Motivational Leadership Quotes

Control your own destiny or someone else will.

It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.

It's hard to lead a cavalry charge if you think you look funny on a horse.

Leaders think and talk about the solutions. Followers think and talk about the problems.

I can't give you the sunset, but I can give you the night.

What chance gathers, she easily scatters. A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together.

I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people.

The building of a personality beyond its normal limitations.

When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life.

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

Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent.

They told me I didn't understand the assignment, I told them they didn't understand life.

Don't find fault, find a remedy.

You can't blow an uncertain trumpet.

I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

The challenge of leadership is to be strong, but not rude; be kind, but not weak; be bold, but not bully; be thoughtful, but not lazy; be humble, but not timid; be proud, but not arrogant; have humor, but without folly.

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.

Management is about arranging and telling. Leadership is about nurturing and enhancing.

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.

He who has learned how to obey will know how to command.

Leaders aren't born they are made.

Leaders are not born, they're made.

Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.

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

The most difficult thing is the decision to act!

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.

Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.

Winning is not everything, but wanting to win is.

Leaders are visionaries with a poorly developed sense of fear and no concept of the odds against them.

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

The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.

The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.

A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.

Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.

I have been impressed with the urgency of doing.

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.

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

You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.

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

What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.

Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.

When you can’t change the direction of the wind — adjust your sails

I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.

To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.

If you can dream it, you can make it so.

Often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.

Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out.

I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.

Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.