Quotes about Empowering Others

The highest calling of leadership is to unlock the potential of others.

Leadership is not just about giving energy ... it's unleashing other people's energy.

Leadership is building a bridge that connects the vision with the purpose, in order to empower those who are around us.

A leader is someone who helps improve the lives of other people or improve the system they live under.

Leadership is providing inspiration and vision, then developing and empowering others to achieve this vision.

Good leaders don't tell people what to do, they give teams capability and inspiration.

A successful person finds the right place for himself. But a successful leader finds the right place for others. By John Maxwell

The job of the leader is to speak to the possibility.

Every single person has leadership ability. Some step up and take them. Some don't. My answer was to step up and lead.

Great leaders encourage leadership development. By openly developing themselves

Serving others breaks you free from the shackles of self and self-absorption that choke out the joy of living.

Surround yourself with the best people and then get out of their way. Give them a chance to exceed your expectations and they usually will.

Leadership means realizing potential-in yourself and in the people you lead.... The leader and followers cocreate their identities and performance.

True #leadership isn't the bastion of a few who sit at the top ... We all need to step up, take the risk and put our interests second-not always-but when it counts.

And leadership then is about mobilizing and engaging the people with the problem rather than trying to anesthetize them so you can go off and solve it on your own.

True greatness, true leadership, is achieved not by reducing men to one's service but in giving oneself in selfless service to them.

Leadership is about creating new realities.

Leadership is not something that is done to people, like fixing your teeth. Leadership is unlocking people's potential to become better.

We accomplish all that we do through delegation - either to time or to other people.

To lead people, walk behind them.

Next to doing a good job yourself, the greatest joy is having someone else do a first class job under your direction.

If you're a leader, people's lives should be better because of the influence you've had along the way.

Act so as to encourage the best in others, and by so doing you will develop the best in yourself.

Leadership does not mean being bossy, always telling others what to do. No, leadership means going ahead, not putting others in the front. Good leaders lead by example, not by decree.