Inspiring Leadership Quotes

#10. Sam Walton:

"Outstanding leaders go out of their way to boost the self-esteem of their personnel. If people believe in themselves, it's amazing what they can accomplish."

#9. Bill Bradley:

"Leadership is unlocking people's potential to become better."

#8. Lao Tzu:

"A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves"

#7. Jack Welch:

"Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others."

#6. Brian Tracy:

"Become the kind of leader that people would follow voluntarily; even if you had no title or position."

#5. Ralph Nadar:

"I start with the premise that the function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers."

#4. Harry S. Truman:

"In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves... self-discipline with all of them came first.."

#3. Bill Gates:

"As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others."

#2. John Quincy Adams:

"If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader."

#1. Vince Lombardi:

"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."