Quotes About Leadership

They have either lost confidence that you can help or concluded you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership.

The most important thing I learned is that soldiers watch what their leaders do. You can give them classes and lecture them forever, but it is your personal example they will follow.

Leadership is a responsibility to do more, not an excuse to do less.

A leader's job is to develop committed followers. Bad leaders destroy their followers' sense of commitment.

A true leader has the confidence to stand alone, the courage to make tough decisions, and the compassion to listen to the needs of others. He does not set out to be a leader, but becomes one by the equality of his actions and the integrity of his intent.

Lead me, follow me, or get the hell out of my way.

Leadership is, among other things, the ability to inflict pain and get away with it – short-term pain for long-term gain.

If you want to improve the organization, you have to improve yourself and the organization gets pulled up with you.

Leadership is hard to define and good leadership is even harder. But if you can get people to follow you to the ends of the earth, you are a great leader.

Never be afraid to speak your mind on relevant issues; good leaders stand for relevance and they are never afraid to face the facts head on. Bad leaders see the problems, close their eyes and do something else!

Bad leadership during the past years has cast on our party the shadow of great and grave burdens.

All leaders are readers.

The challenge of leadership is to be strong but not rude; be kind, but not weak; be bold, but not a bully; be humble, but not timid; be proud, but not arrogant; have humor, but without folly.

People buy into the leader before they buy into the vision.

A measure of a leader is not the number of people who serve him, but the number of people he serves.

Insecure leaders think everything is about them, and as a result, every action, every piece of information, every decision is put through their filter of self-centeredness.

A successful person finds the right place for himself. But a successful leader finds the right place for others.

The most powerful leadership tool you have is your own personal example.

Bad leadership is an oxymoron.

Servant-leadership is more than a concept, it is a fact. Any great leader, by which I also mean an ethical leader of any group, will see herself or himself as a servant of that group and will act accordingly.

Good leadership is pervasive persuasive, and persistent. Bad leadership is poisoned with pedanticism, posturing, self-importance.

You either run with lions or walk with sheep.

You can not lead a battle if you think you look silly on a horse.

The most important rule of educational leadership is to always remember that people, not policies or programs, are what drive highly effective schools.