25 Motivating Leadership Quotes - Part 3

25 Motivating Leadership Quotes - 

Part 3

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. Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate, and doubt to offer a solution everybody can understand. —General Colin Powell

2. "A leader is not an administrator who loves to run others, but someone who carries water for his people so that they can get on with their jobs." — Robert Townsend

3. "Leadership cannot really be taught. It can only be learned." — Harold Geneen

4. "Look over your shoulder now and then to be sure someone's following you." — Henry Gilmer

5. "Leadership is not magnetic personality, that can just as well be a glib tongue. It is not 'making friends and influencing people,' that is flattery. Leadership is lifting a person's vision to higher sights, the raising of a person's performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations." — Peter F. Drucker

6. "Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower." — Steve Jobs

7. "Great leaders are not defined by the absence of weakness, but rather by the presence of clear strengths." — John Zenger

8. "Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great." — John D. Rockefeller

9. "Leadership is unlocking people's potential to become better." — Bill Bradley

10. "The greatest leaders mobilize others by coalescing people around a shared vision." — Ken Blanchard

11. "The supreme quality of leadership is integrity." — Dwight D. Eisenhower

12. "The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers." — Ralph Nader

13. "Earn your leadership every day." — Michael Jordan

14. "As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others." — Bill Gates

15. "You cannot be a leader, and ask other people to follow you, unless you know how to follow, too." — Sam Rayburn

16. "Those who let things happen usually lose to those who make things happen." — Dave Weinbaum

17. "To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart." — Eleanor Roosevelt

18. "Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power." — Abraham Lincoln

19. "Leadership is an ever-evolving position." — Mike Krzyzewski

20. "You get in life what you have the courage to ask for." — Nancy D. Solomon

21. "Leadership is an action, not a position." — Donald McGannon

22. "Don't tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results." — George S. Patton Jr.

23. "Whatever you are, be a good one." — Abraham Lincoln

24. "A leader is one who sees more than others see, who sees farther than others see, and who sees before others see." — Leroy Eimes

25. "The most effective way to lead is to lead from within." —  Lolly Daskal