It’s not having followers that defines leadership. Cool-headed, farseeing, visionary, courageous – whichever adjectives you choose, leadership is a winning combination of personal traits and the ability to think and act as a leader, a person who directs the activities of others for the good of all. Anyone can be a leader, even if the only person they’re leading is themselves.
Here are few Leadership Quatations:
"Skill in the art of communication is crucial to a leader's success. He can accomplish nothing unless he can communicate effectively."
– Norman Allen
"Leadership is the wise use of power. Power is the capacity to translate intention into reality and sustain it."
– Warren Bennis
"Six traits of effective leaders: 1. Make others feel important; 2. Promote a vision; 3. Follow the golden rule; 4. Admit mistakes; 5. Criticize others only in private; 6. Stay close to the action. Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire."
– Christian Nevell Bovee
"Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it."
– Dwight D. Eisenhower
"A leader has the vision and conviction that a dream can be achieved. He inspires the power and energy to get it done."
– Ralph Lauren
"The best leaders are those most interested in surrounding themselves with assistants and associates smarter than they are. They are frank in admitting this and are willing to pay for such talents."
– Amos Parrish
"Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader."
- Publius Cornelius Tacitus
"Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things."
- Peter F. Drucker
"Don't tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results."
- George S. Patton
"A leader is a dealer in hope."
- Napoleon Bonaparte
"I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?"
- Benjamin Disraeli
- "The leadership instinct you are born with is the backbone. You develop the funny bone and the wishbone that go with it."
- - Elaine Agather
"Only one man in a thousand is a leader of men -- the other 999 follow women."
- Groucho Marx
"The very essence of leadership is that you have to have vision. You can't blow an uncertain trumpet."
- Theodore M. Hesburgh
"The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint to keep from meddling with them while they do it."
- Theodore Roosevelt
"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
"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
"The real leader has no need to lead - he is content to point the way."
- Henry Miller
"It's amazing how many cares disappear when you decide not to be something, but to be someone."
- Coco Chanel
"People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. . . The leader works in the open, and the boss in covert. The leader leads, and the boss drives."
- Theodore Roosevelt
"The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you."
- Max DePree
"I used to think that running an organization was equivalent to conducting a symphony orchestra. But I don't think that's quite it; it's more like jazz. There is more improvisation."
- Warren Bennis
"When the effective leader is finished with his work, the people say it happened naturally."
- Lao Tse
"Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life."
- Sandra Carey
"We must become the change we want to see."
- Mahatma Gandhi
"Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless."
- Mother Theresa
"Leadership is practiced not so much in words as in attitude and in actions." - Harold Geneen
"The only real training for leadership is leadership."
- Antony Jay
"Don't be afraid of the space between your dreams and reality. If you can dream it you can make it so."
- Belva Davis
"Not everything that is faced can be changed.
But nothing can be changed until it is faced."
- James Baldwin
