21 Leadership Quotes

1. If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader. ~John Quincy Adams
2. A leader must have the courage to act against an expert’s advice. ~James Callaghan
3. Inventories can be managed, but people must be led. ~Ross Perot
4. Leadership can be thought of as a capacity to define oneself to others in a way that clarifies and expands a vision of the future. ~Edwin Friedman
5. A leader without true followers, is simply going on a walk. ~Unknown
6. Leadership is intentional influence. ~Michael McKinney
7. Leaders develop more leaders. ~Scott Williams
8. If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulder of giants. ~Isaac Newton
9. 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
10. When the effective leader is finished with his work, the people say it happened naturally.
    - Lao Tse
11. A great leader doesn’t care about being the leader, but instead cares about the mission, the vision and the people they are leading. ~Scott Williams
12. If you love what you do, you will never work another day in your life. ~Confucius
13. The only true freedom each of us has in life is the freedom to choose.  The most important choice is who we will become.  ~John C. Maxwell
14. Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.  ~Abraham Lincoln
15. Don’t tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.  ~George Patton
16. I don’t know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.  ~Bill Cosby
17. A bird doesn’t sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.  ~Maya Angelou
18. The way to get started is to stop talking and begin doing.  ~Walt Disney
19. Faith is taking the first step, even when you don’t see the whole staircase.  ~Martin Luther King Jr.
20. Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at its testing point.  ~C.S. Lewis
21. Don’t try to be someone else, that’s stupid.  ~Scott Williams

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