Katie Quinney | Healthcare Leadership Coach

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15 stunning leadership quotes

Keep your head in the game and remind yourself why you do what you do.


A great leadership quote can sum up how you feel about being a leader, can start a discussion, can inspire, can remind you of why you got into the game on the tough days. They can connect you with those who inspire you, they let the world know what you stand for and they can be guideposts for you and those around you to your purpose and style.


Self-awareness and self-love matter. Who we are is how we lead.

Brené Brown


Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

John F. Kennedy


We need to accept that we don’t always make the right decisions, that we’ll screw up royally sometimes. Understand that failure is not the opposite of success, it’s part of success.

Arianna Huffington


If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.

John Quincy Adams


A leader is a dealer in hope.

Napoleon Bonaparte


Daring leaders work to make sure people can be themselves and feel a sense of belonging.

Brené Brown


Leadership is about making others better as a result of your presence and making sure that impact lasts in your absence.

Sheryl Sandberg


You can tell a bully from a leader by how they treat people who disagree with them.

Miles K Davis


Leaders must either invest a reasonable amount of time attending to fears and feelings or squander an unreasonable amount of time trying to manage ineffective and unproductive behaviour.

Brené Brown


We think leadership is about rank and power, but better to think of leadership as the responsibility for other human beings. That leadership and rank may not go together. So it manifests in this remarkable way.

Simon Sinek


Find people who will make you better.

Michelle Obama