Leadership Motivational Quotes

"Be the change that you wish to see in the world."

"Ask not what your country can do for you-ask what you can do for your country."

"People don’t buy what you do; they buy why you do it."

"You have to believe in your process. You have to believe in the things that you are doing to help the team win. I think you have to take the good with the bad."

"Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you."

"An important attribute of success is to be yourself. Never hide what makes you, you."

"The most important thing is, Do you have the courage to admit that you’re wrong? And do you change?"

"No man becomes rich unless he enriches others."

"The effect you have on others is the most valuable currency there is."

"When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor."

"Don’t just aspire to make a living, aspire to make a difference."

"Leadership is not about being in charge. Leadership is about taking care of those in your charge."

"Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them, humanity cannot survive."

"The best way to predict your future is to create it."

"The greatness of a man is not in how much wealth he acquires, but in his integrity and his ability to affect those around him positively."

"If you don’t believe in yourself, why is anyone else going to believe in you?"

"Peace is not something you wish for; It's something you make, something you do, something you are, and something you give away."

"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter."

"It always seems impossible until it’s done."

"Please think about your legacy, because you’re writing it every day."

"As a leader, I am tough on myself and I raise the standard for everybody; however, I am very caring because I want people to excel at what they are doing so that they can aspire to be me in the future."

"The best way, perhaps the only way, to change others is to become the example."

"For the most important decisions in your life, trust your intuition, and then work with everything you have, to prove it right."

"Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!"

"I think, team first. It allows me to succeed, it allows my team to succeed."

"The most important thing is to try and inspire people so that they can be great in whatever they want to do."

"Determine that the thing can and shall be done and then... find the way."

"To lead people walk behind them."

"I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it."

"The sidelines are not where you want to live your life. The world needs you in the arena."

"Leaders are made, they are not born. They are made by hard effort, which is the price which all of us must pay to achieve any goal that is worthwhile."

"Please help others rise. Greatness comes not from a position, but from helping build the future. We should pull others up."

"Courage isn't charging into a machine gun nest. Courage is not caring what other people think."

"In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing. The worst thing you can do is nothing."

"The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others."

"Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships."

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

"Brilliant thinking is rare, but courage is in even shorter supply than genius."

"You cannot push anyone up a ladder unless he is willing to climb a little."

"Success is not measured by wins and losses, but by the impact you have on others."

"One person can make a difference, and everyone should try."

"Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world."

"We are the most focused company that I know of or have read of or have any knowledge of. We say no to good ideas every day. We say no to great ideas in order to keep the amount of things we focus on very small in number, so that we can put enormous energy behind the ones we do choose."

"Let your light shine before others, that they may see your good deeds and glorify your Father in heaven."

"Don’t start a company unless it’s an obsession and something you love."

"Take a stand. Be known for your courage and confidence."

"Commitment is a big part of what I am and what I believe. How committed are you to winning? How committed are you to being a good friend? To being trustworthy? To being successful?"

"The day I stopped worrying about stats is the day I started winning."

"Stay humble, no matter how much success you achieve."

"You give before you get."

"Your attitude is more important than your capabilities. Similarly, your decision is more important than your capabilities."

"Do your duty and a little more, and the future will take care of itself."

"Things don’t correct themselves, you’ve got to go out there and work hard to correct them."

"Innovation is not about saying yes to everything. It’s about saying no to all but the most crucial features."

"Success can be attained in any branch of human labor. There is always room at the top in every pursuit. Concentrate all your thought and energy upon the performance of your duties."

"Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower."

"The difference between successful people and really successful people is that really successful people say no to almost everything."

"Power’s not given to you. You have to take it."

"Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called children of God."

"Kindness is karma."

"Whatever anybody says or does, assume positive intent. You will be amazed at how your whole approach to a person or problem becomes very different."

"The reality is, is that we love competition, at Apple. We think it makes us all better. But we want people to invent their own stuff."

"Never underestimate the power of teamwork and collaboration."

