10 Inspiring Leadership Quotes

As a leader, how do you keep inspired? Here is a collection of famous quotes. We hope these inspire you too…

  • “If you want to build a ship, don't drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea.” ~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  • "Mountaintops inspire leaders but valleys mature them." ~ Winston Churchill

  • "Leadership shows judgment, wisdom, personal appeal and proven competence." ~ Walt Disney

  • "The very essence of leadership is that you have to have a vision. It's got to be a vision you articulate clearly and forcefully on every occasion. You can't blow an uncertain trumpet." ~ Reverend Theodore M. Hesburgh

  • "Rule a kingdom as though you were cooking a small fish. Don't overdo it." ~ Lao Tse

  • "A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus." ~ Martin Luther King, Jr.

  • "Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy." ~ General H. Norman Schwarzkopf

  •  “True leadership must be for the benefit of the followers, not the enrichment of the leaders.” ~ Robert Townsend

  • "The leadership instinct you were born with is the backbone. You develop the funny bone and the wishbone that go with it." ~ Elaine Agather

  • "He who reads is never alone." ~ Helder Simone