Top 100 Leadership Motivation Quotes
#1. Don't be overly proud of your accomplishments and success. Recovery is never complete. You 're engaged in a life-long process. Continue each day to love and serve God with humility
Binye Vincent
#2. People work harder, longer, and more creatively if they are motivated by the intrinsic pleasure of their work. Managers must do everything they can to make the value of jobs obvious and the joy in them accessible.
Robert Watson
#3. You can actually herd cats. They can't be forced, of course. But if they sense something they want, if there enticed by something good, they'll follow, even in herds.
Ron Suskind
#4. James Gordon Bennett said he aimed to be, "serious in my aims but full of frolic in my means.
Harold Holzer
#5. In 2007, Stanford Business School Advisory committee asserted that self awareness was the most important attribute a leader should develop. The challenge for the modern entrepreneur is to take that path.
Kevin Kelly DO The Pursuit Of Xceptional Execution
#6. Success is the result of actions. Stop wishing and start doing.
Jag Randhawa
#7. In this era of public survival through continuous storytelling, people want someone who might surprise them.
Ron Suskind
#8. A politician's task was to bring reality and policy into the greatest possible account with the ideal and the principled.
Jon Meacham
#9. Leaders motivate people to understand that they can do better than they've already done and go farther than they've reached.
Israelmore Ayivor
#10. If it feels good saying it. It's probably not a good thing to say.
Tim Kirkland
#11. Do we follow the road life's placed before us?
Or do we dare step up and forge an exceptional path.
A path fraught with struggle and sacrifice,
Yet one whose outcome places us in destiny's arms.
Christopher Babson
#12. When You Seek to Stay in Your Natural Flow of Vitality That is When Your Magical Moments Appear
Runa Magnus
#13. The engine that drives all your activities is hope. What you hope in shapes you.
Matt Chandler
#14. Our pride, our ego, our fear of failing too often keeps us from achieving greatness, keeps us stuck in jobs we don't like, working with people we can't stand, engaging in pursuits we're not wholeheartedly passionate about.
Kevin Kelly DO The Pursuit Of Xceptional Execution
#15. The motivations of a scientist are always mixed and complex ... every medical student has the desire to do good in the world. Making a small contribution to that effort is really in a sense the last significant thing that I want to do with my life.
Gustav Nossal
#16. Believe in yourself. Under-confidence leads to a self-fulfilling prophecy that you are not good enough for your work.
Roopleen
#17. Attitude is that little thing that will make the most difference in the accomplishment of your goals.
Roopleen
#18. He not only had the gift of "reading" men and women, of seeing into their hearts, he also had the gift of putting himself in their place, of not just seeing what they felt but of feeling what they felt, almost as if what had happened to them had happened to him, too.
Robert A. Caro
#20. 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
#21. Not everything in your past qualifies to be called HISTORY; only the things in the past that shaped your FUTURE
Fela Durotoye
#23. When overpowering authority or leadership intervenes in a team, it can affect the team by (1) throwing the team off track, (2) decreasing the motivation of the team, (3) reducing the commitment of the team members, and (4) causing more problems than solutions.
J. Richard Hackman
#24. What are we if we are not disciplined?
Rob Liano
#25. The unity of Nigeria will only come if we overcome and overgrow tribe, materialism and selfish human nature.
Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
#26. Understand that all motivation is internal, or intrinsic.
Del Suggs
#27. World Class leaders know the secret to motivating themselves and others is discovering what they will fight for when the going gets rough.
Steve Siebold
#28. High performance leaders capitalize on crises to galvanize the motivation and actions of people in the organization.
Andy Hargreaves
#29. If you facilitate your subordinates' steady progress in meaningful work, make that progress salient to them, and treat them well, they will experience the emotions, motivations, and perceptions necessary for great performance.
Teresa Amabile
#30. When a manager openly expresses his faith in an employee's skill, he doesn't just improve mood and motivation; he actually improves their likelihood of succeeding.
