I love inspirational quotes about leadership because we all have the potential to be leaders.
We demonstrate our leadership skills in given situations, where our unique abilities and skill set make us best suited to lead.
When circumstances dictate we can all bring our unique talents to a situation to move that situation forward in a positive way.
When our talents collide with favourable circumstances we can ‘grab the ball and run with it.’ We can seize the day and demonstrate our capabilities to the world. We can put our best foot forward and say, “In this situation, I am the one who is best equipped to lead everyone to a satisfactory outcome. So follow me, everyone.”
You can be a leader dear reader; everyone can. We just don’t always fully appreciate our hidden depths.
In essence, leadership is having the confidence to stand up and be counted.
It’s all about driving you and your team towards a winning outcome.
Here are 17 inspirational quotes about leadership to help you think about what it means and why you have the right qualities to be a leader.
Inspirational quotes about leadership (1-10):
- Today a reader, tomorrow a leader. ~Margaret Fuller
- Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality. ~Warren Bennis
- Leadership is about taking responsibility, not making excuses. ~Mitt Romney
- A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd. ~Max Lucado
- The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been. ~Henry Kissinger
- Leadership to me means duty, honour, and country. It means character, and it means listening from time to time. ~George W. Bush
- Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want doing because he wants to do it. ~Dwight D. Eisenhower
- I am not afraid of an army of lions led by a sheep; I am afraid of an army of sheep led by a lion. ~Alexander the Great
- A good leader takes a little more than his share of the blame, a little less than his share of the credit. ~Arnold H. Glasow
- A man always has two reasons for doing anything: a good reason and the real reason. ~J. P. Morgan
Inspirational quotes about leadership (11-17):
- Leadership is unlocking people’s potential to become better. ~Bill Bradley
- A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a moulder of consensus. ~Martin Luther King, Jr
- A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves. ~Lao Tzu
- If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever. ~Thomas Aquinas
- Outstanding leaders go out of their way to boost the self-esteem of their personnel. If people believe in themselves, it’s amazing what they can accomplish. ~Sam Walton
- Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help or concluded you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership. ~Colin Powell
- Leadership is not about a title or a designation. It’s about impact, influence and inspiration. Impact involves getting results, influence is about spreading the passion you have for your work, and you have to inspire teammates and customers. ~Robin S. Sharma
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