100+ Inspiring Leader Quotes to Empower You
In our journey to harness the power of leadership, famous quotes serve as guiding lights that inspire, provoke thought, and empower action. This collection of 12 quotes under each of the ten distinct themes aims to capture the essence of leadership from various viewpoints. From negotiation skills to innovation, from resilience to inspiration, we delve into the multifaceted world of leadership. Each subtitle captures a unique aspect of leadership quotes, providing insight and motivation.
"In business, you don’t get what you deserve, you get what you negotiate." – Chester L. Karrass
"An open heart and mind are your best negotiating tools." – Unknown
"Every act of communication is an act of negotiation." – Psycho-political Analyst
"Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate." – John F. Kennedy
"The art of negotiation is done when both parties feel they’ve won." – Unknown
"Know what you want, but also what you can live without." – Lauren Conrad
"Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer." – Robert Louis Stevenson
"You can negotiate anything." – Herb Cohen
"Negotiation builds a bridge between conflict and agreement." – Unknown
"You must never try to make all decisions based on a single frame." – Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
"Never close a deal if it is at the expense of losing a valued partner." – Unknown
"Leadership is not just about giving energy, but about unleashing other people's energy." – Paul Polman
"Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower." – Steve Jobs
"The best way to predict the future is to create it." – Peter Drucker
"Creativity is thinking up new things. Innovation is doing new things." – Theodore Levitt
"Innovation is taking two things that already exist and putting them together in a new way." – Tom Freston
"The heart and soul of the company is creativity and innovation." – Robert Iger
"Innovation is the unrelenting drive to break the status quo and develop anew where few have dared to go." – Steven Jeffes
"Innovation is seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought." – Dr. Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
"What is now proved was once only imagined." – William Blake
"Do not be embarrassed by your failures, learn from them and start again." – Richard Branson
"To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often." – Winston Churchill
"The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible." – Arthur C. Clarke
"If you want something new, you have to stop doing something old." – Peter Drucker
"The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall." – Nelson Mandela
"Resilience is the ability to attack while running away." – Wes Fessler
"Courage isn’t having the strength to go on – it is going on when you don’t have strength." – Napoleon Bonaparte
"Hardships often prepare ordinary people for an extraordinary destiny." – C.S. Lewis
"Fall seven times, stand up eight." – Japanese Proverb
"Persistence and resilience only come from having been given the chance to work through difficult problems." – Gever Tulley
"You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated." – Maya Angelou
"Do not judge me by my success, judge me by how many times I fell down and got back up again." – Nelson Mandela
"Tough times never last, but tough people do." – Robert H. Schuller
"Resiliency is not in never falling, but in rising every time you fall." – Unknown
"Life doesn’t get easier or more forgiving, we get stronger and more resilient." – Steve Maraboli
"In the midst of chaos, there is also opportunity." – Sun Tzu
"The best way to inspire is by example." – Unknown
"Your life is your message to the world. Make sure it’s inspiring." – Unknown
"Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working." – Pablo Picasso
"Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail." – Ralph Waldo Emerson
"A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way." – John C. Maxwell
"Inspire others by doing the best with what you have." – Unknown
"What you do has far greater impact than what you say." – Stephen Covey
"Be the change that you wish to see in the world." – Mahatma Gandhi
"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
"To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart." – Eleanor Roosevelt
"If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more, and become more, you are a leader." – John Quincy Adams
"Success is not how high you have climbed, but how you make a positive difference to the world." – Roy T. Bennett
"The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision." – Helen Keller
"A leader has the vision and conviction that a dream can be achieved. He inspires the power and energy to get it done." – Ralph Nader
"Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others." – Jonathan Swift
"A leader’s job is to look into the future and see the organization not as it is, but as it can become." – Unknown
"To the person who does not know where he wants to go, there is no favorable wind." – Seneca
"Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality." – Warren Bennis
"Vision without action is merely a dream. Action without vision just passes the time. Vision with action can change the world." – Joel A. Barker
"The empires of the future are empires of the mind." – Winston Churchill
