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50 Famous and Inspiring Leadership Quotes

Take inspiration from leaders who have worked all their lives and presented visionary ideas. Further, they change history through their hard work and inventions, discoveries, and implementations, and they become immortal in history! As Jonas Berggren wrote in “Happy Nation,”

Ideas By Man and Only That Will Last
And Over Time, We’ve Learned From the Past
That No Man’s Fit to Rule the World Alone
A Man Will Die, But Not His Ideas

So, if you’re also on the verge of chaos and want to see a clear path, read some inspiring quotes. In this blog post, I have listed some of the best, most famous, and most inspiring leadership quotes by Historical Figures.

50 Inspiring Leadership Quotes

Here, you will get to read some inspiring leadership quotes to seek guidance and get a clear path in leadership.

Don’t Find the Fault, Find the Remedy – Henry Ford

Don’t Find the Fault, Find the Remedy

Affirmation Without Discipline is the Beginning of Delusion – Jim Rohn

Affirmation Without Discipline is the Beginning of Delusion

A Leader is The One Who Knows the Way Goes the Way and Shows the Way – John C. Maxwell

A Leader is The One Who Knows the Way Goes the Way and Shows the Way

If Your Action Inspires Others to Dream More, Learn More, Do More, and Become More You Are a Leader – John Quincy Adams

If Your Action Inspires Others to Dream More, Learn More, Do More, and Become More You Are a Leader

A Leader is a Dealer in Hope – Napoleon Bonaparte

A Leader is a Dealer in Hope

The Employer Generally Gets the Employees He Deserves – J. Paul Getty

The Employer Generally Gets the Employees He Deserves

The Quality of a Leader is Reflected in the Standards They Set for Themselves – Ray Kroc

The Quality of a Leader is Reflected in the Standards They Set for Themselves

Do Not Follow Where the Path May Lead. Go Instead Where There is No Path and Leave a Trail – Ralph Waldo Emerson

Do Not Follow Where the Path May Lead. Go Instead Where There is No Path and Leave a Trail

In Matters of Style, Swim With the Current; In Matters of Principle, Stand Like a Rock – Thomas Jefferson

In Matters of Style, Swim With the Current; In Matters of Principle, Stand Like a Rock

Innovation Distinguishes Between a Leader and a Follower – Steve Jobs

Innovation Distinguishes Between a Leader and a Follower

Be a Yardstick of Quality. Some People Aren’t Used to an Environment Where Excellence is Expected – Steve Jobs

Be a Yardstick of Quality. Some People Aren't Used to an Environment Where Excellence is Expected

Leadership is the Capacity to Translate Vision into Reality – Warren Bennis

Leadership is the Capacity to Translate Vision into Reality

Leaders Grasp Nettles – David Ogilvy

Leaders Grasp Nettles

You Don’t Lead By Hitting People Over the Head That Assault, Not Leadership – Dwight D. Eisenhower

You Don't Lead By Hitting People Over the Head That Assault, Not Leadership

Leadership Does Not Depend on Being Right – Ivan Illich

Leadership Does Not Depend on Being Right

Strong Convictions Precede Great Actions – James Freeman Clarke

Strong Convictions Precede Great Actions

You Have No Power At All If You Do Not Exercise Constant Power – Major Owens

You Have No Power At All If You Do Not Exercise Constant Power

Leadership is a Privilege to Better the Lives of Others. It is Not an Opportunity to Satisfy Personal Greed – Mwai Kibaki

Leadership is a Privilege to Better the Lives of Others. It is Not an Opportunity to Satisfy Personal Greed

When Placed in Command, Take Charge – Norman Schwarzkopf

When Placed in Command, Take Charge

The Function of Leadership is to Produce More Leaders, Not More Followers – Ralph Nader

The Function of Leadership is to Produce More Leaders, Not More Followers

Leadership is Not About the Next Election; It’s About the Next Generation – Simon Sinek

