Inspirational Leadership Quotes

Inspirational Leadership Quote of the day

You fail all the time, but you aren't a failure until you start blaming someone else.

In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is.

Stay focused. Your start does not determine how you're going to finish.

Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them.

Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain - and most fools do.

A leader's role is to raise people's aspirations for what they can become and to release their energies so they will try to get there.

The power is detested, and miserable the life, of him who wishes to be feared rather than to be loved.

You can't lead anyone else further than you have gone yourself.

Failing forward is the ability to get back up after you've been knocked down, learn from your mistake, and move forward in a better direction.

If you share a good idea long enough, it will eventually fall on good people.

The more you are grateful for what you have the more you will have to be grateful for

Many are stubborn in pursuit of the path they have chosen, few in pursuit of the goal.

Throw your heart over the fence and the rest will follow.

In your life you only get to do so many things and right now we've chosen to do this, so let's make it great.

Never attempt to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and annoys the pig.

Stay focused instead of getting offended or off track by others.

There is no necessary connection between the desire to lead and the ability to lead, and even less the ability to lead somewhere that will be to the advantage of the led.

Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room.

Sometimes leadership is planting trees under whose shade you'll never sit.

When the effective leader is finished with his work, the people say it happened naturally.

Leaders inspire. They aren't assigned leadership. They command it.

The effective leader recognizes that she is more dependent on her people than they are on her. Walk softly.

The ability to keep a cool head in an emergency, maintain poise in the midst of excitement, and to refuse to be stampeded are true marks of leadership.

Only you can save yourself.

Self- reliance is the greatest of all virtues my friend.

Roll-up those sleeves and work until you see the fruit of your labour. It takes Passion, Resolve and a Productive Work Ethic, meeting with Opportunity, for you to succeed.

Your personal brand must exude who you are, what you stand for, specifies your target market, what value you intend to add to them and the unique offering through which you will do that.

You must practice the discipline of a champion before you win the actual contest. The appointment and opportunity must then come to confirm what you have already become.

Work, and not wishing, is what brings motion and results from your vision. Don’t be lazy. Try and try again, learn and practice, review and refine, then go back to implement again.

Whatever you possess as an advantage over others, must be meticulously executed to produce desired results and progress.

As you grow and develop your talent and skill – you must begin to create a demand for what you possess as a personal brand.

You do not reduce or eliminate your concerns by crying, shouting or proving you are the victim of whatever happened in your life.

Your mind must be prepared to face some kind of ‘failure’ or mistakes – take the lessons, face the consequences even if embarrassing, and march on.

Do not define your success in the context of just one situation or challenge you are currently battling or pursuing.

Taking your own life could become the ultimate failure, because you will be killing and closing the existing door to a chance that might have been waiting to lead you into another path.

You must not end your life because you failed an examination. Failing an examination or making a mistake does not make you a failure at life. The context of life is broader than that.

When success is internalized, no situation, no matter how bad, can convince you that you will not be able to attain your goal. You become adamant and refuse to give up.

What makes you succeed must be possessed where it cannot be taken away. The internal capacity to succeed is more important than the external and temporal manifestation of success.

Internalising success means that even if a misfortune takes away all the evidence or traces of success, yet what made you successful, remains. Soon enough, the evidence will return.

Just because you cannot see it now, does not mean it is not there or not possible. See yourself succeeding and own that vision through all your planning and hard work.

If you cannot see it in your mind, then it becomes difficult to get. If you can personally visualize it, it becomes easier and more realistic to achieve.

Your success must never be left to others. You must be able to visualize it and see it through your own eyes, whilst others assist you to see it better and make it clearer.

The major purpose of defining and understanding yourself is to be able to come up with an objective strategy to map your success.

If you check your personal blind spots, you can be able to guard against focusing on what you cannot do, but reduce the areas of weakness by taking their space with more of your strengths.

What are the obvious temptations and inclinations that consistently call me or entice me to go against my personal beliefs, values and standards? You don’t need a prophet for this!

The ostrich-approach of burying your head in the sand, when confronting your areas of weakness, becomes a self-set trigger for failure.

Personal growth by tackling the ‘big-picture” through focusing on the things you have power to influence is more effective and less stressful.

There should be a healthy ‘stubbornness’, assertiveness and confidence that comes from knowledge of your clear vision, mission, values and personal brand.

You need to change the questions you ask yourself and of your situations, in order to change the trajectory of your life. These are questions that will help you define and refine your purpose.

Whilst you can be a stepping stone to help others succeed, you are not a dirty mat to be abused by others.