25 Quotes from "Trust and Inspire"

 

"Truly great leaders can create the conditions to awaken the potential within a person." - Stephen M. R. Covey 

Note: Please feel free to use the quote graphics below by right-clicking the image and saving or copying it. These quotes are taken from Stephen M.R. Covey's book, "Trust and Inspire: How Truly Great Leaders Inspire Greatness in Others," which I strongly commend to you. These quotes spoke to me as I read them in the book. I share them with you to pass along the moments of reflection and resonance I felt and found.

"How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world." - Anne Frank

"When you are inspired by some great purpose, some extraordinary project, all your thoughts break their bounds. Your mind transcends limitations, your consciousness expands in every direction, and you find yourself in a new, great, and wonderful world." - The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali

"Always assume positive intent. Whatever anybody says or does, assume positive intent. You will be amazed at how your whole approach to a person or problem becomes very different." - Stephen M. R. Covey

"We take risks knowing that risks will sometimes result in failure, but without the possibility of failure, there is no possibility of success." - Tim Cook

"People follow leaders by choice. Without trust, at best you get compliance." - Jesse Lyn Stoner

"I bring you the gift of these four words, 'I believe in you.'" - Blaise Pascal

"Treat people as they are, and they will remain as they are. Treat them as they can and should be, and they will become as they can and should be." - Goethe

"Keep competition on the outside, collaboration inside." - Stephanie French

"The way you achieve your own success is being willing

\ to help somebody else get it first." - Iyanla Vanzant

"As a leader, it's not about you. As a leader, it's about the people to whom you are in some way responsible... And that's what stewardship comes down to." - John Taft

"We cannot teach that which we are not any more than we can return from a place that we haven't been." - Stephen M.R. Covey

"Vulnerability is not weakness; it's our greatest measure of courage." - Brene Brown

"One of the things I learned when I was negotiating was that until I changed myself, I could not change others." - Nelson Mandela

"For there is always light, if only we're brave enough to see it. If only we're brave enough to be it." - Amanda Gorman

"I prefer to give my trust a hundred times and risk being disappointed two or three times than to live perpetually in an atmosphere of distrust." - Carl Freudenberg

"Truly great leaders can create the conditions to awaken the potential within a person." - Stephen M. R. Covey

"Everyone has the power for greatness - not for fame, but greatness, because greatness is determined by service." - Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

"A good leader inspires people to have confidence in the leader; a great leader inspires people to have confidence in themselves." - Eleanor Roosevelt

"May you live long enough to know why you were born." - Cherokee Birth Blessing

"We are all called. If you're here breathing, you have a contribution to make to our human community." - Oprah Winfrey

"The real work of your life is to figure out your function, your part of the whole - as soon as possible, and then get about the business of fulfilling it as only you can." - Oprah Winfrey

"When we inspire other people, we breathe new life, purpose, and passion into them and us." - Stephen M.R. Covey

"The difference between what we are doing and what we're capable of doing would solve most of the world's problems." - Mahatma Gandhi

"Being a leader is a privilege you have. Your job is about being able to help people realize their best potential. That's what, in fact, is expected from you." - Satya Nadella

"There are only two ways to influence human behavior. You can manipulate it or you can inspire it." - Siman Sinek 

The DayStarter Quotes that I share have inspired me and resonated with me. I share them with the hopes that they will also add value to others.