Foreword

Throughout the years, individuals have been modeling as well as looking to Inspirational Leaders as a resource of inspiration for accomplishing objectives on their own. Inspiring quotes from fantastic leaders have since become to be day-to-day brain food for people wishing to develop better lives for themselves.

These Inspiration Words take care of motivational quotes from worldwide, from anonymous people to the fantastic leaders and thinkers of our culture.
Inspirational quotes are an excellent source of ideas for people looking for individual development as well as self-improvement. 

“A general is just as good or just as bad as the troops under his command make him.”
General Douglas MacArthur

“A leader is a dealer in hope.”
Napoleon Bonaparte

“Rely on your own strength of body and soul. Take for your star self-reliance, faith, honesty, and industry. Don’t take too much advice, keep at the helm and steer your own ship, and remember that the great art of commanding is to take a fair share of the work.
Fire above the mark you intend to hit. Energy, invincible determination with the right motive, are the levers that move the world.”
Noah Porter

“If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more, and become more, you are a leader.”
John Quincy Adams

“He who has never learned to obey cannot be a good commander.”
Aristotle

“The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.”
Martin Luther King, Jr.

“Where there is no vision, the people perish.”
Proverbs 29:18

“Misfortunes, untoward events, lay open, disclose the skill of a general, while success conceals his weakness, his weak points.”
Horace

“To be a great leader and so always master of the situation, one must of necessity have been a great thinker in action. An eagle was never yet hatched from a  goose’s egg.”
James Thomas

“No man can stand on top because he is put there.”
H. H. Vreeland

“A ruler should be slow to punish and swift to reward.”
Ovid

“It is impossible to imagine anything which better becomes a ruler than mercy.”
Seneca

“No man is good enough to govern another man without that other’s consent.”
Abraham Lincoln

“What you cannot enforce, do not command.”
Sophocles

“No general can fight his battles alone. He must depend upon his lieutenants and his success depends upon his ability to select the right man for the right place.”
Philip Armour

“To do great things is difficult, but to command great things is more difficult.”
Friedrich Nietzsche

“It is absurd that a man should rule others, who cannot rule himself. (Absurdum est ut alios regat, qui seipsum regere nescit.)”
Latin Proverb

“Let him who would be moved to convince others, be first moved to convince himself.”
Thomas Carlyle

“Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.”
Edmund Burke

“You can’t do anything about the length of your life, but you can do something about its width and depth.”
Shira Tehrani

“Well done is better than well said.”
Benjamin Franklin

“If the world seems cold to you, kindle fires to warm it.”
Lucy Larcom

“Quotations help us remember the simple yet profound truths that give life perspective and meaning. When it comes to life’s most important lessons, we can all use gentle reminders.”
Chriswell Freeman

“Quotation is the highest compliment you can pay to an author.”
Samuel Johnson

“I quote others only to better express myself.”
Michel Montaigne

“A book of quotations can never be complete.”
Robert M. Hamilton

“I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation. “
George Bernard Shaw

“Never look down on anybody unless you’re helping him up.”
Jesse Jackson

“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson

“A bird doesn’t sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.”
Maya Angelou

“There is no use trying, said Alice; one can’t believe impossible things. I dare say you haven’t had much practice, said the Queen. When I was your age, I always did it for half an hour a day. Why sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.”
Lewis Carroll

“The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.”
George Bernard Shaw

“The journey is the reward.”
Chinese Proverb

“People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.”
Elizabeth Kubler Ross

“If you can’t make a mistake, you can’t make anything.”
Marva Collins

“What the world really needs is more love and less paperwork.”
Pearl Bailey

“When I was young, I used to admire intelligent people; as I grow older, I admire kind people.”
Abraham Joshua Heschel

“The easiest way to avoid wrong notes is to never open your mouth and sing. What a mistake that would be.”
Pete Seeger

“It is surmounting difficulties that make heroes.”
Lajos Kossuth

“Thoughts lead on to purposes; purposes go forth in action; actions form habits; habits decide character, and character fixes our destiny.”
Tyron Edwards

“Minds are like parachutes – they only function when open.”
Thomas Dewar

“Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson

“I learned that it is weak who are cruel, and that gentleness is to be expected only from the strong.”
Leo Rosten

