Leadership Quotes

"The greatest service a leader can provide is the development of other leaders."

"The respect earned through competence is more valuable than the fear gained through coercion."

"Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them."

"I do not believe that any man can lead who does not act from the heart."

"In the final analysis, the relationship between the leader and the led is based on the leader's ability to recognize human dignity."

"A general is just as good or just as bad as the troops under his command make him."

"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."

"A successful leader doesn't try to be the most popular person. Instead they work on being the most effective person."

"The duty of the leader is to take a complex situation and reduce it to its simplest form."

"In the final analysis, my most important job as I see it is to train leaders."

"A true leader must have the courage to stand alone."

"True leadership is measured not by the applause you receive, but by the respect you command."

"A leader must possess the courage to act, even when uncertain."

"A leader's legacy is measured in the lives he improves."

"A commander must possess not only tactical knowledge but also the moral courage to admit when he has made an error."

"A general's greatest weapon is not his army, but his understanding of human nature."

"The art of command is the art of listening—to one's officers, to one's troops, to the silence between words."

"The courage to make unpopular decisions separates the great leader from the merely popular one."

"A leader's legacy is not measured in territory conquered, but in lives preserved."

"The power to command comes only after the discipline to obey has been mastered."

"A nation's security depends less on fortifications than on the quality of its leaders."

"The art of command is knowing when to trust others completely."

"The weight of command is that you alone know what cannot be said."

"To lead is to stand between your vision and those who would say it is impossible."

"The future belongs not to those with the most weapons, but to those with the clearest vision."

"The true test of leadership is not what happens when things go well, but when they go wrong."

"A nation's true strength is the character of those who lead it."

"A commander who cannot inspire confidence in dark times is no commander at all."

"The only way to get the best out of a man is to look for the best that is in him and by so doing, you add to his self-respect."

"Leadership is the art of accomplishing more than the science of management says is possible."