70 Leaders Quotes and Sayings

In this post, you will find amazing leaders Quotes and Sayings.

Short Leaders Sayings

 

“A leader is a dealer in hope.” —Napoleon

 

“Leaders lead but in the end it’s the people who deliver.” —Tony Blair

 

“When the best leader’s work is done the people say, ‘We did it ourselves.” —Lao Tzu

 

“Earn your leadership every day.” —Michael Jordan

 

“Where there is no vision, the people perish.” —Proverbs

 

“A ruler should be slow to punish and swift to reward.” —Ovid

 

“Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.” —Napoleon Hill

 

“Leaders need to be optimists. Their vision is beyond the present.” —Rudy Giuliani

 

“Victory has a hundred fathers and defeat is an orphan.” —John F. Kennedy

 

“Knowing what must be done does away with fear.” —Rosa Parks

 

“Control your own destiny or someone else will.” —Jack Welch

 

“Leadership is the key to 99 percent of all successful efforts.” —Erskine Bowles

 

“Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.” —Albert Einstein

 

“Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.” —Warren Bennis

 

“Education is the mother of leadership.” —Wendell Willkie

 

“Anyone, anywhere, can make a positive difference.” —Mark Sanborn

 

“Leaders don’t create followers, they create more leaders.” —Tom Peters

 

“To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart.” —Eleanor Roosevelt

 

“The art of leadership is saying no, not yes. It is very easy to say yes.” —Tony Blair

 

“Leadership is unlocking people’s potential to become better.” —Bill Bradley

 

“To command is to serve, nothing more and nothing less.” —Andre Malraux

 

“Lead from the back and let others believe they are in front.” —Nelson Mandela

 

“Leaders keep their eyes on the horizon, not just on the bottom line.” —Warren Bennis

 

“Leadership is an action, not a position.” —Donald McGannon

 

“A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd.” —Max Lucado

 

“Leadership has been defined as the ability to hide your panic from others.” —Unknown

 

“He who has great power should use it lightly.” —Seneca

 

“The only safe ship in a storm is leadership.” —Faye Wattleton

Leaders Sayings

 

“When the whole world is silent, even one voice becomes powerful.” —Malala Yousafzai

 

“Leaders establish the vision for the future and set the strategy for getting there.” —John P. Kotter

 

“A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.” —John C. Maxwell

 

“Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.” —Robert Louis Stevenson

 

“Ninety percent of leadership is the ability to communicate something people want.” —Dianne Feinstein

 

“The nation will find it very hard to look up to the leaders who are keeping their ears to the ground.” —Benjamin Franklin

 

“As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.” —Bill Gates

 

“Leaders are visionaries with a poorly developed sense of fear and no concept of the odds against them.” —Robert Jarvik

 

“As a leader, the first person I need to lead is me. The first person that I should try to change is me.” —John C. Maxwell

 

“Leaders are passionate about the Purpose, while Managers need to be passionate about the Results!” —Amit Chatterjee

 

“Leadership, on the other hand, is about creating change you believe in.” —Seth Godin

 

“A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.” —Martin Luther King, Jr.

 

“One of the tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency.” —Arnold Glasow

 

“I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.” —Stephen Covey

 

“Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them.” —John C. Maxwell

 

“Great leaders state out loud what they intend to do and in doing so, they get things done.” —Simon Sinek

 

“Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them.” —John C. Maxwell

 

“Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.” —Peter F. Drucker

 

“A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus, but a molder of consensus.” —Ronald Reagan

 

“It is absurd that a man should rule others, who cannot rule himself.” —Latin Proverb

 

“Very few of the great leaders ever get through their careers without failing, sometimes dramatically.” —Philip Crosby

 

“No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit for doing it.” —Andrew Carnegie

 

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

 

“Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.” —Robert Louis Stevenson

 

“A good general not only sees the way to victory; he also knows when victory is impossible.” —Polybius

 

“Leadership is like third grade: it means repeating the significant things.” —Max De Pree

 

“All leaders share something in common. They feel they are the only ones who can do the job.” —Julie Nixon Eisenhower

 

“Great leaders can see the greatness in others when they can’t see it themselves and lead them to their highest potential they don’t even know.” —Roy T. Bennett

 

“I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the water to create many ripples.” —Mother Teresa

 

“Leadership appears to be the art of getting others to want to do something you are convinced should be done.” —Vance Packard

 

“In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.” —Thomas Jefferson

Top Ten Leaders Sayings

 

Here you will find top ten leaders sayings selected by our team

  1. “Leaders establish the vision for the future and set the strategy for getting there.” —John P. Kotter
  2. “Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them.” —John C. Maxwell
  3. “Ninety percent of leadership is the ability to communicate something people want.” —Dianne Feinstein
  4. “A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.” —John C. Maxwell
  5. “Leaders need to be optimists. Their vision is beyond the present.” —Rudy Giuliani
  6. “A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus, but a molder of consensus.” —Ronald Reagan
  7. “To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart.” —Eleanor Roosevelt
  8. “The nation will find it very hard to look up to the leaders who are keeping their ears to the ground.” —Benjamin Franklin
  9. “When the whole world is silent, even one voice becomes powerful.” —Malala Yousafzai
  10. “Leaders don’t create followers, they create more leaders.” —Tom Peters