A customer is the most important visitor on our premises. He is not dependent on us. We are dependent on him. He is not an interruption in our work. He is the purpose of it. He is not an outsider in our business. He is part of it. We are not doing him a favor by serving him. He is doing us a favor by giving us an opportunity to do so.
Leaders think and talk about the solutions. Followers think and talk about the problems.
- Brian Tracy
Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.
- Warren G. Bennis
Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.
- Sigmund Freud
The supreme quality of leadership is integrity.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
The greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things. He is the one that gets the people to do the greatest things.
- Ronald Reagan
Look wide, and even when you think you are looking wide - look wider still.
- Robert Baden-Powell
The mind is like an iceberg, it floats with one-seventh of its bulk above water.
Lead from the back — and let others believe they are in front.
- Nelson Mandela
Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right.
It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
- Harry S. Truman
You see things and you say, 'Why?'. But I dream things and I say, 'Why not?'.
- George Bernard Shaw
Look wide, beyond your immediate surroundings and limits, and you see things in their right proportion. Look above the level of things around you and see a higher aim and possibility to your work.
My grandfather once told me that there were two kinds of people: those who do the work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was much less competition.
- Indira Gandhi
A competent leader can get efficient service from poor troops, while on the contrary an incapable leader can demoralize the best of troops.
- John J. Pershing
Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.
- Peter Drucker
The man who promises everything is sure to fulfil nothing, and everyone who promises too much is in danger of using evil means in order to carry out his promises, and is already on the road to perdition.
- Carl Jung
Where there is no vision, there is no hope.
- George Washington Carver
Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.
- Xunzi
You don't lead by hitting people over the head - that's assault, not leadership.
Until you spread your wings, you'll have no idea how far you can fly.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
Life is hard; it's harder if you're stupid.
- John Wayne
Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted in important affairs.
- Albert Einstein
He who has never learned to obey cannot be a good commander.
- Aristotle
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
What counts in life is not the mere fact that we have lived. It is what difference we have made to the lives of others that will determine the significance of the life we lead.
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
The boss drives people; the leader coaches them. The boss depends on authority; the leader on good will. The boss inspires fear; the leader inspires enthusiasm. The boss says I; The leader says WE. The boss fixes the blame for the breakdown; the leader fixes the breakdown. The boss says, GO; the leader says Lets GO!
- Harry Gordon Selfridge
A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.
- John C. Maxwell
Freedom, by definition, is people realizing that they are their own leaders.
- Diane Nash
Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.
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
Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help or concluded you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership.
- Colin Powell
