Top 72 Inspire Leadership Quotes

#1. If you think like a leader, act like a leader, inspire like a leader then you are a leader.

Debasish Mridha

#2. Lead by inspiration, not intimidation.

Rebecca Aguilar

#3. Leaders are limited by their vision rather than by their abilities.

Roy T. Bennett

#4. Leaders inspire accountability through their ability to accept responsibility before they place blame.

Courtney Lynch

#5. Great leadership does not mean running away from reality. Sometimes the hard truths might just demoralize the company, but at other times sharing difficulties can inspire people to take action that will make the situation better.

John P. Kotter

#6. Great men are strong men with great leadership qualities. They inspire others to be loving and caring like themselves. By this their character is made stronger.

Ellen J. Barrier

#7. When you're faced with a choice, choose to inspire, choose to empower, choose to stand for those who have lost the will to stand for themselves.

Orly Wahba

#8. One of the best ways to influence people is to make them feel important.

Roy T. Bennett

#9. Leadership is an ability to have a great vision for the future and the ability to inspire others to follow.

Debasish Mridha

#10. Positive questions bring out the best in people, inspire positive action, and create possibilities for positive futures.

Diana Whitney

#11. A leader must inspire or his team will expire.

Orrin Woodward

#12. Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#13. People who are role models for the principles and values of the organization, who buy in and understand the vision of what the organization is trying to accomplish, and have the personality to inspire other people to the vision. You know, that's what team chemistry and leadership is all about.

Nick Saban

#14. Leadership is the ability to lift and inspire.

Paul Dietzel

#15. People who cease to grow can't inspire others. Leadership begins with challenging
oneself.

Daisaku Ikeda

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

Eve Ensler

#17. One need to be inspired, to inspire.

Krishna Sagar

#18. Great leaders create more leaders, not followers.

Roy T. Bennett

#19. The first job of a leader - at work or at home - is to inspire trust. It's to bring out the best in people by entrusting them with meaningful stewardships, and to create an environment in which high-trust interaction inspires creativity and possibility.

Stephen M.R. Covey

#20. Leadership is the sum of those qualities of intellect, human understanding, and moral character that enables a person to inspire and control a group of people successfully.

John A. Lejeune

#21. Yes, it's important to inspire the next generation but let's not forget to inspire the now generation too.

Onyi Anyado

#22. Good leadership isn't about advancing yourself. It's about advancing your team.

John C. Maxwell

#23. Authentic leadership is about leading from the core of who we are to inspire each of us to our best contribution toward a shared mission.

Henna Inam

#24. If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.

John Quincy Adams

#25. If architecture is going to nudge, cajole, and inspire a community to challenge the status quo into making responsible changes, it will take the subversive leadership of academics and practitioners who keep reminding students of the profession's responsibilities.

Samuel Mockbee

#26. Unlearn your knowledge about what WAS working to understand what is working NOW

Roger James Hamilton

#27. Leadership is not a matter of authority, it is a matter of influence. A true leader teaches others to understand more, motivates them to be more and inspires them to become more.

Michael Josephson

#28. America has lost an icon. Ronald Reagan's leadership will inspire Americans for generations to come. His patriotism and devotion to our country will never be forgotten.

Tom Daschle

#29. Attitude is that little thing that will make the most difference in the accomplishment of your goals.

Roopleen

#30. Believe in yourself. Under-confidence leads to a self-fulfilling prophecy that you are not good enough for your work.

Roopleen

#31. Leaders create and inspire new leaders by instilling faith in their leadership abilities and helping them develop and hone leadership skills they don't know they possess.

John C. Maxwell

#32. Leadership happens individually. Actions and tasks do not inspire people, people do.

Scott Hammerle

#33. Inspirational leaders need to have a winning mentality in order to inspire respect. It is hard to trust in the leadership of someone who is half-hearted about their purpose, or only sporadic in focus or enthusiasm.

Sebastian Coe

#34. The ability to inspire rather than enforce loyalty is a critical quality of leadership.

Geoffrey Hindley

#35. Over time, I have come to this simple definition of leadership: Leadership is getting results in a way that inspires trust.

Stephen Covey

#36. Leaders motivate people to understand that they can do better than they've already done and go farther than they've reached.

Israelmore Ayivor

#37. Seward would inspire a cow with statesmanship if she understood our language.

Henry Adams

#38. By learning more, by doing more, by becoming more, and by creating a common vision, a leader is a person who can inspire others to change for the better.

