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An Inspirational Leadership Quote for your use for everyday of the Year !

1.  Indira Gandhi

My grandfather once told me that there were two kinds of people: those who do the work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group. There is much less competition.

2.  Rosalynn Carter

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.

3.  Anna Eleanor Roosevelt

It is not fair to ask of others what you are unwilling to do yourself.

4.  Gail Sheehy

The secret of a leader lies in the tests he has faced over the whole course of his life and the habit of action he develops in meeting those tests.

5.  Jesse Jackson

Leaders must be tough enough to fight, tender enough to cry, human enough to make mistakes, humble enough to admit them, strong enough to absorb the pain, and resilient enough to bounce back and keep on moving.

6.  Rosemary Brown

Until all of us have made it, none of us have made it.

7.  Mother Theresa

Do not wait for leaders. Do it alone, person to person.

8.  Mary D. Poole

Leadership should be more participative than directive, more enabling than performing.

9.  Marie Curie

One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done.

10.Harold S. Geneen

Leadership is practiced not so much in words as in attitude and in actions.

11.Arnold H. Glasgow

A good leader takes a little more than his share of the blame, a little less than his share of the credit.

12.Stephen R. Covey

Management works in the system; leadership works on the system.

13.Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf

Leadership is a combination of strategy and character. If you must be without one, be without the strategy.

14.Blaine Lee

The great leaders are like the best conductors - they reach beyond the notes to reach the magic in the players.

15.Arnold Glasgow

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

16.Stephen Covey

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

17.Unknown Author

A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.

18.Ronald Reagan

A leader, once convinced that a particular course of action is the right one, must be undaunted when the going gets tough.

19.Napoleon Hill

The best job goes to the person who can get it done without passing the buck or coming back with excuses.

20.Andrew Carnegie

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

21.Donald H. McGannon

Leadership is action, not position

22.Joe Batten

The first task of a leader is to keep hope alive.

23.John C. Maxwell

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

24.Henry Kissinger

Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.

25.Dwight D. Eisenhower

Pull the string, and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all.

26.Max Lucado

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

27.Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.

28.William James

A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.

29.Arab proverb

An army of sheep led by a lion would defeat an army of lions led by a sheep.

30.John Steinbeck

It is the nature of man to rise to greatness if greatness is expected of him.

31.Jim Rohn

Leadership is the challenge to be something more than average.

32.Theodore Roosevelt

The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint to keep from meddling with them while they do it.

33.George Patton

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

34.Ken Kesey

You don't lead by pointing and telling people some place to go. You lead by going to that place and making a case.

35.Sam Rayburn

You cannot be a leader, and ask other people to follow you, unless you know how to follow, too.

36.Dwight Eisenhower

You do not lead by hitting people over the head - that's assault, not leadership.

37.Lao Tzu

To lead people, walk beside them ... As for the best leaders, the people do not notice their existence. The next best, the people honor and praise. The next, the people fear; and the next, the people hate. When the best leader's work is done the people say, "We did it ourselves".

38.Vincent Lombardi

Leadership is based on a spiritual quality; the power to inspire the power to inspire others to follow.

39.Unknown Author

A leader leads by example, whether he intends to or not.

40.Gene Mauch

You can't lead anyone else further than you have gone yourself.

41.John Maxwell

Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them.

42.Kenneth Blanchard

The key to successful leadership today is influence, not authority.

43.Unknown Author

You can't measure the heart of a champion.

44.Harry Truman

Men make history, and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better.

45.Mark Clement

Leaders who win the respect of others are the ones who deliver more than they promise, not the ones who promise more than they can deliver.

46.Tacitus

Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader

47.Lou Holtz

Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.

48.Benjamin Disraeli:

Nurture your mind with great thoughts; to believe in the heroic makes heroes.

49.Henry Clay:

Of all the properties which belong to honorable men, not one is so highly prized as that of character.

50.Elbert Hubbard:

One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.

51.Don Quixote:

One man scorned and covered with scars still strove with his last ounce of courage to reach the unreachable stars; and the world was better for this.

52.Mary Pickford:

You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing that we call "failure" is not the falling down, but the staying down.

53.Mahatma Gandhi

You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

54.Unknown Author:

Your options are limited only by your fears.

55.James Allen:

You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.

56.Samuel Johnson:

Your aspirations are your possibilities.

57.George S. Patton:

You're never beaten until you admit it.

58.Earvin Magic Johnson:

You're the only one who can make the difference. Whatever your dream is, go for it.

59.Henry George:

Let no man imagine that he has no influence. Whoever he may be, and wherever he may be placed, the man who thinks becomes a light and a power.

60.Lewis Grizzard:

Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes

61.George Bernard Shaw:

Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.

62.Washington Irving:

Little minds attain and are subdued by misfortunes; but great minds rise above them.

63.Henry Gilmer:

Look over your shoulder now and then to be sure someone's following you.

