100 famous quotes from leaders around the world:

1. “Be the change that you wish to see in the world.” – Mahatma Gandhi
2. “The best way to predict your future is to create it.” – Abraham Lincoln
3. “I have a dream.” – Martin Luther King Jr.
4. “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts.” – Winston Churchill
5. “The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
6. “In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.” – Martin Luther King Jr.
7. “It always seems impossible until it’s done.” – Nelson Mandela
8. “A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.” – John C. Maxwell
9. “Don’t find fault, find a remedy.” – Henry Ford
10. “Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.” – John F. Kennedy
11. “You must be the change you wish to see in the world.” – Mahatma Gandhi
12. “The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
13. “The greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things. He is the one that gets people to do the greatest things.” – Ronald Reagan
14. “Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.” – Steve Jobs
15. “If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more, and become more, you are a leader.” – John Quincy Adams
16. “I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.” – Stephen Covey
17. “Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.” – Warren Bennis
18. “Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
19. “The price of greatness is responsibility.” – Winston Churchill
20. “To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
21. “Victory belongs to the most persevering.” – Napoleon Bonaparte
22. “Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them.” – Colin Powell
23. “Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.” – Theodore Roosevelt
24. “A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.” – Martin Luther King Jr.
25. “The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.” – Ralph Nader
26. “Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.” – Julie Andrews
27. “As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.” – Bill Gates
28. “The key to successful leadership today is influence, not authority.” – Ken Blanchard
29. “You don’t lead by hitting people over the head – that’s assault, not leadership.” – Dwight D. Eisenhower
30. “I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people.” – Mahatma Gandhi
31. “The art of leadership is saying no, not yes. It is very easy to say yes.” – Tony Blair
32. “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
33. “He who has never learned to obey cannot be a good commander.” – Aristotle
34. “Leadership is not about titles, positions, or flowcharts. It is about one life influencing another.” – John C. Maxwell
35. “A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd.” – Max Lucado
36. “He who cannot be a good follower cannot be a good leader.” – Aristotle
37. “The leader has to be practical and a realist yet must talk the language of the visionary and the idealist.” – Eric Hoffer
38. “Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.” – Peter Drucker
39. “If you think you can do a thing or think you can’t do a thing, you’re right.” – Henry Ford
40. “The ear of the leader must ring with the voices of the people.” – Woodrow Wilson
41. “I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it.” – Nelson Mandela
42. “The strength of the team is each individual member. The strength of each member is the team.” – Phil Jackson
43. “Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
44. “One person with courage is a majority.” – Thomas Jefferson
45. “Lead, follow, or get out of the way.” – Thomas Paine
46. “Leadership is not about being in charge. It is about taking care of those in your charge.” – Simon Sinek
47. “When the best leader’s work is done, the people say, ‘We did it ourselves.’” – Lao Tzu
48. “The highest form of leadership is self-leadership.” – Robin Sharma
49. “To add value to others, one must first value others.” – John C. Maxwell
50. “A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, they will say: we did it ourselves.” – Lao Tzu
51. “Leadership is an action, not a position.” – Donald McGannon
52. “Earn your leadership every day.” – Michael Jordan
53. “The challenge of leadership is to be strong, but not rude; be kind, but not weak; be bold, but not a bully; be humble, but not timid; be proud, but not arrogant; have humor, but without folly.” – Jim Rohn
54. “True leadership lies in guiding others to success. In ensuring that everyone is performing at their best, doing the work they are pledged to do, and doing it well.” – Bill Owens
55. “He who has learned how to obey will know how to command.” – Solon
56. “A true leader has the confidence to stand alone, the courage to make tough decisions, and the compassion to listen to the needs of others.” – Douglas MacArthur
57. “The greatest leaders mobilize others by coalescing people around a shared vision.” – Ken Blanchard
58. “The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionable integrity.” – Dwight D. Eisenhower
59. “Leadership is the art of giving people a platform for spreading ideas that work.” – Seth Godin
60. “A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.” – John C. Maxwell
61. “Leadership is not about titles, positions, or flowcharts. It is about one life influencing another.” – John C. Maxwell
62. “A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.” – Albert Einstein
63. “Leadership is the ability to guide others without force into a direction or decision that leaves them still feeling empowered and accomplished.” – Lisa Cash Hanson
64. “To lead people, walk beside them. As for the best leaders, the people do not notice their existence.” – Lao Tzu
65. “In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.” – Thomas Jefferson
66. “Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others.” – Jack Welch
67. “Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results, not attributes.” – Peter Drucker
68. “The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.” – Ralph Nader
69. “The growth and development of people is the highest calling of leadership.” – Harvey S. Firestone
70. “Great leaders are not defined by the absence of weakness, but rather by the presence of clear strengths.” – John Zenger
71. “The very essence of leadership is that you have to have a vision.” – Theodore M. Hesburgh
72. “A true leader is not measured by how many followers he has, but by how many leaders he creates.” – Mahatma Gandhi
73. “The quality of a leader is reflected in the standards they set for themselves.” – Ray Kroc
74. “Leaders don’t inflict pain, they share pain.” – Max De Pree
75. “Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.” – Warren Bennis
76. “You manage things; you lead people.” – Grace Hopper
77. “No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit for doing it.” – Andrew Carnegie
78. “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 De Pree
79. “Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.” – Winston Churchill
80. “Example is leadership.” – Albert Schweitzer
81. “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
82. “Leaders think and talk about the solutions. Followers think and talk about the problems.” – Brian Tracy
83. “Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them.” – John C. Maxwell
84. “The greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things. He is the one that gets the people to do the greatest things.” – Ronald Reagan
85. “The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.” – Ralph Nader
86. “Leadership is unlocking people’s potential to become better.” – Bill Bradley
87. “The single biggest way to impact an organization is to focus on leadership development. There is almost no limit to the potential of an organization that recruits good people, raises them up as leaders, and continually develops them.” – John Maxwell
88. “In the past, a leader was a boss. Today’s leaders must be partners with their people… they no longer can lead solely based on positional power.” – Ken Blanchard
89. “Leadership is not about the next election, it’s about the next generation.” – Simon Sinek
90. “True leadership lies in guiding others to success—in ensuring that everyone is performing at their best, doing the work they are pledged to do, and doing it well.” – Bill Owens
91. “A great leader’s courage to fulfill his vision comes from passion, not position.” – John Maxwell
92. “Leadership is not just about giving energy…it’s unleashing other people’s energy.” – Paul Polman
93. “A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn’t like the tune.” – Arnold H. Glasow
94. “Leadership is not a person or a position. It is a complex moral relationship between people based on trust, obligation, commitment, emotion, and a shared vision of the good.” – Joanne Ciulla
95. “The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born—that there is a genetic factor to leadership. This myth asserts that people simply either have certain charismatic qualities or not. That’s nonsense; in fact, the opposite is true. Leaders are made rather than born.” – Warren G. Bennis
96. “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
97. “People buy into the leader before they buy into the vision.” – John Maxwell
98. “The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.” – Ralph Nader
99. “If you can dream it, you can do it.” – Walt Disney
100. “The task of the leader is to get their people from where they are to where they have not been.” – Henry Kissinger

These quotes reflect the wisdom and insight of some of the world’s most influential leaders in history.