+100 Leadership Phrases to Inspire and Motivate

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Charles McCarthy

I hope you are leadership phrases serve your training as a leader, whether you are leading a large team or a small project. They will also help improve your motivation and teamwork skills..

Leadership is one of the most demanded skills today and is important both in business and in personal life. Initiative, problem solving, perseverance and other qualities of the leader are essential to overcome difficulties.

Are leaders born or made? Surely the true answer is that some people are born leaders and others are made by learning and through their experiences. In the following quotes you will be able to observe what some of the great leaders in history think about this ability.

Inspirational leadership quotes

-A leader leads people where they would never have gone alone.-Hans Finzel.

-A leader is someone who knows the way, walks the way and shows the way.-John C. Maxwell.

-A leader leads by example, not by force.-Sun Tzu.

-To lead the people, walk after them.-Lao Tzu.

-Leadership is the ability to translate vision into reality.-Warren Bennis.

-The best leader is the one that nobody knows who is the leader.-Lao Tzu.

-Innovation differentiates a leader from a follower.-Steve Jobs.

-He who wants to be obeyed must know how to command.-Nicolás Machiavelli.

-The key to successful leadership is influence, not authority.-Kenneth H. Blanchard.

-Earn your leadership every day.-Michael Jordan.

-Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.-Margaret Fuller.

-A boss says "go", a leader says "let's go".

-Take the front line when there is danger. Then people will appreciate your leadership.-Nelson Mandela.

-A leader is a seller of hope.-Napoleon Bonaparte.

-A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd.-Max Lucado.

-The direction is to do things correctly; Leadership is doing the right things.-Peter Drucker.

-Millions saw the apple fall, but Newton was the one who wondered why.-Bernard Baruch.

-When you're in charge, take command.-Norman Schwarzkopf.

-The leader's task is to take people from where they are to where they have not been.-Henry Kissinger.

-A leader does not deserve that name unless he is willing to be alone from time to time.-Henry Kissinger.

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

-To manage yourself, use your head; To handle others, use your heart.-Eleanor Roosevelt.

-The art of communication is the language of leadership.-James Humes.

-Anyone can hold the wheel when the sea is calm.-Publilio Siro.

-The price of greatness is responsibility.-Winston Churchill.

-If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more, and be more, you are a leader.-John Quincy Adams.

-A good leader is not a consensus seeker, but a consensus shaper.-Martin Luther King, Jr.

-Leadership is not practiced with words, but with attitude and actions.-Harold S. Geneen.

-Leadership is based on a spiritual quality; the power to inspire others.-Vince Lombardi.

-A leader is better when people hardly know he exists.-Witter Bynner.

-The secret of leadership is simple: do what you believe in, draw a picture of the future and go there.-Seth Godin.

-With courage and initiative, leaders change things.-Jesse Jackson.

-Without initiative, leaders are simply workers in leadership positions.-Bo Bennett.

-Good leadership consists of showing normal people how to do the work of superior people.-John D. Rockefeller.

-The quality of a leader is reflected in the standards he sets for himself.-Ray Kroc.

-Leaders don't create followers, they create more leaders.-Tom Peters.

-Leadership cannot be taught. It can only be learned.-Harold S. Geneen.

-Leadership is about taking responsibility, not making excuses.-Mitt Romney.

-Not all readers are leaders, but all leaders are readers.-Harry S. Truman.

-The first key to leadership is self-control.-Jack Weatherford.

-True leaders bring out the best in yourself. They ignite your spirit.-John Paul Warren.

-The most effective leaders never say "I". They do not think about the "I". They think of "us". They think of "team." - Peter F. Drucker.

-A general never shows despair. He gives his troops confidence and guides them forward.-Rick Riordan.

-No man who wants to do it all alone or take all the credit will be a good leader.-Andrew Carnegie.

-He who cannot be a good follower cannot be a good leader.-Aristotle.

-Only the man who does not row has time to move the boat.-Jean-Paul Sartre.

