FREE Leadership Quote Templates

Jacinda Ardern - Taking on a leadership role doesn't mean that you only have to be personally ambitious.

Jeffrey Gitomer - Management's job is to convey leadership's message in a compelling and inspiring way. Not just in meetings, but also by example.

John Buchan - The task of leadership is not to put greatness into humanity, but to elicit it, for the greatness is already there.

J. Donald Walters - Leadership is an opportunity to serve. It is not a trumpet call to self-importance.

Mao Zedong - The cardinal responsibility of leadership is to identify the dominant contradiction at each point of the historical process and to work out a central line to resolve it.

N. R. Narayana Murthy - Leadership is about doing the right thing, even if it going against a vast number of naysayers and mediocre people.

David Novak - The Vatican's recognition of the State of Israel in 1997 could not have occurred without John Paul's leadership.

Justin Trudeau - Leadership is inspiring extraordinary people to step up and serve their country.

Tony Dungy - The secret to success is good leadership, and good leadership is all about making the lives of your team members or workers better.

James Buchanan - The test of leadership is not to put greatness into humanity, but to elicit it, for the greatness is already there.

Myles Munroe - Character in leadership is the most important balance for leadership. Without character, leaders have no safety. Leadership has no protection without character.

Andy Dunn - Leadership is inspiring people. Management is keeping the trains running on time.

Chinua Achebe - A functioning, robust democracy requires a healthy educated, participatory followership, and an educated, morally grounded leadership.

Chip Conley - At the heart of great leadership is a curious mind, heart, and spirit.

Robin S. Sharma - Leadership is not a popularity contest; it's about leaving your ego at the door. The name of the game is to lead without a title.

Ferdinand Marcos - Leadership is the other side of the coin of loneliness, and he who is a leader must always act alone. And acting alone, accept everything alone.

Jack Ma - The world needs new leadership, but the new leadership is about working together.

Marian Anderson - Leadership should be born out of the understanding of the needs of those who would be affected by it.

Jeff Bezos - Market leadership can translate directly to higher revenue, higher profitability, greater capital velocity, and correspondingly stronger returns on invested capital.

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

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

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

Lao Tzu - When the best leader's work is done the people say, 'We did it ourselves’.

Simon Sinek - Leadership is not about the next election, it's about the next generation.

Ken Blanchard - The key to successful leadership today is influence, not authority.

Seth Berkley - Leadership is about vision and responsibility, not power.

Harold S. Geneen - Leadership cannot really be taught. It can only be learned.

John C. Maxwell - Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them.

Theodore Hesburgh - The very essence of leadership is that you have to have vision. You can't blow an uncertain trumpet.

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

Harvey S. Firestone - The growth and development of people is the highest calling of leadership.

Andy Grove - Leaders have to act more quickly today. The pressure comes much faster.

Bill Owens - True leadership lies in guiding others to success. In ensuring that everyone is performing at their best, doing the work they are pledged to do and doing it well.

Warren Bennis - Leaders must encourage their organizations to dance to forms of music yet to be heard.

George W. Bush - Leadership to me means duty, honor, country. It means character, and it means listening from time to time.

Henry Miller - The real leader has no need to lead - he is content to point the way.

Martin Luther King, Jr. - A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.

Sam Walton - 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.

Thomas Aquinas - If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever.

Ray Kroc - The quality of a leader is reflected in the standards they set for themselves.

Mahatma Gandhi - I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people.

John D. Rockefeller - Good leadership consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people.

Harold S. Geneen - Leadership is practiced not so much in words as in attitude and in actions.

John F. Kennedy - Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

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

James Cash Penney - Honor bespeaks worth. Confidence begets trust. Service brings satisfaction. Cooperation proves the quality of leadership.

Golda Meir - A leader who doesn't hesitate before he sends his nation into battle is not fit to be a leader.

Ivan Illich - Leadership does not depend on being right.

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

Bo Bennett - Without initiative, leaders are simply workers in leadership positions.