Quotes About Inspiration

Leadership is about being a servant first.

The most important thing I learned is that soldiers watch what their leaders do. You can give them classes and lecture them forever, but it is your personal example they will follow.

A leader's job is to develop committed followers. Bad leaders destroy their followers' sense of commitment.

If you want to improve the organization, you have to improve yourself and the organization gets pulled up with you.

Leadership is hard to define and good leadership is even harder. But if you can get people to follow you to the ends of the earth, you are a great leader.

All leaders are readers.

People buy into the leader before they buy into the vision.

The most powerful leadership tool you have is your own personal example.

Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.

The most important rule of educational leadership is to always remember that people, not policies or programs, are what drive highly effective schools.

Leadership distilled down to 3 words: Make a difference.

The key to being a good mentor is to help people become more of who they already are – not to make them more like you.

The very essence of leadership is that you have to have vision. You can't blow an uncertain trumpet.

Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.

I'm not going to school just for the academics – I wanted to share ideas, to be around people who are passionate about learning.

If you let your learning lead to knowledge, you become a fool. If you let your learning lead to action, you become wealthy.

Teaching is demonstrating that it is possible. Learning is making it possible for yourself.

The day she let go of the things that were weighing her down, was the day she began to shine the brightest.

Nothing can dim the light that shines from within.

Your personal life, your professional life, and your creative life are all intertwined. I went through a few very difficult years where I felt like a failure. But it was actually really important for me to go through that. Struggle, for me, is the most inspirational thing in the world at the end of the day ~ as long as you treat it that way.

I love life. I wish I could live another 500 years, truly. There is so much to do. I don't feel bitter or angry or disappointed. If anything, I am very grateful for where I come from. I have absolutely no regrets.

Life is short, and therefore, one thing being certain, death, let us take up a great ideal, and give up the whole life to it. For what is the value of life, this vegetating little low life of man? Subordinating it to one high ideal is the only value that life has.

But life is tough and if you're creative, it's tougher.

Your life is your own. You mold it. You make it. All anyone can do is to point out ways and means which have been helpful to others. Perhaps they will serve as suggestions to stimulate your own thinking until you know what it is that will fulfill you, will help you to find out what you want to do with your life.