The best leader brings out the best in those he has stewardship over. — J. Richard Clarke
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. — Dolly Parton
A leader's role is to raise people's aspirations for what they can become and to release their energies so they will try to get there. — David Gergen
Average leaders raise the bar on themselves; good leaders raise the bar for others; great leaders inspire others to raise their own bar. — Orrin Woodward
Great leaders encourage and enable others to become great. — Susan McCann
Let me define a leader. He must have vision and passion and not be afraid of any problem. Instead, he should know how to defeat it. Most importantly, he must work with integrity. — A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
Good leaders don't tell people what to do, they give teams capability and inspiration. — Jeffrey R. Immelt
Great leadership usually starts with a willing heart,
a positive attitude, and a desire to make a difference. — Mac Anderson
A great leader's courage to fulfill his vision comes from passion, not position. — John C. Maxwell
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. — Ronald Reagan
He who has never learned to obey cannot be a good commander. — Aristotle
We cannot become what we need by remaining what we are. — John C. Maxwell
A competent leader can get efficient service from poor troops, while on the contrary an incapable leader can demoralize the best of troops. — John J. Pershing
My own definition of leadership is this: The capacity and the will to rally men and women to a common purpose and the character which inspires confidence. — Bernard Law Montgomery
...there is no tool for development more effective than the empowerment of women. — Kofi Annan
If you're going to be thinking anyway, think big! — Donald Trump
The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born. — Warren G. Bennis
Don't waste your energy trying to educate or change opinions... Do your thing and don't care if they like it. — Tina Fey
What you do has far greater impact than what you say. — Stephen Covey
Be a leader by example. Be confident and humble. Love the unloved.
Inspiring Team Leader Quotes
Appraisals are where you get together with your team leader and agree what an outstanding member of the team you are, how much your contribution has been valued, what massive potential you have and, in recognition of all this, would you mind having your salary halved. — Theodore Roosevelt
A great team relies on its leaders and they have to make a difference at key moments. — Kylian Mbappe
The pessimist complains about the wind. The optimist expects it to change. The leader adjusts the sails.
Become the kind of leader that people would follow voluntarily; even if you had no title or position. — Brian Tracy
Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success — Stephen Covey
The strength of the group is the strength of the leaders. — Vince Lombardi
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.
A leader must inspire or his team will expire. — Orrin Woodward
Real teams are much more likely to flourish if leaders aim their sights on performance results that balance the needs of customers, employees, and shareholders. — Jon Katzenbach
Good leadership isn't about advancing yourself. It's about advancing your team. — John C. Maxwell
In getting good results team leaders become conductor rather than driver, enabling others to play the right music, not by hands-on domination of all decisions and execution, but by providing inspiration, motivation and stimulus. — Robert Heller
Inspiring Leadership Quotes
Management is about persuading people to do things they do not want to do, while leadership is about inspiring people to do things they never thought they could. — Steve Jobs
It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit. — Harry S. Truman
If life gives you lemons, you should make lemonade. And try to find somebody who's life gives them vodka, and have a party. — Ron White
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.
What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us. — Henry David Thoreau
The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it. — Michelangelo
Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there. — Stevie Wonder
As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.
Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced. — James A. Baldwin
Lead from the back — and let others believe they are in front. — Nelson Mandela
Truly remarkable leadership is not just about motivating others to follow, it's about inspiring them to become leaders themselves and setting the stage for even greater opportunities for future generations. — Condoleezza Rice
People who are role models for the principles and values of the organization, who buy in and understand the vision of what the organization is trying to accomplish, and have the personality to inspire other people to the vision. You know, that’s what team chemistry and leadership is all about. — Nick Saban
Inspiring Management Quotes
The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and starting on the first one. — Mark Twain
Time is free, but it's priceless. You can't own it, but you can use it. You can't keep it, but you can spend it. Once you've lost it you can never get it back. — Harvey Mackay
Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured. — Mark Twain
And once the storm is over, you won’t remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won’t even be sure, whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm’s all about. — Haruki Murakami
Management is, above all, a practice where art, science, and craft meet — Henry Mintzberg
Most of us spend too much time on what is urgent and not enough time on what is important. — Stephen Covey
A gentle answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger. — Solomon
Its not stress that kills us, it is our reaction to it. — Hans Selye
The degree of your anger over correction equals the measure of your pride. — John Paul Jackson
Inspirational Coaching Quotes
Somewhere behind the athlete you've become and the hours of practice and the coaches who have pushed you is a little girl who fell in love with the game and never looked back... play for her. — Mia Hamm
