8,953 Quotes About Leadership

Listen with curiosity. Speak with honesty. Act with integrity. The greatest problem with communication is we don’t listen to understand. We listen to reply. When we listen with curiosity, we don’t listen with the intent to reply. We listen for what’s behind the words.

When more is required of you than you are capable of, increase your capabilities.

Cultivate your mind.

Oh! What honour for the female sex! It is perfectly obvious that God has special regard for it when all these wretched people who destroyed the whole Kingdom – now recovered and made safe by a woman, something that 5000 men could not have done – and the traitors [have been] exterminated. Before the event they would scarcely have believed this possible.

Encourage effort and praise progress, but be careful that you don't pat mediocre on the back too many times.

Power isn’t control at all — power is strength, and giving that strength to others. A leader isn’t someone who forces others to make him stronger; a leader is someone willing to give his strength to others that they may have the strength to stand on their own.

The world’s greatest achievers have been those who have always stayed focussed on their goals and have been consistent in their efforts.

Leadership is communicating to people their worth and potential so clearly that they are inspired to see it in themselves.

Leadership, on the other hand, is about creating change you believe in.