The best quotes about leadership - How to become good leader (1)

   Good leaders must be good role models, knowledgeable in their fields, and worthy of respect. There are many ways to lead, whether it's by taking on a leadership role at work, or being the captain of your sports team. Here are some tips to help you excel as a leader in any situation in life.

LEADERSHIP QUOTES

Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.

Harold R. McAlindon

Not the cry, but the flight of a wild duck, leads the flock to fly and follow.

Chinese Proverb

Leadership: The art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

There go the people. I must follow them for I am their leader.

Alexandre Ledru-Rollin

What chance gathers she easily scatters. A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

While a good leader sustains momentum, a great leader increases it.

John C. Maxwell

A general is just as good or just as bad as the troops under his command make him.

General Douglas MacArthur

Leadership quotes

Learn to see things backwards, inside out, and upside down.

John Heider, Tao of Leadership

Men are governed only by serving them; the rule is without exception.

V. Cousin

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

Henry Miller

Be known for pleasing others, espcecially if you govern them...Ruling others has one advantage: you can do more good than anyone else.

Baltasar Gracián

Resist your time - take a foothold outside of it.

Lord Acton

Go to the people. Learn from them. Live with them. Start with what they know. Build with what they have. The best of leaders when the job is done, when the task is accomplished, the people will say we have done it ourselves.

Lao Tzu

A leader is a dealer in hope.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Rely on your own strength of body and soul. Take for your star self-reliance, faith, honesty and industry. Don't take too much advice — keep at the helm and steer your own ship, and remember that the great art of commanding is to take a fair share of the work. Fire above the mark you intend to hit. Energy, invincible determination with the right motive, are the levers that move the world.

Noah Porter

There is always room for a man of force and he makes room for many. Society is a troop of thinkers and the best heads among them take the best places.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

John Quincy Adams

Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader.

George S. Patton

In governing, don't try to control.

Tao Te Ching

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

Tony Blair

The people follow the example of those above them.

Chinese Proverb

He who has never learned to obey

cannot be a good commander. 

Aristotle

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