Quotes About Inspiration

Before you can inspire with emotion, you must be swamped with it yourself. Before you can move their tears, your own must flow. To convince them, you must yourself, believe.

The manager asks how and when; the leader asks what and why.

The true leader makes each team member twice the person they were before.

Great leadership is by definition relentlessly developmental.

Leadership means realizing potential-in yourself and in the people you lead.... The leader and followers cocreate their identities and performance.

Bosses push, Leaders pull. Real leadership is servant leadership.

Your first and foremost job as a leader is to take charge of your own energy and then help to orchestrate the energy of those around you.

Leadership is the ability to get extraordinary achievement from ordinary people.

It is time for a new generation of leadership.

And leadership then is about mobilizing and engaging the people with the problem rather than trying to anesthetize them so you can go off and solve it on your own.

Great leaders must have two things: a vision of the world that does not yet exist and the ability to communicate that vision clearly.

As an actor, it's great to play a strong leader with a heart of gold.

Be a light, not a judge. Be a model, not a critic

Innovation needs to be nurtured throughout an organization. Management is doing things right, whereas leadership is doing the right things.

Leadership is about going somewhere. If you and your people don't know where you are going, your leadership doesn't matter.

The only valid test of leadership is the ability to lead, and lead vigorously.

A good leader leads from the front. Don't get stuck in the office. Get out, meet people and listen to their stories.

You serve your people by leading them to excellence. That's leadership.

True greatness, true leadership, is achieved not by reducing men to one's service but in giving oneself in selfless service to them.

Believing in people before they have proved themselves is the key to motivating people to reach their potential.

Make sure you are passionate about the vision.

Become the kind of leader that people would follow voluntarily; even if you had no title or position.

All who have accomplished great things have had a great aim, have fixed their gaze on a goal which was high, one which sometimes seemed impossible.

Leadership simply begins with the courage to be yourself. So everyone else can be, too.