Quotes About Impact

Many people view leadership the same way they view success, hoping to go as far as they can, to climb the ladder, to achieve the highest position possible for their talent. But contrary to conventional thinking, I believe the bottom line in leadership isn't how far we advance ourselves but how far we advance others. That is achieved by serving others and adding value to their lives.

Everyone is a leader because everyone influences someone.

Leadership is more disposition than position—influence others from wherever you are.

The great men and women of history were not great because of what they earned and owned, but rather for what they gave their lives to accomplish.

An unintentional life accepts everything and does nothing. An intentional life embraces only the things that will add to the mission of significance.

Position is a poor substitute for influence.

The higher you want to climb, the more you need leadership. The greater the impact you want to make, the greater your influence needs to be.

Earlier in my life, I have to admit, I was often guilty of this error. I wanted to take an idea from seed thought to solution before sharing it with anyone, even the people it would most impact. I did this both at work and at home. But over the years, I have learned that you can go much farther with a team than you can go alone.

Every message that people receive is filtered through the messenger who delivers it.

Action is what converts human dreams into significance.

It's not the position that makes the leader; it's the leader that makes the position.

If you want to do a few small things right, do them yourself. If you want to do great things and make a big impact, learn to delegate.

Everything rises and falls on leadership.

Poet Ralph Waldo Emerson said, "The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.

When you live each day with intentionality, there's almost no limit to what you can do. You can transform yourself, your family, your community, and your nation. When enough people do that, they can change the world. When you intentionally use your everyday life to bring about positive change in the lives of others, you begin to live a life that matters.

Tone, inflection, timing, volume, pacing—everything you do with your voice communicates something and has the potential to help you connect to or disconnect from others when you speak.

Asking and hearing people's opinions has a greater effect on them than telling them, 'Good job.' " —Sam Walton

No one can understand that mysterious thing we call influence . . . yet . . . everyone of us continually exerts influence, either to heal, to bless, to leave marks of beauty; or to wound, to hurt, to poison, to stain other lives.

Thinking divorced from actions cannot be productive.

When it comes to identifying a real leader, that task can be much easier. Don't listen to the claims of the person professing to be the leader. Don't examine his credentials. Don't check his title. Check his influence. The proof of leadership is found in the followers. I

Winning teams have players who make things happen.

This is true. What a man is survives him. It can

the strength of the team is impacted by its weakest link.

You have not lived a perfect day, unless you have done something for someone who will never be able to repay you. No man becomes rich unless he enriches others.