A leader within you is eagerly waiting to break out of its shackles of self-doubt and express itself.
Whether you believe it or not, everyone is a leader from birth. All we need is some inspiration to trigger it. You will find inspiration through these powerful leadership quotes.
These are 40 Powerful Leadership quotes to rediscover rekindle and inspire the leader within you
No leader sets out to be a leader. People set out to live their lives, expressing themselves fully. When that expression is of value, they become leaders. So the point is not to become a leader. The point is to become yourself, to use yourself completely – all your skills, gifts and energies – in order to make your vision manifest. You must withhold nothing. You must, in sum, become the person you started out to be and to enjoy the process of becoming.
Warren Bennis
Becoming a leader is synonymous with becoming yourself. It is precisely that simple and it is also that difficult.
Warren Bennis
We do not need magic to change the world, we carry all the power we need inside ourselves already: we have the power to imagine better.”
J.K. Rowling, author of the Harry Potter series
“Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground”.
Theodore Roosevelt, former U.S. President
Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
Leo Tolstoy
Change will not come if we wait for some other person, or if we wait for some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.
Barack Obama
“Leadership is a series of behaviours rather than a role for heroes.”
Margaret J Weatley, author, management consultant, and leadership expert
Be willing to be uncomfortable. Be comfortable being uncomfortable. It may get tough, but it’s a small price to pay for living a dream.
Peter McWilliams
Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.
Napoleon Hill
Believe you can and you’re halfway there.
Theodore Roosevelt
“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.”
Eleanor Roosevelt, former first lady of the United States
A leader is a dealer in hope
Napoleon Bonaparte
You manage things; you lead people.
Grace Hopper
The art of leadership is saying no, not yes. It is very easy to say yes.
Tony Blair
If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulder of giants.
Isaac Newton
The only safe ship in a storm is leadership.
Faye Wattleton
“To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart.”
Eleanor Roosevelt
“Failing organizations are usually over-managed and under-led.”
Stephen Covey
Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.
John F. Kennedy
“Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about others.”
Jack Welch
If you can’t swallow your pride, you can’t lead. Even the highest mountain had animals that step on it.
Jack Weatherford
“Real leadership is leaders recognizing that they serve the people that they lead.”
Pete Hoekstra
Leadership is an action, not a position.
Donald McGannon
A leader is like a shepherd. He stays behind the flock, letting the most nimble go out ahead, whereupon the others follow, not realizing that all along they are being directed from behind.
Nelson Mandela
“If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more, and become more, you are a leader.”
John Quincy Adams
The price of greatness is responsibility. Winston Churchill
We rise by lifting others. Robert Ingersoll
All leaders are readers. Jim Rohn
Do what is right, not what is easy. Unknown
“People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader leads, and the boss drives.
Theodre Roosevelt 26th President of the United States.
Be strong enough to stand alone, smart enough to know when you need help, and brave enough to ask for it.
A boss has the title, a leader has the people. Simon Sinek
Mountaintops inspire leaders but valleys mature them. Winston Churchill
34. “The challenge of leadership is to be strong, but not rude; be kind, but not weak; be bold, but not a bully; be thoughtful, but not lazy; be humble, but not timid; be proud, but not arrogant; have humor, but without folly.” – Jim Rohn
“Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.” – Steve Jobs, co-founder and former CEO of Apple
Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence.” – Vince Lombardi, legendary Green Bay Packers coach
“The greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things. He is the one that gets the people to do the greatest things.” – Ronald Reagan, former U.S. President
“Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others.” – Jack Welch
39.“A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don’t necessarily want to go, but ought to be.” – Rosalynn Carter
“A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd.” – Max Lucado, Christian author and preacher
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