Top 100 Leadership Inspiration Quotes
#1. When you encourage others, you boost their self-esteem, enhance their self-confidence, make them work harder, lift their spirits and make them successful in their endeavors. Encouragement goes straight to the heart and is always available. Be an encourager. Always.
Roy Bennett
#2. Its easier to start a global business than a local one, make your business one where you can work from anywhere in the world
Roger James Hamilton
#3. Everyday that I procrastinate, everyday that I sit stagnant in fear, everyday that I fail to better myself, someone else out there with the same goals and dreams as me is doing the exact opposite.
Noel DeJesus
#4. Moving forward implies MOTION when in all actuality it may be simply standing STILL and seeing the salvation of the Lord.
John Paul Warren
#5. Must, never, must avoid, must guard: the minatory commands came the eleven times (from the departing Eisenhower). In contrast, Kennedy's rhetoric on January 20 with a cascade of permissions: the word "let" rang out 14 times.
Rick Perlstein
#7. An educator will teach the students. An Educarer will reach the students.
Tanya R. Liverman
#8. Your inspiration taps hidden reserves of promise that sustain people through times that induce despair. You enable people to envision a future that sustains the best from their past while also holding out new possibilities.
Ronald A. Heifetz
#9. I can see that spark coming back when he talks about the future.
H.W. Brands
#10. 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
#11. We have to be honest about what we want and take risks rather than lie to ourselves and make excuses to stay in our comfort zone.
Roy Bennett
#12. Honesty is doing what you know or believe is right. Integrity is doing what is right and truthful.
Roy Bennett
#13. 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
#14. 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
#15. I was not a great communicator, but I communicated great things.
Ronald Reagan
#16. Authentic leadership is leading adaptively from your core, choosing who you're most inspired to be to serve the greatest good in this moment.
Henna Inam
#18. Great companies with the way they work, first start with great leaders.
Steve Ballmer
#19. Let's Not Just Be Heroes! Let's Be Heroes Who Lead!
Daniel Wetta
#20. Be the light and source of inspiration that others see
Sunday Adelaja
#21. Leadership is about inspiration with character, not manipulation with position!
Israelmore Ayivor
#22. Perhaps Ali's most significant talent with the ability to transport people past thoughts and words to a world of feeling and play.
Davis Miller
#24. He is not the leader of great causes, but the broker of little ones.
Robert A. Caro
#25. He talked about the future with such certainty, he might have been talking about the past.
Michael Dobbs
#27. Take the high road. People will rise up to join you or fall out of sight.
Shannon L. Alder
#28. We need leadership books that offer information as well as inspiration. Pop leadership is one of the most destructive forces today.
Paul Gibbons
#30. Do not Speak for Anyone.
Just let them know their Right to Speak.
Vineet Raj Kapoor
#31. When we aren't curious in conversations we judge, tell, blame and even shame, often without even knowing it, which leads to conflict."
-The Power Of Curiosity: How To Have Real Conversations That Create Collaboration, Innovation and Understanding
Kirsten Siggins
#32. A humble learner of today becomes a strong leader of tomorrow.
Abhijit Naskar
#33. I want to change the world and I used to think I needed to do some big, significant thing. More recently I see this can be accomplished one relationship at a time.
Oliver Thomas
#34. I would follow such beauty, said something inside Ender. I would see as those eyes see.
Orson Scott Card
#35. Polls are no substitute for leadership because, at its very essence, leadership is about giving people what they don't already have - a sense of vision, inspiration, or even an adequate grasp of a particular subject.
Hugh Mackay
#36. Leadership is not just a privilege, but a responsibility to which we commit ourselves to helping to elevate those around us.
Tanveer Naseer
#38. Your men will not take the hill if you're simply yelling commands from the safety of the rear.
Noel DeJesus
#39. A politician's task was to bring reality and policy into the greatest possible account with the ideal and the principled.
Jon Meacham
#40. Our place of birth is not so much as important as our place of berth, yet we can't moore. If we do we know our birthplace for the first time.
Amah Lambert
#41. Today I will work when others procrastinate, I will confront my fears when others hide from theirs, and I will create solutions when others find excuses; today I refuse to allow my enemies to out work me.
Noel DeJesus
#42. He possessed an unflinching belief that all people - the poor, children, the elderly - were human assets, waiting to be developed so they could earn their success.
Arthur C. Brooks
#43. Henry Luce to his Time magazine writers: Tell the history of our time through the people who make it.
Walter Isaacson
#44. I keep a vivid memory of failure in my back pocket, so no matter how much I accomplish I stay grounded.
Noel DeJesus
#45. 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
#46. It was not because I had a strong sense of the virtue of industry, but because Joe had a strong sense of the virtue of industry, that I worked with tolerable zeal against the grain.
Charles Dickens
#47. Ronald Reagan was just as angry. But he made you want to stand right alongside him and shake your fist at the same things he was shaking his fist at.
Rick Perlstein
#48. A confident leader is like a duck. Above the water, he is calm and poised while below the water, he is driven by a flurry of focused activity.
Todd Stocker
#49. Dream without fear, love without limits, and let your life sing its song.
Dilip Bathija
#50. Believe you can and you will be halfway there.
