Note a Quote

Quotes on leadership


Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.

~ Warren Bennis

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  • This leadership quote is one of the shortest definitions of leadership and it captures so much of the essence of leadership. So often people get caught up in the idea that leadership is a matter of having vision. Vision is important, but as this quote points out, true leadership is translating the vision into reality.
Leadership and learning are indispensible to each other.

~ John F. Kennedy

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  • This leadership quote shows how important continual education was to President Kennedy.
The only safe ship in a storm is leadership.

~ Faye Wattleton

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  • While something of a play on words, this leadership quote makes a very good point about the need for leadership in trying times.
The very essence of leadership is that you have to have a vision.

~ Theodore Hesburgh

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  • This leadership quote reminds us that it is very difficult to lead others if we don't know where we are going ourselves.
The key to successful leadership today is influence, not authority.

~ Kenneth Hartley Blanchard

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  • This leadership quote highlights how leadership has changed over the years. People used to lead because of their position--they could command that people follow them. Modern leadership requires much more of a partnership where a leadership position is earned.
Leadership is practiced not so much in words as in attitude and in actions.

~ Harold S. Geneen
Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked. Leadership is defined by results not attributes.

~ Peter Drucker

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  • Druckers leadership quote addresses the need of leaders to actually do something. It isn't that a leader needs to be disliked, but if popularity is a motivating factor that keeps one from accomplishing things, you aren't really acting as a leader.
One of the tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency.

~ Arnold Glasgow

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  • On of the most important traits a leader can possess is being "forward looking." This leadership quote explains one of the reasons that is so important. The ability to peer into the future and take actions now to avoid problems later is very important for anyone who wants to act as a leader.
Leadership is a combination of strategy and character. If you must be without one, be without the strategy.

~ Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf

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  • Schwarzkopf was definitely not anti-strategy, but in this leadership quote he makes it completely clear that character is what is necessary for true leadership.
Leadership should be born out of the understanding of the needs of those who would be affected by it.

~ Marian Anderson

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  • This leadership quote reminds us how important it is for leaders to see things from the perspective of their followers.