Quotes on Leadership

“Leadership is practiced not so much in words as in attitude and in actions."
-- Harold S. Geneen

"I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people". -- Mahatma Gandhi

"Enduring setbacks while maintaining the ability to show others the way to go forward is a true test of leadership”. -- Anonymous

"One measure of leadership is the caliber of people who choose to follow you".
- Dennis A. Peer

"Leadership is unlocking people's potential to become better”.  -- Bill Bradley

"Leadership is communicating to people their worth and potential so clearly that they come to see it in themselves”.  -- Stephen Covey

"The very essence of leadership is that you have to have vision. You can't blow an uncertain trumpet”.  -- Theodore M. Hesburgh

"Leadership is a quality of those who earn the respect of others through the wisdom of the combination of their words and their actions”.  -- Walter Grant IV

"The quality of a leader is reflected in the standards they set for themselves”.  -- Ray Kroc

"Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail”.  -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

"If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader”.  -- John Quincy Adams

"The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind in others the conviction and will to carry on”.  -- Walter Lippman

"You don't lead by pointing and telling people some place to go. You lead by going to that place and making a case”.  -- Ken Kesey