64.Frank Mckinney Hubbard:

Lots of folks confuse bad management with destiny.

65.E. B. White:

Luck is not something you can mention in the presence of self-made men.

66.Daniel H. Burnham:

Make no little plans. They have no magic to stir men's blood and probably themselves will not be realized. Make big plans. Aim high in hope and work. Remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will not die.

67.Niccolo Machiavelli:

Make no small plans for they have no power to stir the soul.

68.Mark Twain:

The miracle, or the power, that elevates the few is to be found in their perseverance under the promptings of a brave, determined spirit.

69.John Naisbitt:

The new source of power is not money in the hands of a few, but information in the hands of many.

70.Mike Ditka:

The ones who want to achieve and win championships motivate themselves

71.James Broughton:

The only limits are, as always, those of vision.

72.Robert Frost:

The only way around is through.

73.Winston Churchill:

The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.

74.George F. Will:

The pursuit of perfection often impedes improvement.

75.Ray Kroc:

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

76.Harold Taylor:

The roots of true achievement lie in the will to become the best that you can become.

77.Jon Holt

The true test of character is not how much we know how to do, but how we behave when we don't know what to do.

78.Theodore M. Hesburgh:

The very essence of leadership is that you have to have vision. You can't blow an uncertain trumpet.

79.Unknown Author:

The whole world steps aside for the man who knows where he is going.

80.Harold R. McAlindon:

The world leaders in innovation and creativity will also be world leaders in everything else.

81.Willie Shoemaker:

There are one hundred and ninety nine ways to get beat, but only one way to win; get there first.

82.George Herbert:

There is great force hidden in a gentle command.

83.William Congreve:

There is in true beauty, as in courage, somewhat which narrow souls cannot dare to admire.

84.French Proverb:

There is no pillow so soft as a clear conscience.

85.Douglas MacArthur:

There is no substitute for victory.

86.Simeon Ben Eleazar:

Greater is he who acts from love than he who acts from fear.

87.Jyrus:

He conquers twice who conquers himself in victory.

88.Seneca:

He who has great power should use it lightly.

89.John Milton, from Paradise Lost:

He who reins within himself and rules passions, desires, and fears is more than a king.

90.B. C. Forbes:

History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats.

91.Billy Graham:

Hot heads and cold hearts never solved anything.

92.Henry Ford:

I am looking for a lot of men who have an infinite capacity to not know what can't be done.

93.Graeme Edwards:

It's not the plan that is important, it's the planning.

94.Justinian:

Keep cool and you will command everyone.

95.Alvin Toffler:

Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.

96.George Patton:

Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way.

97.Harlan Cleveland:

Leaders are problem solvers by talent and temperament, and by choice.

98.Alexander Pope:

A brave man thinks no one superior who does him injury; for make himself superior to the other by forgiveness.

99.Calvin Coolidge:

You can't do everything at once, but you can do something at once.

100.         Les Brown:

You have the power to change.

101.         Brian Tracy:

You have within you, right now, everything you need to deal with whatever the world can throw at you.

102.         Unknown Author:

You make a living by what you get, but you make a life by what you give.

103.         Frank Gaines:

Only he who can see the invisible can do the impossible.

104.         T. S. Eliot:

Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.

105.         Brian Tracy:

Only undertake what you can do in an excellent fashion. There are no prizes for average performance.

106.         Unknown Author:

Ordinary people think merely of spending time. Great people think of using it.

107.         Thomas Carlyle:

Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.

108.         Sam Walton:

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.

109.         Zig Ziglar:

Outstanding people have one thing in common: an absolute sense of mission.

110.         Lord Macaulay:

The highest proof of virtue is to possess boundless power without abusing it.

111.         Napoleon Bonaparte:

The human race is governed by its imagination.

112.         Harry A. Overstreet:

The immature mind hops from one thing to another; the mature mind seeks to follow through.

113.         John Quincy Adams:

The influence of each human being on others in this life is a kind of immortality.

114.         Napoleon Hill:

The jack of all trades seldom is good at any. Concentrate all of your efforts on one definite chief aim.

115.         Benjamin Disraeli:

The legacy of heroes is the memory of a great name and the inheritance of a great example.

116.         William A. Ward:

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

117.         Herbert N. Casson:

The men who succeed are the efficient few. They are the few who have the ambition and will power to develop themselves.

118.         Norman Vincent Peale:

The mind, ever the willing servant, will respond to boldness, for boldness, in effect, is a command to deliver mental resources.

119.         Andrew Carnegie:

There is no use whatever trying to help people who do not help themselves. You cannot push anyone up a ladder unless he be willing to climb himself.

120.         Niccolo Machiavelli from The Prince:

There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things.

121.         Oscar Wilde

Those who try to lead the people can only do so by following the mob.

122.         Albert Einstein

When the solution is simple, God is answering.

