Workspiration: 20 Leadership Quotes

Sometimes, all we need is a little extra push to get through the workday. Here are 20 quotes that will inspire you to be the best you can be.

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1. “Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other. – John F. Kennedy
2. “Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn.” – Benjamin Franklin
3. “Those people who develop the ability to continuously acquire new and better forms of knowledge that they can apply to their work and their lives will be the movers and shakers in our society for the indefinite future.” – Brain Tracy
4. “Management is doing things right. Leadership is doing right things.” – Peter Drucker
5. “The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.” – Henry A. Kissinger
6. “The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.” – Ralph Nader
7. “I never dreamt of success. I worked for it.” – Este Lauder
8. “Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.” – Steve Jobs
9. “Don’t find fault, find a remedy.” – Henry Ford
10. “The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex, overwhelming tasks into smaller manageable tasks, and then starting on the first one.” – Mark Twain
11. “Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.” – Dwight Eisenhower
12. “Always look for the fool in the deal. If you don’t find one, it’s you.” – Mark Cuban
13. “Life is 10 percent what happens to me and 90 percent of how I react to it.” – Charles Swindoll
14. “When people talk, listen completely.” — Ernest Hemingway
15. “Becoming a leader is synonymous with becoming yourself. It is precisely that simple, and it is also that difficult.” – Warren Bennis
16. “The art of leadership is saying no, not saying yes. It is very easy to say yes.” – Tony Blair
17. “Leadership is not about titles, positions, or flowcharts. It is about one life influencing another.” – John C. Maxwell
18. “The mediocre teacher says. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.”– William Arthur Ward
19. “All great leaders have had one characteristic in common: the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership.” – John Kenneth Galbraith
20. “A good leader takes a little more than his share of the blame, a little less than his share of the credit.” – Arnold Glasow