Leadership & Influence

Category Leadership

Here are some quotes related to leadership along with their authors:

“Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others.” – Jack Welch

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

“The greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things. He is the one that gets the people to do the greatest things.” – Ronald Reagan

“A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.” – John C. Maxwell

“Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.” – Peter Drucker

“A true leader has the confidence to stand alone, the courage to make tough decisions, and the compassion to listen to the needs of others.” – Douglas MacArthur

“A boss has the title, the leader has the people.” – Simon Sinek

“If you think you are leading and turn around to see no one following you, then you are just taking a walk.” – John C. Maxwell

“Leadership is an action, not a position.” – Donald McGannon

“Leadership is influence.” – John C. Maxwell

“Leadership is unlocking people’s potential to become better.” – Bill Bradley

“A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don’t necessarily want to go, but ought to be.” – Rosalynn Carter

“You manage things; you lead people.” – Grace Murray Hopper

“The role of leadership is to transform the complex situation into small pieces and prioritize them.” – Carlos Ghosn

“Becoming a leader is synonymous with becoming yourself. It is precisely that simple and it is also that difficult.” – Warren G. Bennis

“Leadership is not about titles, positions, or flowcharts. It is about one life influencing another.” – John C. Maxwell

“The task of the leader is to get their people from where they are to where they have not been.” – Henry Kissinger

“Real leadership is leaders recognizing that they serve the people that they lead.” – Pete Hoekstra

“A leader is one who sees more than others see, who sees farther than others see, and who sees before others see.” – Leroy Eimes

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

“A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.” – Lao Tzu

“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, concerned citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.” – Margaret Mead

“The ability to learn is the most important quality a leader can have.” – Padmasree Warrior

“It’s okay to admit what you don’t know. It’s okay to ask for help. And it’s more than okay to listen to the people you lead – in fact, it’s essential.” – Mary Barra

“A leader is a dealer in hope.” – Napoleon Bonaparte

“You don’t need a title to be a leader.” – Unknown

“Leadership is about making others better as a result of your presence, and making sure that impact lasts in your absence.” – Sheryl Sandberg

“Leadership should be more participative than directive, more enabling than performing.” – Mary D. Poole

“My own definition of leadership is this: the capacity and the will to rally men and women to a common purpose and the character which inspires confidence.” – General Montgomery

“Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

“There are three essentials to leadership: humility, clarity and courage.” – Chan Master Fuchan Yuan

Category Influence

Here are some quotes related to influence along with their authors:

“A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.” – Henry Adams
“Never underestimate the power of dreams and the influence of the human spirit. We are all the same in this notion: The potential for greatness lives within each of us.” – Wilma Rudolph
“Leadership is not about a title or a designation. It’s about impact, influence and inspiration. Impact involves getting results, influence is about spreading the passion you have for your work, and you have to inspire team-mates and customers.” – Robin S. Sharma
“My Father had a profound influence on me. He was a lunatic.” – Spike Milligan¹
“Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.” – Robert Louis Stevenson¹
“Every soldier must know, before he goes into battle, how the little battle he is to fight fits into the larger picture, and how the success of his fighting will influence the battle as a whole.” – Bernard Law Montgomery
“To listen well is as powerful a means of communication and influence as to talk well.” – John Marshall
“What I dream of is an art of balance, of purity and serenity devoid of troubling or depressing subject matter – a soothing, calming influence on the mind, rather like a good armchair which provides relaxation from physical fatigue.” – Henri Matisse¹
“Parents are the ultimate role models for children. Every word, movement and action has an effect. No other person or outside force has a greater influence on a child than the parent.” – Bob Keeshan
“The way you think, the way you behave, the way you eat, can influence your life by 30 to 50 years.” – Deepak Chopra
“A return to first principles in a republic is sometimes caused by the simple virtues of one man. His good example has such an influence that the good men strive to imitate him, and the wicked are ashamed to lead a life so contrary to his example.” – Niccolo Machiavelli
“The influence of teachers extends beyond the classroom, well into the future. It is they who shape and enrich the minds of the young, who touch their hearts and souls. It is they who shape a nation’s future.” – F. Sionil Jose
“The only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our particular path than we have yet got ourselves.” – E. M. Forster
“Guilt is just as powerful, but its influence is positive, while shame’s is destructive. Shame erodes our courage and fuels disengagement.” – Brene Brown
“You cannot antagonize and influence at the same time.” – John Knox
“The greatest ability in business is to get along with others and to influence their actions.” – John Hancock
“Attitude is greatly shaped by influence and association.” – Jim Rohn
“You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with.” – Jim Rohn
“What we say has such a profound influence upon what we see, and hear, and taste of the world!” – David Abram
“Listening, not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery. . . . If you want to influence someone, listen to what he says. . . . When he finishes talking, ask him about any points that you do not understand.” – Joyce Brothers
“A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.” – Jackie Robinson
“He who influences the thought of his times influences the times that follow.” – Elbert Hubbard
“If you think you’re too small to have an impact, try going to bed with a mosquito.” – Anita Roddick
“The most powerful moral influence is example.” – Huston Smith
“Your mind is programmable – if you’re not programming your mind, someone else will program it for you.” – Jeremy Hammond
“You don’t have to be a ‘person of influence’ to be influential. In fact, the most influential people in my life are probably not even aware of the things they’ve taught me.” – Scott Adams
“Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.” – Napoleon Hill
“We need a variety of input and influence and voices. You cannot get all the answers to life and business from one person or from one source.” – Jim Rohn
“Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.” – George Eliot