There have been many articles about how to become a good leader. One of the most often asked question is weather leadership qualities can be cultivated or not. Some experts believe that leaders are born and not made in classrooms. There are many who contradict this statement. Well it has been proved that with the power of your thoughts and your willingness to change, you can be a successful leader.

 

What are leadership principles? The best way to know is to ask the leaders themselves. Here we have quotes told by best leaders of all times. You can learn a lesson or two from them.

 

 

Think like a man of action, and act like a man of thought.”
- Henri L. Bergson

 

When a man is able to take abuse with a smile, he is worthy to become a leader.

-Nachman of Bratslav

 

The President of the United States hears a hundred voices telling him that he is the greatest man in the world. He must listen carefully to hear the one voice that tells him he's not."
-  Harry Truman

 

Live your life each day as you would climb a mountain. An occasional glance towards the summit keeps the goal in mind, but many beautiful scenes are to be observed from each new vintage point.”

- Harold B Melchart

 

"No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit for doing it." -
-  Andrew Carnegie

 

"Don't tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results." –

- George Patton

"A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done." -
- Dwight Eisenhower

 

Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent." -
- Napoleon Bonaparte

 

Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it." –

- Dwight Eisenhower

 

"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

 

The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.
 - Ralph Nader

 

Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall.
- Confucius