Quotes and Sayings about Leaders

A true leader does what is right, no matter what others think.

Albus Dumbledore in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

Responsibility

Lead from the back and let others believe they are in front.

Nelson Mandela

Only the most broken people can be great leaders.

Namor in Black Panther - 2: Wakanda Forever

Nothing so conclusively proves a man's ability to lead others as what he does from day to day to lead himself.

Thomas J. Watson

Leaders always step up, regardless of the circumstances.

Scott Morrison

If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.

John Quincy Adams

No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit for doing it.

Andrew Carnegie

Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

John F. Kennedy

Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others.

Jack Welch

Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.

Jack Welch

Bosses

Great leaders have to know when to divide that line from being selfless to being selfish.

Michael Irvin

There are two different types of leader. A person can either be like a thermometer or a thermostat. A thermometer will tell you what the temperature is. A thermostat will not only tell you what the temperature is, but it'll move you to the temperature you need to get to.

Kevin McCarthy

Elrond: "It's hard to see what is right when friendship and duty are mingled."
Gil-galad: "Such is the burden of those who lead and those who would seek to."

Gil-galad in The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power - Season 1 Episode 1

The duty of a leader is to serve their people, not for the people to serve them.

Elon Musk - February 2022

Politicians

A great man doesn't seek to lead - he's called to it.

Dune

It is easy to rule through fear, but it takes a rare leader to rule through love.

Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum

When you see your leader working extremely hard in practice, you feel like, "man, if I don't give it my all, I shouldn't be here."

Horace Grant in The Last Dance - Episode 4

Training

As a leader, It is important to not just see your own success, but focus on the success of others.

Sundar Pichai

I was born a leader, never a follower. I never felt peer pressure. If the group goes left, I go right.

Deontay Wilder

I have a different vision of leadership. A leader is someone who brings people together.

George W. Bush

A good leader takes a little more than his share of the blame, a little less than his share of the credit.

Arnold H. Glasow

Bosses

The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it is on a section gang, a football field, in an army, or in an office.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Bosses

A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.

John C. Maxwell

Blind faith in your leaders, or in anything, will get you killed.

Bruce Springsteen

Revolution

The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.

Henry Kissinger

Enlightened leadership is spiritual if we understand spirituality not as some kind of religious dogma or ideology but as the domain of awareness where we experience values like truth, goodness, beauty, love and compassion, and also intuition, creativity, insight and focused attention.

Deepak Chopra

Spirituality

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

Sometimes you need to serve in order to lead.

Odysseus in Troy

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The boss isn't always right, but he's still the boss.

Rudolf Abel in Bridge of Spies

Bosses

Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Bosses Motivation

The speed of the boss is the speed of the team.

Lee Iacocca

Bosses

Great companies are built on great products.

Elon Musk

Business Tesla

In a world that's changing so quickly, you're guaranteed to fail if you don't take any risks.

Mark Zuckerberg (Facebook CEO)

Progress Change Risk Business

I've actually not read any books on time management.

Elon Musk

Business

Talk is cheap, but when you go out there and prove it - you're the first one to show up for practice, and you're the last to leave - that's how you lead by example.

Rajon Rondo

Training Role Models

Control your own destiny or someone else will.

Jack Welch

Fate & Destiny Motivation

Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.

Albus Dumbledore in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

Courage Light

If you want to see the true measure of a man, watch how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.

Sirius Black in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

Remember, with great power. comes great responsibility!

Uncle Ben in Spider-Man

Power Responsibility Strength

Education is the most powerful weapon you can choose to change the world.

Nelson Mandela

Human Rights Education

In times of crisis the wise build bridges, while the foolish build barriers.

T’Challa in Black Panther

Brücken Crisis & Catastrophes

Whenever an individual or a business decides that success has been attained, progress stops.

Thomas J. Watson

Progress Success Business

A safe and effective vaccine will be available to all Australians and will be a key step in our recovery in 2021.

Scott Morrison - New Year Eve’s address 2020/21

Coronavirus

I am a warrior, so that my son may be a merchant, so that his son may be a poet.

John Quincy Adams

Warriors

You cannot push any one up a ladder unless he be willing to climb a little himself.

Andrew Carnegie

Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.

John F. Kennedy

Forgiveness & Mercy Enemies & Opponents Names

There's no such thing as individual isolated success in football. You can see it in basketball, Lebron takes the ball off one rim, he dunks it on the other, he does it all by himself. You see it in baseball, Aaron Judge snaps that home all by himself. And golf, Tiger drops that putty, does it all by himself. In football, you don't do anything all by yourself. It's always about the man next to me.

Michael Irvin - Oktober 2023

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