75 Best inspiring quotes on Leadership

75 Best inspiring quotes on Leadership

1. 1. Leadership is not about a title or a designation. It’s about impact, influence and inspiration. Impact involves getting results, influence is about spreading the passion you have for your work, and you have to inspire team-mates and customers. – Robin S. Sharma

1. 1. I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. Twenty-six times I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed. -Michael Jordan
   2. 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
   3. A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus. Martin Luther King, Jr.
   4. I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the water to create many ripples. -Mother Teresa

1. 1. I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel. -Maya Angelou
   2. Whether you think you can or you think you can’t, you’re right.” -Henry Ford
   3. Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence. —Vince Lombardi
   4. Life is 10 percent what happens to me and 90 percent of how I react to it. -Charles Swindoll
   5. If you look at what you have in life, you’ll always have more. If you look at what you don’t have in life, you’ll never have enough. —Oprah Winfrey
   6. Remember no one can make you feel inferior without your consent. -Eleanor Roosevelt
   7. I can’t change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination. -Jimmy Dean

1. 1. Nothing is impossible, the word itself says ‘I’m possible’! – Audrey Hepburn
   2. To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart. – Eleanor Roosevelt
   3. Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears. -Les Brown
   4. Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve. -Napoleon Hill
   5. Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do, so throw off the bowlines, sail away from safe harbor, catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. -Mark Twain

1. 1. Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value. – Albert Einstein
   2. Leadership is unlocking people’s potential to become better. – Bill Bradley
   3. I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions. -Stephen Covey
   4. When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it. -Henry Ford

1. 1. The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any. -Alice Walker
   2. The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. -Amelia Earhart
   3. It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light. – Aristotle Onassis
   4. Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant. -Robert Louis Stevenson
   5. The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me. -Ayn Rand
   6. If you hear a voice within you say, ‘You cannot paint,’ then by all means paint and that voice will be silenced. -Vincent Van Gogh

1. 1. Build your own dreams, or someone else will hire you to build theirs. -Farrah Gray
   2. Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck. -Dalai Lama
   3. A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new. – Albert Einstein
   4. Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things. – Peter Drucker
   5. What’s money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do. – Bob Dylan

1. 1. I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do. – Leonardo da Vinci
   2. When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.” -Helen Keller
   3. When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy.’ They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life.” -John Lennon
   4. The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be. -Ralph Waldo Emerson
   5. Everything you’ve ever wanted is on the other side of fear. -George Addair
   6. We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light. -Plato

1. 1. Nothing will work unless you do. -Maya Angelou
   2. Believe you can and you’re halfway there. -Theodore Roosevelt
   3. What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality. -Plutarch
   4. Control your own destiny or someone else will. -Jack Welch
   5. A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way. – John C. Maxwell
   6. The good will of the governed will be starved if not fed by the good deeds of the governors.      – Ben Franklin

1. 1. The hand that rocks the cradle, rules the world.      –  William Ross Wallace
   2. When we think we lead, we are most led.      – Henry James Byron
   3. If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader. – John Quincy Adams
   4. To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart. – Eleanor Roosevelt
   5. The greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things. He is the one that gets the people to do the greatest things. – Ronald Reagan
   6. Never give an order that can’t be obeyed. – General Douglas MacArthur
   7. Don’t tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results. – George Patton

1. 1. Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.     – Dwight D. Eisenhower
   2. Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.     – Albert Schweiter
   3. You do not lead by hitting people over the head. That’s assault, not leadership.     – Dwight Eisenhower
   4. Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them. – John C. Maxwell
   5. 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

1. 1. A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd. – Max Lucado
   2. To lead people, walk behind them. – Lao Tzu
   3. Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm. – Publilus Syrus
   4. Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality. – Warren Bennis
   5. Leadership and learning are indispensable to one another.     – John F. Kennedy
   6. Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren’t used to an environment where excellence is expected. – Steve Jobs

1. 1. Don’t find fault, find a remedy. – Henry Ford
   2. The quality of a leader is reflected in the standards they set for themselves.     – Ray Kroc
   3. Lead, follow, or get out of the way. – Thomas Pane
   4. It’s hard to lead a cavalry charge if you think you look funny on a horse. – Adlai Stevenson II
   5. Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others. – Robert Louis Stevenson
   6. A man can only lead when others accept him as their leader, and he has only as much authority as his subjects give to him. All of the brilliant ideas in the world cannot save your kingdom if no one will listen to them. – Brandon Sanderson

1. He who cannot be a good follower cannot be a good leader. – Aristotle
2. If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. But do not care to convince him. Men will believe what they see. Let them see. – Henry David Thoreau
3. Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. – Harold McAlindon
4. Learn to see things backwards, inside out, and upside down.     – John Heider
5. The art of leadership is saying no, not yes. It is very easy to say yes.     – Tony Blair
6. Leadership does not always wear the harness of compromise.     – Woodrow Wilson
7. The task of leadership is not to put greatness into humanity, but to elicit it, for the greatness is already there. – John Buchan