Leadership is Not About the Next Election; It's About the Next Generation

Great Companies in The Way of Work, Start With Great Leaders – Steve Ballmer

Great Companies in The Way of Work, Start With Great Leaders

In Fair Weather, Prepare For Foul – Thomas Fuller

Actions, Not Words, are the Ultimate Results of Leadership – Bill Owens

Actions, Not Words, are the Ultimate Results of Leadership

Leadership Comes in Small, Act As Well As Bold Strokes – Carly Fiorina

Leadership Comes in Small, Act As Well As Bold Strokes

My Attitude is Never Be Satisfied, Never Enough Never – Duke Ellington

My Attitude is Never Be Satisfied, Never Enough Never

Problems are Only Opportunities in Work Clothes – Henry J. Kaiser

Problems are Only Opportunities in Work Clothes

The Art of Communication is the Language of Leadership – James Humes

The Art of Communication is the Language of Leadership

To Succeed, One Must Be Creative and Persistent – John H. Johnson

To Succeed, One Must Be Creative and Persistent

Clarity Affords Focus – Thomas J. Leonard

Clarity Affords Focus

Lead, Follow or Get of The Way – Laurence J. Peter

Lead, Follow or Get of The Way

Leadership is Working With Goals and Vision: Management is Working With Objectives – Russel Honore

Leadership is Working With Goals and Vision Management is Working With Objectives

Leadership is About Vision and Responsibility, Not Power – Seth Berkley

Leadership is About Vision and Responsibility, Not Power

Doing is a Quantum Leap from Imagining – Barbara Sher

Doing is a Quantum Leap from Imagining

I Don’t Know Any Other Way to Lead But By Example – Don Shula

I Don't Know Any Other Way to Lead But By Example

Leadership is a Choice, Not a Position – Stephen Covey

Leadership is a Choice, Not a Position

People Who Enjoy Meetings Should Not Be in Charge of Anything – Thomas Sowell

People Who Enjoy Meetings Should Not Be in Charge of Anything

Humility is a Great Quality of Leadership Which Derives Respect and Not Just Fear or Hatred – Yousef Munayyer

Humility is a Great Quality of Leadership Which Derives Respect and Not Just Fear or Hatred

Millions Saw the Apple Fall, But Newton Was The One Who Asked Why – Bernard Baruch

Millions Saw the Apple Fall, But Newton Was the One Who Asked Why

Leadership is Unlocking People’s Potential to Become Better – Bill Bradley

Leadership is Unlocking People's Potential to Become Better

Leadership Consists of Picking Good Men and Helping Them Do Their Best – Chester W. Nimitz

Leadership Consists of Picking Good Men and Helping Them Do Their Best

The Sharp Employ the Sharp – Douglas William Jerrold

The Sharp Employ the Sharp

I’m a Shepherd, Not a Sheep, and I’ve Always Prided Myself on Being a Leader and Not a Follower – Dustin Diamond

I'm a Shepherd, Not a Sheep, and I've Always Prided Myself on Being a Leader and Not a Follower

Leadership is Influence – John C. Maxwell

Leadership is Influence

Go as Far as You Can See; When You Get There, You’ll Be Able To See Farther – J. P. Morgan

Go as Far as You Can See; When You Get There, You'll Be Able To See Farther

What Helps People, Helps Business – Leo Burnett

What Helps People, Helps Business

Leadership is About Taking Responsibility, Not Making Excuses – Mitt Romney

Leadership is About Taking Responsibility, Not Making Excuses

A Throne is Only a Bench Covered With Velvet – Napoleon Bonaparte

A Throne is Only a Bench Covered With Velvet

You’re Only as Good as the People You Hire – Ray Kroc

You're Only as Good as the People You Hire

He Who is Prudent and Lies in Wait for an Enemy Who is Not Will Be Victorious – Sun Tzu

He Who is Prudent and Lies in Wait for an Enemy Who is Not Will Be Victorious

Saad Shafqat

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4 Comments

  1. Hi, Saad Shafqat
    These quotes really inspire me, I enjoy while reading your post.
    Thanks for sharing
    Regard

  2. Hello! I love your collection of quotes! They are truly deep and meaningful. They changed the way I think!! And yes, I truly do love cheese…

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