Leadership Quotes

Here are a few quotes from famous people (and one from me!) that I hope might help to inspire you.

The ultimate question that conscientious leadership must always raise is, "is it right?". - Martin Luther King

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear; not absence of fear. - Mark Twain

If you want something done, you'll find a way. If you don't want something done, you'll find an excuse. - Donald Trump

A man, as a general rule, owes very little to what he is born with - a man is what he makes of himself. - Alexander Graham Bell

The uncommon man is merely the common man thinking and dreaming of success and in more fruitful areas. - Melvin Powers

Leaders are like eagles; they don't flock and you find them one at a time. - unknown

One who would lead others, first must be the master of self. - Massinger

To become a leader is not difficult; being a leader is. - Sipri Cuthbert

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence is not an act, but a habit. - Aristotle

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other one thing. - Abraham Lincoln

Just Do It - Nike

Anything one can imagine, others can make real. - Jules Vern

Vision without action is simply another form of blindness. - unknown

Two roads diverged in a wood and I; I took the one less travelled by, and that has made all the difference. - Robert Frost

You will become as small as your controlling desire; as great as your dominant aspiration. - James Allen

When I have finally decided that a result is worth getting, I go ahead on it and make trial after trial until it comes. - Thomas Edison

One is not born into the world to do everything but to do something. - Henry David Thoreau

A ship in a harbour is safe, but that is not what ships are for. - Shedd

In the middle of every difficulty lies opportunity. - Albert Einstein

The final test of leaders is that they leave behind them in others the conviction and will to carry on. - Walter Lippmann

The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. - Max DePree

The important thing is to not stop questioning. - Albert Einstein

Computers are useless; they only give you the answers. - Pablo Picasso

Chance favours the prepared mind. - Louis Pasteur

An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all. - Oscar Wilde

I don't know why people are frightened by new ideas, I'm frightened by old ideas. - John Cage

Genius is one percent inspiration and 99 percent persperation. - Thomas Edison

Well the first days are the hardest days, don't you worry anymore, cause when life looks like easy street there is danger at your door. - The Grateful Dead

Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity. - Oprah Winfrey

Leadership and learning are indespensible to one another. - John F. Kennedy

You miss 100% of the shots you never take. - Wayne Gretzky

A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions. - Oliver Wendal Holmes

Success is character in action. - Vince Lombardi

I have a dream. - Martin Luther King

Imagination is far more important than knowledge. - Albert Einstein

If you think you can't, or you think you can; you're probably right. - Mark Twain

Never let the fear of striking out get in your way. - Babe Ruth

We must all hang together, or assuredly we will all hang separately. - Benjamin Franklin

The reason I am a good hockey player is that I never know where the puck is... I only know where I think it is going. So I skate where the puck is going to be, not where it has been. - Wayne Gretzky

The best way to predict the future is to create it. - Peter Drucker

Do not fear the winds of adversity. Remember; a kite rises against the wind rather than with it. - unknown

If it can be done, it can be done by me. - Mike Caldwell