55 nspiring Quotes about
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.
(John Quincy Adams)
Motivating others to act towards reaching a common goal
Real leadership is leaders recognizing that they serve the people that they lead.
(Pete Hoekstra)
A leader is one who knows the way, shows the way, and goes the way.
(John C. Maxwell)
Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
(Mark Twain)
Don’t just be a boss – be a leader.
(Scott Anderson)
Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.
(John F. Kennedy)
Every time you have to speak, you are auditioning for leadership.
(James Humes)
Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them become what they are capable of being.
(Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure, which is: try to please everybody.
(Herbert Swope)
Leaders don’t inflict pain, they share pain.
(Max Depree)
The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.
(Ralph Nader)
Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.
(Warren G. Bennis)
A leader is a person you will follow to a place you would not go by yourself.
(Joel Barker)
A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don’t necessarily want to go, but ought to be.
(Rosalynn Carter)
The price of greatness is responsibility.
(Winston Churchill)
Anyone can hold the helm while the sea is calm.
(Publilius Syrus)
If your best, most well-reasoned argument doesn’t convince, maybe you’re not as correct as you think.
(Scott Anderson)
If “yes” is all you hear, you’re not doing your job.
(Scott Anderson)
You manage things; you lead people.
(Grace Murray Hopper)
People buy in to the leader before they buy in to the vision.
(John C. Maxwell)
No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself, or to get all the credit for doing it.
(Andrew Carnegie)
…great leaders inspire others to raise their own bar.
(Orrin Woodward)
Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate and doubt to offer a solution everybody can understand.
(Colin Powell)
Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.
(Steve Jobs)
Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.
(John D. Rockefeller)
Leadership is unlocking people’s potential to become better.
(Bill Bradley)
Earn your leadership every day.
(Michael Jordan)
You cannot be a leader, and ask other people to follow you, unless you know how to follow, too.
(Sam Rayburn)
Leadership is an action, not a position.
(Donald McGannon)
Don’t tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.
(George S. Patton Jr.)
The very essence of leadership is that you have to have vision. You can’t blow an uncertain trumpet.
(Theodore M. Hesburgh)
Don’t fix blame: fix the problem.
(Scott Anderson)
The leader leads, and the boss drives.
(Theodore Roosevelt)
Example is leadership.
(Albert Schweitzer)
If you command wisely, you’ll be obeyed cheerfully.
(Thomas Fuller)
Leaders grasp nettles.
(David Ogilvy)
I don’t know any other way to lead but by example.
(Don Shula)
Leadership cannot really be taught. It can only be learned.
(Harold S. Geneen)
The sharp employ the sharp.
(Douglas William Jerrold)
The art of communication is the language of leadership.
(James Humes)
You don’t lead by hitting people over the head – that’s assault, not leadership.
(Dwight D. Eisenhower)
Leadership is a choice, not a position.
(Stephen R. Covey)
I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
(Benjamin Disraeli)
You don’t need a title to be a leader.
(Mark Sanborn)
To command is to serve.
(Andre Malraux)
Become the kind of leader that people would follow voluntarily, even if you had no title or position.
(Brian Tracy)
A good general not only sees the way to victory; he also knows when victory is impossible.
(Polybius)
Effective leadership is putting first things first.
(Stephen R. Covey)
Leaders aren’t born, they are made. And they are made just like anything else, through hard work.
(Vince Lombardi)
Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them.
(John C. Maxwell)
I am not afraid of an army of lions led by a sheep; I am afraid of an army of sheep led by a lion.
(Alexander the Great)
The greatest leader is not necessarily the one that does the greatest things. He is the one that gets the people to do the greatest things.
(Ronald Reagan)
Leaders don’t create followers; they create more leaders
(Tom Peters)
Great leaders don’t tell you what to do. They show you how it’s done.
(Alessandro Berselli)
Great leaders grow leaders.
(Scott Anderson)
