Quotes on Leadership

"We are all motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is, the more he is inspired by glory." - Cicero

"How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something, but to be someone." - Coco Chanel

"Every day, in every way, I am getting better and better." - Emile Coue

"I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life lived for its own sake. Life is no "brief candle" to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations." - George Bernard Shaw

"It's never too late to become what you might have been." - George Eliot

"Both optimists and pessimists contribute to the society. The optimist invents the aeroplane, the pessimist the parachute." - George Bernard Shaw

"Turn your face to the sun and the shadows will fall behind you."


"Things that matter most must never be at the mercy of things that matter least." - Goethe

"Don't find fault find a remedy." - Henry Ford

"If you ask managers what they do, they will most likely tell you that they plan, organise, co-ordinate and control. Then watch what they do. Don't be surprised if you can't relate what you see to those four words." - Henry Mintzberg

"What lies behind us and what lies before us are small matters compared to what lies within us." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"I keep six honest serving men."
(They taught me all I knew);
Their names are What and Why and When
And How and Where and Who” - Rudyard Kipling

"An empowered organisation is one in which individuals have the knowledge, skill, desire, and opportunity to personally succeed in a way that leads to collective organisational success." - Stephen R. Covey

"As a man is, so he sees." - William Blake

"Personally, I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught." - Winston Churchill

"I am easily satisfied with the very best." - Winston Churchill

"The price of greatness is responsibility." Winston Churchill

"Be kind and merciful. Let no one ever come to you without coming away better and happier." - Mother Theresa

"I believe...that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another." - Thomas Jefferson

"The challenge of leadership is to be strong, but not rude; be kind, but not weak; be bold, but not bully; be thoughtful, but not lazy; be humble, but not timid; be proud, but not arrogant; have humor, but without folly." - Jim Rohn

"Leadership is the willingness to accept responsibility for results." - Brian Tracy

"Leadership has a higher calling... a higher destiny... and a higher Path for Life..." - Doug Firebaugh

"Leadership comes from the top down as it has traditionally, but in today's world it also has to come from the bottom up." - Patricia Fripp

"How do you know so much about everything" was asked of a very wise and intelligent man; and the answer was "By never being afraid or ashamed to ask questions as to anything of which I was ignorant." - John Abbott

"Be like a sponge when it comes to each new experience. If you want to be able to express it well, you must first be able to absorb it well." - Jim Rohn

"The virtue of man ought to be measured, not by his extraordinary exertions, but by his everyday conduct." - Blaise Pascal

"If you were to show me your current financial plan, would I get so excited by it that I would go across the country and lecture on it? If the answer is no, then here's my question: 'Why not?' Why wouldn't you have a superior financial plan that is taking you to the places you want to go?" – Jim Rohn

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