-If you command wisely, you will be obeyed with joy.-Thomas Fuller.

-The supreme quality of leadership is integrity. Without it, no real success is possible.-Dwight D. Eisenhower.

-Leadership is a way of thinking, a way of acting and, most importantly, a way of communicating.-Simon Sinek.

-Do not go where the path leads. Go where there is no path and leave a mark.-Ralph Waldo Emerson.

-I am not afraid of a legion of lions led by a sheep; I am afraid of a legion of sheep led by a lion.-Alexander the Great.

-The quality of a leader is reflected in the standards they set for themselves.-Ray Kroc.

-Leadership is unlocking people's potential to make them better.-Bill Bradley.

-A leader has the vision and conviction that a dream can be achieved. Inspire the strength and energy to achieve it.-Ralph Nader.

-Leadership is organizing and commanding. Leadership is about nurturing and improving.-Tom Peters.

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

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

-I suppose leadership once meant having muscles, but today it means getting along with people.-Mahatma Gandhi.

-The great leader is not necessarily the one who does great things. He is the one that makes people do great things.-Ronald Reagan.

-The example is leadership.-Albert Schweitzer.

-The leadership challenge is to be strong but not rude, kind but not weak, thoughtful but not lazy, confident but not arrogant, humble but not shy, proud but not arrogant, have humor but not appear foolish.-Jim Rohn.

-A great person attracts great people and knows how to stick together.-Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe.

-Outstanding leaders go out of their way to boost their staff's self-esteem.-Sam Walton.

-The real leader has no need to lead, he is content to point the way.-Henry Miller.

-Leadership is not a popularity contest. The name of the game is to lead without a title.-Robin S. Sharma.

-Lead, follow or get out of the way.-Thomas Paine.

-If you want to build a ship, don't tell people to gather wood, divide the work, or give orders. Instead, teach them to admire how vast and great the sea is.-Antoine de Saint-Exupery.

-A good leader takes care of those in his charge. A bad leader takes care of those who take care of him.-Simon Sinek.

-Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you've stopped leading them.-Colin Powell.

-Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough away to motivate them.-John C. Maxwell.

-A throne is just a bench covered in velvet.-Napoleon Bonaparte.

-Leaders are visionaries with an underdeveloped sense of fear and without the concept of odds against them.-Robert Jarvik.

-Effective leadership is not about speeches or liking; Leadership is defined by results, not attributes.-Peter Drucker.

-Leadership does not depend on being right.-Ivan Illich.

-Leaders think and talk about the solution. Followers think and talk about the problem.-Brian Tracy.

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

-Leadership is a powerful combination of strategy and character. But if you must run out of one, run out of strategy.-Norman Schwarzkopf.

-Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective leadership is discipline carried out.-Stephen Covey.

-One of the tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency.-Arnold H. Glasow.

-The speed of the leader is the speed of the band.-Mary Kay Ash.

-Successful leaders see opportunity in every difficulty, rather than difficulty in every opportunity.-Reed Markham.

-Leaders should encourage their organizations to dance to types of music that have yet to be heard.-Warren Bennis.

-Leadership is influence.-John C. Maxwell.

-When I give a minister an order, I let him find ways to carry it out.-Napoleon Bonaparte.

-The example is not the main thing to influence others. It is the only thing.-Albert Schweitzer.

-You manage things, you lead people.-Grace Murray Hopper.

-Only one in a thousand men is a leader, the other 999 follows women.-Groucho Marx.

-Our main desire is someone who inspires us to be what we know we could be.-Ralph Waldo Emerson.

-The very exercise of leadership fosters the capacity for it.-Cyril Falls.

-Leadership is an action, not a position.-Donald McGannon.

-Become the kind of leader that people would willingly follow, even if you had no title or position.-Brian Tracy.

-Great companies start with great leaders.-Steve Ballmer.

-A man is only a leader when a follower is by his side.-Mark Brouwer.

-No one can stay high because he is put there.-H. H. Vreeland.

