However you celebrate Valentine’s Day, remember to carry the meaning and feeling behind it with you all year long. This to me means being a servant leader and prioritizing others. ItIt also means being compassionate, empathic, and active listener every day.
Here are 10 of my favourite Leadership quotes to help inspire, motivate and hopefully help you feel the spirit of Valentine’s Day all year long!
Your actions can inspire others to dream bigger, learn more, accomplish more, and be more. You are a leader if you do this. John Quincy Adams
Leadership is not about bringing out the best in people. It is about eliciting it. John Buchan
Leadership is the combination of strategy and character. If you cannot have one, don’t worry about the strategy. ~Norman Schwarzkopf
Leadership comes from integrity. It is the ability to give your best and do what others ask. There are other ways to lead, I believe. It is possible to set an example by being a good parent, friend, neighbor and other people. Leadership doesn’t have to be dramatic with trumpets blasting and fists in the air. ~Scott Berkun
If you do not know how to be a leader, then you cannot ask others to follow your lead. Sam Rayburn
Leadership isn’t magnetic personality. That can as well be a glib mouth. It is not “making friends and influencing people”, that is flattery. Leadership is lifting a person’s vision to higher sights, the raising of a person’s performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations. Peter F. Drucker
Leadership isn’t so much about methods and techniques as it is about opening your heart. Leadership is about inspiration—of oneself and of others. Leadership is about experiences and not about processes. Leadership is not a strategy or a plan. It’s a human activity that comes out of the heart and takes into consideration the needs of others. ItThis is an attitude, not routine. Lance Secretan
Success is about learning how to grow yourself before you can be a leader. To be a leader is to grow others. Jack Welch
Leadership is about producing more leaders and not more followers. Ralph Nader
Leadership is not just about words, but attitude and actions. Harold S. Geneen
Which of your favourite quotes would you add to this list, and why?
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