Leadership Development
Services
Student Center, Room 207
Office Hours: 8
a.m. 4:30 p.m. Monday - Friday
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LEADERSHIP QUOTES:
"Leadership is influence."
--John C. Maxwell
"Leadership is not found in position; it is found in action and
influence."
--Glen Martin and Gary MacIntosh in the Issachar Factor.
"The price of greatness is responsibility."
--Winston Churchill
"You don’t have to be brilliant to be a good leader. But you
do have to understand other people - how they feel, what makes them
tick, and the best way to influence them."
--Leadership, January 19, 1993.
"From now on, any definition of a successful life must include
serving others."
--President George Bush
"The first step to leadership is servanthood."
--John Maxwell in Leadership Inspirational Quotes & Insights for
Leaders.
"Leadership is the influence exerted within a group at any
given time, and a leader is the person who is exerting the most
influence within the group at any given time."
--Daryl Heasley, Leadership Training For You
"Leader--a dealer in hope."
--Napoleon
"Our earlier belief that leadership comes about primarily
through managerial ability has been replaced by an awareness of
skills needed for understanding people and dealing with their
problems productively."
--Academic Leader, p. 3, Sept. 1994.
"The key to
successful leadership today is influence, not authority."
--Kenneth Blanchard in Leadership Inspirational Quotes &
Insights for Leaders.
"Women have for centuries been recognized as talented
listeners, nurturers, motivators, excellent communicators. These
very qualities that we once were told were unbusinesslike are
precisely the qualities
that business needs most to tap human potential."
--Mary Cunningham Agee
"Everything rises and falls on leadership."
--John Maxwell
"The world of the 1990s and beyond will not belong to
'managers' or those who can make the numbers dance.
The world will belong to passionate, driven leaders—people who not
only have enormous amounts of energy but who can energize those whom
they lead."
--Jack Welch
"Leadership is the interpersonal influence, exercised in a
situation and directed, through the communication process, toward
the attainment of a specified goal or goals."
--Hobbs and Powers
"Leadership empowers people's lives."
--Paul Hersey
"A good leader, it has been said, inspires other people with
confidence in the leader, a great leader inspires them with
confidence in themselves."
--Raymond Dreyfack, Developing Leaders
Leadership success is more than just showing up. It is the
application of tested concepts and the timing skills necessary to
get things done.
--Paul Hersey, The Situational Leader
"Leadership is inseparable from the followers' needs and goals,
. . . we need each other."
--James Burns, Leadership, 1978
"Leadership is a relationship between people."
--Ellen Elliot
Leadership is helping someone or a group of people accomplish what
they want to do."
--University of Illinois
"Leadership is any attempt to influence another individual or
group."
--Paul Hersey, The Situational Leader
"Leadership is helping yourself and other people achieve goals.
The ability to direct your life to get the results you want is
leadership."
--Ellen Elliot
"Leadership is both individual commitment and a team
effort."
--Skills For Working Together
"Leadership is skills you never outgrow."
--University of Illinois
"Leadership is a helping process, whether it involves just one
other person or a group."
--Ellen Elliot
"Leaders are those who know what to do next, know why that is
important, and know what appropriate resources to bring to bear on
the problem at hand. Then, through effective communication they
influence others to follow."
-- Barry Bowater
"If you stop learning today, you stop leading tomorrow."
--Howard Hendricks
"It is not such a fiercesome thing to lead once you see your
leadership as part of God's overall plan for his world."
--Calvin Miller
"Good leadership is motivating and mobilizing others to
accomplish a task or to think in ways that are for the
benefit of all concerned."
--Don Page
"Effective leadership is the only competitive advantage that
will endure. That's because leadership has two sides - what a person
is (character) and what a person does (competence)."
--Stephen Covey
"A great man shows his greatness by the way he treats little
men."
--Thomas Carlyle
"People first, strategy second."
--The motto of successful CEOs, Fortune, June 21,1999. p.74.
"Leadership . . . consists of the principles, skills, and
attitudes that harness and integrate knowledge, trust and
power."
--D.E. Zand in Leadership Triad: Knowledge, Trust, and Power.
"Some men see the world as it is and ask why; others see the
world as it might be and ask why not."
--Bernard Shaw
"Leadership: The art of getting someone else to do something
you want done because he wants to do it."
--Dwight Eisenhower
"Don't measure yourself by what you have accomplished, but what
you should have accomplished with your ability."
--John Wooden
"Be more concerned with your character than with your
reputation. Your character is what you really are while your
reputation is merely what others think you are."
--John Wooden
"Success is a journey, not a destination."
--Ben Sweetland
"Leadership is not something that you learn once and for all.
It is an ever-evolving pattern of skills, talents, and ideas that
grow and change as you do."