Good teams become great ones when the members trust each other enough to surrender the Me for the We. — Phil Jackson
Champions aren't made in the gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them-a desire, a dream, a vision. — Muhammad Ali
Victory is in having done your best. If you've done your best, you've won. — Bill Bowerman
Don't ever promise more than you can deliver, but always deliver more than you promise. — Lou Holtz
If what you have done yesterday still looks big to you. You haven't done much today. — Mikhail Gorbachev
There are only two options regarding commitment; you’re either in or you’re out. — Pat Riley
If you want to win, do the ordinary things better than anyone else does them day in and day out. — Chuck Noll
Basketball really had its origin in Indiana, which remains the center of the sport. — James Naismith
The idea is not to block every shot. The idea is to make your opponent believe that you might block every shot. — Bill Russell
Seven Deadly Sins Wealth without work Pleasure without conscience Science without humanity Knowledge without character Politics without principle Commerce without morality Worship without sacrifice. — Mahatma Gandhi
I've never fooled anyone. I've let people fool themselves. They didn't bother to find out who and what I was. Instead they would invent a character for me. I wouldn't argue with them. They were obviously loving somebody I wasn't. — Marilyn Monroe
The ultimate aim of Karate lies not in victory or defeat, but in the perfection of the character of its participants. — Gichin Funakoshi
The content of your character is your choice. Day by day, what you choose, what you think and what you do is who you become. — Heraclitus
Leadership is the sum of those qualities of intellect, human understanding, and moral character that enables a person to inspire and control a group of people successfully. — John A. Lejeune
Integrity is doing the right thing, even when no one is watching. — C. S. Lewis
Now more than ever the people are responsible for the character of their Congress. If that body be ignorant, reckless, and corrupt, it is because the people tolerate ignorance, recklessness, and corruption. — James A. Garfield
Great work requires great and persistent effort for a long time. ... Character has to be established through a thousand stumbles. — Swami Vivekananda
The flower that blooms in adversity is the rarest and most beautiful of all. — Walt Disney
Inspirational Teacher Quotes
Laughter is timeless. Imagination has no age. And dreams are forever. — Walt Disney
A good teacher is like a candle - it consumes itself to light the way for others. — Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
If I remained silent and you remained silent, then who will teach the ignorant? — Ibn Taymiyyah
A mind is like a parachute. It doesn't work if it is not open. — Frank Zappa
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires. — William Arthur Ward
Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid. — Albert Einstein
The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change. — Carl Rogers
Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world. — Albert Einstein
Make failure your teacher, not your undertaker. — Zig Ziglar
Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage. — Lao Tzu
You have to go wholeheartedly into anything in order to achieve anything worth having. — Frank Lloyd Wright
If you're absent during my struggle, don't expect to be present during my success. — Will Smith
Criticism is something we can avoid easily
by saying nothing, doing nothing,
and being nothing. — Aristotle
You can close your eyes to the things you don't want to see, but you can't close your heart to the things you don't want to feel. — Johnny Depp
Care about what other people think and you will always be their prisoner. — Lao Tzu
Don't pursue a heart that you're not ready to be loyal to. — Trent Shelton
My pain may be the reason for somebody's laugh. But my laugh must never be the reason for somebody's pain. — Charlie Chaplin
Every woman deserves a man to ruin her lipstick, not her mascara — Charlotte Tilbury
Relationships are all there is. Everything in the universe only exists because it is in relationship to everything else. Nothing exists in isolation. We have to stop pretending we are individuals that can go it alone — Margaret J. Wheatley
Inspiring Others Quotes
There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn't true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true. — Soren Kierkegaard
Do not let the behavior of others destroy your inner peace. — Dalai Lama
There are only two days in the year that nothing can be done. One is called Yesterday and the other is called Tomorrow. Today is the right day to Love, Believe, Do and mostly Live. — Dalai Lama
Do not compare yourself to others. If you do so, you are insulting yourself. — Unknown Author
If you are not concerned about your neighbor's salvation, then I am concerned for yours. — Ray Comfort
Remember that when you leave this earth, you can take with you nothing that you have received - only what you have given: a full heart, enriched by honest service, love, sacrifice and courage. — Francis of Assisi
Life is not a problem to be solved, but an experience to be had. — Alan Watts
Sometimes people put up walls, not to keep others out, but to see who cares enough to break them down. — Banana Yoshimoto
The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The way to happiness: Keep your heart free from hate, your mind from worry. Live simply, expect little, give much. Scatter sunshine, forget self, think of others. Try this for a week and you will be surprised. — Norman Vincent Peale
Inspirational History Quotes
you must never be fearful about what you are doing when it is right. — Rosa Parks
I never see what has been done; I only see what remains to be done. — Marie Curie
Never limit yourself because of others' limited imagination; never limit others because of your own limited imagination. — Mae Jemison
The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing. — Voltaire
History teaches that grave threats to liberty often come in times of urgency, when constitutional rights seem too extravagant to endure. — Thurgood Marshall
