100+ Inspirational Leadership Quotes to Guide Your Journey

Leadership Quotes

As humans, we are striving to be better and to build a better world for everyone. And a leader is someone who should know his direction. Whether you want to be the CEO of a company or trying to set a good planner for your family, it could be challenging to know where to begin. There are numerous qualities of a good leader, and the skills include integrity, communication, self-awareness, the ability to delegate, gratitude, influence, learning agility, empathy, courage, and respect. Scroll down and get the Leadership Quotes!

Best Leadership Quotes

"Don't follow the crowd. Let the crowd follow you. - Margaret Thatcher"

1. "Champions keep playing until they get it right." - Billie Jean King

2. “Good leaders build products. Great leaders build cultures. Good leaders deliver results. Great leaders develop people. Good leaders have vision. Great leaders have values. Good leaders are role models at work. Great leaders are role models in life." - Adam Grant

3. "In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock." - Thomas Jefferson

4. "The very essence of leadership is that you have to have vision. You can't blow an uncertain trumpet." - Theodore M. Hesburgh

5. "A leader should be visionary and have more foresight than an employee. - Jack Ma"

6. "Great leaders do not desire to lead but to serve. - Myles Munroe"

7. "I never stopped trying to become qualified for the job. - Darwin E. Smith"

8. "I start with the premise that the function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers. - Ralph Nader"

9. "If you want to be a leader who attracts quality people, the key is to become a person of quality yourself. - Jim Rohn"

10. "A leader is best when people barely know he exists. When his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will all say: We did it ourselves. - Lao-Tzu"

11. "Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm. - Winston Churchill"

12. "Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others. - Jack Welch"

13. "A person who is happy is not because everything is right in his life, He is happy because his attitude towards everything in his life is right. - Sundar Pichai"

14. "Integrity, insight, and inclusiveness are the three essential qualities of leadership. - Sadhguru"

15. "It doesn’t matter when we start. It doesn’t matter where we start. All that matters is that we start. - Simon Sinek"

16. "As we look ahead to the next century, leaders will be those who empower others. - Bill Gates"

17. "Leadership is not a popularity contest; it's about leaving your ego at the door. The name of the game is to lead without a title. - Robin S. Sharma"

18."No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit for doing it. - Andrew Carnegie"

19. "If you want to improve the organization, you have to improve yourself, and the organization gets pulled up with you. - Indra Nooyi"

20. "For the success of any mission, it is necessary to have creative leadership. Creative leadership is vital for government, non-governmental organizations as well as industries. - A. P. J. Abdul Kalam"

21. "Leadership is a choice, not a position. - Stephen Covey"

22. "Leadership is an opportunity to serve. It is not a trumpet call to self-importance. - J. Donald Walters"

23. "A real leader uses every issue, no matter how serious and sensitive, to ensure that at the end of the debate, we should emerge stronger and more united than ever before. - Nelson Mandela"

24. "Great leaders can see the greatness in others when they can’t see it themselves and lead them to their highest potential they don’t even know. - Roy T. Bennett"

25. "Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other. - John F. Kennedy"

26. "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 conclude you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership. - Colin Powell"

27. "Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results, not attributes. - Peter F. Drucker"

28. "The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it is on a section gang, a football field, in an army, or in an office. - Dwight D. Eisenhowe"

Women Leadership Quotes

"I learned to always take on things I'd never done before. Growth and comfort do not coexist." - Ginni Rometty, CEO of IBM

1. “I learned to always take on things I’d never done before. Growth and comfort do not coexist.” – Ginni Rometty, CEO of IBM

2. “Listening to others, especially those with whom we disagree, tests our own ideas and beliefs. It forces us to recognize, with humility, that we don’t have a monopoly on the truth.” – Janet Yellen, Economist

3. “People respond well to those that are sure of what they want.” – Anna Wintour, Editor-in-Chief, Vogue

4. “Women need to shift from thinking “I’m not ready to do that” to thinking “I want to do that – and I’ll learn by doing it.” ” – Sheryl Sandberg, COO of Facebook

5. “Give light and people will find the way.” – Ella Baker, Activist

6. “I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.” – Audre Lorde, Poet, Writer, and Activist

7. “I raise up my voice not so I can shout but so that those without a voice can be heard… We cannot succeed when half of us are held back.” – Malala Yousazai, Activist

