Great Leader Quotes
156 quotes by 112 authors
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No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit for doing it.
— Andrew Carnegie
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Great leaders understand that the right attitude will set the right atmosphere, which enables the right response from others.
— John C. Maxwell
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Great leadership does not mean running away from reality. Sometimes the hard truths might just demoralize the company, but at other times sharing difficulties can…
— John P. Kotter
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Leadership is not so much about technique and methods as it is about opening the heart. Leadership is about inspiration-of oneself and of others. Great…
— Lance Secretan
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Remember that our nation's first great leaders were also our first great scholars.
— John F. Kennedy
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For decades, this great leader, often at Dr. King's side, was denied his rightful place in history because he was openly gay. No medal can…
— Barack Obama
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Great companies with the way they work, first start with great leaders.
— Steve Ballmer
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Servant-leadership is more than a concept, it is a fact. Any great leader, by which I also mean an ethical leader of any group, will…
— M. Scott Peck
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Great leaders must have two things: a vision of the world that does not yet exist and the ability to communicate that vision clearly.
— Simon Sinek
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Poor leaders push us towards the goal. Great leaders guide us through the journey.
— Simon Sinek
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The wicked leader is he who the people despise. The good leader is he who the people revere. The great leader is he who the…
— Laozi
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He is a great leader by example. Someone whom I have always admired for his ability to remain balanced and have the sense of equanimity…
— Rahul Dravid
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Great leaders are paradoxical. They catalyze, rather control, the work of their teams. They have an overarching vision for the team but are not autocratic…
— Guy Kawasaki
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The problems we have now in communities and societies are going to be resolved only when we are brought together by a common sense that…
— Werner Erhard
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Far from being reluctantly propelled into hostilities by popular war fever, leaders incite that fever in order to gather support for their war policies. Thereby…
— Michael Parenti
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Thoughts and prayers go out to Michael Weiner's family. A great leader and man. Going to be missed.
— Unknown Author
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He [Mikhail Gorbachev] has, as many great leaders have, impressive eyes....There's a kind of laser-beam stare, a forced quality, you get from Gorbachev that does…
— Dan Rather
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Every great leader is a great teacher, and the greatest leaders seize every opportunity to teach well.
— Albert Mohler
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Great leadership isn’t shaped in the absence of opposition but in the presence of it. Great leaders draw us together by our universal humanity; they…
— Charles M. Blow
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Spotting talent is one of the essential elements of great leadership.
— David McCullough
Who Wrote These Great Leader Quotes
112 authors contributed a total of 156 Great Leader Quotes, led by these top contributors: