Inspiring Quotes About Leadership

Inspiring Quotes About Leadership

“Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others.” – Jack Welch

“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

“A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.” – John C. Maxwell

“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

“There is no investment you can make which will pay you so well as the effort to scatter sunshine and good cheer through your establishment.” – Orison Swett Marden

“Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.” – Peter Drucker

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

“To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart.” – Eleanor Roosevelt

“Becoming a leader is synonymous with becoming yourself. It is precisely that simple and it is also that difficult.” – Warren Bennis

“The challenge of leadership is to be strong, but not rude; be kind, but not weak; be bold, but not a bully; be thoughtful, but not lazy; be humble, but not timid; be proud, but not arrogant; have humor, but without folly.” – Jim Rohn

“Leaders establish trust with candor, transparency, and credit.” — Jack Welch

“A leader is best when people barely know he exists…when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will all say: We did it ourselves.” — Lao-Tzu

“Leadership is about making others better as a result of your presence and making sure that impact lasts in your absence.” — Sheryl Sanberg

“I think it’s very important to have a feedback loop, where you’re constantly thinking about what you’ve done and how you could be doing it better. I think that’s the single best piece of advice: constantly think about how you could be doing things better and questioning yourself.” — Elon Musk

“People who are truly strong lift others up. People who are truly powerful bring others together.” — Michelle Obama

“If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work, and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea.” — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

"To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart." Eleanor Roosevelt

"The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires." William Arthur Ward

"It's hard to lead a cavalry charge if you think you look funny on a horse." Adlai E. Stevenson II

"Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be." Ralph Waldo 
Emerson

"Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others." Robert Louis Stevenson

"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

"Only one man in a thousand is a leader of men--the other 999 follow women." Groucho Marx

"Don't waste your energy trying to educate or change opinions; go over, under, through, and opinions will change organically when you're the boss. Or they won't. Who cares? Do your thing, and don't care if they like it." Tina Fey

"Power isn't control at all--power is strength, and giving that strength to others. A leader isn't someone who forces others to make him stronger; a leader is someone willing to give his strength to others that they may have the strength to stand on their own." Beth Revis

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

"I have three precious things which I hold fast and prize. The first is gentleness; the second is frugality; the third is humility, which keeps me from putting myself before others. Be gentle and you can be bold; be frugal and you can be liberal; avoid putting yourself before others and you can become a leader among men." Lao Tzu

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

"Victory has a hundred fathers and defeat is an orphan. John F. Kennedy

"Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things." Peter F. Drucker

"You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand." Woodrow Wilson

"Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing." Albert Schweitzer

"Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them." John C. Maxwell

"The mark of a great man is one who knows when to set aside the important things in order to accomplish the vital ones." Brandon Sanderson

"Leadership is not about titles, positions, or flow charts. It is about one life influencing another." John C. Maxwell

"You have to be burning with an idea, or a problem, or a wrong that you want to right. If you're not passionate enough from the start, you'll never stick it out." Steve Jobs

"A leader...is like a shepherd. He stays behind the flock, letting the most nimble go out ahead, whereupon the others follow, not realizing that all along they are being directed from behind." Nelson Mandela

"Being responsible sometimes means pissing people off." Colin Powell

"Do you know that one of the great problems of our age is that we are governed by people who care more about feelings than they do about thoughts and ideas?" Margaret Thatcher

"A leader is a dealer in hope." Napoleon

"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

"I don't see myself being special; I just see myself having more responsibilities than the next man. People look to me to do things for them, to have answers." Tupac Shakur

"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

"I cannot trust a man to control others who cannot control himself." Robert E. Lee

"The day the soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help them or concluded that you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership." Colin Powell

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