-A leader has to be optimistic. His vision is beyond the present.-Rudy Giuliani.

-The mediocre teacher counts. The good teacher explains. The remarkable teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.-William Arthur Ward.

-Nothing so conclusively proves a person's ability to lead others as what he does day after day to lead himself.-Thomas J. Watson.

-Leaders who tell the truth and followers who listen are an unbeatable combination.-Warren Bennis.

-The art of communication is the language of leadership.-James Humes.

-A true leader has the confidence to be alone, the courage to make thoughtful decisions, and the compassion to listen to the needs of others.-Douglas MacArthur.

-You don't have to have a position to be a leader.-Anthony J. D'Angelo.

-As a leader your main job is to create an environment where others can do great things.-Richard Teerlink.

-The courage of a great leader to fulfill his vision comes from passion, not position.-John Maxwell.

-A great leader does not take people where they want to go, but where they should be.-Rosalynn Carter.

-A good goal of leadership is to help those who do it poorly to do well, and to help those who do it well, to do even better.-Jim Rohn.

-A good measure of someone's leadership is the caliber of the people who choose to follow him.-Dennis A. Peer.

-A leader who does not hesitate before sending his nation into battle is in no condition to be a leader.-Golda Meir.

-Leadership offers the opportunity to make a difference in someone's life, no matter the project.-Bill Owens.

-One of the keys to leadership is recognizing that everyone has gifts and talents. A good leader will learn to gather those gifts toward the same goal.-Benjamin Carson.

-Without a vision or goal, a person cannot direct their own life, much less the lives of others.-Jack Weatherford.

-Leadership is about creating a change that you believe in.-Seth Godin.

-To be a leader you have to worry about your followers more than yourself.

-If you don't work to make your dreams come true, someone else will pay you to work for theirs.-Steve Jobs.

-Let's not impose our vision on others, let's be a beacon that guides them on the right path with our example.-Donald Trump.

-The difference between a good organization and a brilliant one is leadership.-John Maxwell.

-The task of a leader is not to know everything, but to attract people who know what he does not know.-John Maxwell.

-Leadership is more a question of who you are and not what you do.-Brian Tracy.

-A true leader will always try to guide others by example.-Nelson Mandela.

-Leadership is not about the next election, but about the next generation.-Simon Sinek.

-Where there is no vision, there is no hope.-George Washington Carver.

-When your values ​​are clear, making decisions becomes easy.-Roy E. Disney.

-Those best suited for power are those who have never sought it. -J. K. Rowling.

-Listen curiously. Speak honestly. Act with integrity.-Roy T. Bennett.

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

-Great leaders create more leaders, not followers.-Roy T. Bennett.

-Great leaders can see greatness in others and guide them until they reach their greatest potential.-Roy T. Bennett.

-Leadership is about choosing good men and helping them to do their best.-Chester W. Nimitz.

-Avoid putting your wishes before those of others and you will be a leader among men.-Lao Tzu.

-Leaders are not people who go through life with a crowd that follows them. They are people who follow their path without worrying if they are following them or not.-John Holt.

-Lead me, follow me or get out of my way.-George S. Patton Jr.

-Do not blow out another's candle, as it will not make yours shine brighter.-Jaachynma N. E. Agu.

-People who are really powerful are very humble. Other people are magnetically attracted to them.-Sanaya Roman.

-Stay with a leader when he is right, stay with him when he is still right, but leave him when he is no longer right.-Abraham Lincoln

-People who have power are usually quiet and focused, self-aware.-Sanaya Roman.

-In the future there will be no female leaders. There will only be leaders.-Sheryl Sandberg.

-A man can only lead when others accept him as a leader and he only has the authority that his followers give him.-Brandon Sanderson.

-Leaders understand that their job is to make the team work.-Peter F. Drucker.

-Power is not control, it is strength and it is giving that strength to others.-Beth Revis.

-A leader is someone who is willing to give his strength to others so that they have the possibility of defending themselves.-Beth Revis.

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