16 Most Powerful Leadership Quotes. Part A

          One of the runaway routes employed by good leaders in wanting times has always been quotes by other great leaders. Whether you’re leading a huge team on a challenging project or just trying to climb the career ladder, these quotes can help provide some useful wisdom on how best to deploy your leadership strategy.

Here are some of the best quotes on how to be a better leader, sorted by the top leadership attributes they describe. This great advice from some of our most inspirational leaders just might make you rethink your current leadership strategy, renew your passion to lead, or point the way for how to better inspire your troops:

 Inspiration

1. “If your actions inspire others to dream
more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.” – John Quincy Adams

Great leaders are path finders, making a path for others to follow. They inspire their people to reach higher, dream bigger, and achieve greater. Sincerely speaking the most important leadership skill you can develop is the ability to provide inspiration to your team. If you inspire them well, the sky becomes their starting point.

2. “Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.” – Warren Bennis

Teach and Learn

3. “Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.” – John Fitzgerald Kennedy

It takes a good leader to know what they don’t know. Learning is a constant process throughout your professional life, and it doesn’t stop when you’ve become a team leader. As a leader do not jettison any opportunity to improve. Make sure to never stop looking for opportunities for professional development, and pass on the wisdom you’ve learned to your people.

4. “A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.” – Henry Adams

Boldness

5. “You don’t lead by pointing and telling people some place to go. You lead by going to that place and making a case.” – Ken Kesey

Good leaders aren’t afraid to travel down the untraveled road. It gives your team the boldness to succeed and tears away fear from their path. The saying and the difference between a team of goat led by a lion and a team of lion led by a goat. To be a good leader, you sometimes need to go down the untraveled path. Being bold in the face of uncertainty will help give your team courage and motivate them to keep striving when the going gets tough.

6. “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

7. “A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd.” – Max Lucado

Humility

8. “Outstanding leaders go out of their way to boost the self-esteem of their personnel. If people believe in themselves, it’s amazing what they can accomplish.” – Sam Walton

It’s just the way it works. If learning is an important part of leadership, then it follows humility is an essential attribute as well. After all, you can’t learn new things if you cannot admit you’re a work in progress. Be open to recognizing your own faults, so you can grow as both a leader and a human being.

9. “No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself, or to get all the credit for doing it.” – Andrew Carnegie