Quotes About Motivation

No person can be a great leader unless he takes genuine joy in the successes of those under him.

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

Leadership: The skill of influencing people to work enthusiastically toward goals identified as being for the common good.

My philosophy of leadership is to surround myself with good people who have ability, judgment and knowledge, but above all, a passion for service.

Leadership is the activity of influencing people to cooperate towards some goal which they come to find desirable and which motivates them over the long haul.

If you treat staff as your equal, they'll roll their sleeves up to get the job done.

Lead by inspiration, not intimidation.

Leadership is about persuasion, presentation and people skills.

Empowerment is what managers do to people. Engagement is what managers do with people.

If becoming a high performing organization is the destination, leadership is the engine.

A leader without the vision, to strive to improve things, is no good. Then you will just stay put, you won't progress.

A leader is not an administrator who loves to run others, but someone who carries water for his people so that they can get on with their jobs.

The only way to lead people is to show them a future: a leader is a dealer in hope.

Inventories can be managed, but people must be led.

Enthusiasm is caught, not taught.

People don't mind being challenged to do better if they know the request is coming from a caring heart

Leaders need to be optimists. Their vision is beyond the present.

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.

Great leaders are not defined by the absence of weakness, but rather by the presence of clear strengths.

No company, small or large, can win over the long run without energized employees who believe in the mission and understand how to achieve it.

The manager asks how and when; the leader asks what and why.

The rewards system is a powerful driver of behavior and therefore culture.

Leadership is liberating people to do what is required of them in the most effective and humane way possible.

I'll never give up on a player regardless of his ability as long as he never gives up on himself. In time he will develop.