Leader Quotes - Page 2

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.

Leaders think and talk about the solutions. Followers think and talk about the problems.

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.

Never let yourself be persuaded that any one Great Man, any one leader, is necessary to the salvation of America. When America consists of one leader and 158 million followers, it will no longer be America.

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.

Remember upon the conduct of each depends the fate of all.

Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.

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.

Politics is when you say you are going to do one thing while intending to do another. Then you do neither what you said nor what you intended.

Be your own leader, be your own self, step out of my shadows and be your own person.

A competent leader can get efficient service from poor troops, while on the contrary an incapable leader can demoralize the best of troops.

The supreme quality of leadership is integrity.

The mind is like an iceberg, it floats with one-seventh of its bulk above water.

Look wide, and even when you think you are looking wide - look wider still.

Lead from the back — and let others believe they are in front.

It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.

I have always thought that what is needed is the development of people who are interested not in being leaders as much as in developing leadership in others.

It's not for me. I tried human flesh and it's too salty for my taste.

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.

Optimism is a strategy for making a better future. Because unless you believe that the future can be better, it’s unlikely you will step up and take responsibility for making it so. If you assume that there’s no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, there are opportunities to change things, there’s a chance you may contribute to making a better world. The choice is yours.

You see things and you say, 'Why?'. But I dream things and I say, 'Why not?'.

Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.

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.

Life is hard; it's harder if you're stupid.