Given Quote by Henry Cloud

Leadership is learned, earned, and discerned. You develop it. It's based on trust and credibility. Others see it in you. You can't demand it.

— Rick Warren

Over time, I have come to this simple definition of leadership: Leadership is getting results in a way that inspires trust.

— Stephen Covey

Leadership is the ability to decide what is to be done and then get others to do it.

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

The responsibility of leadership is not taken, it is given. Only when others choose to follow us can we truly lead.

— Simon Sinek

Leadership is an achievement of trust.

— Peter Drucker

Leadership is influence.

— John C. Maxwell

“Leadership isn't something that people hand to you. ... [i]t's a gradual process, one where you take responsibility years before you are given authority.…

— Seth Godin

Leadership is not a matter of authority, it is a matter of influence. A true leader teaches others to understand more, motivates them to…

— Michael Josephson

Leadership is the activity of influencing people to cooperate towards some goal which they come to find desirable and which motivates them over the…

— Ordway Tead

Leadership is the ability to influence people and motivate them to do what needs to be done to accomplish a goal, vision, or mission.

— Robert Johnson

Leadership is not something you do to people. It's something you do with people.

— Ken Blanchard

It's not leadership by position that allows people to succeed; it's the capacity to influence the thoughts, the feelings, the emotions, and the actions…

— Tony Robbins