Leadership Quotes

Leadership Quotes

September 5, 2010


Power is strength and the ability to see yourself through your own eyes and not through the eyes of another. It is being able to place a circle of power at your own feet and not take power from someone else's circle.
- Lynn V. Andrews


Power is your ability to be a leader and get people to follow.
- Sandra Kurtzig


Self- confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.
- Ludwig von Beethoven


Statesmanship is the art of understanding and leading the masses, or the majority. Its glory is to lead them, not where they want to go, but where they ought to go.
- Joseph Joubert


That is what leadership is all about: staking your ground ahead of where opinion is and convincing people, not simply following the popular opinion of the moment.
- Doris Kearns Goodwin


That people can be lifted into their better selves is the secret of transforming leadership.
- James MacGregor Burns


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.
- Mao Tse-Tung


The climax of leadership is to know when to do what.
- John R. Scotford


The essence of superior leadership is the inspired application of principle to circumstance.
- Unknown