Leadership Mottos, leadership quotes and phrases.
“To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart.”
Eleanor Roosevelt
“The price of greatness is responsibility.”
Winston Churchill
“Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.”
Robert Louis Stevenson
“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
“A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.”
John C. Maxwell
“Don’t tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.”
George S. Patton Jr.
“Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The art of leadership is saying no, not yes. It is very easy to say yes.”
Tony Blair
“Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.”
Warren Bennis
“A leader is not an administrator who loves to run others, but someone who carries water for his people so that they can get on with their jobs.”
Robert Townsend
“A leader is one who sees more than others see, who sees farther than others see, and who sees before others see.”
Leroy Eimes
“The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.”
Martin Luther King, Jr.
“People who let events and circumstances dictate their lives are living reactively. That means that they don’t act on life, they only react to it.”
Stedman Graham
“The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and will to carry on.”
Walter J. Lippmann
“A good leader can’t get too far ahead of his followers.”
Franklin D. Roosevelt
“Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them.”
John Maxwell
“A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd.”
Max Lucado
“As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.”
Bill Gates