Top Leadership Quotes to Motivate You Today

To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart. - Eleanor Roosevelt

A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way. - John C. Maxwell

The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires. - William Arthur Ward

I can’t change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination. - Jimmy Dean

Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence. - Vince Lombardi

It's hard to lead a cavalry charge if you think you look funny on a horse. - Adlai E. Stevenson II

Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Life is 10 percent what happens to me and 90 percent of how I react to it. - Charles Swindoll

Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others. - Robert Louis Stevenson

Don’t find fault, find a remedy. - Henry Ford

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

Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value. - Albert Einstein

Only one man in a thousand is a leader of men -- the other 999 follow women. - Groucho Marx

I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel. - Maya Angelou

Don't waste your energy trying to educate or change opinions; go over, under, through, and opinions will change organically when you're the boss. Or they won't. Who cares? Do your thing, and don't care if they like it. - Tina Fey

Power isn't control at all--power is strength, and giving that strength to others. A leader isn't someone who forces others to make him stronger; a leader is someone willing to give his strength to others that they may have the strength to stand on their own. - Beth Revis

A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new. - Albert Einstein

Don't tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results. - George Patton

Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck. - Dalai Lama

I have three precious things which I hold fast and prize. The first is gentleness; the second is frugality; the third is humility, which keeps me from putting myself before others. Be gentle and you can be bold; be frugal and you can be liberal; avoid putting yourself before others and you can become a leader among men. - Lao Tzu

Eighty percent of success is showing up. - Woody Allen

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

You can never cross the ocean until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore. - Christopher Columbus

Victory has a hundred fathers and defeat is an orphan. - John F. Kennedy

Either you run the day, or the day runs you. - Jim Rohn

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

There is only one way to avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing. - Aristotle

You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand. -Woodrow Wilson

Certain things catch your eye, but pursue only those that capture the heart. - Ancient Indian Proverb

If you’re offered a seat on a rocket ship, don’t ask what seat! Just get on. - Sheryl Sandberg

Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them. - John C. Maxwell

Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful. - Joshua J. Marine

The mark of a great man is one who knows when to set aside the important things in order to accomplish the vital ones. - Brandon Sanderson

Limitations live only in our minds. But if we use our imaginations, our possibilities become limitless. -Jamie Paolinetti

Leadership is not about titles, positions, or flow charts. It is about one life influencing another. - John C. Maxwell

You have to be burning with an idea, or a problem, or a wrong that you want to right. If you're not passionate enough from the start, you'll never stick it out. - Steve Jobs

The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person who is doing it. - Chinese Proverb

A leader...is like a shepherd. He stays behind the flock, letting the most nimble go out ahead, whereupon the others follow, not realizing that all along they are being directed from behind. - Nelson Mandela

Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning. - Gloria Steinem

Being responsible sometimes means pissing people off. - Colin Powell

You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don’t try. - Beverly Sills

Do you know that one of the great problems of our age is that we are governed by people who care more about feelings than they do about thoughts and ideas? - Margaret Thatcher

You don’t get harmony when everybody sings the same note. - Doug Floyd

A leader is a dealer in hope. - Napoleon

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. - Theodore Roosevelt

In teamwork, silence isn’t golden. It’s deadly. - Mark Sanborn