Leadership quotes

Unleash your potential with inspiring leadership quotes. Explore our collection of timeless wisdom from visionary minds who redefine what it means to lead.

Lead me, follow me, or get the hell out of my way.

- George S. Patton

Don't tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.

- George S. Patton

A good plan, violently executed now, is better than a perfect plan next week.

- George S. Patton

Talent is a gift, but character is a choice.

- John C. Maxwell

Seven Steps to Success 1) Make a commitment to grow daily. 2) Value the process more than events. 3) Don't wait for inspiration. 4) Be willing to sacrifice pleasure for opportunity. 5) Dream big. 6) Plan your priorities. 7) Give up to go up.

- John C. Maxwell

Real leadership is being the person others will gladly and confidently follow.

- John C. Maxwell

Learn to say 'no' to the good so you can say 'yes' to the best.

- John C. Maxwell

If you don’t change the direction you are going, then you’re likely to end up where you’re heading…

- John C. Maxwell

If we are growing we are always going to be outside our comfort zone.

- John C. Maxwell

I discovered that great men were willing to share their ideas. And I was learning so much. You can learn only if others are ahead of you.

- John C. Maxwell

Do not take the agenda that someone else has mapped out for your life.

- John C. Maxwell

Change is inevitable. Growth is optional.

- John C. Maxwell

A successful person finds the right place for himself. But a successful leader finds the right place for others.

- John C. Maxwell

A positive attitude can really make dreams come true – it did for me.

- John C. Maxwell

A minute of thought is greater than an hour of talk.

- John C. Maxwell

The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure.

- Dale Carnegie

A leader who produces other leaders multiples their influences.

- John C. Maxwell

A leader can give up anything – except final responsibility.

- John C. Maxwell

A lack of realism in the vision today costs credibility tomorrow.

- John C. Maxwell

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

A dream doesn't become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work.

- John C. Maxwell

A dream becomes a reality as a result of your actions, and your actions are controlled, to a large extent, by your habits.

- John C. Maxwell

A difficult time can be more readily endured if we retain the conviction that our existence holds a purpose – a cause to pursue, a person to love, a goal to achieve.

- John C. Maxwell

We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses blooming outside our windows today.

- Dale Carnegie

Motivation alone is not enough. If you have an idiot and you motivate him, you now have a motivated idiot.

- Jim Rohn

Your life does not get better by chance, it gets better by change.

- Jim Rohn

The purpose of information is not knowledge. It is being able to take the right action.

- Peter Drucker

Your mind is designed in such a way that you cannot have an idea on the one hand without also having the ability to bring that idea into reality on the other. The very existence of an idea in your conscious mind means that you have within you and around you the capacity to turn it into reality. The only question you have to answer is, How badly do you want it?

- Brian Tracy

If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.

- George S. Patton

An active mind cannot exist in an inactive body.

- George S. Patton