Quotes about Leadership Potential

Tony Robbins

The ability to connect and influence people, that's the job of a leader. And we're all leaders at some level.

Theodore Roosevelt

You would make the best governor but not the best candidate.

Stimson had been a key member of the Theodore Roosevelt national administration, and Roosevelt, before he became Vice President and then President had been a very popular governor of NY. Stimson, although a brilliant administrator, and statesman was a bit stuffy and aloof and was a terrible campaigner. He thought it immodest to refer to himself in public or to talk about his record. See {589269}. So the Republicans tried to tie him to Roosevelt who was still very popular. See {589268}. It was not enough. Stimson lost.

Steven Spielberg

You never really know how good of a leader you are until there is something there is lead us to, toward or through or to overcome.

Vince Lombardi

Leaders aren't born they are made.

Vince Lombardi

Leaders are not born, they're made.

Thomas Carlyle

He that can work is born to be king of something.

John C. Maxwell

It takes a leader to know a leader, grow a leader, and show a leader.

Tavis Smiley

Great Presidents are made and not born. They have to be pushed into greatness.

Bill Hybels

Great leadership is by definition relentlessly developmental.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Every French soldier carriers a marshal's baton in his knapsack.

Lonzo Ball

I think you're either born a leader or you're not.

John C. Maxwell

As a leader, you have to take responsibility for your own failures as well as successes. That's the only way you'll learn.
If you keep learning, you'll improve.
If you improve, your leadership will get better.
And in time, you will earn the right to lead on the level you deserve.

George W. Bush

And to the C students, I say, you too, can be President of the United States

This president was not a good student in college or law school.

Douglas MacArthur

He’ll make a fine President. He was the best clerk who ever served under me.

MacArthur was astounded that the country turned to Eisenhower rather than him. He actually did not think much of Eisenhower. Eisenhower, was very critical of MacArthur. See

John C. Maxwell

The real test of leadership isn't where you start out. It's where you end up.

Peter Drucker

The better a man is, the more mistakes he will make, for the more new things he will try. I would never promote to a top-level job a man who was not making mistakes...otherwise he is sure to be mediocre.

M. Russell Ballard

We must be prepared to keep pace with our leaders, stride for their every lengthened stride.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

He who obeys with modesty appears worthy of being some day a commander.

Lamar Odom

I've always felt that I'm a natural leader.

Warren Bennis

That's nonsense; in fact, the opposite is true. Leaders are made rather than born.

Andy Stanley

We are not all leaders. We are called leaders.

Colin Powell

Effective leaders are made, not born. They learn from trial and error, and from experience.

Sandra Dee

I could run for Congress. Why not? Good heavens, if Ronald Reagan can be president, I ought to make a great secretary of the treasury.

Napoleon Hill

Sex energy is the creative energy of all geniuses. There never has been, and never will be a great leader, builder or artist lacking in the driving force of sex.

Myles Munroe

The self-discovery of your inherent leadership potential and an understanding of who you are and what you are meant to be are the keys to fulfilling your purpose from existence as a leader.

Leadership Potential Quotes