8. “On my own, I will just create, and if it works, it works, and if it doesn’t, I’ll create something else. I don’t have any limitations on what I think I could do or be.” – Oprah Winfrey, Media Mogul

9. “I had to make my own living and my own opportunity! But I made it! Don’t sit down and wait for the opportunities to come. Get up and make them.” – Madam C. J. Walker, The first female self-made millionaire in America

10. “Anything’s possible if you’ve got enough nerve.” – J.K. Rowling, Writer

11. “You may not always have a comfortable life, and you will not always be able to solve all of the world’s problems at once but don’t ever underestimate the importance you can have because history has shown us that courage can be contagious and hope can take on a life of its own.” – Michelle Obama, Former First Lady of the United States of America

12. “Buckle up, and know that it’s going to be a tremendous amount of work, but embrace it.” – Tory Burch, Fashion Designer

13. “An important attribute of success is to be yourself. Never hide what makes you, you.” – Indra Nooyi, CEO of PepsiCo

14. “Fearlessness is like a muscle. I know from my own life that the more I exercise it, the more natural it becomes to not let my fears run me.” – Arianna Huffington, Journalist and Entrepreneur

15. “Define success on your own terms, achieve it by your own rules, and build a life you’re proud to live.” – Anne Sweeney, Co-chair of Disney Media

16. “The best way to change it is to do it. Right? And then after a while, you become it and it’s easy.” – Ursula Burns, Former CEO of Xerox

17. “To me, leadership is about encouraging people. It’s about stimulating them. It’s about enabling them to achieve what they can achieve – and to do that with a purpose.” – Christine Lagarde, Lawyer and Politician

18. “When you can’t find someone to follow, you have to find a way to lead by example.” – Roxane Gay, Writer

19. “Abandon anything about your life and habits that might be holding you back.” – Sophia Amoruso, Founder of Nasty Gal

Inspiring Leadership Quotes

"To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart." Eleanor Roosevelt

1. "The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires." William Arthur Ward

2. "It's hard to lead a cavalry charge if you think you look funny on a horse." Adlai E. Stevenson II

3. "Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be." Ralph Waldo Emerson

4. "Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others." Robert Louis Stevenson

5. "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

6. "Only one man in a thousand is a leader of men--the other 999 follow women." Groucho Marx

7. "Don't waste your energy trying to educate or change opinions; go over, under, through, and opinions will change organically when you're the boss. Or they won't. Who cares? Do your thing, and don't care if they like it." Tina Fey

8. "Power isn't control at all--power is strength, and giving that strength to others. A leader isn't someone who forces others to make him stronger; a leader is someone willing to give his strength to others that they may have the strength to stand on their own." Beth Revis

9. "Don't tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results." George Patton

10. "I have three precious things which I hold fast and prize. The first is gentleness; the second is frugality; the third is humility, which keeps me from putting myself before others. Be gentle and you can be bold; be frugal and you can be liberal; avoid putting yourself before others and you can become a leader among men." Lao Tzu

11. "Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it." Dwight D. Eisenhower

12. "Victory has a hundred fathers and defeat is an orphan. John F. Kennedy

13. "Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things." Peter F. Drucker

14. "You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand." Woodrow Wilson

15. "Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing." Albert Schweitzer

16. "Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them." John C. Maxwell

17. "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

18. "Leadership is not about titles, positions, or flow charts. It is about one life influencing another." John C. Maxwell

19. "You have to be burning with an idea, or a problem, or a wrong that you want to right. If you're not passionate enough from the start, you'll never stick it out." Steve Jobs

Great Leadership Quotes

"Leaders Don't Create followers; They create more leaders. - Tom Peters

1. “A leader is one who sees more than others see, who sees farther than others see and who sees before others see.” – Leroy Eimes, author and leadership expert

2. “A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don’t necessarily want to go, but ought to be.” – Rosalynn Carter, former first lady of the United States

3. “Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson, essayist, poet and philosopher

4. “Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate and doubt to offer a solution everybody can understand.” – Gen. Colin Powell, former U.S. Secretary of State

5. “The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.” – William Arthur Ward, author

6. “If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.” – President John Quincy Adams

7. “As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.” – Bill Gates, co-founder of Microsoft