Every great dream begins with a dreamer. — Harriet Tubman
The United States has been called the melting pot of the world. But it seems to me that the colored man either missed getting into the pot or he got melted down. — Thurgood Marshall
The mind, once stretched by a new idea, never returns to its original dimensions. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Never be limited by other people's limited imaginations. — Mae Jemison
Those who have no record of what their forebears have accomplished lose the inspiration which comes from the teaching of biography and history. — Carter G. Woodson
Inspirational Education Quotes
The biggest mistake of past centuries in teaching has been to treat all students as if they were variants of the same individual and thus to feel justified in teaching them all the same subjects the same way. — Howard Gardner
The most important thing we can do is inspire young minds and to advance the kind of science, math and technology education that will help youngsters take us to the next phase of space travel. — John Glenn
Education, therefore, is a process of living and not a preparation for future living. Without some goals and some efforts to reach it, no man can live. Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself. — John Dewey
Life is short, Break the Rules. Forgive quickly, Kiss slowly. Love truly. Laugh uncontrollably And never regret ANYTHING That makes you smile. — Mark Twain
Every individual matters. Every individual has a role to play. Every individual makes a difference. — Jane Goodall
Learning is more than the acquisition of the ability to think; it is the acquisition of many specialized abilities for thinking about a variety of things. — Lev S. Vygotsky
God created war so that Americans would learn geography. — Mark Twain
Learning is the only thing the mind never exhausts, never fears, and never regrets. — Leonardo da Vinci
Don’t just teach your children to read… Teach them to question what they read. Teach them to question everything. — George Carlin
A true leader has the confidence to stand alone, the courage to make tough decisions, and the compassion to listen to the needs of others. He does not set out to be a leader, but becomes one by the equality of his actions and the integrity of his intent. — Douglas MacArthur
The boss drives people; the leader coaches them. The boss depends on authority; the leader on good will. The boss inspires fear; the leader inspires enthusiasm. The boss says I; The leader says WE. The boss fixes the blame for the breakdown; the leader fixes the breakdown. The boss says, GO; the leader says Lets GO! — Harry Gordon Selfridge
The true leader is a different sort; he seeks effective activity which has a truly beneficient purpose. He inspires others to follow in his wake, and holding aloft the torch of wisdom, leads the way for society to realize its genuinely great aspirations. — Haile Selassie
Leaders establish the vision for the future and set the strategy for getting there; they cause change. They motivate and inspire others to go in the right direction and they, along with everyone else, sacrifice to get there. — John P. Kotter
A leader. . .is like a shepherd. He stays behind the flock, letting the most nimble go out ahead, whereupon the others follow, not realizing that all along they are being directed from behind. — Nelson Mandela
He is your friend, your partner, your defender, your dog. You are his life, his love, his leader. He will be yours, faithful and true, to the last beat of his heart. You owe it to him to be worthy of such devotion.
Our dogs will love and admire the meanest of us, and feed our colossal vanity with their uncritical homage. — Agnes Repplier
Being responsible sometimes means pissing people off. — Colin Powell
In today's America He (Jesus) has moved from the central figure of world history to source material for late-night comics and pundits who would not dare treat other religious leaders with such disrespect. — David Jeremiah
Be strong, but not rude; Be kind, but not weak; Be bold, but not bully; Be humble, but not timid; Be prooud, but not arrogant. — Zig Ziglar
Leaders are fascinated by future. You are a leader if and only if, you are restless for change, impatient for progress and deeply dissatisfied with status quo. Because in your head, you can see a better future. The friction between 'what is' and 'what could be' burns you, stirs you up, propels you. This is leadership. — Marcus Buckingham
Storytelling is the most powerful way to put ideas into the world today. — Robert McKee
He who has learned how to obey will know how to command. — Solon
The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. — Max De Pree
What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality. — Plutarch
In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. — Harry S. Truman
The mark of a great man is one who knows when to set aside the important things in order to accomplish the vital ones. — Brandon Sanderson
I can't give you the sunset, but I can give you the night. — Erin McCarthy
You are indebted to life until you help some less fortunate person, just as you were helped. — Melinda Gates
I wouldn't call myself a leader. I don't want to lead people, I want to tempt them, I want to create a new world for them, just for that very small moment, when they are losing themselves in my music. I want to inspire them — Paul van Dyk
If you want to be a leader who attracts quality people, the key is to become a person of quality yourself. — Jim Rohn
My heart trembles when I reflect that God is just — Thomas Jefferson
Your most important task as a leader is to teach people how to think and ask the right questions so that the world doesn't go to hell if you take a day off. — Jeffrey Pfeffer
You manage things, you lead people. We went overboard on management and forgot about leadership. It might help if we ran the MBAs out of Washington. — Grace Hopper
A good leader gets people to follow him because they want to, not because he makes them. — Tony Dungy
The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. — Colin Powell
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