Transformational Leadership Quotes

I have written a new book called 'The Golden Motorcycle Gang.' The premise of the book is taken from actual events in my life. My life has been dedicated to inspiring and motivating others to live their highest vision of their ideal life and offering transformational trainings that help people succeed in all aspects of their lives.

Don't manage - lead change before you have to.

Great leadership is by definition relentlessly developmental.

Leadership is about calling people to do things beyond themselves.

There is an inexorable correlation between leadership and change.

The only definition of a leader is someone who has followers.

I think a lot of people, when the word leadership is used, they think of it as quite forceful and quite a rigid thing. I think people think I am like that. But people can lead in different ways.

Leadership is the willingness to put oneself at risk…. Leadership is seeing the possibilities in a situation while others are seeing the limitations…. Leadership is evoking in others the capacity to dream.

Leadership produces change. That is its primary function

Leadership is lifting a person's vision to high sights, the raising of a person's performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations.

Great leaders communicate a vision that captures the imagination and fires the hearts and minds of those around them.

In order for a president to be transformational, the old order has to fall as the orthodoxies that kept it in power exhaust themselves.

A leader who confines his role to his people's experience dooms himself to stagnation; a leader who outstrips his people's experience runs the risk of not being understood.

I don't subscribe to, 'Here are the top ten tips to successful leadership,' or, 'How to learn leadership in ten minutes.' A leader is someone who gives positive energy to others which then results in a better change than would have happened. I think everyone is a leader.

The best leaders are following Christ. That's the best leader you can follow.

We live in a world that is crying out for better leadership.

I want to lead people toward finding hope through the purity and healing power of metal.

This perception that a good captain is someone who beats his chest and roars like a lion and gives big Churchillian speeches, that's just not what leadership is about for me.

Transformation al leaders don't start by denying the world around them. Instead, they describe a future they'd like to create instead.

If leadership is something that is in-your-face, then that is a different type of leadership.

Leadership is a choice. It's not a rank, it's a choice. I know many people who are at the top of their organization who have authority. We have to do what they say because they have authority over us. But they're not leaders. We wouldn't follow them. They may be at the top of the company but they're not leaders.

Leadership, on the other hand, is about creating change you believe in.

Americans don't want leadership. They want alchemy.

To be a leader you must be able to create positive change.

I strongly believe that at this point in America's history, we need a president that will not just continue, even with a new face and with some changes and with some maverick aspects, who will not just continue, basically, the policies we have been following in recent years. I think we need a transformational figure. I think we need a president who is a generational change.