Leadership Quotes To Inspire

"It’s never crowded along the extra mile."

- Wayne Dyer

"There is plenty of room at the top – but no place to sit down."

- Unknown

"Clear your mind of can’t."

- Samuel Johnson

"Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don’t quit."

- Conrad Hilton

"The right man is the one who seizes the moment."

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"Be enthusiastic as a leader. You can’t light a fire with a wet match."

- Unknown

"Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them."

- John Maxwell

"Never try to teach a pig to sing: it wastes your time and it annoys the pig."

- Paul Dickson

"Surround yourself with the best people you can find, delegate authority, and don’t interfere as long as the policy you’ve decided upon is being carried out."

- Ronald Reagan

"Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of succes; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall."

- Stephen R. Covey

"A desk is a dangerous place from which to view the world."

- John Le Care’

"Things may come to those who wait, but only what’s left behind by those that hustle."

- Abraham Lincoln

"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

"There comes a moment when you have to stop revving up the car and shove it into gear."

- David Mahoney

"Big thinking precedes great achievement."

- Wilfred Peterson

"Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other."

- John F. Kennedy

"I have yet to find a man, however exalted his station, who did not do better work and put forth greater effort under a spirit of approval than under a spirit of criticism."

- Charles Schwab

"The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them."

- General Colin Powell

"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

"The price of greatness is responsibility."

- Winston Churchill

"Eagles don’t flock."

- Ross Perot

"The pessimist complains about the wind. The optimist expects it to change. The leader adjusts the sails."

- John Maxwell

"Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes."

- Peter Drucker

"There is something that is much more scarce, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability."

- Robert Half

"How far would Moses have gone if he had taken a poll in Egypt?"

- Harry S. Truman

"All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common; it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership."

- John Kenneth Galbraith

"The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been."

- Henry Kissinger

"If there is a trait which does characterize leaders it is opportunism. Successful people are very often those who steadfastly refuse to be daunted by disadvantage"

- John Viney

"Things may come to those who wait, but only what’s left behind by those that hustle."

- Abraham Lincoln

"Don’t wait for your ship to come in, swim out to it."

- Unknown

"Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who believed that something inside of them was superior to circumstance."

- Bruce Barton

"There is no passion to be found in playing small – in settling for a life that is less than what you are capable of living."

- Nelson Mandela

"It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped."

- Anthony Robbins

"The life which is unexamined is not worth living."

- Plato

"The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it is on a section gang, a football field, in an army, or in an office."

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

"Presidential leadership needn’t always cost money. Look for low and no-cost options. They can be surprisingly effective."

- Donald Rumsfeld

"Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate, and doubt to offer a solution everybody can understand."

- General Colin Powell

"Leadership is the activity of influencing people to cooperate toward some goal which they come to find desirable."

- Ordway Tead

"Anything worth doing, is worth doing now!"

- Ralph Stayer

"Any business or industry that pays equal rewards to its goof-offs and eager beavers sooner or later will find itself with more goof-oofs than eager beavers."

- Mick Delaney

"There is a powerful driving force inside every human being that once unleashed can make any vision, dream, or desire a reality."

- Anthony Robbins

"Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have."

- Zig Ziglar

"Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal."

- Henry Ford