Presidential Quotes On Leadership: What did America’s previous presidents have to say about leadership? Are there lessons we can learn from them?
Well, to find out what leadership lessons can be learned from these presidents we have looked at leadership quotes shared by America’s best leaders.
Presidential Quotes On Leadership
1. “The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible.” ― Dwight D Eisenhower
2. “Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power.” ― Abraham Lincoln
3, “Remember that it is the action, and not the commission, that makes the officer and that there is more expected from him, than the title” George Washington
4. “The ear of the leader must ring with the voices of the people.” ―Woodrow Wilson
5. “The test of leadership is not to put greatness into humanity, but to elicit it, for the greatness is already there.” ― James Buchanan
6. “I not only use all the brains that I have but all that I can borrow.” ― Woodrow Wilson
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7. “If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more, and become more, then you are a leader.” ― John Quincy Adams
8. “A little flattery will support a man through great fatigue.” ― James Monroe
9. “Don’t expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong.” ―Calvin Coolidge
10. “Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.” ― John F. Kennedy
11. “Every expert was once a beginner.” ― Rutherford B. Hayes
12. “In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.” ― Dwight D. Eisenhower
Quotes On Leadership by Presidents
13. “Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it.” ―Dwight D. Eisenhower
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14. “Nobody cares how much you know until they know how much you care.” ―Theodore Roosevelt
15. “The circulation of confidence is better than the circulation of money.” ―James Madison
16. “There are no great limits to growth because there are no limits to human intelligence, imagination, and wonder.” ―Ronald Reagan
17. “Those who have wrought great changes in the world never succeeded by gaining over chiefs; but always by exciting the multitude. The first is the resource of intrigue and produces only secondary results, the second is the resort of genius and transforms the universe.” ―Martin Van Buren
18. “Presidents are selected, not elected.” – Franklin Delano Roosevelt
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Final Thought
The practical lessons on leadership can be learned when we observe and study the leadership styles and material written by previous successful leaders. The above Presidential Quotes On Leadership are inspirational and can direct any leader in the right way.
Betty is a qualified teacher with a Bachelor of Education (Arts). In addition, she is a registered Certified Public Accountant. She has been teaching and offering part-time accounting services for the last 10 years. She is passionate about education, accounting, writing, and traveling.
