"27 Quotes About Leadership Success"



"Simply making consistent investments in our self-education and knowledge banks pays major dividends throughout our lives."
Jim Rohn --- Submitted by Lauren Covington


"Most people say their main fault is a lack of discipline. On deeper thought, I believe this is not the case. The basic problem is that their priorities have not become deeply planted in their hearts and minds."
Stephen Covey --- Submitted by Lauren Covington


"Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon."
E. M. Forster --- Submitted by Lauren Covington




"There is no shortcut to fame and comfort, and all there is is to bore into it as hard as you can."
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.


"Call the roll in your memory of conspicuously successful (business) giants and, if you know anything about their careers, you will struck by the fact that almost everyone of them encountered enormous difficulties sufficient to crush all but the gamest of spirits before he became famous."
B.C. Forbes


"There was never a great character who did not sometimes smash the routine regulations and make new ones for himself."
Andrew Carnegie


"Always hold your head up, but be careful to keep your nose at a friendly level."
Anonymous --- Submitted by Mary Nyquist --- Sweden
Some people are too proud of themselves without noticing that others can't reach them anymore. We should always keep our feet on the ground and be friendly because we don't know how far can we go and who will be ready to catch us once we fall.


"Break up your big plan into small steps and take the first one right away. Your success is already just around the corner, if you begin to put it into practice."
Author Unknown --- Submitted by Richell Villedo --- Philippines
I wanted to encourage everyone who has difficulty in achieving their big goals or plans to take it slowly and set their priority before pursuing them. I hope they would learn to value the smaller things first before moving into bigger ones.


"How long will you bang against a wall? You may begin to bleed, but the wall will never open up for you. How long will you curse your luck and wait under a mango tree expecting oranges? You may drop dead, but not a single orange will drop from a mango tree. What is, is. What is not, is not. Genius is in knowing what to hold on to and when to let go."
T.T. Rangarajan --- Submitted by Chithambaran TS --- India
T.T. Rangarajan is a great orator. All will Love to listen to him.


"Ambition without direction leads to disappointment."
Copyright © 2010 Raymond C. Nolan
I have seen too many young people become frustrated and quit because their drive lacked direction.


"Don't flow like a wave, which returns back in the same direction after hitting to the rock. Try to become rock, which can change the direction of the wind."
Author Unknown --- Submitted by Saba Hussain --- India


"Good resources, good planning and their best utilization is called opportunity."
Author Unknown --- Submitted by Ankit Agrwal --- India


"Brilliance is allowing the lightness of beauty to surround your thoughts, values and dreams."
Copyright © 2010 Ron Walmsley
Brilliance is not only connected to lightness; brilliance is connecting to life in a very enlightened manner.


"You have to break the shell to get the yoke to make an omelet."
Written in 2010 by Robert Gera --- New Zealand


"Arguing about politics and religion is like talking about circles. No beginning, no end and when you're done, you realize that there was nothing in the middle."
Copyright © 2010 Scott Wilson


"Leadership and success begins on the extra mile. Those among us who craft extraordinary careers and spectacular lives are those who spend most of their time giving their best out on the extra mile. Yes, ordinary people don't, but who ever said you were ordinary?"
Robin Sharma --- Submitted by J.M. Manchanda --- India
It inspires us to make that extra effort that shows the difference between an average and extraordinary performance.


"Do not accept anything because I have said so; but test everything for yourself. It is not in assent or dissent that the goal is to be attained, but in actual and concrete realization."
Swami Vivekananda --- Submitted by G. Thirunacarasu --- Malaysia


"People often think that they're being demotivated by their situations. No, they're just being disconnected from their dreams."
Copyright © 2010 Ikhwan Sopa


"Don't lower your goals to the level of your abilities, instead, raise your abilities to the height of your goals."
Written in 2010 by Lokendra Patel --- India


"If hard work is in your veins, it will not go in vain."
Written in 2010 by Ganesh Jadhav --- India


"Extraordinary people are ordinary people who did everything with extraordinary passion."
T.T. Rangarajan --- Submitted by Chithambaran TS --- India


"The people I've been privileged to watch succeed have an intensity about them. They demand everything from themselves. They show up everyday, in fact every moment, and they are accountable to themselves. Everything they do has a hard statement, and they know when to stop. Very impressive."
Copyright © 2010 Miles Patrick Yohnke


"Good teaching does not come from behind a desk; it comes from behind the heart."
Author Unknown --- Submitted by Emily B. --- California


"Following the Leader. . . Always leaves you behind."
Written in 2010 by Donna Avvento --- Connecticut
Choosing to follow, prohibits progress in growth.


"Some people look into the sun & are blinded; others see for the first time!"
Written in 2009 by M. Goerz --- Washington


"In order to be a Successful Professional: Dream->Plan->Act->Evaluate Yourself."
Written in 2009 by Imtiyaz Hasan --- India


"The concepts of truth, balance, order, law, morality, and justice must be regulated with the stars, seasons, and the actions of all people to keep the order of the universe."
Copyright © 2010 Marita Manalo Domingo