Leadership quotes I 25+ Amazing Quotes about Leadership and Teamwork!
Great leadership quotes inspire us to be all we can be! Quotes about leadership and teamwork help us to discover how true leaders like Abraham Lincoln think. Leadership quotes inspire us.
But they also challenge us to reflect upon our own abilities to be a great leader. What am I doing well? What can I improve to become a better leader?
I’m pretty sure you agree true leadership is an important success component for any organization – large or small. Over the years I collected over 250 inspiring quotes about leadership and teamwork.
Here you will find my 25 favorite ones in 3 different formats: a YouTube video, an infographic and easy-to-use quote images.
Enjoy!
Quotes about Leadership and Teamwork
25 Leadership Quotes [Video]
This amazing video was made by visual artist Axelle from Axellerator.
25 Inspirational Leadership Quotes [Infographic]
Here’s an infographic with 25 famous quotes about leadership.
25 Great Inspiring Quotes [The List]
Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way.
General George Patton
Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others.
Jack Welch
Leadership is action, not position.
Donald H. McGannon
Leadership is not about titles, positions, or flowcharts. It is about one life influencing another.
John C. Maxwell
The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it.
Theodore Roosevelt
Great leaders are not defined by the absence of weakness, but rather by the presence of clear strengths.
John Zenger
One of the tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency.
Arnold Glasow
Whatever you are, be a good one.
Abraham Lincoln
A good leader is a person who takes a little more than his share of the blame and a little less than his share of the credit.
John Maxwell
You don’t lead by hitting people over the head—that’s assault, not leadership.
Dwight Eisenhower
Quotes about Leadership and Teamwork: 11 – 20
To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart.
Eleanor Roosevelt
The greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things. He is the one that gets people to do the greatest things.
Ronald Reagan
Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them.
John C. Maxwell
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, former first lady of the United States
A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd.
Max Lucado
To lead people, walk behind them.
Lao Tzu
Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
Harold McAlindon
A big man is one who makes us feel bigger when we are with him.
John C. Maxwell
Nobody rises to low expectations.
Calvin Lloyd
It is better to have one person working with you, than three working for you.
Unknown
Quotes about Leadership and Teamwork: 21 – 25
Leadership is a choice you make, not a place you sit.
Robert F. Tucker
A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.
John Maxwell
Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.
Stephen R. Covey
First rule of leadership: everything is your fault.
A Bug’s Life
There’s plenty of room at the top, but there’s no room to sit down
Helen Downey
