Leadership Quotes

It is our choices...that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.

- Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, pg. 333

People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought, which they avoid.

- Soren Kierkegaard

Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he or she wants to do it.

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

Leaders are the ones who keep faith with the past, keep step with the present, and keep the promise of posterity.

- Jesse Jackson

Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

- John F. Kennedy

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

Great necessities call forth great leaders.

- Abigail Adams

Keep your fears to yourself, but share your inspiration with others.

- Robert Louis Stevenson

Leadership is not magnetic personality, that can just as well be glib tongue. It is not making friends and influencing people, that is flattery. Leadership is lifting a person’s vision to higher sights, the raising of a person’s performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limits.

- Peter F. Drucker