The following leadership quotes are the beliefs of many successful leaders, innovators, experts, pioneers and mentors from around the world.

This collection of leadership quotes will help you grow and inspire others around you.

Below are 18 leadership quotes to live by:

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

“People who are truly strong lift others up. People who are truly powerful bring others together.” – Michelle Obama

“Leaders are made, they are not born. They are made by hard effort, which is the price which all of us must pay to achieve any goal that is worthwhile.”– Vince Lombardi

“No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit for doing it.” – Andrew Carnegie

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

“Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others.” – Jack Welch

“Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.” – Martin Luther King

“If you think you can do a thing or think you can’t do a thing, you’re right.” – Henry Ford

“Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it.” – Charles Swindoll

“To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart.” – Eleanor Roosevelt

“‘Good’ is the enemy of ‘Great.'” – Jim Collins

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

“The most basic of all human needs is the need to understand and be understood. The best way to understand people is to listen to them.” – Ralph Nichols

“Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.” – Helen Keller

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

“Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.” – Steve Jobs

“A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd.” – Max Lucado

“It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.” – Charles Darwin

“A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.” – Lao Tzu

“The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.” – William Arthur Ward

“People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.” – Maya Angelou

“Help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better.” – Jim Rohn

“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, concerned citizens can change world. Indeed it is the only thing that ever has.” – Margaret Mead

Which one of the 23 leadership quotes above was your favorite?