Top 100 Leadership Motivational Quotes
#1. Leaders are limited by their vision rather than by their abilities.
Roy T. Bennett
#2. Leadership is the ability to recognize the special abilities and limitations of others, combined with the capacity to fit each one into the job where he will do his best.
J. Oswald Sanders
#3. In nearly every case, trying to lead everyone results in leading no one in particular.
Seth Godin
#4. The end product of the successful preacher's input is transformation.
Christian Michael
#5. An innovative idea is special because only a certain few get to have it
Scott E Roy
#6. What most new entrepreneurs don't realize is that before you can lead a business, or a family, or a ministry, or even just another person, you have to be the leader of yourself, first.
Kevin J. Donaldson
#7. There are no perfect decisions, only excellent applications.
Todd Stocker
#8. Leaders aren't born they are made. And they are made just like anything else, through hard work. And that's the price we'll have to pay to achieve that goal, or any goal.
Vince Lombardi
#9. Work as if there's no one to help you, and learn as if everybody is with you.
Saransh Garg
#10. 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
#11. All your sufferings can be alleviated by no other person but you.
Abhijit Naskar
#12. One of the best ways to influence people is to make them feel important.
Roy T. Bennett
#13. Old school mission statements defined what an organization did. Contemporary mission statements define why an organization does what it does.
Del Suggs
#14. 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
#15. There has never been a meaningful life built on easy street.
John Paul Warren
#17. Fitting in is a short-term strategy, standing out pays off in the long run.
Seth Godin
#18. When you practice leadership,The evidence of quality of your leadership, Is known from the type of leaders that emerge out of your leadership
Sujit Lalwani
#19. Serving my generation with excellence will mean my generation can in turn lead with excellence.
Onyi Anyado
#20. Life seems to be fashioned and formed best out of the obstacles that seem unbearable.
John Paul Warren
#21. Some will, some won't. Look for the ones who will.
Todd Stocker
#22. We have to remember not to tell them, each of them, that they are our new leader. It would only frighten them off, W. says. No one should ever know he or she is our leader, we agree. Only we should know. And we should follow them in secret.
Lars Iyer
#24. As the state of mind, as the efficiency. Time is only a relative factor
Rajasaraswathii
#25. We all cannot do everything or solve every issue. "It's impossible", however, if we each simply do our part. Make our own contribution, regardless of how small we may think it is ... together it adds up and great things get accomplished.
Mark W. Boyer
#26. A surrendered heart leads to greatness. A stubborn heart leads to struggle.
Todd Stocker
#27. Success is not certain until you are obsessed by your goal
Vijay Dhameliya
#28. Leaders in OVER their heads is the mere result of getting ahead of their intended SEASON.
John Paul Warren
#29. Leadership is making the wise decision even when it's hard.
Todd Stocker
#30. If you are in a leadership position, do not rely on your title to convince people to follow you. Build relationships. Win people over. Do that and you will never be a lonely leader.
John C. Maxwell
#31. Servant Leadership is an oxymoron. All true Leadership is servanthood.
Todd Stocker
#33. Great leaders are inspired by a challenge, a need, a problem, an issue that needs to be corrected.
Del Suggs
#34. The world has enough deceit, decay, and despair; be different.
Lindsey Rietzsch
#35. Success, cannot be attained alone. Any person's time and power is limited. A wise leader enlists others in working toward organizational goals.
Gichin Funakoshi
#36. Ritual and ceremony are powerful bonding tools. They result in a sense of community, a feeling of unity far beyond what you might expect.
Del Suggs
#38. 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
#39. Most people can do absolutely awe-inspiring things. Sometimes they just need a little nudge.
Tim Ferriss
#40. Life is found in the dance between your deepest desire and your greatest fear.
Tony Robbins
#41. Spotting talent is one of the essential elements of great leadership.
David McCullough
#42. What trumps the 'How' of Leadership is the 'Why
Todd Stocker
#43. Every challenge you encounter in life is a fork in the road. You have the choice to choose which way to go - backward, forward, breakdown or breakthrough.
Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
#44. 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
#45. 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
#46. I had to make a choice, either take care of my family and become a good son, or be a bad son and start working towards constructing a world of harmony and peace. I chose the later.
Abhijit Naskar
#47. There are two kinds of leaders, cowboys and Shepherds. Cowboys drive and Shepherds lead.
John Paul Warren
#48. First step to success is to drop what we are not and accept who we are. Always be yourself.
Joshua Okello
#49. Authority to dream is not given, it is taken. Take it. Do not let the judgment of others be the final word. Without a doubt, if there is a one-word, one-step cure for bad peg moments, that word is perseverance. Let that be your final word.
J. Loren Norris
#50. When You Seek to Stay in Your Natural Flow of Vitality That is When Your Magical Moments Appear
Runa Magnus
#51. 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
#52. Over time, I have come to this simple definition of leadership: Leadership is getting results in a way that inspires trust.
Stephen Covey
#53. Gunpei Yokoi, asked his boss, 'What should I make?' Nintendo chief executive Hiroshi Yamauchi replied, 'Something great.'
