Quotes on Leaders Motivational

The very essence of leadership is that you have to have vision. You can't blow an uncertain trumpet.

You don't lead by hitting people over the head - that's assault, not leadership.

If your actions create a legacy that inspires others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, then, you are an excellent leader.

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.

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.

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.

People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader leads, and the boss drives.

No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit for doing it.

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.

Everything you've ever wanted is on the other side of fear.

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.

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

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.

The nation will find it very hard to look up to the leaders who are keeping their ears to the ground.

High sentiments always win in the end. The leaders who offer blood, toil, tears and sweat always get more out of their followers than those who offer safety and a good time. When it comes to the pinch, human beings are heroic.

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

Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.