Read a Few Powerful Quotes on Leadership

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“The challenge of leadership is to be strong but not rude; be kind, but not weak; be bold, but not a bully; be humble, but not timid; be proud, but not arrogant; have humor, but without folly.” 

— Jim Rohn

“The day the soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help them or concluded that you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership.” 

— Colin Powell

“The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.” 

— William Arthur Ward

“Average leaders raise the bar on themselves; good leaders raise the bar for others; great leaders inspire others to raise their own bar.” 

— Orrin Woodward

“My job is not to be easy on people. My job is to take these great people we have and to push them and make them even better.” 

— Steve Jobs

“Don’t tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.” — George S. Patton Jr.

“He that thinketh he leadeth and hath no one following him is only taking a walk.”

— John C. Maxwell

“Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.” 

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

“A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don’t necessarily want to go but ought to be.”

— Rosalynn Carter

“Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them.” 

— John C. Maxwell 

“What you do has far greater impact than what you say.” 

— Stephen Covey

“The growth and development of people is the highest calling of leadership.” 

— Harvey S. Firesto

“You manage things; you lead people.” 

— Grace Murray Hopper

“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

"Leadership is an action, not a position." 

— Donald McGannon

 “When you put together deep knowledge about a subject that intensely matters to you, charisma happens. You gain courage to share your passion, and when you do that, folks follow.” 

— Jerry Porras

“A good leader leads the people from above them. A great leader leads the people from within them.” — M.D. Arnold

“A leader takes people where they would never go on their own.” 

— Hans Finze

“Become the kind of leader that people would follow voluntarily, even if you had no title or position.” — Brian Tracy

“I start with the premise that the function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.” 

— Ralph Nader

“A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together.” 

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe