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Quotes About Motivation

The true leader makes each team member twice the person they were before.
~ Leonard Sweet
There are two kinds of leaders: those who are interested in the flock, and those who are interested in the fleece.
~ Evan Esar
There is a powerful driving force inside every human being that once unleashed can make any vision, dream, or desire a reality.
~ Tony Robbins
Leadership means realizing potential-in yourself and in the people you lead.... The leader and followers cocreate their identities and performance.
~ Justin Menkes
Your first and foremost job as a leader is to take charge of your own energy and then help to orchestrate the energy of those around you.
~ Peter F. Drucker
Leadership is the ability to get extraordinary achievement from ordinary people.
~ Brian Tracy
In the realm of ideas everything depends on enthusiasm... in the real world all rests on perseverance.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Good leaders must know how to reward those who succeed and know when to retrain, move, or fire ineffective staff.
~ Colin Powell
Leadership is about going somewhere. If you and your people don't know where you are going, your leadership doesn't matter.
~ Ken Blanchard
A good leader leads from the front. Don't get stuck in the office. Get out, meet people and listen to their stories.
~ Richard Branson
You serve your people by leading them to excellence. That's leadership.
~ Horst Schulze
I think that my leadership style is to get people to fear staying in place, to fear not changing.
~ Louis V. Gerstner, Jr.
Believing in people before they have proved themselves is the key to motivating people to reach their potential.
~ John C. Maxwell
Make sure you are passionate about the vision.
~ Matthew Carter
If you want to be great and successful, choose people who are great and successful and walk side by side with them.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
There's nothing more demoralizing than a leader who can't clearly articulate why we're doing what we're doing.
~ James Kouzes and Barry Posner
A real leader has the ability to motivate others to their highest level of achievement; then gives them the opportunity and the freedom to grow.
~ Buck Rodgers
The more seriously you take your growth, the more seriously your people will take you.
~ John C. Maxwell
No matter what business you're in, everyone in the organisation needs to know why
~ Frances Hesselbein
Leadership can be thought of as a capacity to define oneself to others in a way that clarifies and expands a vision of the future.
~ Edwin H Friedman
One can lead a nation only by helping it see a bright outlook. A leader is a dealer in hope.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Leaders set high standards. Refuse to tolerate mediocrity or poor performance.
~ Brian Tracy
Leadership implies movement toward something and convictions provide that direction.
~ Don Shula