Top Inspirational Quotes About Leadership

“Leaders become great, not because of their power,

 But because of their ability to empower others.”

 - John Maxwell

“If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more,

 Do more and become more you are a leader.”

 - John Quincy Adams

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

 - Eleanor Roosevelt

  

“The person who sees the difficulties so clearly that he does not discern the possibilities cannot inspire a vision in others.”

 - J. Oswald Sanders

“Some great men owe most of their greatness to the ability of detecting in those they destine for their tools the exact quality of strength that matters for their work.”

 - Joseph Conrad

“A leader’s attitude is caught by his or her followers more quickly than his or her actions.”

 - John C.Maxwell

“Your ability to solve problems and make good decisions is the true measure of your skill as a leader.”

 - Brian Tracy

“True leaders don’t create followers…

 They create more leaders!”

“Before you are a leader,

 Success is all about growing yourself.

 When you become a leader, success is all about growing others.”

 - Jack Welch

“A leader has the vision and conviction that a dream can be achieved.

 He inspires the power and energy to get it done.”

 - Raiph Nader

“If it’s dangerous, then you go first.

 If it’s pleasurable, then I’ll be brave and lead the charge.”

 - Jarod Kintz

“Leadership isn’t about power for the sake of power – not true leadership.Instead it deals with modeling behavior you want others to have, and with responsibility for being certain the people you lead are treated equitably, and with respect. Not an easy task. You can’t make other people feel anything, or think anything; you can only try to teach them what you want them to feel and think and why you think they should act accordingly.”

 - Laura Weakley

“The IMPOSSIBLE is ONLY relevant to those who NEVER attempt it…

 Otherwise it is ABSTACT and MEANINGLESS.”

 - John Paul Warren

“Treat employees like they make a difference and they will.”

 - Jim Goodnight

“Some people predict the future.

 A leader creates it.”

“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

“You can do what I cannot do.

 I can do what you cannot do.

 Together we can do great things.”

 - Mother Teresa

“A leader is best when people barely know he exists,

 When his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say:

 We did it ourselves.”

 - Lao Tzu

“The first key to leadership was self-control, particularly the mastery of pride, which was something more difficult, he explained, to subdue than a wild lion and anger, which was more difficult to defeat than the greatest wrestler. He warned them that “if you can’t swallow your pride, you can’t lead.”

 - Jack Weatherford

“The real winners in life are the people who look at every situation with an expectation that they can make it work or make it better.”

 - Barbra Pletcher

“Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy.”

 - Norman Schwarzkopf