8. “In the simplest terms, a leader is one who knows where he wants to go, and gets up and goes.” – John Erskine, author

9. “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.” – George Orwell, author [Read Related Article: 5 Tips for Guiding Your Team Through a Rough Patch]

10. “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.”– President Ronald Reagan

11. “A leader is a dealer in hope.” – Napoleon Bonaparte, military leader

12. “Always do right. It will gratify some people and astonish the rest.” – Mark Twain, author

13. “Leadership is a combination of strategy and character. If you must be without one, be without the strategy.” – U.S. Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf

14. “People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader leads, and the boss drives.” – President Theodore Roosevelt

15. “What you do has far greater impact than what you say.” — Stephen Covey, author, businessman and speaker

16. “Leadership is the capacity to transform vision into reality.” – Warren G. Bennis, founding chairman of the Leadership Institute at the University of Southern California

17. “To lead people, walk beside them. As for the best leaders, the people do not notice their existence … When the best leader’s work is done, the people say, ‘We did it ourselves!’” – Lao Tzu, philosopher

18. “A good leader takes a little more than his share of the blame, a little less than his share of the credit.” – Arnold Glasow, humorist and author

19. “The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on.” – Walter Lippmann, writer, reporter and political commentator

20. “The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.”  – Henry Kissinger, former U.S. Secretary of State

21. “Earn your leadership every day.” – Michael Jordan, former NBA basketball player

22. “The task of leadership is not to put greatness into humanity, but to elicit it, for the greatness is already there.” – John Buchan, novelist, historian and politician

23. “Make sure you’re not just waiting for someone else to fix things, or hoping that things will improve … Figure out what’s going on and make a plan to improve things.” – Kenneth W. Thomas, author

Famous Leadership Quotes

"Leadership is the ability to guide others without force into a direction or decision that leaves them still feeling empowered and accomplished. - Lisa Cash Hanson"

1. "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"

2. "Leaders are made; they are not born. They are made by hard effort, which is the price that all of us must pay to achieve any goal that is worthwhile. - Vince Lombardi"

3. "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"

4. "Mike-Krzyzewski-quote"

5. "A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus. - Martin Luther King, Jr."

6. "Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. - Ralph Waldo Emerson"

7. "You need a commitment that is long-term and a commitment to leadership because that's the only way you build excellence. - Azim Premji"

8. "Leadership is about empathy. It is about having the ability to relate to and connect with people for the purpose of inspiring and empowering their lives. - Oprah Winfrey"

9. "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"

10. "You have to be willing to be misunderstood if you’re going to innovate. - Jeff Bezos"

11. "Being a good listener is absolutely critical to being a good leader; you have to listen to the people who are on the front line. - Richard Branson"

12. "The art of leadership is saying no, not saying yes. It is very easy to say yes. - Tony Blair"

13. "Great leaders have three things; inner light, inner vision, and inner strength. - Amit Ray"

14. "Great leaders do not fear challenges, because challenges do not break leaders but sharpen them. - Gift Gugu Mona"

15. "The greatest gift of leadership is a boss who wants you to be successful. - Jon Taffer"

16. "Leadership is having a compelling vision, a comprehensive plan, relentless implementation, and talented people working together. - Alan Mulally"

17. "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"

18. "I think one of the keys to leadership is recognizing that everybody has gifts and talents. A good leader will learn how to harness those gifts toward the same goal. - Ben Carson"

19. "Time is neutral and does not change things. With courage and initiative, leaders change things. - Jesse Jackson"

20. "The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been. - Henry Kissinger"

21. "Leadership to me means duty, honor, country. It means character, and it means listening from time to think we need the feminine qualities of leadership, which include attention to aesthetics and the environment, nurturing, affection, intuition, and the qualities that make people feel safe and cared for. - Deepak Chopra"

22. "A lot of people have gone further than they thought they could because someone else thought they could. - Zig Ziglar"

23. "Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower. - Steve Jobs"

24. "Leadership is the art of giving people a platform for spreading ideas that work. - Seth Godin"

25. "Leaders don't create followers; they create more leaders. - Tom Peters"

26. "We cannot lead anyone farther than we have been ourselves. John C. Maxwell"

27. "The first job of leadership is to love people. Leadership without love is manipulation. - Rick Warren"

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