“Quality is remembered long after the price is forgotten.”
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“You will never find time for anything. If you want the time, you must make it.”
Charles Buxton

“By associating with wise people you will become wise yourself.”
Menander

“The seat of knowledge is in the head, of wisdom, in the heart.”
William Hazlitt

“Of all parts of wisdom, the practice is the best.”
John Tillotson

“The more a man knows, the more he forgives.”
Catherine the Great

“A loving heart is the truest wisdom.”
Charles Dickens

“One who understands much displays a greater simplicity of character than one who understands little.”
Alexander Chase

“How prone to doubt, how cautious are the wise!”
Homer

“On every thorn, delightful wisdom grows, In every rill, a sweet instruction flows.”
Edward Young

“The man of wisdom is never of two minds;
the man of benevolence never worries;
the man of courage is never afraid.”
Confucius

“Happiness does not consist in pastimes and amusements but in virtuous activities.”
Aristotle

“Happiness resides not in possessions and not in gold; the feeling of happiness dwells in the soul.”
Democritus

“People with many interests live, not only longest but happiest.”
George Matthew Allen

“In the hopes of reaching the moon men fail to see the flowers that blossom at their feet.”
Albert Schweitzer

“Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of other activities.”
Aldous Huxley

“There is only one person who could ever make you happy, and that person is you.”
David Burns

“Happiness consists of activity: such is the constitution of our nature; it is a running stream and not a stagnant pool.”
John M. Good

“Who is the happiest of men? He who values the merits of others, and in their pleasure takes joy, even as though ‘were his own.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Happiness is not a matter of events, it depends upon the tides of the mind.”
Alice Meynell

“There is only one way to happiness, and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.”
Epictetus

“I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than attempting to satisfy them.”
John Stuart Mills

“You’re happiest while you’re making the greatest contribution.”
Robert F. Kennedy

“Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.”
Benjamin Disraeli

“Great effort from great motives is the best definition of a happy life.”
William Ellery Channing

“There is more to life than increasing its speed.”
Mahatma Ghandi

“The rays of happiness, like those of light, are colorless when unbroken.”
Henry W. Longfellow

“Happiness grows at our own firesides and is not to be picked in strangers’ gardens.”
Douglas Jerrold

“Happiness is where we find it, but rarely where we seek it.”
J. Petit Senn

“Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“The happiest life is that which constantly exercises and educates what is best in us.”
Hamerton

“We only become what we are by the radical and deep-seated refusal of that which others have made of us.”
Jean-Paul Sartre

“Change and growth take place when a person has risked himself and dares to become involved with experimenting with his own life.”
Herbert Otto

“Heed the still small voice that so seldom leads us wrong, and never into folly.”
Marquise du Deffand

“Your real influence is measured by your treatment of yourself.”
A. Bronson Alcott

“nergy and persistence conquer all things.”
Benjamin Franklin

“If we all did the things we are capable of, we would astound ourselves.”
Thomas Edison

“A man who finds no satisfaction in himself will seek for it in vain elsewhere.”
La Rochefoucauld

“A good deed is never lost: he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love.”
Basil

“A man’s own good breeding is the best security against other people’s ill manners.”
Lord Chesterfield

“The secret of many a man’s success in the world resides in his insight into the moods of men and his tact in dealing with them.”
J. G. Holland

“To rejoice in another’s prosperity is to give content to your own lot: to mitigate another’s grief, is to alleviate or dispel your own.”
Thomas Edwards

“Hear the meaning within the word.”
William Shakespeare

“Charity, good behavior, amiable speech, unselfishness, these by the chief sage have been declared the elements of popularity.”
Burmese Proverb

“Kind words are the music of the world.”
F. W. Faber

“We are far more liable to catch the vices than the virtues of our associates.”
Denis Diderot

“Arguing with a fool proves there are two.”
Doris M. Smith

“Be courteous to all, but intimate with few;
and let those be well-tried before you give them your confidence.”
George Washington

“Look to be treated by others as you have treated others.”
Publius Syrus

I’m curious to hear if there is a quote that has been a source of inspiration for you or that helps you in some way in certain situations, or that you have on your wall… Please write in the comment below what your experiences are with quotes…