leadership behavior Quotes

Leadership is taking responsibility while others are making excuses.

A leader’s most powerful ally is his or her own example.

Leadership is not a title. It's a behavior. LIVE it

Leaders should never, ever try to look cool - that's for dictators

The most important thing I learned is that soldiers watch what their leaders do. You can give them classes and lecture them forever, but it is your personal example they will follow.

It's through a leader's actions - what he or she does and says on a daily basis - that the essence of great leadership becomes apparent.

It is the quality and the character of the leader that determines the results and performance.

A manager can't act like a role model. They need to BE a role model.

True leaders respect and honor authority but are comfortable in its presence.

Leadership Is Performance. You Have To Be Conscious Of Your Behavior, Because Everyone Else Is.

I'm not the type of guy to go out and just say, 'Hey, I'm raising my fist to do this and do that.' I don't think I'm that type of guy. I wasn't a leader the way other people may have wanted me to be.

When I was 7 years old I saw Jimmy Connors make someone carry his bag, as though he were Julius Caesar. I vowed then and there that I would always carry my own.

Leaders show respect for people by giving them time.

Good leaders must become what they want their followers to become.

There are no good and bad peoples; there are only leaderships that behave responsibly or insanely.

People (political and military leaders) much prefer to speak of what they are going to do rather than what the outcome will be.

Despite the best intentions, companies often become culturally dysfunctional. This occurs when leadership has a perception about the culture that conflicts with reality, or leadership behaves differently than what might be written down.

Leadership is one of the most observed and least understood phenomena on earth.

Leadership is not about being a nice person or not a nice person.

And when the Patrician was unhappy, he became very democratic. He found intricate and painful ways of spreading that unhappiness as far as possible.

A leader's attitude is caught by his or her followers more quickly than his or her actions.

Management is not being brilliant. Management is being conscientious.

I'm not saying that women leaders would eliminate violence. We are not more moral than men; we are only uncorrupted by power so far. When we do acquire power, we might turn out to have an equal impulse toward aggression.

A good leader takes care of those in their charge. A bad leader takes charge of those in their care.

Reckless, outrageous and undignified behavior has become excused and countenanced as telling it like it is when it is actually just reckless, outrageous and undignified. And when such behavior emanates from the top of our government, it is something else. It is dangerous to a democracy.