Empowering Leadership Quotes

#1. Tomorrow's leaders will not lead dictating from the front, nor pushing from the back. They will lead from the centre - from the heart

Rasheed Ogunlaru

#2. It isn't effective or productive to force your employees to do anything. Choice empowers people and makes for a more content workforce.

Richard Branson

#3. Leadership is about empathy. It is about having the ability to relate and to connect with people for the purpose of inspiring and empowering their lives.

Daniel H. Pink

#4. I'm instinctive. I'm still learning how to run the ball. What I've done may look good to everyone else, but I know I'm capable of more than I've shown.

Clinton Portis

#5. True leadership strengthens the followers. It is a process of teaching, setting an example, and empowering others. If you seek to lead, your ability will ultimately be measured in the successes of those around you.

David Niven

#6. The led must not be compelled; they must be able to choose their own leader.

Albert Einstein

#7. Leadership is the catalytic gift that energizes, directs, and empowers all the other gifts.

Bill Hybels

#8. He who has learned how to obey will know how to command.

Solon

#9. In one of my recent books, 'The Success Principles,' I taught 64 lessons that help people achieve what they want out of life. From taking nothing less than 100 percent responsibility for your life to empowering others, these are the fundamentals to success - and to great leadership.

Jack Canfield

#10. Choosing a role is very difficult. There's no way to have a strategy.

Lena Olin

#11. Leaders are those who empower others.

Bill Gates

#12. Real leadership is about building people up and empowering them. Many leaders feel that empowering someone else will reduce their own authority. I ask you: When Rasulallah salAllahu alayhi wa sallam empowered the sahaba, did that take away from his authority or did it empower him?

Nouman Ali Khan

#13. Leadership is building a bridge that connects the vision with the purpose, in order to empower those who are around us.

David Walker

#14. Leadership is not just about what you do but what you can inspire, encourage and empower others to do.

Jon Gordon

#15. To do great things is difficult; but to command great things is more difficult.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#16. Learning to let go, to put the team's will first, is an empowering experience that leads to the most wonderful of all experiences: being a member of a high-performing, gungho, high-five team. Remember, leadership is not all about you.

Kenneth H. Blanchard

#17. A cowardly leader is the most dangerous of men.

Stephen King

#18. Leadership is elusive and enigmatic, just as it is enlightening and empowering. It is a bright light among human energies that sometimes, by its very intensity, casts a long and dark shadow.

Marcia Whicker

#19. Leaders become great, not because of their power, but because of their ability to empower others.

John C. Maxwell

#20. I was not prepared to play the role of singer in the camp of the warriors

Leon Trotsky

#21. As we look ahead into the future, leaders will be those who serve others, actively listen, and daily empower.

Farshad Asl

#22. A true leader leads by empowering not by enslaving.

Debasish Mridha

#23. Train your emotions to listen to your fundamental empowering beliefs. Be principle-centred and values-driven.

Archibald Marwizi

#24. The only point of having power it seems to me is to empower others. The only point of leadership is to inspire.

Eve Ensler

#25. If you think you are leading and turn around to see no one following, then you are just taking a walk.

Benjamin Hooks

#26. Leadership is influence. It is the ability to obtain followers. When the leader lacks confidence, the followers have no commitment. A leader is great not because of his power, but because of his ability to empower others.

John C. Maxwell

#27. Leadership is providing inspiration and vision, then developing and empowering others to achieve this vision.

Marshall Goldsmith

#28. I think the police are a major part of the glue that holds civilised life together. They're not highly paid.

Peter James

#29. The vision is to restore Avon to an iconic beauty brand and to our leadership position in global direct selling, as well as continuing to ensure that we live up to our mission of empowering women.

Sheri McCoy

#30. It was the beginning of the greatest Christmas ever. Little food. No presents. But there was a snowman in their basement.

Markus Zusak

#31. You can use and see the power of words contributing towards your success, and this comes from having an empowering belief system. Living and functioning from an empowering belief system is the spring board for making your success more deliberate.

Archibald Marwizi