Leadership By Famous Leaders Quotes

No institution can possibly survive if it needs geniuses or supermen to manage it. It must be organized in such a way as to be able to get along under a leadership composed of average human beings.

Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy.

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.

The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality.

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.

In this world a man must either be anvil or hammer.

You don’t lead by pointing and telling people some place to go. You lead by going to that place and making a case.

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet.

Leaders aren’t born they are made. And they are made just like anything else, through hard work. And that’s the price we’ll have to pay to achieve that goal, or any goal.

Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.

In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.

A good leader inspires people to have confidence in the leader,
a great leader inspires people to have confidence in themselves.

A leader is best when people barely know that he exists.

The nation will find it very hard to look up to the leaders who are keeping their ears to the ground.

Pull the string, and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all.

Misfortunes, untoward events, lay open, disclose the skill of a general, while success conceals his weakness, his weak points.