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 team-mates and customers. – Robin S. Sharma
I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. Twenty-six times I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed. -Michael Jordan
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 genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus. Martin Luther King, Jr.
I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the water to create many ripples. -Mother Teresa
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. -Maya Angelou
Whether you think you can or you think you can’t, you’re right.” -Henry Ford
Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence. —Vince Lombardi
Life is 10 percent what happens to me and 90 percent of how I react to it. -Charles Swindoll
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. —Oprah Winfrey
Remember no one can make you feel inferior without your consent. -Eleanor Roosevelt
I can’t change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination. -Jimmy Dean
Nothing is impossible, the word itself says ‘I’m possible’! – Audrey Hepburn
To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart. – Eleanor Roosevelt
Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears. -Les Brown
Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve. -Napoleon Hill
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do, so throw off the bowlines, sail away from safe harbor, catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. -Mark Twain
Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value. – Albert Einstein
Leadership is unlocking people’s potential to become better. – Bill Bradley
I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions. -Stephen Covey
When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it. -Henry Ford
The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any. -Alice Walker
The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. -Amelia Earhart
It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light. – Aristotle Onassis
Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant. -Robert Louis Stevenson
The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me. -Ayn Rand
If you hear a voice within you say, ‘You cannot paint,’ then by all means paint and that voice will be silenced. -Vincent Van Gogh
Build your own dreams, or someone else will hire you to build theirs. -Farrah Gray
Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck. -Dalai Lama
A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new. – Albert Einstein
Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things. – Peter Drucker
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. – Bob Dylan
I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do. – Leonardo da Vinci
When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.” -Helen Keller
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.” -John Lennon
The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be. -Ralph Waldo Emerson
Everything you’ve ever wanted is on the other side of fear. -George Addair
We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light. -Plato
Nothing will work unless you do. -Maya Angelou
Believe you can and you’re halfway there. -Theodore Roosevelt
What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality. -Plutarch
Control your own destiny or someone else will. -Jack Welch
A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way. – John C. Maxwell
The good will of the governed will be starved if not fed by the good deeds of the governors. – Ben Franklin
The hand that rocks the cradle, rules the world. – William Ross Wallace
When we think we lead, we are most led. – Henry James Byron
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader. – John Quincy Adams
To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart. – Eleanor Roosevelt
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
Never give an order that can’t be obeyed. – General Douglas MacArthur
Don’t tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results. – George Patton
Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it. – Dwight D. Eisenhower
Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing. – Albert Schweiter
You do not lead by hitting people over the head. That’s assault, not leadership. – Dwight Eisenhower
Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them. – John C. Maxwell
No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself, or to get all the credit for doing it. – Andrew Carnegie
A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd. – Max Lucado
To lead people, walk behind them. – Lao Tzu
Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm. – Publilus Syrus
Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality. – Warren Bennis
Leadership and learning are indispensable to one another. – John F. Kennedy
Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren’t used to an environment where excellence is expected. – Steve Jobs
Don’t find fault, find a remedy. – Henry Ford
The quality of a leader is reflected in the standards they set for themselves. – Ray Kroc
Lead, follow, or get out of the way. – Thomas Pane
It’s hard to lead a cavalry charge if you think you look funny on a horse. – Adlai Stevenson II
Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others. – Robert Louis Stevenson
A man can only lead when others accept him as their leader, and he has only as much authority as his subjects give to him. All of the brilliant ideas in the world cannot save your kingdom if no one will listen to them. – Brandon Sanderson
He who cannot be a good follower cannot be a good leader. – Aristotle
If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. But do not care to convince him. Men will believe what they see. Let them see. – Henry David Thoreau
Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. – Harold McAlindon
Learn to see things backwards, inside out, and upside down. – John Heider
The art of leadership is saying no, not yes. It is very easy to say yes. – Tony Blair
Leadership does not always wear the harness of compromise. – Woodrow Wilson
The task of leadership is not to put greatness into humanity, but to elicit it, for the greatness is already there. – John Buchan