Motivational Leadership Quotes and Sayings

The MasterTeam Approach to Inspired Leadership emphasizes teamwork and
compassion to produce motivation, innovation, and exceptional results.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Let the following quotes and sayings inspire and motivate you to be all that you aspire to be - as a leader, in business, in your career, in your community, in your family, and especially for your true self. May you have great success in all of life...

• Quotes about Leadership as contrasted with Management
• Inspirational quotes and sayings about Leadership and Becoming a Leader
• Quotes about Teamwork and Cooperation
• Quotes about Courage, Heroes, Determination, Action, and Service
• Quotes about Success and Being Successful in Life

Quotes about Leadership as contrasted with Management

Leadership is the key element in business, career and personal success. Not only can you be a leader of others in business and community affairs, but you can, and must, be a leader of yourself if you are to achieve success and happiness in life. Follow in the tired habits of others and you will suffer and lead a mediocre existence - at best. Choose with courage and conscious thought, and you become a leader - of yourself at least. Happiness and success are your prize for choosing courageously and thoughtfully.

Don't confuse leadership with management...

Management directs, "Do what I say."
Leadership calls, "Come, follow me."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

You don't manage people, you manage things. You lead people.
- Admiral Grace Hopper

Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.
- Peter Drucker

Inspirational Quotes about Leadership

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

When the best leader's work is done the people say, "We did it ourselves."
- Lao Tzu

Leadership is a two-way street, loyalty up and loyalty down.
Respect for one's superiors; care for one's crew.
- Admiral Grace Hopper

Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision,
passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.
- Jack Welch

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

Powerful Dreams Inspire Powerful Action.
When you can taste, smell, and touch your dream, you can enroll the world.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The most dangerous phrase in the language is, "We've always done it this way."
- Admiral Grace Hopper

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

Your example is far more influential and inspiring than any words of instruction, or threats, or even words of encouragement.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

I cannot trust a man to control others who cannot control himself.
- Robert E. Lee

When we step on the battlefield, I will be
The First Boots On and the Last Boots Off.
- LtG. Hal Moore

Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate, and doubt to offer a solution everybody can understand.
- Colin Powell

Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?
- Abraham Lincoln

An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come.
- Victor Hugo

Go to the people
Live among them
Learn from them
Love them
Serve them
Plan with them
Start with what they know
Build on what they have.
- Jimmy Yen (Y. C. James Yen)

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

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

I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
- Benjamin Disraeli

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

The art of leadership... consists in consolidating the attention of the people against a single adversary and taking care that nothing will split up that attention.
- Adolf Hitler

A coach is someone who can give correction without causing resentment.
- John Wooden

Being a leader is like being a lady, if you have to go around telling people you are one, you aren't.
- Margaret Thatcher

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

It is amazing how much you can accomplish when it doesn't matter who gets the credit.
- Anonymous

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

There is no passion to be found playing small - in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.
- Nelson Mandela

The very essence of leadership is that you have to have a vision. It's got to be a vision you articulate clearly and forcefully on every occasion.
- Theodore Hesburgh

Today is Your Day to Dance Lightly with Life.  It Really Is.
      - Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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