Leadership is taking responsibility while others are making excuses.
Leadership is like beauty - it's hard to define but you know it when you see it.
The manager does things right; the leader does the right thing.
The ONLY thing leaders have in common is the shared decision to lead.
Successful leadership is not about being tough or soft, sensitive or assertive, but about a set of attributes. First and foremost is character
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.
Leadership is a series of behaviors rather than a role for heroes.
I think Donald Trump showed a real quality that every leader needs, and that's resiliency.
If leadership is something that is in-your-face, then that is a different type of leadership.
We are not all leaders. We are called leaders.
Leadership is learned, earned, and discerned. You develop it. It's based on trust and credibility. Others see it in you. You can't demand it.
Great leadership can be a difficult thing to pin down and understand. You know a great leader when you're working for one, but even they can have a hard time articulating what it is that makes their leadership so effective.
The rank of office is not what makes someone a leader. Leadership is the choice to serve others with or without any formal rank.
Most of the ladies and gentlemen who mourn the passing of the nation's leaders wouldn't know a leader if they saw one. If they had the bad luck to come across a leader, they would find out that he might demand something from them, and this impertinence would put an abrupt and indignant end to their wish for his return.
The manager administers; the leader innovates.
In all great leaders there is a purpose and intensity which is unmistakable.
True leaders respect and honor authority but are comfortable in its presence.
... perhaps those who are best suited to power are those who have never sought it.
The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born-that there is a genetic factor to leadership. This myth asserts that people simply either have certain charismatic qualities or not. That's nonsense; in fact, the opposite is true. Leaders are made rather than born.
Good leaders have a generosity gene.
Recognizing the good, not just in one's own personal circumstances, but in the world, makes anything possible. When I am asked about the important characteristics of leadership, being of good, positive mind is at the top of my list. If a leader can focus on the meritorious characteristics of other people and try to play to their strengths as well as find value in even the most difficult situation, she can inspire hope and faith in others and motivate them to move forward.
I'm not the type of guy to go out and just say, 'Hey, I'm raising my fist to do this and do that.' I don't think I'm that type of guy. I wasn't a leader the way other people may have wanted me to be.
One of the cardinal causes of war, in the opinion of the present writer, is the fact that national leadership frequently falls to men of abnormal makeup.
Every great leader has a generosity gene.
A business, successful or not, is merely a reflection of the character of its leadership.
