Inspirational Quotes: Leadership

Each time someone stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope.
- Robert F. Kennedy

Every time we open our mouths, men look into our minds.
- Anonymous

Everyone's life is an object lesson to others.
- Karl G. Maeser

Example sheds a genial ray which men are apt to borrow,
so first improve yourself today, and then your friends tomorrow.
-Anonymous

You really can change the world if you care enough.
- Marion Wright Edelman

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world. The unreasonable man adapts the world to himself. All progress depends upon the unreasonable man.
- George Bernard Shaw

Tell me and I forget; show me and I remember; involve me and I understand.
- Anonymous

I'd rather see a sermon than hear one any day;
I'd rather have one walk beside me than merely point the way.
- David O. McKay

A gentle hand may lead even an elephant by a single hair.
- Iranian Proverb

The pessimist complains about the wind. The optimist expects it to change. The leader adjusts the sails.
- John Maxwell

The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.
- Ralph Nader

Let's not just transform those in need, we can also find ways to help transform those in power.
-Anonymous

One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men.
No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
- Elbert Hubbard

The best leader brings out the best in those he has stewardship over.
- J. Richard Clarke

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
-Anonymous

The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but reveal to them their own.
- Benjamin Disraeli

Don't call me a saint - I don't want to be dismissed that easily.
- Dorothy Day

Let your light shine before men, that they may see your good deeds and praise your Father in heaven.
- Matthew 5:15 (see also v.14- 16)

The test we must set for ourselves is not to march alone but to march in such a way that others will wish to join us.
- Hubert Humphrey, U.S. vice president, senator

He that would be a leader must be a bridge.
- Welsh Proverb

The best leaders of all, the people know not they exist. They turn to each other and say, We did it ourselves.
- Zen Proverb