"The very essence of leadership is that you have a vision." – Theodore Hesburgh
"Hold the vision, trust the process." – Unknown
"Where there is no vision, there is no hope." – George Washington Carver
"Dreams are the seeds of change." – Debby Boone
"The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any." – Alice Walker
"Empowerment is all about letting go so that others can get going." – Ken Blanchard
"When you empower others, you are making the conscience decision to share power, not give it up." – S. Chris Edmonds
"True leaders understand that leadership is not about them but about those they serve." – Unknown
"He who has never learned to obey cannot be a good commander." – Aristotle
"The task of leadership is not to put greatness into people, but to elicit it, for the greatness is there already." – John Buchan
"The world is changed by your example, not your opinion." – Paulo Coelho
"Power is the ability to do good things for others." – Brooke Astor
"Empowered leaders have developed the talent of empowering others." – Unknown
"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
"Leadership is not about a title or a designation. It’s about impact, influence, and inspiration." – Robin S. Sharma
"A good leader takes a little more than his share of the blame, a little less than his share of the credit." – Arnold Glasow
"People who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do." – Rob Siltanen
"Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going." – Jim Ryun
"Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts." – Winston S. Churchill
"Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does." – William James
"Well done is better than well said." – Benjamin Franklin
"Either you run the day, or the day runs you." – Jim Rohn
"Everything you’ve ever wanted is on the other side of fear." – George Addair
"Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it." – Dwight D. Eisenhower
"Don't watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going." – Sam Levenson
"Limitations live only in our minds. But if we use our imaginations, our possibilities become limitless." – Jamie Paolinetti
"The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today." – Franklin D. Roosevelt
"The secret of getting ahead is getting started." – Mark Twain
"In looking for people to hire, you look for three qualities: integrity, intelligence, and energy. And if they don’t have the first, the other two will kill you." – Warren Buffett
"The supreme quality of leadership is integrity." – Dwight D. Eisenhower
"Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody’s going to know whether you did it or not." – Oprah Winfrey
"Integrity is choosing your thoughts and actions based on values rather than personal gain." – Unknown
"Leadership is not about being in charge. It's about taking care of those in your charge." – Simon Sinek
"Be yourself. Everyone else is already taken." – Oscar Wilde
"Integrity is the essence of everything successful." – R. Buckminster Fuller
"The time is always right to do what is right." – Martin Luther King Jr.
"Integrity means that you are the same in public as you are in private." – Joyce Meyer
"I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true." – Abraham Lincoln
"Develop your character so that you are a person of integrity." – Unknown
"Integrity is doing the right thing, even when no one is watching." – C.S. Lewis
"The greatest tragedy is not changing at all." – Unknown
"Every leader must confront the challenge of change." – Unknown
"Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change." – Confucius
"They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." – Andy Warhol
"Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything." – George Bernard Shaw
"Change before you have to." – Jack Welch
"All great changes are preceded by chaos." – Deepak Chopra
"The secret of change is to focus all your energy not on fighting the old, but on building the new." – Socrates
"To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often." – Winston Churchill
"You must be the change you wish to see in the world." – Mahatma Gandhi
"Transformation is a process, and as life happens, there are tons of ups and downs. It's a journey of discovery." – Rick Warren
"Life is not about waiting for the storm to pass but learning to dance in the rain." – Vivian Greene
"Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear." – Mark Twain
"It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are." – E.E. Cummings
"Courage isn't having the strength to go on; it is going on when you don't have strength." – Napoleon Bonaparte
"Success is not final, failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts." – Winston Churchill
"It is not the strength of the body that counts, but the strength of the spirit." – J.R.R. Tolkien
"Courage is not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it." – Nelson Mandela
"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." – Franklin D. Roosevelt
"All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them." – Walt Disney
"Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become." – Steve Jobs
"Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, 'I will try again tomorrow.'" – Mary Anne Radmacher
"Fortune favors the brave." – Publius Terence
"To dare is to lose oneself momentarily. To not dare is to lose oneself." – Soren Kierkegaard
