A leader who doesn't hesitate before he sends his nation into battle is not fit to be a leader.Golda Meir
Leadership Quotes
These 26 quotes on leadership come straight from the QuotePlace collection — lines by poets, philosophers, leaders and artists across the centuries. Open any card to read the quote on its own page and meet the author behind it.
A leader is best when people barely know he exists.Lao Tzu
When the best leader's work is done the people say, 'We did it ourselves.'Lao Tzu
Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love. It will not lead you astray.Rumi
Be the chief but never the lord.Lao Tzu
To lead people walk behind them.Lao Tzu
I allow my intuition to lead my path.Manuel Puig
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.John Quincy Adams
The road leading to a goal does not separate you from the destination; it is essentially a part of it.Charles DeLint
Nothing is predestined: The obstacles of your past can become the gateways that lead to new beginnings.Ralph Blum
Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding about ourselves.Carl Jung
Were here for a reason. I believe a bit of the reason is to throw little torches out to lead people through the dark.Whoopi Goldberg
Leaders aren't born they are made. And they are made just like anything else, through hard work. And that's the price well have to pay to achieve…Vince Lombardi
Do not follow where the path may lead. Go, instead, where there is no path and leave a trail.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.Mother Teresa
A leader or a man of action in a crisis almost always acts subconsciously and then thinks of the reasons for his action.Jawaharlal Nehru
No one has a finer command of language than the person who keeps his mouth shut.Sam Rayburn
Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to a better understanding of ourselves.Carl Jung
Science, my lad, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because they lead little by little to the truth.Jules Verne
Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.Steve Jobs
Singleness of purpose is one of the chief essentials for success in life.John D. Rockefeller
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…Sam Walton
Do not wait; the time will never be just right. Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.Napoleon Hill
There is one truth that must be sought after first before you can go further and that truth is that you must take charge of your own life for you cannot lead a life of truth if you let someone else take responsibility for your thoughts or actions.Byron Pulsifer
Do not indulge in dreams of having what you have not, but reckon up the chief of the blessings you do possess, and then thankfully remember how you would crave for them if they were not yours.Marcus Aurelius
The chief enemy of creativity is good sense.Pablo Picasso