I lead no party; I follow no leader. I have given the best part of my life to careful study of Islam, its law and polity, its culture, its history and its literature.
~ Muhammad Iqbal
One of the best paradoxes of leadership is a leader's need to be both stubborn and open-minded. A leader must insist on sticking to the vision and stay on course to the destination. But he must be open-minded during the process.
~ Simon Sinek
Like a good parent can't also be his child's best friend, a leader with authority requires some separation from subordinates.
Arrogance, ignorance, and incompetence. Not a pretty cocktail of personality traits in the best of situations. No sirree. Not a pretty cocktail in an office-mate and not a pretty cocktail in a head of state. In fact, in a leader, it's a lethal cocktail.
~ Graydon Carter
A person always doing his or her best becomes a natural leader, just by example.
~ Joe Dimaggio
No matter how good you think you are as a leader, my goodness, the people around you will have all kinds of ideas for how you can get better. So for me, the most fundamental thing about leadership is to have the humility to continue to get feedback and to try to get better - because your job is to try to help everybody else get better.
~ Jim Yong Kim
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
A good leader can engage in a debate frankly and thoroughly, knowing that at the end he and the other side must be closer, and thus emerge stronger. You don't have that idea when you are arrogant, superficial, and uninformed.
~ Nelson Mandela
Being a good listener is absolutely critical to being a good leader you have to listen to the people who are on the front line.
~ Richard Branson
Leadership is hard to define and good leadership even harder. But if you can get people to follow you to the ends of the earth, you are a great leader.
~ Indra Nooyi
Being a good leader requires remembering that you're there for a reason, and the reason certainly isn't to have your way. High-integrity leaders not only welcome questioning and criticism - they insist on it.
~ Travis Bradberry
Good leaders must communicate vision clearly, creatively, and continually. However, the vision doesn't come alive until the leader models it.
~ John C. Maxwell
The day before the anniversary of D-Day, we lost a man who was equaled by few and surpassed by none as a leader in the cause of freedom: Ronald Reagan.
~ Mac Thornberry
He will never, ever, give up. And, most importantly, he will never, ever, let you down. Donald is, and always has been, an amazing leader. Now, he will go to work for you.
~ Melania Trump
In the past a leader was a boss. Today's leaders must be partners with their people... they no longer can lead solely based on positional power.
~ Ken Blanchard
No authoritarian leader cedes power easily or turns it over to bodies he cannot control.
~ Stephen Kinzer
A leader has the vision and conviction that a dream can be achieved. He inspires the power and energy to get it done.
~ Ralph Nader
A skilled Transition Team leader will set the general goals for a Transition, and then confer on the other team leaders working with him the power to implement those goals.
~ Richard V. Allen
If you call yourself a leader, then you have to be decisive. If you're decisive, then you have the chance to be a leader. These are two sides to the same coin.
~ Narendra Modi
I'm really thankful and complimented when people come to me and say, thank you for the great times for all these years. But I don't think about it as being a leader.
~ Bill Kreutzmann
All of us, who are members of the Germanic peoples, can be happy and thankful that once in thousands of years fate has given us, from among the Germanic peoples, such a genius, a leader, our Fuehrer Adolf Hitler, and you should be happy to be allowed to work with us.
~ Heinrich Himmler
The Christian leader of the future is called to be completely irrelevant and to stand in this world with nothing to offer but his or her own vulnerable self. God loves us, not because of what we do or accomplish, but because God has created and redeemed us in love.
~ Henri Nouwen
Everything that is bad, the falling sickness - God save the mark - or the like, should be at its worst at the full moon. I suppose because it is the leader of the stars.
~ Lady Gregory
Owners lavish love on their pets, which is why so many go from non-aggressive pups to being out of control when they're older. People just don't realise their dog must respect them as leader of the pack.
~ Cesar Millan
The book is actually called 'A Mentor Leader, a Different Way to Lead.' It really talks about my experience in the way I tried lead our football team, things that I learned from, basically, the coaches that I played for and my parents about leadership. And it is a little bit different, counter to maybe what society says about great leaders.
~ Tony Dungy
On top of my to-do list in preparing for Beijing is 'On China' by Henry Kissinger, who has had firsthand experience with every top Chinese leader since Mao, so his insights are valuable and his access is perhaps unrivaled.
~ Gary Locke
A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.
The quality of a leader is reflected in the standards they set for themselves.
~ Ray Kroc
Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.
~ Steve Jobs
People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader leads, and the boss drives.
~ Theodore Roosevelt
A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.
~ Martin Luther King
No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit for doing it.
~ Andrew Carnegie
People buy into the leader before they buy into the vision.
The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.
~ Henry Kissinger
Leadership consists not in degrees of technique but in traits of character; it requires moral rather than athletic or intellectual effort, and it imposes on both leader and follower alike the burdens of self-restraint.
~ Lewis H. Lapham
To be an objective leader means aligning your models with the needs of the organization. There is no question anymore that collaboration, seeking out diverse perspectives and developing new ways to look at challenges and opportunities, is a key leadership competency.
~ Elizabeth Thornton
Leadership is the other side of the coin of loneliness, and he who is a leader must always act alone. And acting alone, accept everything alone.
~ Ferdinand Marcos
I think for me, or for anyone who plays the quarterback position, it's almost an unspoken word when you think about leadership. Some guys can be a leader and be a running back or a lineman, or wide receiver, strong safety, or linebacker. But when you speak of quarterbacks, it's automatically a default that you're supposed to be a leader.
~ Cam Newton
Leadership is an individual sport, one that has to be fine-tuned to each of the people that reports to you. Leaders also need to provide the direction, energy, encouragement and inspiration for each person who reports directly to the leader as well as for the overall organization.
~ David Petraeus
A leader who doesn't hesitate before he sends his nation into battle is not fit to be a leader.
~ Golda Meir
