100 Inspirational Leadership Quotes And Sayings To Become Leader - DP Sayings (2023)

Do you want to become a leader? And searching for some guidance in google in the form quotes? If your answer is YES! then do read this Inspirational Leadership Quotes And Sayings. We have collected these quotes from various people which will create a strong desire in you and a method to fulfill your desire and to become an inspiration to your people with your leadership.

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“Leadership is not a position or a title, it is action and example.” – Cory Booker

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“A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.” – John C. Maxwell

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“A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done.” – Dwight D. Eisenhower

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“Train people well enough so they can leave, treat them well enough so they don’t want to.” – Richard Branson

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“Every next level of your life will demand a different you.”

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“Leaders don’t force people to follow. They invite them on a journey.”

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“If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.” – John Quincy Adams

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“Build a team so strong you don’t know who the boss is.”

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“The true price of leadership is the willingness to place the needs of others above your own.” – Simon Sinek

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“Management is doing things right. Leadership is doing the right things.” – Peter F.Drucker

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“Great leaders are willing to sacrifice the numbers to save the people. Poor leaders sacrifice the people to save the numbers.” – Simon Sinek

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“Leaders become great not because of their power but, because of their ability to empower others.” – John Maxwell

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“If serving is below you, leadership is beyond you.”

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“The most powerful leadership tool you have is your own personal example.” – John Wooden

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“Not all readers are leaders, but all leaders are readers.” – Harry S. Truman

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“A person who feels appreciated will always do more than what is expected.”

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“The greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things. He is the one that gets the people to do the greatest things.” – Ronald Reagan

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“A leader is a dealer in hope.” – Napoleon

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“The boss inspires fear; the leader inspires enthusiasm.” – John C. Maxwell

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“The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.” – Ralph Nader

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“The more intentional you are about your leadership growth, the greater your potential for becoming the leader you’re capable of being. Never stop learning.” – John C. Maxwell

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“Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success.” – Edward Everett Hale

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“Do what you feel in your heart to be right – for you’ll be criticized anyway. You’ll be “damned if you do, and damned if you don’t.” – Eleanor Roosevelt

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“Leadership is about making others better as a result of your presence and making sure that impact lasts in your absence.” – Sheryl Sandberg

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“A great leader’s courage to fulfill his vision comes from passion, not position.” – John C. Maxwell

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“The best leaders are the ones who show their true colors not during the banner years but during times of struggle.” – Shawn Achor

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“A good leader inspires people to have confidence in the leader, A great leader inspires people to have confidence in themselves.” – Eleanor Roosevelt

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“You don’t inspire your teammates by showing them how amazing you are. You inspire them by showing them how amazing they are.”

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“Leaders think and talk about the solutions. Followers think and talk about the problems.” – Brian Tracy

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“Don’t find fault, find a remedy.” – Henry Ford

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“The leaders who work most effectively, it seems to me, never say ‘I’. They don’t think ‘I’. They think ‘we’; they think ‘team’.” – Tom Peters

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“To handle yourself, use your head. To handle others, use your heart.” – Eleanor Roosevelt

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“We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.” – Winston Churchill

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“People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader leads, and the boss drives.” – Theodore Roosevelt

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“The art of leadership is saying no, not saying yes. It is very easy to say yes.” – Tony Blair

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“Leadership is not about titles, positions or flowcharts. It is about one life influencing another.” – John C. Maxwell

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“The key to successful leadership today is influence, not authority.” – Kenneth Blanchard

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“A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd.” – Max Lucado

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“There are three essentials to leadership: humility, clarity and courage.” – Fuchan Yuan

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“The key to successful leadership is influence, not authority.” – Kenneth H. Blanchard

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“Ninety percent of leadership is the ability to communicate something people want.” – Dianne Feinstein

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“The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.” – William Arthur Ward

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“Leadership is a mindset in action. So don’t wait for the title. Leadership isn’t something that anyone can give you – you have to earn it and claim it for yourself.” – Travis Bradberry

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“A person, who no matter how desperate the situation, gives others hope, is a true leader.” — Daisaku Ikeda

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“The most effective leaders aren’t extraverts or introverts. They’re ambiverts: people who strike a balance of talking and listening.” – Adam Grant

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“Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships.” – Michael Jordan

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“The role of leadership is to transform the complex situation into small pieces and prioritize them.” – Carlos Ghosn

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“The task of the leader is to get people from where they are to where they have not been.” – Henry Kissinger

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“Great leaders don’t tell you want to do. They show your how it’s done.”

