For this book we scanned thousands of inspirational leadership quotations to bring you this collection of the best 400 Leadership Quotes of All Time. We find these inspiring and thought provoking. We hope you'll enjoy reading them as much as we enjoyed putting them together.

here's a small sample of the quotes included:

Leadership is unlocking people's potential to become better.

Bill Bradley

Management is about arranging and telling. Leadership is about nurturing and enhancing.

Tom Peters

Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.

Stephen Covey

Never give an order that can't be obeyed.

General Douglas MacArthur

No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.

Abraham Lincoln

What you do has far greater impact than what you say.

Stephen Covey

Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice

William Shakespeare

I've got to follow them; I am their leader

Ledru-Rollin

I always prefer to believe the best of everybody; it saves so much trouble

Rudyard Kipling

I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it

Stephen Leacock

I can give you a six-word formula for success: "Think things through - then follow through."

Edward Rickenbacker

I can live for two months on one good compliment

Mark Twain

I cannot give you a formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure - which is: Try to please everybody

Herbert Bayard Swope

I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.

Socrates

To have long term success as a coach or in any position of leadership, you have to be obsessed in some way.

Pat Riley

True leadership lies in guiding others to success. In ensuring that everyone is performing at their best, doing the work they are pledged to do and doing it well.

Bill Owens

We live in a society obsessed with public opinion. But leadership has never been about popularity.

Marco Rubio

Whatever you are, be a good one.

Abraham Lincoln

You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing you think you cannot do.

Eleanor Roosevelt

A competent leader can get efficient service from poor troops, while on the contrary an incapable leader can demoralize the best of troops.

John J Pershing

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

I complained because I had no shoes until I met a man who had no feet

Arabic proverb

I don't sing because I am happy; I'm happy because I sing

William James