"CEOs and leaders have to be life-long students. Not just students in the sense of attending courses or reading a book. You’ve got to learn how to read widely, walk the market, look at the trends in the marketplace, and make connections that don’t seem obvious."

"If you want to create and capture lasting value, don’t build an undifferentiated commodity business."

"Waste no more time arguing what a good man should be. Be one."

"What we need to do is always lean into the future; when the world changes around you and when it changes against you-what used to be a tail wind is now a head wind-you have to lean into that and figure out what to do because complaining isn’t a strategy."

"At the end of the day, it's not about what you have or even what you've accomplished. It's about what you've done with those accomplishments. It's about who you've lifted up, who you've made better. It's about what you've given back."

"Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are."

"If you want to win in the 21st century, you have to empower others, making sure other people are better than you are. Then you will be successful."

"Celebrate the achievements of others, as their success can inspire your own."

"The people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do."

"The best marketing strategy ever: CARE."

"You can focus on things that are barriers or you can focus on scaling the wall or redefining the problem."

"Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction."

"A great leader inspires us to have confidence in what we can do."

"Help young people. Help small guys. Because small guys will be big. Young people will have the seeds you bury in their minds, and when they grow up, they will change the world."

"Align yourself with the right people, forge the right relationships and you’ll set yourself up for the long run."

"Virtue is the only good."

"Individual commitment to a group effort – that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work."

"Don’t focus on you, focus on what you can give others."

"Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody’s going to know whether you did it or not."

"Courage is contagious."

"The responsibility of leadership is not to come up with all the ideas, but to create an environment in which great ideas can thrive."

"Leaders aren't born, they are made. And they are made just like anything else, through hard work."

"Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another stepping stone to greatness."

"The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men."

"The measure of a man is what he does with power."

"Out of the mountain of despair, a stone of hope."

"If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else."

"Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence."

"Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far."

"An eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind."

"The brands that will thrive in the coming years are the ones that have a purpose beyond profit."

"Working hard for something we don’t care about is called stress. Working hard for something we love is called passion."

"You put all the other stuff aside and go out and do your job, and mine is to be the best I can be for my teammates."

"Good business demands tough decisions based on rigorous analysis and unwavering follow-through. Emotion can't really play a part."

"A business is simply an idea to make other people’s lives better."

"The most important thing is you must put everybody on notice that you’re here and you are for real."

"No matter what you do, your job is to tell your story."

"The bad news is time flies. The good news is you're the pilot."

"There is nothing impossible to they who will try."

"Never limit yourself because of others' limited imagination; never limit others because of your own limited imagination"

"You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face."

"I have learned over the years that when one's mind is made up, this diminishes fear; knowing what must be done does away with fear."

"Quality is more important than quantity. One home run is much better than two doubles."

"A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new."

"This is no time for ease and comfort. It is time to dare and endure."

"If you can’t tolerate critics, don’t do anything new or interesting."

"No one is more hated than he who speaks the truth."

"So you never know who you touch. You never know how or when you'll have an impact, or how important your example can be to someone else."

"When you’re one of the leaders of the team, there are no days off."

"Treat your customers like they own you. Because they do."

"Be the chief but never the lord."

"Be so good they can't ignore you."

"Well done is better than well said."

"Train people well enough so they can leave, treat them well enough so they don’t want to."

"The strongest, toughest men all have compassion. They're not heartless and cold. You have to be man enough to have compassion - to care about people and about your children."

"Success isn't about what you accomplish in your life; it's about what you inspire others to do."

"Deciding what not to do is as important as deciding what to do."

"Important principles may, and must, be inflexible."

"If you’re co-founder or CEO, you have to do all kinds of tasks you might not want to do. If you don’t do your chores, the company won’t succeed. No task is too menial."

"Success is not how high you have climbed, but how you make a positive difference to the world."

"A house divided against itself cannot stand."

"Do something wonderful, people may imitate it."

"Anticipate the difficult by managing the easy."