Leaders, Leadership, Success and Achievement: Inspirational quotes to refresh the spirit and boost the emotional bank account

"The art of leadership is saying no, not yes. It is very easy to say yes." ~ Tony Blair "A leader is someone who creates infectious enthusiasm"- Ted Turner “Leaders aren't born, they are made. And they are made just like anything else, through hard work”- Vince Lombardi "If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader"- John Quincy Adams “The leader has a clear idea of what he wants to do professionally and personally, and the strength to persist in the face of setbacks, even failures”- Warren G. Bennis “A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way”- John C. Maxwell “If you want to lead, first learn how to follow”- Rick Beneteau “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 “Managers help people see themselves as they are; Leaders help people to see themselves better than they are”- Jim Rohn "Leadership is action, not position"- Donald H. McGannon "Leadership is no longer about your position. It's now more about your passion for excellence and making a difference. You can lead without a title"- Robin Sharma "Leadership is based on a spiritual quality; the power to inspire, the power to inspire others to follow"-Vince Lombardi "In the past a leader was a boss. Today's leaders must be partners with their people, they no longer can lead solely based on positional power"- Ken Blanchard "The ear of the leader must ring with the voices of the people"-Woodrow Wilson "Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall"- Stephen R. Covey “Honesty is the cornerstone of all success, without which confidence and ability to perform cease to exist”- Mary Kay Ash “It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed”- Napoleon Hill (1883-1970) “Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must fervently believe, and upon which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success”- Pablo Picasso “Nature gave us two ends: one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then, man's success or failure has been dependent on the one he used most”- Robert Albert Bloch “The secret of success is consistency of purpose”- Benjamin Disraeli “Talent is a dreadfully cheap commodity, cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work and study”- Stephen King “The path to success is to take massive, determined action”- Anthony Robbins “Focus on the possibilities for success, not on the potential for failure”- Napoleon Hill (1883-1970) “Desire is the starting point of all achievement”- Napoleon Hill “All successful men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose”-Brian Tracy “There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure”- Paulo Coelho “Success is neither magical or mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals”- Jim Rohn “Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed “- Booker T. Washington “Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success”- Napoleon Hill (1883-1970) “There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work and learning from failure”- Colin L. Powell “Success is not measured by what a person accomplishes, but by the opposition they have encountered, and by the courage with which they have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds”- Charles Lindberg “Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have”- Zig Ziglar “Success has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It's what you do for others”- Danny Thomas “You are a success when you have made friends with your past, are focused on the present, and are optimistic about your future”- Zig Ziglar “Striving for success without hard work is like trying to harvest where you haven't planted”-David Bly “The dictionary is the only place where success comes before work”- Arthur Brisbane “To succeed you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you”- Tony Dorsett “The secret of success is constancy to purpose”- Benjamin Franklin “Success is connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit”- Conrad Hilton  “You never achieve real success unless you like what you are doing”- Dale Carnegie “The person with the most flexibility has the best chance of achieving the outcome he or she desires”- Tony Jeary “Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction”- John F. Kennedy “What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals”- Zig Ziglar “If you wait until all the lights are 'green' before you leave home, you'll never get started on your trip to the top”- Zig Ziglar “The starting point of all achievement is desire. Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desires bring weak results, just as a small amount of fire makes a small amount of heat”- Napoleon Hill “Achievement requires more than a vision - it takes courage, resolve and tenacity. All you have got to do is plant that seed in your mind, care for it, work steadily toward your goal, and it will become a reality”- Earl Nightingale “You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose”- Theodor Seuss Geisel (1904–1991) - American writer and illustrator “An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory”- Freidrich Engels “It is not enough to be busy, so are the ants. The question is - What are we busy about?”- Henry David Thoreau “When you focus on what's wrong, you get more of what's wrong. Conversely, when you focus on what's right, you get more of what's right”- Gina Mollicone-Long “The starting point of all achievement is desire. Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desires bring weak results, just as a small fire makes a small amount of heat”- Napoleon Hill (1883-1970) “Create a definite plan for carrying out your desire, and begin at once, whether you're ready or not, to put it into action”- Napoleon Hill (1883-1970) “You can never cross the ocean unless you have the courage to lose sight of the shore”-Christopher Columbus “No man or woman is an island. To exist just for yourself is meaningless. You can achieve the most satisfaction when you feel related to some greater purpose in life, something greater than yourself”- Denis Waitley “Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing flawlessly”- Dr. Robert Schuller “Achievers rarely, if ever, see a problem as permanent, while those who fail see even the smallest problems as permanent”- Tony Robbins “We are built to conquer environment, solve problems, achieve goals, and we find no real satisfaction or happiness in life without obstacles to conquer and goals to achieve”- Maxwell Maltz “Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning”- Benjamin Franklin “Goals are like stepping-stones to the stars. They should never be used to put a ceiling or a limit on achievement”- Denis Waitley “Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence”- Helen Keller “A wish is a desire without energy”- Paramanhansa Yogananda “You accomplish victory step by step, not by leaps and bounds”- Lyn St. James “Obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it”- Michael Jordan “All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers”- Orison Swett Marden “Lots of people limit their possibilities by giving up easily. Never tell yourself this is too much for me. It's no use. I can't go on. If you do you're licked, and by your own thinking too. Keep believing and keep on keeping on”- Norman Vincent Peale “Champions are propelled by desire, not compelled by fear”- Denis Waitley “Start by doing what is necessary, then do what is possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible”- St. Francis of Assisi “A decision is made with the brain. A commitment is made with the heart. Therefore, a commitment is much deeper and more binding than a decision”- Nido Qubein “To show your true ability is always, in a sense, to surpass the limits of your ability, to go a little beyond them: to dare, to seek, to invent; it is at such a moment that new talents are revealed, discovered, and realized”- Simone de Beauvoir “Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence”- Helen Keller “Only one thing is ever guaranteed, that is that you will definitely not achieve the goal if you don't take the shot”- Wayne Gretzky “What the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve”- Napoleon Hill “It is time for us all to stand and cheer for the doer, the achiever - the one who recognizes the challenges and does something about it”- Vince Lombardi “Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved”- Jeremy Kitson “To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe”- Anatole France “If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change”- Wayne Dyer "Desire is the key to motivation, but it’s the determination and commitment to an unrelenting pursuit of your goal – a commitment to excellence – that will enable you to attain the success you seek"- Mario Andretti "The starting point of all achievement is desire. Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desires bring weak results, just as a small amount of fire makes a small amount of heat"- Napoleon Hill (1883-1970) "Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything "- Napoleon Hill "Create a definite plan for carrying out your desire, and begin at once, whether you're ready or not, to put it into action"- Napoleon Hill (1883-1970) "If you wait until all the lights are 'green' before you leave home, you'll never get started on your trip to the top"-Zig Ziglar "Achievement requires more than a vision - it takes courage, resolve and tenacity. All you have got to do is plant that seed in your mind, care for it, work steadily toward your goal, and it will become a reality"- Earl Nightingale "You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose"-Theodor Seuss Geisel (1904–1991) - American writer and illustrator "Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence"- Helen Keller See more “If I have the belief that I can do it, I will surely acquire the capacity to do it, even if I may not have it at the beginning”- Mahatma Gandhi "The person with the most flexibility has the best chance of achieving the outcome he or she desires"-Tony Jeary "Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction"- John F. Kennedy "Winners don't do different things, They do things differently"-Shiv Khera “When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.” – Alexander Graham Bell "An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory"- Freidrich Engels "It is not enough to be busy, so are the ants. The question is - What are we busy about?"- Henry David Thoreau "Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning"- Benjamin Franklin "Each of us was born with wings and has the ability to go farther than we ever thought possible, to do things beyond our wildest imaginings"- Barbara Stanny "To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe"- Anatole France