“The true test of a leader is whether his followers will adhere to his cause from their own volition, enduring the most arduous hardships without being forced to do so.”
Xenophon
LoyaltyInspiration
Leadership Quotes
200 FAMOUS QUOTES · LEADERSHIP
Leadership Quotes
Read the best leadership quotes on vision, service, courage and teamwork from Sun Tzu, Confucius, Thiruvalluvar, Kautilya, Eisenhower, Emerson and more.
“Having knowledge but lacking the power to express it clearly is no better than never having any ideas at all.”
Pericles
CommunicationClarity
“A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers.”
Plato
DecisionsWisdom
“Reason and calm judgment, the qualities specially belonging to a leader.”
Tacitus
CalmJudgement
“He who defends everything defends nothing.”
Frederick the Great
FocusPriorities
“Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.”
Napoleon Bonaparte
ActionDecisions
“Discipline is the soul of an army.”
George Washington
DisciplineShort Quotes
“Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.”
Edmund Burke
Leading By ExampleInfluence
“I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?”
Benjamin Disraeli
PoliticsFunny
“Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
TrustRespect
“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
DelegationTrust
“A leader is a man who has the ability to get other people to do what they don't want to do, and like it.”
Harry S. Truman
InfluenceFunny
“Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.”
John F. Kennedy
LearningGrowth
“First among equals.”
Latin Phrase (Primus inter pares)
HumilityShort Quotes
“The nail that sticks out gets hammered down.”
Japanese Proverb
ConformityCourage
“A fish rots from the head down.”
Proverb
ResponsibilityCulture
“Too many cooks spoil the broth.”
English Proverb
TeamworkClarity
“If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.”
The Bible (Matthew 15:14)
WisdomWarning
“Thou wilt surely wear away, for this thing is too heavy for thee; thou art not able to perform it thyself alone.”
The Bible (Exodus 18:18)
DelegationTeamwork
“Feed the flock of God which is among you, neither as being lords over God's heritage, but being ensamples to the flock.”
The Bible (1 Peter 5:2-3)
Leading By ExampleService
“For if a man know not how to rule his own house, how shall he take care of the church of God?”
The Bible (1 Timothy 3:5)
CharacterFamily
“He that is greatest among you, let him be as the younger; and he that is chief, as he that doth serve.”
The Bible (Luke 22:26)
Servant LeadershipHumility
“That the congregation of the Lord be not as sheep which have no shepherd.”
The Bible (Numbers 27:17)
GuidanceCare
“So he fed them according to the integrity of his heart; and guided them by the skilfulness of his hands.”
The Bible (Psalm 78:72)
IntegritySkill
“He that ruleth, with diligence.”
The Bible (Romans 12:8)
DiligenceShort Quotes