From time to time, everyone needs some inspiration. Take a moment from your day to learn from 21 of the world’s most noteworthy leaders.

1. Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others. – Jack Welch
2. Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower. – Steve Jobs
3. If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader. – John Quincy Adams
4. A leader does not deserve the name unless he is willing occasionally to stand alone. – Henry A. Kissinger
5. 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
6. A leader is a dealer in hope. – Napoleon Bonaparte
7. The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it. – Theodore Roosevelt
8. Men make history and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better. – Harry S. Truman
9. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help them or concluded that you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership. – Colin Powell
10. The nation will find it very hard to look up to the leaders who are keeping their ears to the ground. – Sir Winston Churchill
11. Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other. – John Fitzgerald Kennedy
12. 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. He does not set out to be a leader, but becomes one by the equality of his actions and the integrity of his intent. – Douglas MacArthur
13. He that cannot obey, cannot command. – Benjamin Franklin
14. Leaders aren’t born, they are made. And they are made just like anything else, through hard work. And that’s the price we’ll have to pay to achieve that goal, or any goal. – Vince Lombardi
15. Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
16. A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd. – Max Lucado
17. Real leadership is being the person others will gladly and confidently follow. – John C. Maxwell
18. 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
19. No man is good enough to govern another man without that other’s consent. – Abraham Lincoln
20. To be a leader, you have to make people want to follow you, and nobody wants to follow someone who doesn’t know where he is going. – Joe Namath
21. It is better to lead from behind and to put others in front, especially when you celebrate victory when nice things occur. You take the front line when there is danger. Then people will appreciate your leadership. ­– Nelson Mandela

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