This document contains 25 quotes from historical and contemporary leaders on the topic of leadership. Some of the key themes that emerge across multiple quotes include that a good leader empowers and develops others, does not seek to take sole credit, is willing to make difficult decisions for the greater good, and leads by example through hard work and confidence.

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By dr Hatem ELBitar
1. ―The nation will find it very hard to look up to the leaders who are keeping
their ears to the ground.‖
—Sir Winston Churchill, former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
2. ―The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say
thank you. In between, the leader is a servant.‖
—Max DePree, founder and former CEO of Herman Miller office furniture
company
3. ―He who has never learned to obey cannot be a good commander.‖
—Aristotle, Greek philosopher

2. 4. ―The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do
what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with
them while they do it.‖
—Theodore Roosevelt, former President of the United States
5. ―A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people
where they don’t necessarily want to go, but ought to be.‖
—Rosalynn Carter, former First Lady of the United States
6. ―Outstanding leaders go out of their way to boost the self-esteem of their
personnel. If people believe in themselves, it’s amazing what they can
accomplish.‖
—Sam Walton, founder of Walmart and Sam’s Club
7. ―No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself, or to get
all the credit for doing it.‖
—Andrew Carnegie, entrepreneur and philanthropist

3. 8. ―As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower
others.‖
—Bill Gates, CEO and chairman of Microsoft
9. ―Do what you feel in your heart to be right–for you’ll be criticized anyway.‖
—Eleanor Roosevelt, former First Lady of the United States
10. ―If you would not be forgotten, as soon as you are dead and rotten, either
write things worth reading, or do things worth the writing.‖
—Benjamin Franklin, American founder, inventor and diplomat
11. ―If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform one million
realities.‖
—Maya Angelou, author and poet
12. ―It is better to lead from behind and to put others in front, especially when
you celebrate victory when nice things occur. You take the front line when
there is danger. Then people will appreciate your leadership.‖
—Nelson Mandela, former President of South Africa

4. leaders quote vince Lombardi
13. ―Leaders aren’t born, they are made. And they are made just like
anything else, through hard work. And that’s the price we’ll have to pay to
achieve that goal, or any goal.‖
—Vince Lombardi, former National Football Association player, coach and
executive
14. ―The growth and development of people is the highest calling of
leadership.‖
—Harvey Firestone, founder of Firestone Tire and Rubber Company
15. ―Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It’s not a day
when you lounge around doing nothing; it’s when you’ve had everything to
do, and you’ve done it.‖
—Margaret Thatcher, former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
16. ―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.‖
—Laozi (or Lao Tzu), Chinese philosopher

5. 17. ―Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, concerned citizens can
change world. Indeed it is the only thing that ever has.‖
—Margaret Mead, cultural anthropologist
18. ―If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and
become more, you are a leader.‖
—John Quincy Adams, former President of the United States
19. ―A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus, but a molder of
consensus.‖
—Martin Luther King, Jr., American humanitarian and activist
20. ―Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.‖
—Steve Jobs, entrepreneur and co-founder of Apple Inc.
21. ―I have learned over the years that when one’s mind is made up, this
diminishes fear; knowing what must be done does away with fear.‖
—Rosa Parks, civil rights activist

6. 22. ―Lead me, follow me or get out of my way.‖
—Warren Bennis, scholar and author
23. ―Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small
ones.‖
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, philosopher and poet
24. ―If you have no character to lose, people will have no faith in you.‖
—Mahatma Gandhi, civil rights activist and philosopher
25. ―We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We
must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing must be
attained.‖
—Marie Curie, physicist and chemist