25 Motivating Leadership Quotes - Part 2

25 Motivating Leadership Quotes - 

Part 2

Everyone needs some motivation to get through the obstacles of daily life. It's easy to lose your motivation with all that work stress, especially with the kind of responsibility you have to shoulder every day. Here's your daily boost of motivating leadership quotes by famous leaders and philosophers to keep you inspired.


1. "You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand." –Woodrow Wilson

2. "Every time you have to speak, you are auditioning for leadership." –James Humes

3. "A good leader leads the people from above them. A great leader leads the people from within them."–M. D. Arnold

4. "We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be." –Kurt Vonnegut

5. "Don't follow the crowd, let the crowd follow you." –Margaret Thatcher

6. "Leadership is the art of giving people a platform for spreading ideas that work." –Seth Godin

7. "A true leader has the confidence to stand alone, the courage to make tough decisions, and the compassion to listen to the needs of others. He does not set out to be a leader, but becomes one by the equality of his actions and the integrity of his intent." –Douglas MacArthur

8. "To add value to others, one must first value others." –John Maxwell

9. "The greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things. He is the one that gets the people to do the greatest things." –Ronald Reagan

10. "Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them become what they are capable of being." –Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

11. "The task of the leader is to get their people from where they are to where they have not been." –Henry Kissinger

12. "I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people." –Mahatma Gandhi

13. "When people talk, listen completely." –Ernest Hemingway

14. "There are no office hours for leaders." –Cardinal J. Gibbons

15. "One of the tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency." –Arnold Glasow

16. "I can give you a six-word formula for success: Think things through–then follow through." –Edward Rickenbacker

17. "The important thing is this: to be able to give up in any given moment all that we are for what we can become." –DeSeaux

18. "Do what you feel in your heart to be right, for you'll be criticized anyway." –Eleanor Roosevelt

19. "The quality of a leader is reflected in the standards they set for themselves." –Ray Kroc

20. "I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure, which is: Try to please everybody." –Herbert Swope

21. "Becoming a leader is synonymous with becoming yourself. It is precisely that simple and it is also that difficult." –Warren Bennis

22. "True leadership lies in guiding others to success–in ensuring that everyone is performing at their best, doing the work they are pledged to do and doing it well." –Bill Owens

23. "Wisdom is knowing what to do next, skill is knowing how to do it, and virtue is doing it." –David Star Jordan

24. "Leaders don't inflict pain, they share pain." –Max Depree

25. "Control is not leadership; management is not leadership; leadership is leadership. If you seek to lead, invest at least 50 percent of your time in leading yourself–your own purpose, ethics, principles, motivation, conduct. Invest at least 20 percent leading those with authority over you and 15 percent leading your peers." –Dee Hock