Quotes on Motivational Leadership

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.

It is better to lead from behind and to put others in front, especially when you celebrate victory when nice things occur. You take the front line when there is danger. Then people will appreciate your leadership.

If you look at what you have in life, you'll always have more. If you look at what you don't have in life, you'll never have enough.

A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.

An Airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.

Control your own destiny or someone else will.

I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.

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.

Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second.

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 man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.

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.

The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.

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

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.

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