Shawn Achor
#31. He (LBJ) played on their fears as he played on their hopes.
Robert A. Caro
#33. What excites the media is that someone has a great idea or vision and makes millions as a result. The reality is that rarely happens. It is competency that unlocks a person's potential.
Tim Clark excerpt from DO! the pursuit of xceptional execution
Kevin Kelly
#34. Entrepreneurship is about freedom, financial freedom but it also about what you leave behind.
Guibert Englebienne, Co-founder of Globant
Kevin Kelly
#35. The IMPOSSIBLE is ONLY relevant to those who NEVER attempt it ... otherwise it is ABSTACT and MEANINGLESS
John Paul Warren
#36. Shiloh showed him what he could ask of his men, and indeed what he MUST ask of them.
H.W. Brands
#40. People will change their habits quickly IF they have a strong reason for doing so.
Thomas L. Friedman
#41. Leadership is all about caring, daring and sharing!
Caring for people, Daring to Act fearlessly,
& Sharing the success with all!
Sujit Lalwani
#43. Regardless of whether people have free will, human flourishing requires that they live in an environment in which they are treated as if they did.
Charles Murray
#44. I'd rather have preparation than motivation. Everyone likes to play, but no one likes to practice.
Bum Phillips
#45. Be the light and source of inspiration that others see
Sunday Adelaja
#46. Never allow doubt to roam unimpeded within you. When it arises acknowledge it immediately, and then exterminate it with extreme prejudice.
Noel DeJesus
#47. Leadership is about inspiration with character, not manipulation with position!
Israelmore Ayivor
#48. Those who envy the success of others are normally ignorant to the sacrifices, failures, and dedication that it took for them to get there.
Noel DeJesus
#49. No true power can be founded among men which does not depend upon the free union of their inclinations; and patriotism and religion are the only two motives in the world which can permanently direct the whole of the body politic to one end.
Alexis De Tocqueville
#50. Do you want to sell sugar water all your life, or do you want to come with me and change the world?
Steve Jobs
#51. Every great movement needs an agitator. Every leader of spiritual ideals need a John the Baptist.
William Allen White
#52. The men were always wary of an officer who took form more seriously than function.
David Halberstam
#53. He was the rarest of things, a Republican with sex appeal.
David Halberstam
#54. Every morning I look in the mirror and remind myself: "No one owes you sh*t!" In this way, I am never disappointed. Never placing blame.
Brandi L. Bates
#55. My major goal in business was to learn. I had legislated in my mind for failure the worse possible scenario was I would learn a lot regardless of the outcome. This goal was the foundation for success of the business. Peldi, Balsamiq
Kevin Kelly DO The Pursuit Of Xceptional Execution
#56. Life is a series of choices and all we can do is make them.
Kamal Ravikant
#57. Imagine a place where everyone chooses to bring energy, passion, and a positive attitude every day.
Stephen C. Lundin
#59. Words are catch-basins of experience, fingerprints and footprints of the past that the literary detective may scrutinize in order to sleuth out the history of human consciousness.
Philip Zaleski
#60. 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
#61. The mid-19th century was noted for a partisan, rather than a consensus press, but this partisanship was able to turn out voters consistently.
Harold Holzer
#62. Motivating people is more than having the right incentives, the right programs and the right benefit packages. It's about tapping into the unique passions, personalities and strengths of those entrusted to our care.
Steve Knox
#63. Success is mesmerizing, and blinding. Sometimes you need good old fashion failure to open your eyes.
Noel DeJesus
#64. House Speaker Thomas Reed could destroy an argument or expose a fallacy in fewer words than anyone else. His language was vivid and picturesque. He had a way of phrasing things which was peculiarly apt and peculiarly his own.
Barbara W. Tuchman
#65. One of the best ways to influence people is to make them feel important.
