Leadership Quotes

You can't run a government from one single person. What instead matters is that leadership be about gathering around extraordinary individuals and getting the best out of them.

~ Justin Trudeau

Leadership consists of picking good men and helping them do their best.

~ Chester W. Nimitz

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

The secret to success is good leadership, and good leadership is all about making the lives of your team members or workers better.

~ Tony Dungy

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 man always has two reasons for doing anything: a good reason and the real reason.

~ J. P. Morgan

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

There are good leaders who actively guide and bad leaders who actively misguide. Hence, leadership is about persuasion, presentation and people skills.

~ Shiv Khera

My philosophy of leadership is to surround myself with good people who have ability, judgment and knowledge, but above all, a passion for service.

~ Sonny Perdue

Men make history and not the other way around. 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 S Truman

History has shown that one cannot legislate a culture of integrity. And yet, one of the paramount responsibilities and challenges of corporate leadership is to ensure such a culture.

~ Preet Bharara

At an unprecedented time with the worst attack ever on our soil, our President displayed extraordinary determination, leadership and resolve when history was thrust upon him and the United States.

~ Olympia Snowe

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

~ Sam Walton

I am deeply honored by the opportunity to lead Intel. We have amazing assets, tremendous talent, and an unmatched legacy of innovation and execution. I look forward to working with our leadership team and employees worldwide to continue our proud legacy while moving even faster into ultra-mobility to lead Intel into the next era.

~ Brian Krzanich

I think leadership is service and there is power in that giving: to help people, to inspire and motivate them to reach their fullest potential.

~ Denise Morrison

In a world of complex threats, our security and leadership depends on all elements of our power - including strong and principled diplomacy.

~ Barack Obama

Leadership is about vision and responsibility, not power.

~ Seth Berkley

You have to enable and empower people to make decisions independent of you. As I've learned, each person on a team is an extension of your leadership; if they feel empowered by you they will magnify your power to lead.

~ Tom Ridge

The exercise of power is determined by thousands of interactions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, all the more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyone has a small part of himself in both.

~ Václav Havel

Dr. King's leadership reaffirmed the promise of our democracy: that everyday people, working together, have the power to change our government and our institutions for the better.

~ Maria Cantwell

God will never direct us to be prideful, arrogant and unforgiving, immoral or slothful or full of fear. We step into these things because we are insensitive to the leadership of the Holy Spirit within us.

~ Charles Stanley

I think America has a responsibility to maintain its leadership in technology and its moral leadership in the world, to explore, to seek knowledge.

~ Eugene Cernan

I understand from experience that unity is easy to call for, but it takes the right kind of leadership to achieve.

~ Steve Scalise

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

The topic of leadership is a touchy one. A lot of leaders fail because they don't have the bravery to touch that nerve or strike that chord. Throughout my years, I haven't had that fear.

~ Kobe Bryant

I think that my leadership style is to get people to fear staying in place, to fear not changing.

~ Louis V. Gerstner

Europe is difficult to coordinate, and our main deficit may not even lie in this area of finance and economics, but in foreign and security policy. We have a leadership problem because we are still 27 different members who have still not decided on how to work with each other based on what we used to call a European constitution.

~ Peer Steinbruck

As long as the opposition believes the world will stand with Ukraine's democrat reformers, they will have the leverage and the courage to establish a legitimate republic under the leadership of Viktor Yushchenko.

~ Bob Schaffer