Lolly Daskal
#51. Success is mesmerizing, and blinding. Sometimes you need good old fashion failure to open your eyes.
Noel DeJesus
#52. You will never see an eagle of distinction flying low with pigeons of mediocrity.
Onyi Anyado
#53. Many people get visited by the Lord in a given time but lack the wisdom to navigate in it.
Paul Gitwaza
#55. Think of strength, dream of strength, live of strength.
Abhijit Naskar
#56. Leadership is providing inspiration and vision, then developing and empowering others to achieve this vision.
Marshall Goldsmith
#57. Serving my generation with excellence will mean my generation can in turn lead with excellence.
Onyi Anyado
#58. What other country has had the privilege of making the world's heart beat faster?
Barbara W. Tuchman
#59. Life is a series of choices and all we can do is make them.
Kamal Ravikant
#60. Good leaders don't tell people what to do, they give teams capability and inspiration.
Jeffrey R. Immelt
#61. Relax your fears, let your ambition take the wheel for a while; it'll take you somewhere exciting that you've never been.
Noel DeJesus
#65. One of the best ways to influence people is to make them feel important.
Roy T. Bennett
#66. When you choose to act on your problems, you cease to be a victim of circumstance and become a force of change; that's when you transition to not only being a survivor, but to being a leader or hero too, and an inspiration to those still in the victim's mindset.
Innocent Mwatsikesimbe
#67. Many have came before you and many will come after you, but none will ever be you. Some may even try to duplicate your characteristics, but they'll never succeed because you are unique.
Amaka Imani Nkosazana
#68. We must help men and women see the epic in the ordinary details of life.
Matt Chandler
#69. Simply thinking creatively is not the same as being innovative, and only those who risk breaking out of their comfort zone by putting thought into action will discover the profusion of opportunity that exists.
Michael Lum
#71. Unlike most politicians who follow their audience, (Robert) Kennedy tried to lead his.
Thurston Clarke
#72. When leaders reframe customers into guests, and results into experiences, profits escalate.
Eric Schiffer
#74. Leaders are limited by their vision rather than by their abilities.
Roy T. Bennett
#76. Islam is in a formative period struggling to consolidate the vast reach won by both inspiration and force at its founding. Two centuries along, the faith of Muhammad hangs like an intricate veil: a religion still searching for institutional wholeness, a set of lessons to live by.
Ron Suskind
#77. If it feels good saying it. It's probably not a good thing to say.
Tim Kirkland
#78. Integrity is doing the right thing when nobody's watching, doing as you say you would do.
Roy Bennett
#79. We need to fix our souls. Our souls are broken in this nation. We have lost our way. And it begins with inspiration. It begins with leadership.
Michelle Obama
#80. Believe in yourself. Under-confidence leads to a self-fulfilling prophecy that you are not good enough for your work.
Roopleen
#81. Attitude is that little thing that will make the most difference in the accomplishment of your goals.
Roopleen
#83. You want to know the great thing about today, it doesn't care about what you did or didn't do yesterday or what you're going to do tomorrow, it only cares about what you do right now.
Noel DeJesus
#84. The unity of Nigeria will only come if we overcome and overgrow tribe, materialism and selfish human nature.
Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
#85. The more you become aware of and respond to the needs of others, the richer your own life becomes.
Mollie Marti
#86. Your growth and involvement must begin to show lasting footprints as you exude maximum effectiveness and significance. Your leadership influence must translate into a source of inspiration for your peers and those who look at you as a leader.
Archibald Marwizi
#87. The author characterizes Hamilton's tone in the Federalist papers by saying that he never spoke of problems but of being at the last stage in the crisis.
John Ferling
#88. To succeed in this day and age, all you need to be ahead of the pack is to be informed, and turn the information into transformation for your betterment and that of others.
Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
#89. The truth to succeeding at leadership is recognizing that it's a never-ending journey of discovery and learning.
Tanveer Naseer
#90. As much as Henry Kissinger wanted to attribute historical movement to impersonal forces, he too conceded to "the difference personalities make".
Walter Isaacson
#91. There are proven ways to win the loyalty of tough, strong, ferocious men: play on the certain knowledge of their superiority, the mystique of secret covenant, the esprit of shared suffering.
Frank Herbert
#92. You say I can't do it because you can't. Mohammed Ali
Davis Miller
#93. Smile and Slay.
You have to slay it in life or life will slay you.
Janna Cachola
#94. Even though men and women are different in our thinking, we all share the need and desire for compassion, compliments, and companionship.
Germany Kent
#95. He had to do so many things and make each appear as though it were the only thing he had to do. He had to compartmentalize everything, when on one task to pretend that the others didn't exist.
Tom Clancy
#96. Wouldn't it be great if life was only Legos? If we could give our kids the right, simple building blocks?
Chris Bent
#98. At the end of the day let their be no regrets, only a desire to do more tomorrow than you did today.
Noel DeJesus
#99. You have to be a light to yourself in a world that is utterly becoming dark.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
#100. The Montgomery bus boycott would have happened without King, but King's oratory helped to ensure that the boycott came one of those exceptional local movements for justice that would send ripples of inspiration to oppressed people everywhere.
Troy Jackson
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