Quotes on Motivational Leadership

Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

If you work just for money, you'll never make it, but if you love what you're doing and you always put the customer first, success will be yours.

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.

What's money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.

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

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

I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.

Don't find fault, find a remedy.

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.

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.

When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life.

Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.