25 Guiding Quotes on Leadership to help inspire you to bring out the best in yourself, your team and your organization.

1. 25 Guiding Quotes
on Leadership
“A good leader takes a little more than his share of
the blame, a little less than his share of the credit.”
-Arnold H. Glasow
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2. “Be a yardstick of quality.
Some people aren't used to
an environment where
excellence is expected.”
-Steve Jobs
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3. "Leadership and learning are
indispensable to each other."
-John F. Kennedy
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4. “If the highest aim of a
captain were to preserve
his ship, he would keep it
in port forever.”
-Thomas Aquinas
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5. “Always be yourself, express
yourself, have faith in yourself, do
not go out and look for a
successful personality and
duplicate it.”
-Bruce Lee
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6. If there is any one secret of
success, it lies in the ability to
get the other person's point of
view and see things from that
person's angle as well as from
your own.
-Henry Ford
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7. "Our chief want is
someone who will
inspire us to be what
we know we could be."
–Ralph Waldo Emerson
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8. "Do what you feel in your
heart to be right, for you'll
be criticized anyway."
-Eleanor Roosevelt
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9. Individual commitment to a
group effort - that is what
makes a team work, a
company work, a society
work, a civilization work.
-Vince Lombardi
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10. “Anyone can hold the
helm when the sea is
calm.”
-Publilius Syrus
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11. “A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when
his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it
ourselves.”
-Lao Tzu
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12. “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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13. “The employer
generally gets the
employees he
deserves.”
-J. Paul Getty
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14. “I consider my ability to arouse enthusiasm among my
people the greatest asset I possess, and the way to
develop the best that is in a person is by appreciation
and encouragement.”
-Charles Schwab
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15. Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far
enough ahead to motivate them.
-John C. Maxwell

16. “If you care enough for a result, you
will most certainly attain it.”
-William James
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17. “Good business leaders
create a vision, articulate
the vision, passionately
own the vision, and
relentlessly drive it to
completion.”
-Jack Welch
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18. "When people talk,
listen completely."
-Ernest Hemingway
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19. “Instead of being concerned that you have no office, be
concerned to think how you may fit yourself for office.
Instead of being concerned that you are not known, seek to
be worthy of being known.”
-Confucius
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20. “Become the kind of leader that people would follow
voluntarily; even if you had no title or position.”
-Brian Tracy
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21. “He who has never learned to obey cannot be a good
commander.”
-Aristotle
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22. “Give people enough
guidance to make the
decisions you want them to
make. Don't tell them what
to do, but encourage them
to do what is best.”
-Jimmy Johnson
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23. “The general who advances without coveting fame and
retreats without fearing disgrace, whose only thought is to
protect his country and do good service for his sovereign,
is the jewel of the kingdom.”
-Sun Tzu
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24. “As we look ahead into the next
century, leaders will be those
who empower others.”
-Bill Gates
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25. “Who you choose to be
around lets you know who
you are.”
-Han Tehm
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