Quotes on Inspiring Leader

Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.

The best executive is one who has sense enough to pick good people to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it.

Earn your leadership every day.

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

Slowly but surely, we're beginning to turn the tide on childhood obesity in America. Together, we are inspiring leaders from every sector to take ownership of this issue.

Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born - that there is a genetic factor to leadership. This myth asserts that people simply either have certain charismatic qualities or not. That's nonsense; in fact, the opposite is true. Leaders are made rather than born.

If you think you can do a thing or think you can't do a thing, you're right.

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

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

I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples.

Any great and inspiring leader or organization that ever existed set out to do something completely unrealistic.

If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform one million realities.

To have long term success as a coach or in any position of leadership, you have to be obsessed in some way.

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

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.

Become the kind of leader that people would follow voluntarily; even if you had no title or position.

Those who try to lead the people can only do so by following the mob.

To lead people, walk beside them ... As for the best leaders, the people do not notice their existence. The next best, the people honor and praise. The next, the people fear; and the next, the people hate ... When the best leader's work is done the people say, 'We did it ourselves!

It is impossible to imagine anything which better becomes a ruler than mercy.

A competent leader can get efficient service from poor troops, while on the contrary an incapable leader can demoralize the best of troops.