Inspiring Leader Quotes

#1. I don't believe that being an inspiring leader is a goal that you can aspire to. It is a by-product.

Srikumar Rao

#2. All leaders are influenced by those they admire. Reading about them and studying their traits inevitably allows an inspiring leader to develop his own leadership traits.

Rudy Giuliani

#3. Any great and inspiring leader or organization that ever existed set out to do something completely unrealistic.

Simon Sinek

#4. I do not yet know of a man who became a leader as a result of having undergone a leadership course.

Lee Kuan Yew

#5. Being a visionary leader is not about giving speeches and inspiring the troops. How I spend my day is pretty much the same as how any executive spends his day. Being a visionary leader is about solving day-to-day problems with my vision in mind.

Bill O'Brien

#6. I'd be worried if I was put in the same category as Michael Bubl I'm trying to sound like a young man, for starters.

Jamie Cullum

#7. Banks felt more alone and further away for having just talked to Sophia than he had before her call. But it was always like that - the telephone might bring you together for a few moments, but there's nothing like it for emphasising distance.

Peter Robinson

#8. Truly remarkable leadership is not just about motivating others to follow, it's about inspiring them to become leaders themselves and setting the stage for even greater opportunities for future generations.

Condoleezza Rice

#9. Some people complain that they will not live forever, but cannot think of things to do on a wet Sunday afternoon.

Keith Ward

#10. I never cease being dumbfounded by the unbelievable things people believe.

Leo Rosten

#11. It is a great privilege to meet inspiring leaders from different parts of the church - Catholic, Baptist, Salvation Army, Pentecostal, Lutheran, Methodist, and so many more - and discover that what unites us is infinitely greater than what divides us.

Nicky Gumbel

#12. A leader becomes great by inspiring others to do great things.

Debasish Mridha

#13. When there is no room for individualism in ballparks, then there will be no room for individualism in life.

Bill Veeck

#14. Ask others the same questions you ask of yourself: "Am I a good leader? Am I trustworthy? Am I inspiring?

Rob Roy

#15. We need a leader able to project his or her personality and present our policies in today's media environment. All this is true - but we also need a leader capable of building a team, inspiring loyalty from colleagues, and one genuinely open to ideas.

Bob Ainsworth

#16. 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

#17. Tomorrow will always hold curiosities but it is the enchantment of today's possibilities which has me true to the present.

Truth Devour

#18. Life is a sorrow, without a song.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#19. Everyday we see your heart and character, inspiring all of us to give more of ourselves.'You are the leader to take us from where we are to where we need to be.

Beyonce Knowles

#20. And it falls to a true leader to see to it that his or her people have an inspiring vision to pursue.

Bill Byrd

#21. A humble learner of today becomes a strong leader of tomorrow.

Abhijit Naskar

#22. That dawn he officiated at the daily mass of his ablutions with more frenetic severity than usual, trying to purge his body and spirit of twenty years of fruitless wars and the disillusionments of power.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#23. To me, a leader is a visionary that energizes others. This definition of leadership has two key dimensions: a) creating the vision of the future, and b) inspiring others to make the vision a reality.

Vince Lombardi

#24. What is inherently wrong with the word 'politician' if the fellow has devoted his life to holding public office and trying to do something for his people?

Richard J. Daley

#25. A few primary keys to becoming a leader in business include having a clear intent or purpose, a truly inspiring vision, a grand message to share, a genuine social calling and a targeted niche to serve.

John Frederick Demartini

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

Roy T. Bennett

#27. The theory [of evolution] is a scientific mistake.

Louis Agassiz

#28. Leaders earn a heck of a lot more money than followers.

T. Harv Eker

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

Roy T. Bennett

#30. We may be sure that it is the love of God only that can make us come out of self. If His powerful hand did not sustain us, we should not know how to take the first step in that direction.

Francois Fenelon

#31. Great defeats enable us to learn and to accomplish greater feats.

Robert J. Braathe

#32. I've been down this road before and yeah I skidded but forget it

Drake

#33. Knowing how to do a job is the accomplishment of labor - showing others is the accomplishment of the teacher - making sure the work is done by others is the accomplishment of the manager - inspiring others to do better work is the accomplishment of the leader.

John C. Maxwell

#34. Inspiring others to do better work is the accomplishment of a leader.

John C. Maxwell

#35. Before a leader can be accepted, let alone succeed, autonomous professionals must agree to be influenced by that person.

David Maister

#36. If we say leaders are incompetent, we are going to fuel extremist, populist, xenophobic and ultra-nationalist parties.

Jose Manuel Barroso

#37. If you can't force or are unwilling to force your people to follow you, with or without threats, you are not a leader.

Lee Kuan Yew

#38. I used to wonder how a man of birth and spirit could endure to be wholly insignificant and obscure in a foreign country, when he might live with lustre in his own.

Jonathan Swift

#39. Companies must have a noble cause, and it's the leaders job to transform that noble cause into such an inspiring vision, that it will attract the most talented people in the world to want to join it.

Steve Jobs

#40. Your task as a leader is to help others to succeed, not to strive only for your own success. If I don't trust your motives, nothing else will matter -because my primary concern is your integrity.

David Maister

#41. Truly effective and inspiring leaders aren't actually driven to lead people; they are driven to serve them.

Simon Sinek

#42. Nature we have always with us, an in exhaustible store-house of that which moves the heart, appeals to the mind and fires the imagination -- health to the body, a stimulus to the intellect, and joy to the soul.

John Burroughs

#43. 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