123.         Abraham Lincoln

Whatever you are, be a good one.

124.         Eleanor Roosevelt

You must do the thing you think you cannot do.

125.         Paul J. Meyer

Productivity is never an accident. It is always a result of a commitment to excellence, intelligent planning, and focused effort.

126.         Clarence B. Randall

The leader must know, most know that he knows, and must be able to make it abundantly clear to those about him that he knows.

127.         Albert Einstein

The led must not be compelled, they must be able to choose their own leader.

128.         John Fitzgerald Kennedy

Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

129.         Colin Powell

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 them or concluded that you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership.

130.         Thomas J. Watson

Nothing so conclusively proves a man's ability to lead others as what he does from day to day to lead himself.

131.         Benjamin Franklin

He that cannot obey, cannot command.

132.         Adlai Stevenson

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

133.         Albert Einstein

Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence.

134.         Barack Obama

I always believe that ultimately, if people are paying attention, then we get good government and good leadership. And when we get lazy, as a democracy and civically start taking shortcuts, then it results in bad government and politics.

135.         Carl Sagan

But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.

136.         Don Marquis

If you make people think they're thinking, they'll love you. If you really make them think, they'll hate you.

137.         Edwin H. Friedman

Leadership can be thought of as a capacity to define oneself to others in a way that clarifies and expands a vision of the future.

138.         Eric Hoffer

In times of change, learners inherit the Earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.

139.         Ernest Becker

It is not so much that man is a herd animal, said Freud, but that he is a horde animal led by a chief.

140.         Everett Dirksen

I am a man of fixed and unbending principles, the first of which is to be flexible at all times.

141.         Faye Wattleton

The only safe ship in a storm is leadership.

142.         Faye Wattleton

Whoever is providing leadership needs to be as fresh and thoughtful and reflective as possible to make the very best fight.

143.         H. Ross Perot

Inventories can be managed, but people must be led.

144.         Henrik Ibsen

A community is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm.

145.         Herbert B. Swope

I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure: which is: Try to please everybody.

146.         Isaac Newton

If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulder of giants.

147.         James Callaghan

A leader must have the courage to act against an expert's advice.

148.         James Kouzes and Barry Posner

There's nothing more demoralizing than a leader who can't clearly articulate why we're doing what we're doing.

149.         James MacGregor Burns

Divorced from ethics, leadership is reduced to management and politics to mere technique.

150.         Jesse Jackson

Time is neutral and does not change things. With courage and initiative, leaders change things.

151.         John Gardner

Most important, leaders can conceive and articulate goals that lift people out of their petty preoccupations and unite them in pursuit of objectives worthy of their best efforts.

152.         John Naisbitt

Leadership involves finding a parade and getting in front of it.

153.         Margaret Chase Smith

Leadership is not manifested by coercion, even against the resented. Greatness is not manifested by unlimited pragmatism, which places such a high premium on the end justifying any means and any measures.

154.         Naom Chomsky

It is the responsibility of intellectuals to speak the truth and expose lies.

155.         Plato

A tyrant is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader.

156.         Ralph Nader

I start with the premise that the function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.

157.         Robert Louis Stevenson

Keep your fears to yourself, but share your inspiration with others.

158.         Elaine Agather

The leadership instinct you are born with is the backbone. You develop the funny bone and the wishbone that go with it.

159..        Robert Half

Delegating work works, provided the one delegating works, too.

160..        Theodore M. Hesburgh

The very essence of leadership is that you have to have vision. You can't blow an uncertain trumpet.

161.         Steve Jobs

Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.

162.         John Maxwell

A great leader’s courage to fulfill his visions comes from passion, not position.

163.         John Quincy Adams

If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.

164.         Hindu Proverb:

There is nothing noble about being superior to some other man. The true nobility is in being superior to your previous self.

165.         Peter F. Drucker

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

166.         Benjamin Disraeli

I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?

167.         Rosabeth Moss Kantor:

Leaders are more powerful role models when they learn than when they teach.

168.         Rosalynn Carter:

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.

169.         Stephen Covey

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

170.         Susan B. Anthony

Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputation and social standing, never can bring about a reform. Those who are really in earnest must be willing to be anything or nothing in the world's estimation, and publicly and privately, in season and out, avow their sympathy with despised and persecuted ideas and their advocates, and bear the consequences.

171.         Theodore Hesburgh

The very essence of leadership is that you have to have a vision.

172.         Thich Nhat Hanh

You who are journalists, writers, citizens, you have the right and duty to say to those you have elected that they must practice mindfulness, calm and deep listening, and loving speech. This is universal thing, taught by all religions.

173.         Tom Peters

If you're not confused, you're not paying attention.

174.         Tony Blair

The art of leadership is saying no, not yes. It is very easy to say yes.

175.         Unknown Author

Some leaders are born women.

176.         Vince Lombardi