Quotes On Vision And Purpose

When it comes to leadership, certain qualities are essential for success. Here are the top 99 quotes on qualities of a good leader:

1. “A leader has the vision and conviction that a dream can be achieved.” – Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
2. “The very essence of leadership is that you have to have a vision.” – Theodore Hesburgh
3. “The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.” – Ralph Nader
4. “The most powerful leadership tool you have is your own personal example.” – John Wooden
5. “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.” – Douglas MacArthur
6. “A good leader takes a little more than his share of the blame, a little less than his share of the credit.” – Arnold H. Glasow
7. “A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.” – John C. Maxwell
8. “The best leaders have a high consideration factor. They really care about their people.” – Brian Tracy
9. “Great leaders are willing to sacrifice their own personal interests for the good of the team.” – John Wooden
10. “A leader is someone who knows the way, shows the way, and goes the way.” – John C. Maxwell

11. “The art of communication is the language of leadership.” – James Humes
12. “Effective communication is 20% what you know and 80% how you feel about what you know.” – Jim Rohn
13. “Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.” – Anne Morrow Lindbergh
14. “The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn’t said.” – Peter Drucker
15. “Communication is the real work of leadership.” – Nitin Nohria
16. “The key to successful leadership today is influence, not authority.” – Kenneth Blanchard
17. “The leader who communicates the most wins.” – Jack Welch
18. “A leader’s role is to raise people’s aspirations for what they can become and to release their energies so they will try to get there.” – David Gergen
19. “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
20. “A good leader inspires people to have confidence in the leader, a great leader inspires people to have confidence in themselves.” – Eleanor Roosevelt

21. “Integrity is the most valuable and respected quality of leadership. Always keep your word.” – Brian Tracy
22. “The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it is on a section gang, a football field, in an army, or in an office.” – Dwight D. Eisenhower
23. “Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody’s going to know whether you did it or not.” – Oprah Winfrey
24. “The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.” – Ralph Nader
25. “The true test of leadership is how well you function in a crisis.” – Brian Tracy
26. “Leading by example is the most powerful advice any leader can give.” – Bill Walsh
27. “Honesty and integrity are by far the most important assets of an entrepreneur.” – Zig Ziglar
28. “Leadership is about making others better as a result of your presence and making sure that impact lasts in your absence.” – Sheryl Sandberg
29. “Integrity is not a conditional word. It doesn’t blow in the wind or change with the weather. It is your inner image of yourself, and if you look in there and see a man who won’t cheat, then you know he never will.” – John D. MacDonald
30. “Integrity is the essence of everything successful.” – R. Buckminster Fuller

31. “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
32. “The most powerful leadership tool you have is your own personal example.” – John Wooden
33. “My job is not to be easy on people. My job is to take these great people we have and to push them and make them even better.” – Steve Jobs
34. “A good leader takes a little more than his share of the blame, a little less than his share of the credit.” – Arnold H. Glasow
35. “The best way to predict your future is to create it.” – Abraham Lincoln
36. “The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.” – Ralph Nader
37. “Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.” – Warren Bennis
38. “The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.” – Henry Kissinger
39. “Leadership is not about being in charge. It’s about taking care of those in your charge.” – Simon Sinek
40. “Great leaders are willing to sacrifice their own personal interests for the good of the team.” – John Wooden

41. “The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.” – Nelson Mandela
42. “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts.” – Winston Churchill
43. “I’ve missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times I’ve been trusted to take the game-winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.” – Michael Jordan
44. “Believe you can and you’re halfway there.” – Theodore Roosevelt
45. “Don’t watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.” – Sam Levenson
46. “The only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it.” – Steve Jobs
47. “It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.” – Confucius
48. “You are not your resume, you are your work.” – Seth Godin
49. “Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.” – Winston Churchill
50. “The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.” – Vince Lombardi

51. “You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.” – Maya Angelou
52. “Creativity is intelligence having fun.” – Albert Einstein
53. “Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.” – Steve Jobs
54. “Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.” – Albert Einstein
55. “I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.” – Thomas Edison
56. “Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn’t really do it, they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while.” – Steve Jobs
57. “The most dangerous phrase in the language is, ‘We’ve always done it this way.'” – Grace Hopper
58. “Creativity is a way of life. It’s not just about doing something artistic. It’s about living with an open mind and an open heart.” – John Cleese
59. “The creative adult is the child who survived.” – Ursula K. Le Guin
60. “Creativity is contagious. Pass it on.” – Albert Einstein

61. “Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success.” – Henry Ford
62. “Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.” – Helen Keller