Top 30 Inspirational Leadership Quotes of All Time

Everyone loves a good quote. Quotes motivate and inspire us to be our best.

Here are 30 of my favorites that keep me inspired:

1. "When you want to succeed as bad as you want to breathe, then you’ll be successful." -Eric Thomas

2. "If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door." -Milton Berle

3. "Nothing will work unless you do." -Maya Angelou

4. "Always wake up with a smile knowing that today you are going to have fun accomplishing what others are too afraid to do." -Mark Cuban

5. "Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value." -Albert Einstein

 6. "Build your own dreams, or someone else will hire you to build theirs." -Farrah Gray

7. "A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new." -Albert Einstein

8. "The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be." -Ralph Waldo Emerson

9. "Don’t let fear be a roadblock." -Mark Cuban

10. "In order to succeed, we must first believe that we can." -Nikos Kazantzakis

11. "A goal without a timeline is just a dream." -Robert Herjavec

12. "Don't cry about money. It never cries for you!" -Kevin O'Leary

13. "When you’ve got 10,000 people trying to do the same thing, why would you want to be number 10,001?" -Mark Cuban

14. "Dear optimist, pessimist, and realist--while you guys were busy arguing about the glass of wine, I drank it! Sincerely, the opportunist!" -Lori Greiner

15. "It's not whether the glass is half empty or half full, it's who is pouring the water. The key in business and success at any endeavor is doing your best to control your destiny. You can't always do it, but you have to take every opportunity you can to be as prepared as--and ahead of--the competition as you possibly can be." -Mark Cuban

16. "Every no gets me closer to a yes" -Mark Cuban

17. "The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing." -Walt Disney

18. "It doesn’t matter how many times you fail. It doesn’t matter how many times you almost get it right. No one is going to know or care about your failures, and neither should you. All you have to do is learn from them and those around you because all that matters in business is that you get it right once. Then everyone can tell you how lucky you are." -Mark Cuban

19. "Work like there is someone working 24 hours a day to take it all away from you." -Mark Cuban 

20. "Whether you think you can or you think you can't, you're right." -Henry Ford

21. "Skills are cheap. Passion is priceless." -Gary Vaynerchuk

22. "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 life. And that is why I succeed." -Michael Jordan

23. "It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop." -Confucius

24. "I hate how many people think, “glass half-empty” when their glass is really four-fifths full. I’m grateful when I have one drop in the glass because I know exactly what to do with it." -Gary Vaynerchuk

25. "People work better when they know what the goal is and why. It is important that people look forward to coming to work in the morning and enjoy working." -Elon Musk

26. "Do not be embarrassed by your failures, learn from them and start again." -Richard Branson

27. "Hard work beats talent when talent doesn’t work hard." -Tim Notke

28. "Every great story on the planet happened when someone decided not to give up, but kept going no matter what." -Spryte Loriano

29. "The people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do." -Rob Siltanen

30. "You got a dream, you gotta protect it. People can’t do something themselves, they wanna tell you, you can’t do it. If you want something, go get it. Period." -Will Smith

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