What truly makes someone a great leader? It’s you having good leadership qualities and character.
Leadership is more than just giving instructions or making decisions. There are many qualities a leader must have if you truly want to become a great leader and lead people very well.
In this blog, we have 28 leadership quotes about good leadership qualities and character. Learning, digesting, and understanding these leadership quotes will help you a lot to grow more as a leader.
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• Leadership is hard. It’s a skill. It’s a technique. – Jocko Willink
• Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things. – Peter Drucker
• Good leaders build products. Great leaders build cultures. Good leaders deliver results. Great leaders develop people. Good leaders have vision. Great leaders have values. Good leaders are role models at work. Great leaders are role models in life. – Adam Grant
• The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers. – Ralph Nader
• A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better. – Jim Rohn
• 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
• There are three essentials to leadership: humility, clarity and courage. – Chan Master Fuchan Yuan
• There’s two parts of leadership. You’ve got to be a good leader – you’ve got to be somebody that people want to emulate and care about the other people – Nick Saban
• A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don’t necessarily want to go, but ought to be. – Rosalynn Carter
• Humility is a great quality of leadership which derives respect and not just fear or hatred. – Yousef Munayyer
• 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. – Ronald Reagan
• A true leader has the confidence to stand alone, the courage to make tough decisions, and the compassion to listen to the needs of others. He does not set out to be a leader, but becomes one by the equality of his actions and the integrity of his intent. – Douglas MacArthur
• Leadership should be more participative than directive, more enabling than performing. – Mary D. Poole
• Leadership is hard to define and good leadership even harder. But if you can get people to follow you to the ends of the earth, you are a great leader. – Indra Nooyi
• The greatest gift of leadership is a boss who wants you to be successful. – Jon Taffer
• The biggest part of leadership is that you lead by example with your performance first and foremost. – Jude Bellingham
• Character matters; leadership descends from character. – Rush Limbaugh
• You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing you think you cannot do. – Eleanor Roosevelt
• You have to enable and empower people to make decisions independent of you. As I’ve learned, each person on a team is an extension of your leadership; if they feel empowered by you they will magnify your power to lead. – Tom Ridge
• To have long-term success as a coach or in any position of leadership, you have to be obsessed in some way. – Pat Riley
• One of the tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency. – Arnold H. Glasow
• I think as a leader, you just take accountability. That’s what leadership is. Leadership is taking accountability yourself and holding others to the same standard, regardless of what’s going on. – Jason Kelce
• All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership. – John Kenneth Galbraith
• Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them. – John C. Maxwell
• The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been. – Henry Kissinger
• Don’t tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results. – George S. Patton
• True leadership lies in guiding others to success. In ensuring that everyone is performing at their best, doing the work they are pledged to do and doing it well. – Bill Owens
