Famous Quotes

"If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader."

John Quincy Adams on Leadership

More quotes about Leadership

• "If you think you can do a thing or think you can't do a thing, you're right."

  Henry Ford on Leadership

• "A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus."

  Martin Luther King, Jr. on Leadership

• "It is better to lead from behind and to put others in front, especially when you celebrate victory when nice things occur. You take the front line when there is danger. Then people will appreciate your leadership."

  Nelson Mandela on Leadership

• "A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves."

  Lao Tzu on Leadership

• "Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help or concluded you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership."

  Colin Powell on Leadership

More quotes by John Quincy Adams

• "Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost."

• "Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air."

• "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it."

• "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it."

• "The highest glory of the American Revolution was this: it connected in one indissoluble bond the principles of civil government with the principles of Christianity."