52 Essential Leadership Quotes for life
By: Teronie
J. Donaldson
Leadership is a quality that few people have! Some people acquire it naturally and embrace it, while others shy away from it at all costs. It is not something that we are born with. We must listen, learn, observe, act and follow first for a bit before we set out to lead ourselves. The biggest journey in the path of leadership of others is first learning to lead yourself. Fighting with your daily struggles to become what you want to be is amongst the most trying challenges of personal leadership. The thing about leadership is that it can be acquired by anyone at anytime, anywhere. All it takes is a decision. A decision that you want to lead your life and your journey starts. These 52 Essential Leadership Quotes for Life are some of what I continually use to help me on my ongoing leadership journey and I hope they will be helpful to you as well. Great Luck To You. 1) “Never bend your head, always hold it high. Look the world straight in the face” Helen Keller 2) “Most people who fail in their dreams fail not from lack of ability, but from lack of commitment” Jack Canfield 3) “A person who walks in another‟s tracks leaves no footprints” Fortune cookie 4) “Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail” Ralph Waldo Emerson 5) “Pay no attention to what critics say, no statue has ever been erected to a critic” Jean Sebelius 6) “In the end it is important to remember that we cannot become what we need to be by remaining where we are” Max Dupree 7) “The only man who never makes a mistake is the man who never does anything” Theodore Roosevelt 8) “The most important step in realizing your vision is to define it” Ari Kiev 9) “The man with the plan leads the way. Know where you‟re going and others will follow” Paul R. Gudonis 10) “What others think of you means only what you let it” Anonymous 11) “When patterns are broken new worlds emerge” Tuli Kupferberg
12) “Difficulties in life are intended to make us better not bitter” Dan Reeves 13) “Go as far as you can see, when you get there, you‟ll be able to see farther” J.P. Morgan 14) “Trying times are not the times to stop trying” Ray Owen 15) “We are judged by what we finish, not what we start” Anonymous 16) “The reasonable man adapts himself to the world. The unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends upon the unreasonable man” George Bernard Shaw 17) “A man‟s reach must exceed his grasp” Anonymous 18) “Courage is not the absence of fear, but simply moving on with dignity despite the fear” Pat Riley 19) “The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in the moment of comfort and convenience but where he stands in times of challenge and controversy” Martin Luther King Jr. 20) “There are no office hours for leaders” James Cardinal Gibbons 21) “Influence is the direct result of surpassing expectations” Anonymous 22) „People are their principles” Anonymous 23) “We will either find a way or make one” Hannibal 24) “Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds” Albert Einstein 25) “Smooth seas do not make skilful sailors” African Proverb
26) “I use my weakest hand to climb up and my strongest hand to bring people up behind me” Dennis W. Archer 27) “We don‟t know who we are until we see what we can do” Martha Grimes 28) “When one exudes greatness one obtains great rewards” Shantae Wilson 29) “Either you are a person that will be stopped or you are a person that won‟t be stopped -You choose” Harv T. Eker 30) “It‟s much easier to ask for forgiveness than to ask for permission” Anonymous 31) “Start by doing what‟s necessary, then do what‟s possible; and then suddenly you are doing the impossible” Sir Frances of Assisi 32) “Always think big and act bigger” Anonymous 33) “People place confidence in the fellow who acts; they naturally assume he knows what he is doing” David J. Schwartz 34) “Remember this: The most dependable hand you can rely on is the one at the end of your wrist. You can‟t count on anyone but yourself” Les Brown 35) “We need to learn to set our course by the starts, not by the lights of every passing ship” General Omar N. Bradley 36) “Remember that when we point the finger of blame on someone else, there are four more pointed back at us” Teronie J. Donaldson 37) “Don‟t complain, Don‟t explain” Anonymous 38) “When you have nothing to say… say nothing” Charles Caleb Colton 39) “Do what you can, with what you have, where you are” Theodore Roosevelt
40) “It is the moment of decision that your destiny is shaped” Anthony Robbins 41) “If you want to be a leader of people then you have to be a master of words” Anonymous 42) “In any moment of decision the best thing you can do is the right thing. The next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing” Theodore Roosevelt 43) “Brevity is power” Henry Wheeler Shaw 44) “A boss; the less he speaks, the more he is heard” Frederic Dard 45) “The greatest mistake you can make in this life is continually fearing that you‟ll make one” Elbert Hubbard 46) “You will become as small as your controlling desire; as great as your dominant aspiration” James Allen 47) “You have enemies? Good. That means that you‟ve stood up for something, sometime in your life” Winston Churchill 48) “Look important, it helps you think important” Anonymous 49) “A leader leads by example not by force” Sun Tzu 50) “Management of many is the same as management of few. It is a matter of organization” Sun Tzu 51) “Inspiration you can do alone, execution requires other people” Harvey Mackay 52) “Be an innovator, not an imitator. Not too many sheep succeed” Anonymous