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“Leadership is earned. You want your team to feel like they work with you, not for you.” – Eli Martin

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“Ideas pull the trigger, but instinct loads the gun.” – Don Marquis

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“When you were made a leader you weren’t given a crown, you were given the responsibility to bring out the best in others.” – Jack Welch

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“If you don’t believe in yourself, why is anyone else going to believe in you.” – Tom Brady

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“Leadership is a matter of having people look at you and gain confidence, seeing how you react. If you’re in control, they’re in control.” – Tom Landry

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“I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people.” – Mahatma Gandhi

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“Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others.” – Jack Welch

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“If you want to improve the organization, you have to improve yourself and the organization gets pulled up with you.” – Indra Nooyi

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“True leaders always practice the three R’s: Respect for self, Respect for others, and Responsibility for all their actions.”

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“Taking responsibility and accountability is a true example of leadership.”

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“Become the kind of leader that people would follow voluntarily; even if you had no title or position.” – Brian Tracy

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“Remember the difference between a boss and a leader; A boss says “Go!” a leader says “Let’s go!” – E.M. Kelly

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“A simple mantra for inspiring, effective, mindful leadership: Cultivate peace of mind and go about doing good.” – Matt Tenney

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“Management is about arranging and telling. Leadership is about nurturing and enhancing.” – Tom Peters

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When we do more than we are paid to do, eventually we will be paid more for what we do.” – Zig Ziglar

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“The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.” – Henry A. Kissinger

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“Example is leadership.” – Albert Schweitzer

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“The art of leadership is saying no, not saying yes. It is very easy to say yes.” – Tony Blair

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“A good leader is a person who takes a little more than his share of the blame and a little less than his share of the credit.” – John C. Maxwell

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“Leadership is practiced not so much in words as in attitude and in actions.” – Harold S. Green

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“Leadership cannot really be taught. It can only be learned.” – Harold S. Green

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“The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.” – William Arthur Ward

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“If you are working on something exciting that you really care about, you don’t have to be pushed. The vision pulls you.” – Steve Jobs

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“You don’t lead by hitting people over the head-that assault, not leadership” – Dwight D.Esienhowe

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“Leadership is not about the next election, it’s about the next generation” – Simon Sinek

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“Actions not word, are the ultimate results of leadership” – Bill owens

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“Average leaders raise the bar on themselves; good leaders raise the bar for others; great leaders inspire others to raise their own bar.” – Orrin Woodward

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“Leadership is about vision and responsibility not power” – Seth Berkley

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“Millions saw the apple fall, but Newton was the one who asked why” –Bernard Baruch

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“Being positive in a negative situation is not naive. It’s leadership.” – Ralph Marston

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“Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.” – George S. Patton Jr.

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“How we think shows through in how we act. Attitudes are mirrors of the mind. They reflect thinking.” – David Joseph Schwartz

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“Leadership to me means duty, honor, and country. It means character, and it means listening from time to time.” – George W. Bush

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“Recipe for success:
Heat up an idea take action mix it up with passion and belief then add a dash of persistence.”

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“While a good leader sustains momentum, a great leader increases it.” – John C. Maxwell

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“Leaders aren’t born they are made. And they are made just like anything else, through hard work. And that’s the price we’ll have to pay to achieve that goal or any goal.” – Vince Lombardi

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“A leader . . . is like a shepherd. He stays behind the flock, letting the most nimble go out ahead, whereupon the others follow, not realizing that all along they are being directed from behind.” – Nelson Mandela

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“Leadership is the art of giving people a platform for spreading ideas that work.” – Seth Godin

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“Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.” – Winston Churchill

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“The challenge of leadership is to be strong, but not rude; be kind, but not weak; be bold, but not a bully; be thoughtful, but not lazy; be humble, but not timid; be proud, but not arrogant; have humor, but without folly.” – Jim Rohn

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“The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.

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“Leadership is no longer about your position. It’s now more about your passion for excellence and making a difference you can lead without a title” – Robin Sharma

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“Stop researching every aspect of it and reading all about it and debating the pros and cons of it. Start doing it.” – Jocko Willink

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“The challenge of leadership is to be strong, but not rude; be kind, but not weak; be bold, but not bully; be thoughtful, but not lazy; be humble, but not timid; be proud, but not arrogant; have humor, but without folly.” – Jim Rohn

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“A true leader has the confidence to stand alone, the courage to make tough decisions, and the compassion to listen to the needs of others. He does not set out to be a leader, but becomes one by the equality of his actions and the integrity of his intent.” – Douglas MacArthur

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“If your actions create a legacy that inspires others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, then, you are an excellent leader.” – Dolly Parton

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“There are two kinds of people, those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to be in the first group; there is less competition there.” – Indira Gandhi

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“A successful person finds the right place for himself. But a successful leader finds the right place for others.” – John C. Maxwell

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“Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers. Who can cut through argument, Debate, and doubt to offer a solution everybody can understand.” – Colin Powell

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“At the heart of great leadership is a curious mind, heart, and spirit.” – Chip Conley

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“The leader has to be practical and a realist, yet must talk the language of the visionary and the idealist.”

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