Practical Leadership Quotes

A great collection of the best Leadership quotes ever said or written by the greatest authors and thinkers. The selected quotes are brief and practical and embody powerful and proven Leadership concepts.

A great read anytime in your day and is pleasant to share with your coworkers and friends. Use the tips proposed by the quotes to boost your Leadership skills into a new level.

Sample Practical Leadership Quotes:

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

John Quincy Adams

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

John C. Maxwell

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

It is better to lead from behind and to put others in front, especially when you celebrate victory when nice things occur. You take the front line when there is danger. Then people will appreciate your leadership.

Nelson Mandela

Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.

Steve Jobs

Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.

Warren Bennis

People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader leads, and the boss drives.

Theodore Roosevelt

A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out.

Stephen Covey

Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes.

Peter Drucker

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

Henry A. Kissinger

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

John C. Maxwell

If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.

William James

A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd.

Max Lucado

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 is unlocking people's potential to become better.

Bill Bradley

A leader is a dealer in hope.

Napoleon Bonaparte

The art of leadership is saying no, not saying yes. It is very easy to say yes.

Tony Blair

It is better to have a lion at the head of an army of sheep, than a sheep at the head of an army of lions.

Daniel Defoe

You're only as good as the people you hire.

Ray Kroc

A leader does not deserve the name unless he is willing occasionally to stand alone.

Henry A. Kissinger

People who enjoy meetings should not be in charge of anything.

Thomas Sowell

Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.

Margaret Fuller

There are three secrets to managing. The first secret is have patience. The second is be patient. And the third most important secret is patience.

Chuck Tanner

To succeed in business it is necessary to make others see things as you see them.

Aristotle Onassis

Leadership is influence.

John C. Maxwell

Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

Laurence J. Peter

Sample Practical Leadership Quotes:

The key to being a good manager is keeping the people who hate me away from those who are still undecided.

Casey Stengel

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

Harvey S. Firestone

Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.

Stephen Covey