Game Over Nintendo's Battle to Dominate Videogames
David Sheff
#54. Success is the result of actions. Stop wishing and start doing.
Jag Randhawa
#55. I cannot change the world, but I do not have to conform.
Marva Collins
#56. It's time to care; it's time to take responsibility; it's time to lead; it's time for a change; it's time to be true to our greatest self; it's time to stop blaming others.
Steve Maraboli
#57. Keeping or holding on to a concept shows belief but building or adding to it shows confidence and depth of character.
Delma Pryce
#58. Luck favors the bold. Leaders must fearlessly exploit the Secret of Decisiveness. Act boldly at critical moments.
Toyotomi Hideyoshi
#59. Whatever you do, do it as a master, not as a slave.
Abhijit Naskar
#60. Compassion doesn't weaken leadership, it makes it stronger.
Rudy Giuliani
#61. Don't be sad that one day or another you met someone who undermined your capabilities and sapped your energy, what that person did could be the strongest crucible that forged a great leader
Ahmed Elkadi
#62. Any moment you fall a sleep, you fail a sleep.
Joshua Okello
#64. If you want to know how a manager is performing ask to see their data, really want to know ... ask those that report to them.
Mark W. Boyer
#65. Understand that all motivation is internal, or intrinsic.
Del Suggs
#66. True leaders bring out your personal best. They ignite your human potential.
John Paul Warren
#69. Success for me hasn't been about individual success. It's about the success of all those young boys and girls who I have the honor of working with.
Sharad Vivek Sagar
#70. Your nation needs you. Your world needs you. So, use your education to become endowed with muscles of iron and nerves of steel.
Abhijit Naskar
#71. If you have assimilated even one idea and made it your life, you have more education than any person who has got by heart the entire Library of Congress.
Abhijit Naskar
#72. A happy and productive person is one who understands that his or her job is not the purpose of his or her life. Go on vacation, use up your sick days, ask for a temporary leave-of-absence - anything that allows you to recharge your batteries away from your typical routine. No leave, no life.
Del Suggs
#74. Leadership rests not only on outstanding ability. It also rests on commitment, loyalty and pride. It rests on followers who are ready to accept guidance. Leadership is the ability to direct people and - more important - to have those people accept that direction.
Vince Lombardi
#75. The real architect of a life is the hard and almost impossible circumstances one faces.
John Paul Warren
#76. A pat on the back can often motivate more than currency notes!
Abhishek Ratna
#77. 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
#79. If you want to be drunk, become drunk with an idea. If you want pleasure, have pleasure from the pursuit of your passion. If you want to be indoctrinated, then be so by the natural law of humanism.
Abhijit Naskar
#80. No great leader can be made by image-builders.
Ymatruz
#81. I keep a vivid memory of failure in my back pocket, so no matter how much I accomplish I stay grounded.
Noel DeJesus
#83. Coming to the END of MYSELF and all SELF effort ... seems to be the very point that God steps in and shows HIMSELF to be more than ENOUGH.
John Paul Warren
#84. The Word that will change a man must first show the man who he really is.
Christian Michael
#85. Your men will not take the hill if you're simply yelling commands from the safety of the rear.
Noel DeJesus
#86. Every great leader can take you back to a defining moment when they decided to lead
John Paul Warren
#87. The time is now, the person is you; better your life and become a name to conjure with in this day and age.
Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
#88. There is no failure, unless we fail to begin or we fail to continue.
Christopher Babson
#89. Being a good leader does not require you possessing a fancy title, no more than possessing a fancy title makes you a good leader.
Mark W. Boyer
#90. Success = Wisdom + Courage + Discipline. KNOW what to do, be BRAVE enough to do it, and LEAD YOURSELF to doing it again and again.
Ryan Lilly
#91. Just do what you were going to do, before you said you were going to do it.
Delma Pryce
#92. When you are just EXISTING, life happens to you ... and you manage; when you are truly LIVING, you happen to life ... and you lead.
Steve Maraboli
#93. The reputation of a great work ethic that took years to build can be forgotten with one act of misjudgment.
Mark W. Boyer
#94. The day you wake up thinking the world is yours is the day you start living.
Samer Chidiac
#95. I have not learned a single lesson, been inspired or impacted by another person's life void of negative experiences.
John Paul Warren
#96. Success means leaving everything behind and standing persistently towards our aims with great determination.
Rajasaraswathii
#97. By all means be submissive in the bedroom (if you are that way inclined), but don't be submissive to life. Being life's bitch is no fun at all. Life may play up in many ways, but it's up to you to take control, take charge and put life in its place.
Miya Yamanouchi
#98. The purpose of leadership is to take others to the top. And when you take others who might not make it to the top otherwise, there's no other feeling like it in the world. To those who have never had the experience, you can't explain it. To those who have, you don't need to.
John C. Maxwell
#99. Great leaders lead by example, not by making an example of others.
Stewart Stafford
#100. Belief in God optional. Belief in the self is imperative.
Abhijit Naskar
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