Leading By Example

Example is leadership. - Albert Schweitzer

Leadership is action, not position. - Samuel Gompers

You manage things; you lead people. - Grace M Hopper

Leadership is a choice, not a position. - Stephen Covey

A team is a reflection of its leadership. - Unknown

What Washington needs is adult supervision. - Barack Obama

Panic plays no part in the training of a nurse. - Elizabeth Kenny

Leading your family is a lot tougher than basketball. - Giannis Antetokounmpo

Politicians can't manage. All they can do is talk. - Donald Trump

Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other. - John F Kennedy

The key to successful leadership is influence, not authority. - Kenneth H Blanchard

Leadership, like swimming, cannot be learned by reading about it. - Henry Mintzberg

Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things. - Peter F Drucker

Without initiative, leaders are simply workers in leadership positions. - Bo Bennett

The art of leadership is saying no, not yes. It is very easy to say yes. - Tony Blair

The beginning of leadership is a battle for the hearts and minds of men. - Bernard L Montgomery

To err is human. To blame it on somebody else shows management potential. - Unknown

Real leadership is leaders recognizing that they serve the people that they lead. - Pete Hoekstra

Leadership is all about influence - the first person you need to influence is you. - John C Maxwell

Good management consists in showing average people how to do the work of superior people. - John Rockefeller

Leadership is all about influence and everything rises and falls on leadership... everything. - John C Maxwell

The one quality that can be developed by studious reflection and practice is the leadership of men. - Dwight D Eisenhower

The role of leadership is to transform the complex situation into small pieces and prioritize them. - Carlos Ghosn

I was training to be an electrician. I suppose I got wired the wrong way round somewhere along the line. - Elvis Presley

Teaching is a calling. Teachers in their way are holy - angels leading their flocks out of the darkness. - Jeanette Walls

Leadership is getting someone to do what they don't want to do, to achieve what they want to achieve. - Tom Landry

Drag your thoughts away from your troubles... by the ears, by the heels, or any other way you can manage it. - Mark Twain

Leadership is the special quality which enables people to stand up and pull the rest of us over the horizon. - James L Fisher

The best leaders identify what promises they are being held to, manage expectations, and honor those promises. - Bob Anderson

It's because you're scared that there's danger.
But could she manage not to be scared anymore? - Johanna Verweerd

Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked. Leadership is defined by results, not attributes. - Peter F Drucker

Leadership is about creating powerful human currents moving enthusiastically and creatively in the right direction. - Unknown

The task of leadership is not to put greatness into humanity, but to elicit it, for the greatness is already there. - John Buchan

We have to prove beyond the shadow of a doubt that it is talent and training, not color, that makes a ballet dancer. - Arthur Mitchell

Adversity has the same effect on a man that severe training has on the pugilist: it reduces him to his fighting weight. - Josh Billings

We do not need to attend classroom training programs for everything. Observation opens the windows of knowledge around us. - Sukant Ratnakar

Trying to manage diabetes is hard because if you don't, there are consequences you'll have to deal with later in life. - Bryan Adams

The workers' and peasants' government proposes to all warring peoples... negotiations leading to a just, democratic peace. - Lenin

The talk you hear about adapting to change is not only stupid, it's dangerous. The only way you can manage change is to create it. - Peter F Drucker

Leadership development is not an 'event.' It's a capacity-building endeavor. It's a process of human growth and development. - Linda F Thornton