--Sheila Murray Bethel
"Supervisors who want the best out of people have to lead, not
push. It is harder to do, and it takes a lot more skill. But it is
worth the effort."
--Leadership With a Human Touch,
January 18, 1994.
"True leadership must be for the benefit of the followers, not
the enrichment of the leaders."
--Robert Townsend
"You are not finished when you are defeated. You’re finished
when you quit."
--Leadership, June 6, 1995, p. 24.
"A good leader is not the person who does things right, but the
one who finds the right things to do."
--Leadership, August 1, 1995, p. 12
"An ability to embrace new ideas, routinely challenge old ones,
and live with paradox will be the effective leaders premier
trait."
--Tom Peters
"Real leaders have no need to advertise their leadership except
by their conduct, sympathy, understanding, and ability."
--Leadership, January 16, 1996, p. 7.
"Any successful journey of continual improvement shows five
components: a vision of a desired end state; knowledge of where we
are now, our present - state; a road map for strategic intent; an
internal drive system; a value system of principles."
--Robert R. Thompson, Executive Excellence.
"Failing organizations are usually over-managed and
under-led."
--Warren G. Bennis in Leadership Inspirational Quotes & Insights
for Leaders.
"Use power to help people. For we are given power not to
advance our own purposes nor to make a great show in the world, nor
a name. There is but one just use of power and it is to serve
people."
--George Bush in Leadership Inspirational Quotes & Insights for
Leaders.
"A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the
way."
--John Maxwell in Leadership Inspirational Quotes & Insights for
Leaders.
"The single most important factor in determining the climate of
an organization is the top executive."
--Charles Galloway in Leadership Inspirational Quotes & Insights
for Leaders.
"The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind in other
people the convictions and the will to carry on."
--Quoted in Leadership Inspirational Quotes & Insights for
Leaders.
"Ability may get you to the top--but it takes character to keep
you there."
--Quoted in Leadership Inspirational Quotes & Insights for
Leaders.
"The highest compliment leaders can receive is the one that is
given by the people who work for them."
--Quoted in Leadership Inspirational Quotes & Insights for
Leaders.
"The successful leader is the one who makes the right move at
the right moment with the right motive."
--Quoted in Leadership Inspirational Quotes & Insights for
Leaders.
"The quality of a leader is reflected in the standards they set
for themselves."
--Ray Kroc in Leadership Inspirational Quotes & Insights for
Leaders.
"The size of a leader is determined by the depth of his
convictions, the height of his ambitions, the breadth of his vision
and the reach of his love."
--D. N. Jackson in Leadership Inspirational Quotes & Insights
for Leaders.
"If you don't choose to do it in leadership time up front, you
do it in crisis management time down the road."
--Stephen Covey
"Managers are people who do things right, and leaders are
people who do the right thing."
--Warren Bennis
"The leadership that frees people to be their best, affirms
them in their diversity and includes them in the dreams, decisions
and benefits of the organization is a servant leader."
--James M. Childs, Jr.
"Eventually relationships determine the size and the length of
leadership."
--John C. Maxwell
"It is always easy to do right when you know ahead of time what
you stand for."
--Don Meyer
"Leadership is unlocking people's potential to become
better."
--Bill Bradley (US Senator)
"Leadership is: knowing what to do next, knowing why it is
important, and knowing how to bring appropriate resources to bear on
the need at hand."
--Bobb Biehl in Minute Motivators.
"Leadership has less to do with position than it has with
disposition."
--John C. Maxwell
"Leadership is an influence relationship among leaders and
followers who intend real changes that reflect their mutual
purposes."
--J. C Rost in Leadership for the Twenty-First Century.
"We lose sight of the most important factors that lead to
successful leadership: commitment, a passion to make a difference, a
vision for achieving positive change, and the courage to take
action."
--Larraine Matusak in Finding Your Voice: Learning to Lead Anywhere
You Want to Make a Difference.
"While great leaders may be as rare as great runners, great
actors, or great painters, everyone has leadership potential, just
as everyone has some ability at running, acting, and painting."
--Warren Bennis and Burt Nanus in Leaders: The Strategies for Taking
Charge.
"Commitment is the face of challenge produces character."
--John C. Maxwell
"Character: Who you are when no one but God is watching"
--anonymous
"Character is much easier kept than recovered"
--Thomas Paine
"Be the change you want to create"
--Gandhi
"Try not -- do or do not -- there is no try"
--Yoda (from Star Wars)
"No one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a
gate of change that can only be opened from the inside. We cannot
open the gate of another, either by argument or emotional
appeal."
--Marilyn Ferguson
"To see life as it is, rather than how it should be -- that is
madness!"
--Don Quixote, in Man of LaMancha, from Cervantes