Debasish Mridha

#39. Average leaders raise the bar on themselves; good leaders raise the bar for others; great leaders inspire others to raise their own bar.

Orrin Woodward

#40. Get excellence or live average.

Onyi Anyado

#41. Leadership is about inspiration with character, not manipulation with position!

Israelmore Ayivor

#42. Be the light and source of inspiration that others see

Sunday Adelaja

#43. You are a Hero. Be Heroic. Always.

Vineet Raj Kapoor

#44. You are a good leader when your actions inspire others to do good for themselves and for others.

Debasish Mridha

#45. People fail 2 ways: 1) don't know what to do 2) don't do what they know; therefore, great leaders must educate and inspire.

Orrin Woodward

#46. Leadership is not a voice crying in the wilderness, aloof and apart. It requires an ability to command as well as to inspire, to learn in the process of collaboration and to build a team with a common purpose that can take action and execute the change they envision.

Bob Rae

#47. Good teams are committed to the team mission and to each other personally. Good leaders inspire and build this commitment and trust.

Lee Ellis

#48. True leaders inspire us to be bigger and do things we are afraid of doing.

Robert Kiyosaki

#49. He seemed touched by a larger spirit, his course guided by something beyond him, so talented, so able, so good-natured that he did not even inspire envy in a city rich with envy.

David Halberstam

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

Jon Gordon

#51. Good leaders have vision and inspire others to help them turn vision into reality. Great leaders have vision, share vision, and inspire others to create their own.

Roy Bennett

#52. Nobody in a leadership level in American politics is trying to inspire the American people. Everybody needs to be goosed. The vast majority of people are not self-starters.

Rush Limbaugh

#53. If the United States is to produce a nation of investors-as we must if we are to gain financial world-leadership-it is imperative that boards of directors be so constituted as to adequately represent the interests and inspire the complete confidence of investors of moderate substance.

B.C. Forbes

#54. Leadership is based on a spiritual quality; the power to inspire, the power to inspire others to follow

Vince Lombardi

#55. The reason most of your staff are asleep and disengaged, is because you have boring, and bully managers, and no REAL Leaders to inspire and unleash potential.

Tony Dovale

#56. Leaders inspire. They aren't assigned leadership. They command it.

Phil McGraw

#57. 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

#58. At HBO, my leadership had to inspire and gain the respect of employees in a large company with over 100 external business relationships in dozens of countries.

James Costos

#59. Absolutely the United States should lead in space, for the survival of the United States. It's inspiring for the next generation. If we lose leadership, then we'll be using Chinese capability to inspire Americans.

Buzz Aldrin

#60. Leaders think it's possible. They inspire followers to believe in the same good news and it becomes a blessing to them. Leadership is all about inspiring people to believe in what becomes profitable to them!

Israelmore Ayivor

#61. I think leadership is service and there is power in that giving: to help people, to inspire and motivate them to reach their fullest potential.

Denise Morrison

#62. Community leadership is the courage, creativity and capacity to inspire participation, development and sustainability for strong communities.

Gustav Nossal

#63. As a leader, if you can no longer inspire your people it is time to step aside and let someone else take the lead

Thomas Narofsky

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

J. Oswald Sanders

#65. Great leaders inspire greatness in others.

Lolly Daskal

#66. Leadership defines what the future should look like, aligns people with that vision, and inspires them to make it happen despite the obstacles.

John P. Kotter

#67. The deep desire for success must cause a dream to rise to the surface and inspire you to action. The dream must be supported in the physical and natural realm to help you believe more and more in the possibility of its realization.

Archibald Marwizi

#68. Today's president, CEO or managing director needs to be a disruptive influence with imagination, vision, and courage to lead the organization into new and dangerous territory. The leader must be an entrepreneurial driver who can inspire the team to boldly venture into uncharted lands.

Paul Sloane

#69. A good coach always coaches to a leader's potential, not his current level of performance. A good leadership coach will see the potential in you and inspire you accordingly.

Andy Stanley

#70. Do not Speak for Anyone.
Just let them know their Right to Speak.

Vineet Raj Kapoor

#71. The most inspiring leaders are those who ... inspire the rest of us to be our best selves and to match our skills with our passions. They give us confidence to pursue our dreams.

Carmine Gallo

#72. Take the high road. People will rise up to join you or fall out of sight.

Shannon L. Alder

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