40 quotes from leaders to inspire those who have the gift of positive influence

A leader is a person you will follow to a place where you would not go alone.

Joel Arthur Barker

Being a leader is being an example, being a trustworthy personality… It is knowing how to listen, welcome, advise. Do not confuse this noble position with being “executioner”.

Karyne Santiago

If your actions create a legacy that inspires others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, then you are an excellent leader.

Dolly Parton

A leader’s determination leads his people to success.

Karyne Santiago

That individual who never learned to obey cannot be a good commander.

Aristotle

Leaders will be excellent when the people know how to correctly demand their rights.

Karyne Santiago

It is necessary to think and rethink in a leadership. Leaders can sink or reclaim a place, or a team.

Karyne Santiago

You can measure a leader by the size of the challenges he takes on. He always looks for something his own size.

John C. Maxwell

A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader doesn’t necessarily take people where they want to go, but where they need to be.

Rosalynn Carter

To lead is to inspire. Tomorrow’s leaders may have learned positive or negative things from you. Think about it!

Karyne Santiago

Leadership emerged in order to organize the diverse ideas, needs and voices in order to establish an egalitarian and responsible course. Therefore, leadership is not done with dictatorship, but with diplomacy!

Karyne Santiago

As long as the people do not recognize the weakness of their leaders, the world will survive miserably by obeying decadent leaders.

Karyne Santiago

Great leaders know the importance of uniting a team. Success requires wisdom!

Karyne Santiago

The country does not need someone to say what is wrong; need someone who knows what is right.

Agustina Bessa-Luís

Your beautiful leader title doesn’t make you immune to mistakes.

Karyne Santiago

Good leadership is not built on fear.

Karyne Santiago

Those who ardently help their members develop into great individuals, while joyfully supporting and watching their growth, are leaders among leaders.

Daisaku Ikeda

Leadership needs to be like a rubber band, firm yet flexible. An elastic band that is too tight, or too loose, will never accomplish its purpose.

Karyne Santiago

Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

John F. Kennedy

A man who aims to lead the orchestra must know how to turn his back on the crowd.

Max Lucado

When many people call themselves leaders who hold their own absolute truth, chaos ensues.

Karyne Santiago

Be naive, and they won’t respect you. Be arrogant, and you will lose power. Be a leader and you will be respected by everyone.

Karyne Santiago

The leader who establishes a rigid doctrine does not know what it is to lead and is afraid of his followers.

Karyne Santiago

The art of leadership lies in knowing how to say no and not in saying yes. It’s very easy to say yes.

Tony Blair

It’s no use insisting: leadership is a gift to be worked on, a leader is not born overnight.

Karyne Santiago

To be a leader is not to claim the wisdom of Socrates or the strength of Samson. Being a leader is simply teaching and not imposing, leading and not dragging.

Inácio Dantas

Leadership is not for everyone, although there are many people out there who think they are leaders.

Karyne Santiago

A leader is a seller of hope.

Napoleon Bonaparte

To become a great leader, you have to make people want to follow you, and nobody wants to follow someone who has no idea where they’re going.

Joe Namath

Most men can withstand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power.

Abraham Lincoln

A leader is someone who inspires us not to ‘smaller’ life, work, the company, the community, the nation, the world.

Mario Sergio Cortella

Great leaders change their style to boost the self-esteem of their teams. If people believe in themselves, it’s amazing what they can accomplish.

Sam Walton

Every leader leaves his legacy… Whether positive or not, it’s the people who will say!

Karyne Santiago

Innovation differentiates a leader from a follower.

Steve Jobs

The greatest leader is not necessarily the one who accomplishes the most extraordinary things, but the one who makes people overcome their limits and accomplish extraordinary things.

Ronald Reagan

A leader needs to have the humility to know how to recognize his own flaws, and seek strength from his followers to evolve positively.

Karyne Santiago

A true leader recognizes the time to stop, to admit the mistake, to apologize… And none of this makes him less a leader, but more human.

Karyne Santiago

The greatest leader is the one who recognizes his smallness, draws strength from his humility and experiences his fragility.

Augusto Cury

People don’t see you as a leader because you dictate to them. They are the ones who put you in power or not. A leader is also a subordinate of the people!

Karyne Santiago