35 of the Most Inspirational Leadership Quotes

A wise person indeed learns from the successes as well as mistakes of others.

Here's 35 of the Most Inspirational Leadership Quotes that will definitely take your leadership experience to the next level:

1) “If you want to build a ship, don't drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea.” ~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery

2) "Mountaintops inspire leaders but valleys mature them." ~ Winston Churchill

3) "Most of the corruption and disruption in the corporation is the result of leaders’ failure to lead themselves." ~ Dr. Tony Baron

4) "Success without honor is an unseasoned dish; it will satisfy your hunger, but it won’t taste good." ~ Joe Paterno

5) "I made a list of the happiest periods of my life & I realized that none of them involve money." ~Tony Hsieh

6) "One of the deepest principles of life and leadership: it's not about you." ~ Ken Blanchard

7) "A nation's greatness is measured by how it treats its weakest members." ~ Mahatma Gandhi

8) "Never say anything about yourself you do not want to come true.” ~ Brian Tracy

9) "Leadership shows judgment, wisdom, personal appeal and proven competence." ~ Walt Disney

10) "It always seems impossible until it's done." ~ Nelson Mandela

11) "A leader lives with people to know their problems. A leader lives with God in order to solve them." ~ John C. Maxwell

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

13) "I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples." ~ Mother Teresa

14) "Leap, and the net will appear." ~ John Burroughs

15) "Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines." ~ Robert H. Schuller

16) "Where there is no vision, the people perish." ~ Proverbs 29:18

17) "A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus." ~ Martin Luther King, Jr.

18) "The most powerful leadership tool you have is your own example." ~ John Wooden

19) "Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm." ~ Publilius Syrus

20) "For most leaders, humility comes only by wounds suffered from foolish falls." ~ Dan B. Allender

21) "Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.” ~ Abraham Lincoln

22) "Managers help people see themselves as they are; Leaders help people to see themselves better than they are.” ~ Jim Rohn

23) "There is no success without a successor. ~ Peter Drucker

24) "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. You can't blow an uncertain trumpet." ~ Theodore M. Hesburgh

25) "Rule a kingdom as though you were cooking a small fish. Don't overdo it." ~ Lao Tse

26) "It is a shame that so many leaders spend their time pondering their rights as leaders instead of their awesome responsibilities as leaders." ~ James C. Hunter

27) "Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy." ~ General H. Norman Schwarzkopf

28) “True leadership must be for the benefit of the followers, not the enrichment of the leaders.” ~ Robert Townsend

29) "The leadership instinct you were born with is the backbone. You develop the funny bone and the wishbone that go with it." ~ Elaine Agather

30) "He who reads is never alone." ~ Helder Simone

31) "He who attends to his greater self becomes a great man, and he who attends to his smaller self becomes a small man." ~ Mencius

32) "Every leader needs to look back once in a while to make sure he has followers." Unknown

33) "A real leader faces the music even when he doesn't like the tune." ~ Arnold H. Glasgow

34) "You will never reach your destination if you stop and throw stones at every dog that barks." Winston Churchill

35) “The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on.” ~ Walter Lippmann

Did I miss any of your favourite quotes? Please feel free to share them!

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