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Here is a collection
of executive coaching quotes on leadership, which can be
a great source of inspiration for both executive coaches
and their clients.
These types of quotes can be very valuable in
executive
coaching because
they contain a lot of wisdom in a simple, easy to
understand package. Try to spend some time thinking
about the quotes and the wisdom they contain... and use
them to gain perspective on how it applies to your
leadership style.
"In matters of style, swim with the current; In
matters of principle, stand like a rock." - Thomas
Jefferson
"Management is doing things right; leadership is
doing the right things." - Peter F. Drucker
"The only real training for leadership is
leadership." - A. Jay
"Don't tell people how to do things, tell them what
to do and let them surprise you with their results." -
George S. Patton
"The task of the leader is to get his people from
where they are to where they have not been." - Henry
Kissinger
"Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do
something you want done because he wants to do it." -
Dwight Eisenhower
"People are more easily led than driven." - David
Fink
"And when we think we lead, we are most led." - Lord
Byron
"A leader is a dealer in hope." - Napoleon Bonaparte
"When nothing is sure, everything is possible." -
Margaret Drabble
"I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?" -
Benjamin Disraeli
"Leadership should be born out of the understanding
of the needs of those who would be affected by it." -
Marian Anderson
"The leadership instinct you are born with is the
backbone. You develop the funny bone and the wishbone
that go with it." - Elaine Agather
"The leader has to be practical and a realist, yet
must talk the language of the visionary and the
idealist." - Eric Hoffer
"Delegating work works, provided the one delegating
works, too." - Robert Half
"The best executive is the one who has sense enough
to pick good men to do what he wants done, and
self-restraint to keep from meddling with them while
they do it." - Theodore Roosevelt
"Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead
where there is no path and leave a trail." - Ralph Waldo
Emerson
"The very essence of leadership is its purpose. And
the purpose of leadership is to accomplish a task. That
is what leadership does–and what it does is more
important than what it is or how it works." - Colonel D.
M. Malone
"Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want
to test a man’s character, give him power." - Abraham
Lincoln
"Where there is no vision, the people perish." -
Proverbs 29:18
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