Leadership Quotes - Page 2

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.

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.

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.

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.

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

A good leader can engage in a debate frankly and thoroughly, knowing that at the end he and the other side must be closer, and thus emerge stronger. You don't have that idea when you are arrogant, superficial, and uninformed.

The leaders who work most effectively, it seems to me, never say "I." And that's not because they have trained themselves not to say "I." They don't think "I." They think "we"; they think "team." They understand their job to be to make the team function. They accept responsibility and don't sidestep it, but "we" gets the credit. This is what creates trust, what enables you to get the task done.

Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.

Until you spread your wings, you'll have no idea how far you can fly.

We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread. They may have been few in number, but they offer sufficient proof that everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms -- to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.

It is better to lead from behind and to put others in front, especially when you celebrate victory when nice things occur. You take the front line when there is danger. Then people will appreciate your leadership.