20 Inspirational Leadership Quotes

20 Inspirational Leadership Quotes - Part 4

1

Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.

Henry Ward Beecher

2

The first man gets the oyster, the second man gets the shell.

Andrew Carnegie

3

The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men, the conviction and the will to carry on.

Walter Lippman

4

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

5

Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.

Barack Obama

6

Success isn’t about how much money you make; it’s about the difference you make in people’s lives.

Michelle Obama

7

When you're in a leadership role, you can never please all of the people all of the time. There's also a lot of responsibility that goes along with it that others may not realize.

Joyce Meyer

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

We live in a society obsessed with public opinion. But leadership has never been about popularity.

Marco Rubio

10

Leadership cannot just go along to get along. Leadership must meet the moral challenge of the day.

Jesse Jackson

11

A cowardly leader is the most dangerous of men.

Stephen King

12

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

Norman Schwarzkopf

13

Character in leadership is the most important balance for leadership. Without character, leaders have no safety. Leadership has no protection without character.

Myles Munroe

14

A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week.

George Patton

15

Do you know that one of the great problems of our age is that we are governed by people who care more about feelings than they do about thoughts and ideas?

Margaret Thatcher

16

Leadership to me means duty, honor, country. It means character, and it means listening from time to time.

George W. Bush

17

Leadership is not a popularity contest; it's about leaving your ego at the door. The name of the game is to lead without a title.

Robin Sharma

18

A leadership culture is one where everyone thinks like an owner, a CEO or a managing director. It's one where everyone is entrepreneurial and proactive.

Robin Sharma