A leader is a dealer in hope.

A leader's success is measured by the success of his team.

Lead with your head, but follow your heart.

Leadership is the capacity to bring people together.

Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.

Great leaders are willing to sacrifice their own interests for the good of the team.

Leadership is about making the tough calls.

Great leaders find ways to connect with their people.

The speed of the boss is the speed of the team.

A leader is someone who takes you where you want to go.

The best leaders are those most interested in surrounding themselves with assistants and associates smarter than they are.

You serve to lead, and you lead to serve.

Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

Simple, clear purpose and principles give rise to complex and intelligent behavior.

Your character is your destiny in leadership.

To lead is to touch a life forever.

A leader is someone who says 'we' instead of 'I'.

Integrity is the compass of a leader.

The mark of a leader is the legacy they leave behind.

Leadership is practiced not so much in words as in attitude and in actions.

Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others.

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.

Leadership is influence, nothing more, nothing less.

Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.

The price of greatness is responsibility.

The supreme quality of leadership is integrity.

As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.

A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.

He who has never learned to obey cannot be a good commander.

Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.

Leadership is the courage to admit that you don't know everything.

To lead people, walk behind them.

Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.

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.

Leadership is the art of giving people a platform for spreading ideas that work.

Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy.

The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born. Leadership is a skill.

A leader is a person you will follow to a place you would not go by yourself.

A good leader takes a little more than his share of the blame, a little less than his share of the credit.

The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.

Outstanding leaders go out of their way to boost the self-esteem of their personnel.

A leader is someone who holds themselves as much as others accountable.

The art of communication is the language of leadership.

The flexible leader is the one who survives the storm.

None of us is as smart as all of us.

Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.

Leadership is not about the next election, it's about the next generation.

The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.

In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.

Leadership is about taking care of those in your charge.

Where there is no vision, the people perish.

In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing.

What you do has far more impact than what you say.

Leaders don't create followers, they create more leaders.

Earn your leadership every day.

The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the leader adjusts the sails.

Your people will reflect the energy you bring.

Leadership is unlocking people's potential to become better.

Leadership is about making others better as a result of your presence.

A leader leads by example, whether he intends to or not.

He who has never failed is not fit to lead.

To lead, one must first learn to follow.

Culture eats strategy for breakfast.

Stay true to your values, even when it's hard.

If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.

You don't lead by hitting people over the head—that's assault, not leadership.

The secret of leadership is simple: Do what you believe in. Paint a picture of the future. Go there. People will follow.

Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers.

A leader's job is not to do the work for others, but to help others do it better.

Leadership is the ability to stand up for what you believe is right.

Leadership is not a title or a designation. It's about impact, influence, and inspiration.

Real leadership is leaders recognizing that they serve the people that they lead.

The goal of leadership is to leave the place better than you found it.

Trust is the lubrication that makes it possible for organizations to work.

The day you stop learning is the day you stop leading.

Leadership is the art of knowing when to act and when to wait.

The strength of the team is each individual member. The strength of each member is the team.

Be a voice, not an echo.

You cannot lead people where you are not willing to go yourself.

A leader who refuses to listen will eventually be surrounded by people who have nothing to say.

Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.

The mark of a great leader is who he or she chooses as their successor.

Leadership is doing things without being told.

To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart.

Leadership is the art of lighting a fire in others, not under them.

The best way to lead is to serve.

Leadership is about being consistent in your values.

Leadership is not about being in charge. It's about taking care of those in your charge.

Leaders think and talk about the solutions. Followers think and talk about the problems.

The most effective way to lead is from within.

Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.

Teach your people well enough so they can leave, treat them well enough so they don't want to.

If you want to lead, you must be willing to walk alone.

A leader sees greatness in other people.

Leadership is the bridge between the goals of the organization and the dreams of the employees.

Keep your head when all about you are losing theirs.

People buy into the leader before they buy into the vision.

A leader is a person who has the ability to get others to work together.

The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done.