8,953 Quotes About Leadership

Energy is contagious. What we give off is what we give back.

When you give freely to others, not only do you increase your likability and aid other people, you almost always get something unintended in return.

When you can’t yet give back directly for help you’ve received, pay it forward. And trust that you may well get your change to directly help the people who have selflessly helped you.

When you are impatient with a relationship, your actions can be read as pushy or needy - not exactly likable qualities. Truly lasting friendships are rarely instantaneous. Give them time and room to grow.

True wellbeing is being satisfied with yourself, not having it all sorted.

We are not freer if we do not commit ourselves. We do not progress without committing ourselves.

To impart a moral responsibility to exercise fairness in leadership builds greater leaders of strong character.

Nihilism, denying the significance of our actions, makes no sense. It is a self-fulfilling prophecy. If we believe that we are not going to make it, we will actually not do anything.

Sullenberger later wrote about [air traffic controller] Harten, "his words let me know that he understood that these hard choices were mine to make, and it wasn't going to help if he tried to dictate a plan to me.