Leaders Motivational Quotes

Leaders think and talk about the solutions. Followers think and talk about the problems.

Brian Tracy

Inspirational, Leadership, Thinking

FaceBook post by Brian Tracy from Mar 12, 2013

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No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Inspirational, Motivational, Happiness

Quoted in Vidette-Messenger (Valparaiso, Ind.), 7 June 1941 See Channing 1

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A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better.

Jim Rohn

Leadership, Insperational, Helping Others

FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Jul 23, 2015

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Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.

George S. Patton

Inspirational, Positive, Leadership

"War As I Knew It". Book by George S. Patton. Chapter "Reflections and Suggestions", 1947.

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A leader is best when people barely know that he exists.

Witter Bynner

Leadership, People, Boss

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The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality.

Max De Pree

Leadership, Responsibility, Reality

Max De Pree (1987). “Leadership is an Art”, Doubleday Business

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A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.

John C. Maxwell

Inspirational, Leadership, Basketball

"Leadership 101: 3 Key Lessons on Advancing Racial Equity" by Dr. Artika R. Tyner, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 15, 2015.

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A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd.

Max Lucado

Motivational, Strength, Leadership

Max Lucado (2010). “Chronicles of the Cross Collection”, p.205, Harper Collins

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Leaders aren't born they are made.

Vince Lombardi

Inspirational, Leadership, Discipline

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The key to successful leadership today is influence, not authority.

Ken Blanchard

Inspirational, Leadership, Basketball

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Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy.

Norman Schwarzkopf

Leadership, Business, Character

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Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.

Albert Schweitzer

Inspirational, Motivational, Success

Albert Schweitzer, William Larimer Mellon (1996). “Brothers in Spirit: The Correspondence of Albert Schweitzer and William Larimer Mellon, Jr”, p.18, Syracuse University Press

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A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.

Laozi

Inspirational, Leadership, Wisdom

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Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others.

Jack Welch

Leadership, Educational, Inspiration

Jack Welch, Janet Lowe (2007). “Jack Welch Speaks: Wit and Wisdom from the World's Greatest Business Leader”, John Wiley & Sons

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Leadership is lifting a person's vision to high sights, the raising of a person's performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations.

Peter Drucker

Leadership, Life Changing, Helping Others

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He who has never learned to obey cannot be a good commander.

Aristotle

Inspirational, Leadership, Insperational

Aristotle (2016). “Politics”, p.86, Aristotle

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Outstanding leaders go out of their way to boost the self-esteem of their personnel. If people believe in themselves, it's amazing what they can accomplish.

Sam Walton

Motivational, Leadership, Educational

Attributed in "The 101 Greatest Business Principles of All Time" by Leslie Pockell, November 23, 2004.

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The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.

Alice Walker

Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure - which is: Try to please everybody.

Herbert Bayard Swope

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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Earn your leadership every day.

Michael Jordan

Motivational, Leadership, Vision

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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

Motivational, Leadership, Graduation

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Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.

Abraham Lincoln

Inspirational, Leadership, Wisdom

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Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Leadership, Art, Business

Eisenhower, Dwight D. (1960). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1954”, p.477, Best Books on

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A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.

Albert Einstein

Inspirational, Motivational, Change

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Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.

Peter Drucker

Inspirational, Change, Leadership

"Seven Habits of Highly Effective People" by Stephen R. Covey, (p. 101), 1989.

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