You have to lead people gently toward what they already know is right.

Phil Crosby

I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.

Stephen Covey

Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.

Theodore Roosevelt

I am not afraid of an army of lions led by a sheep; I am afraid of an army of sheep led by a lion.

Alexander The Great

To succeed in business, it is necessary to make others see things as you see them.

Aristotle Onassis

You measure the size of the accomplishment by the obstacles you had to overcome to reach your goals.

Booker T. Washington

Tell me and I’ll forget; show me and I may remember; involve me and I’ll understand.

Chinese Proverb

Leadership is about making others better as a result of your presence and making sure that impact lasts in your absence.

Sheryl Sandberg

The most important thing as a leader is your relationship with God.

Manny Pacquiao

Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.

Steve Jobs

A boss has the title, a leader has the people.

Simon Sinek

Leadership is like third grade: it means repeating the significant things.

Max De Pree

Leadership is unlocking people’s potential to become better.

Bill Bradley

The quality of a leader is reflected in the standards they set for themselves.

Ray Kroc

Leadership is an action, not a position.

Donald McGannon

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

Nelson Mandela

We cannot lead anyone farther than we have been ourselves.

John C. Maxwell

The ability to learn is the most important quality a leader can have. 

Sheryl Sandberg

Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them.

John C. Maxwell

Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.

Warren Bennis

In the future, there will be no female leaders. There will just be leaders.

Sheryl Sandberg

A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd.

Max Lucado

Don’t tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.

George Patton

Leadership is the art of giving people a platform for spreading ideas that work.

Seth Godin

Ninety percent of leadership is the ability to communicate something people want.

Dianne Feinstein

It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you’ll do things differently.

Warren Buffett

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

Sam Walton

Of all the things I’ve done, the most vital is coordinating those who work with me and aiming their efforts at a certain goal.

Walt Disney

You don’t have to hold a position in order to be a leader.

Henry Ford

True leadership stems from individuality that is honestly and sometimes imperfectly expressed… Leaders should strive for authenticity over perfection.

Sheryl Sandberg

To have long term success as a coach or in any position of leadership, you have to be obsessed in some way.

Pat Riley

Each group and each youngster is different. As a leader or coach, you get to know what they need.

Mike Krzyzewski

Leadership is a matter of having people look at you and gain confidence, seeing how you react. If you’re in control, they’re in control.

Tom Landry

The greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things. He is the one that gets the people to do the greatest things.

Ronald Reagan

A person always doing his or her best becomes a natural leader, just by example.

Joe DiMaggio

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

Henry Kissinger

Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate and doubt to offer a solution everybody can understand.

Gen. Colin Powell

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.

Rosalynn Carter

To be a leader, you have to make people want to follow you, and nobody wants to follow someone who doesn’t know where he is going.

Joe Namath

In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better.

Harry Truman

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

Mahatma Gandhi

A leader. . .is like a shepherd. He stays behind the flock, letting the most nimble go out ahead, whereupon the others follow, not realizing that all along they are being directed from behind.

Nelson Mandela

Leadership consists of nothing but taking responsibility for everything that goes wrong and giving your subordinates credit for everything that goes well.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

I think one of the keys to leadership is recognizing that everybody has gifts and talents. A good leader will learn how to harness those gifts toward the same goal.

Ben Carson

Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

To lead people, walk beside them. As for the best leaders, the people do not notice their existence … When the best leader’s work is done, the people say, ‘We did it ourselves!

Lao Tzu

If your actions create a legacy that inspires others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, then, you are an excellent leader.

Dolly Parton

He who wishes to be obeyed must know how to command.

Niccolò Machiavelli

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

Indra Nooyi

All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership.

John Kenneth Galbraith