Quotes About Inspiration

I'm a shepherd, not a sheep, and I've always prided myself on being a leader and not a follower.

The responsibility of leadership is not to come up with all the ideas but to create an environment in which great ideas can thrive.

The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.

The rank of office is not what makes someone a leader. Leadership is the choice to serve others with or without any formal rank.

A readership crisis is really a leadership crisis.

The only real training for leadership is leadership.

To lead people, walk behind them.

Leadership is not a matter of authority, it is a matter of influence. A true leader teaches others to understand more, motivates them to be more and inspires them to become more.

There are no office hours for leaders.

We need to elect leaders who understand that leadership is about loving and serving people, not about self-advancement.

Leadership is about moving people from where they are to where you hope they'll go.

If you're a leader, people's lives should be better because of the influence you've had along the way.

Great leadership is not the visit of an unexpected fate but rather a flame which is kept burning in spite of the winds of risk and opposition.

Act so as to encourage the best in others, and by so doing you will develop the best in yourself.

Waste no more time talking about great souls and how they should be, become one yourself!

Great leaders motivate large groups of individuals to improve the human condition.

Leadership is the capacity to influence others through inspiration motivated by passion, generated by vision, produced by a conviction, ignited by a purpose.

Leaders keep their eyes on the horizon, not just on the bottom line.

Leadership does not mean being bossy, always telling others what to do. No, leadership means going ahead, not putting others in the front. Good leaders lead by example, not by decree.

Vision, the hallmark of leadership, is less a derivative of spreadsheets and more a product of the mind called imagination.

The prime role of a leader is to offer an example of courage and sacrifice.

A new leader has to be able to change an organization that is dreamless, soulless and visionless... someone's got to make a wake up call.

It is not such a fiercesome thing to lead once you see your leadership as part of God's overall plan for His world.

Leadership is much more an art, a belief, a condition of the heart, than a set of things to do.