Quotes About Leadership

Quotes about leadership are great to share during leadership development training seminars. These great leadership quotations can also help to inspire you personally in developing leadership skills in the workplace and in your everyday life. Post them in the office or on your refrigerator at home to remind you to work at becoming the best leader you can be!

Leadership Quotations

"Leadership is the art of getting other people to run with your idea as if it were their own."
- Harry S. Truman


"The leader has to be practical and a realist, yet must talk the language of the visionary and the idealist."
- Eric Hoffer


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


"You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips."
- Oliver Goldsmith


"Rough waters are truer tests of leadership. In calm water every ship has a good captain."
- Swedish proverb


"A different world cannot be built by indifferent people."
- Horace Mann


"The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been."
- Henry Kissinger


"Outstanding leaders go out of their way to boost the self-esteem of their personnel. If people believe in themselves, it's amazing what they can accomplish."
- Sam Walton


"As for the best leaders, the people do not notice their existence.
The next best, the people honor and praise;
The next, the people fear;
And the next, the people hate.
When the best leader's work is done,
The people say: 'We did it ourselves.'"
- Lao Tzu...Sutra 17


"And when we think we lead, we are most led."
- Lord Byron

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