Quotes About Inspiration

Leadership is all about taking people on a journey. The challenge is that most of the time, we are asking people to follow us to places we ourselves have never been.

Leaders identify, articulate, and summarize concepts that motivate others. Most important, they boil concepts down to an understandable idea.

Every person has a longing to be significant; to make a contribution; to be a part of something noble and purposeful.

Leadership is like beauty - it's hard to define but you know it when you see it.

When a person gets to know his Creator, and finally comes to know himself, then his leadership is born.

If you as a pastor don't have a passion for evangelism then don't be surprised if your people done either.

Go before the people with your example, and be laborious in their affairs.

The secret to greatness is in serving everyone else.

It comes down to trying to expose yourself to the best things humans have done. And then try to bring those things in to what you're doing.

There are good leaders who actively guide and bad leaders who actively misguide. Hence, leadership is about persuasion, presentation and people skills.

The unique ability to take decisive action while maintainign focus on the ultimate mission is what defines a true leader.

I started young but at every turn, listening provided a foundation for my leadership. I can say categorically that all the really excellent leaders I have known were, in my view, excellent listeners.

A leader's most powerful ally is his or her own example.

The job of leadership today is not just to make money, it's to make meaning.

Leaders are not born, they're made.

I know what it takes to win. If I can sell them on what it takes to win, then we are not going to lose too many football games.

There are times when a leader must move out ahead of the flock, go off in a new direction, confident that he is leading his people the right way.

Influencers refuse to leave the world they way they found it. They leave a legacy.

I would rather gamble on our vision than make a 'me, too' product.

People who cease to grow can't inspire others. Leadership begins with challenging oneself.

Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.

Where there is no hope in the future, there is no power in the present.

Really, people are not a school of fish. Finding the leaders of the future is a question of recognizing those people who give leadership in a crisis.

Take care, don't fight, and remember: if you do not choose to lead, you will forever be led by others. Find what scares you, and do it. And you can make a difference, if you choose to do so.