20 Inspirational Leadership Quotes

20 Inspirational Leadership Quotes - Part 1

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A bad servant will not make a good master.

Anon

2

A good leader leads the people from above them. A great leader leads the people from within them.

M. D. Arnold

3

True leadership stems from individuality that is honestly and sometimes imperfectly expressed… Leaders should strive for authenticity over perfection.

Sheryl Sandberg

4

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

Colin Powell

5

Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

6

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

Max Lucado

7

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

8

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

9

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.

Lao Tzu

10

A person always doing his or her best becomes a natural leader, just by example.

Joe DiMaggio

11

I am not afraid of an army of lions led by a sheep; I am afraid of an army of sheep led by a lion.

Alexander the Great

12

I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles, but today it means getting along with people.

Mahatma Gandhi

13

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

Jack Welch

14

The quality of a leader is reflected in the standards they set for themselves.

Ray Kroc

15

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

16

Leadership is a serving relationship that has the effect of facilitating human development.

Ted Ward

17

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

Gen. Colin Powell

18

If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.

John Quincy Adams

19

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