Roy T. Bennett
#66. Leadership reveals itself in the big moments, but is forged in the small. It is the exponential and compounding product of our many incremental behaviors and actions; all of which arise out of our choices in values, beliefs & emotions. Choices all. Not a one is thrust upon us.
Christopher Babson
#67. Only a writer "with Bennett's craft and brass could manage to praise and insult his readers at the same time.
Harold Holzer
#68. While followers idealize the real, leaders realize the ideal ... They outshine with their power of love those whose only motivation is love of power.
Debashis Chatterjee
#69. His constant references to the ancient world have the effect of giving ordinary soldiers a sense of their lives.
Andrew Roberts
#70. In the context of your dreams,knowledge will always gives you enough reasons not to act. Act regardless and execute xceptionally
Kevin Kelly
#72. One's best work comes when we are fully alive, happy, and inspired.
Eric Schiffer
#73. You can provide the conditions for the motivation of others and the leadership to help them find a way but they must have the intrinsic spark, the desire, to move, to overcome the inertia of the status quo and change things.
Graham Speechley
#74. Leaders are limited by their vision rather than by their abilities.
Roy T. Bennett
#76. Secretary of the treasury Albert Gallatin is accused of treason by war enthusiasts merely for suggesting budget adjustments to pay for war measures.
Donald R. Hickey
#77. Motivation is the desire to do things. It's the difference between staying in bed and getting up in the morning. It's the crucial part of setting and achieving goals.
Graham Speechley
#78. Most employees are never made or allowed to understand the real meaning behind the work that they are doing. So, for how long can someone remain motivated about chasing something without knowing what he is chasing and why?
Abhishek Ratna
#79. There is no blueprint to leadership, quite the conundrum in a business world where standardization is celebrated.
Noel DeJesus
#80. Such leadership occurs when one or more persons engage with others in such a way that leaders and followers raise one another to higher levels of motivation and morality.
James MacGregor Burns
#81. Smile and Slay.
You have to slay it in life or life will slay you.
Janna Cachola
#82. The more you respond to change externally, the more solid you need to be internally.
Todd Stocker
#83. Today my goal is to be more productive than I was yesterday, and tomorrow more productive than today.
Noel DeJesus
#84. Self leadership requires us to lead and motivate ourselves. But it looks a heck of a lot like schizophrenia during a ropes course.
Ryan Lilly
#85. Stress builds character and failure breeds motivation. I guess I'm a Optimist.
Noel DeJesus
#88. No! Leadership is not the business of people who need to be motivated!
Amit Chatterjee
#89. Time, energy, and focus; these are the resources at your disposal each and every day.
Noel DeJesus
#90. At the end of the day let their be no regrets, only a desire to do more tomorrow than you did today.
Noel DeJesus
#91. Your mind is the vehicle to success, fuel it with fresh motivation daily to optimize your drive.
Noel DeJesus
#93. Thoughts are free, talk is cheap, and action is expensive. What's your worth?
Noel DeJesus
#94. 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
#95. Let's get busy. Get up! Stop living an average life. Stop living in a rut. Get ready for a new way to walk and talk. Taller, louder, prouder and thoroughly convinced that you have enough hope in your life to give some away.
J. Loren Norris
#96. You will fail, and when you do it's imperative that you not hope for things to get easier, but instead harness a desire for you to be better.
Noel DeJesus
#97. Let go of a need for personal recognition. Heap kudos on others and they'll perform even better next time. Leaders are only as good as those who follow them and followers are at their best when leaders are quick to give credit for successes.
Steve Goodier
#98. People stop trying when there's no benefit for being exceptional and no consequence for being mediocre.
Frank Sonnenberg
#99. Lyndon Johnson knew how to make the most of such enthusiasm and how to play on it and intensify it. He wanted his audience to become involved. He wanted their hands up in the air. And having been a schoolteacher he knew how to get their hands up. He began, in his speeches, to ask questions.
Robert A. Caro
#100. The wise leader settles for good work and then lets others have the floor.
Laozi
