The 37 most inspiring leadership quotes I know

The 37 most inspiring leadership quotes I know The 37 most inspiring leadership quotes I know No one can deny the power of a good quote. They motivate and inspire us to be our best.Here are 37 of my absolute favorites:1. “I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the water to create many ripples.” -  Mother Teresa2. “I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.” - Maya Angelou3. “Whether you think you can or you think you can’t, you’re right.” -  Henry Ford4. “Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence.“ -  Vince Lombardi5. “Life is 10 percent what happens to me and 90 percent of how I react to it. - Charles Swindoll6. “If you look at what you have in life, you’ll always have more. If you look at what you don’t have in life, you’ll never have enough.” - Oprah Winfrey7. “Remember no one can make you feel inferior without your consent.” - Eleanor Roosevelt8. “I can’t change the di rection of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.” - Jimmy Dean9. “Nothing is impossible, the word itself says ‘I’m possible’!” - Audrey Hepburn10. “To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart.” - Eleanor Roosevelt11. “Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.” - Les Brown12. “Do or do not. There is no try.” - Yoda13. “Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.” - Napoleon Hill14. “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do, so throw off the bowlines, sail away from safe harbor, catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” - Mark Twain15. “I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. Twenty-six times I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my lif e. And that is why I succeed.” - Michael Jordan16. “Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.” - Albert Einstein17. “I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.” - Stephen Covey18. “When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.” - Henry Ford19. “The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.” - Alice Walker20. “The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity.” - Amelia Earhart21. “It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.” - Aristotle Onassis22. “Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.” - Robert Louis Stevenson23. “The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me.” - Ayn Rand24. “If you hear a voice within you say, ‘You cannot paint,’ then by all means paint and that voice will be silenced.” - Vincent Van Gogh25. “Build your own dreams, or someone else will hire you to build theirs.” - Farrah Gray26. “Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.” - Dalai Lama27. “A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.” - Albert Einstein28. “What’s money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.” - Bob Dylan29. “I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.” - Leonardo da Vinci30. “When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.” - Helen Keller31. “When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down â €˜happy.’ They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life.” - John Lennon32. “The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson33. “Everything you’ve ever wanted is on the other side of fear.” - George Addair34. “We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.” - Plato35. “Nothing will work unless you do.” - Maya Angelou36. “Believe you can and you’re halfway there.” - Theodore Roosevelt37. “What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.” - PlutarchThis article first appeared on LinkedIn.