Leadership Quotes

We are not trapped in what the science of management says we can do. We are capable of doing what the art of leadership says is possible.

Those who cannot think or take responsibility for themselves need, and clamor for, a leader.

True leadership is servanthood. Put the interests of others at the center of your decisions.

Leadership is a choice, not a position.

What hurts most is whenever I am leading, and then I lose the match, it is disappointing, and there are so many such matches.

I’ll walk where my own nature would be leading: It vexes me to choose another guide: Where the grey flocks in ferny glens are feeding; Where the wild wind blows on the mountain-side.

There is no need to tell someone how to do his job if you have properly trained your team.

Leadership has a harder job to do than just choose sides. It must bring sides together.

I would rather be accused of breaking precedents than breaking promises.

You take those little rascals, talk to them good, pat them on the back, let them think they are good, and they will go out and beat the biguns.