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93 Leadership & Business Coaching Quotes to Inspire Your Clients
93 Leadership & Business Coaching Quotes to Inspire Your Clients

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# 93 Leadership & Business Coaching Quotes to Inspire Your Clients

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Whether you’re an executive or business coach looking to inspire yourself or your clients, quotes are a powerful tool. They are agents of change.

Quotes help achieve change in two meaningful ways. The first is the most obvious: [quotes often provide motivation and inspiration](https://paperbell.com/blog/52-insta-worthy-life-coaching-quotes/). They are like a mental shot of espresso on a rainy Monday morning – invigorating excitement and sparking new-found enthusiasm.

But quotes can also invoke a bit of soul-searching. They can force us to reflect. To think about our own abilities and past situations we’ve been through, as well as to explore possibilities to do better in the future.

After all, the very definition of business coaching is to help your clients find solutions to their problems and reach their goals. Borrowing some wisdom from some of the biggest coaches and entrepreneurs might help them get those goals and solutions.

There are so many great uses for [business coaching](https://paperbell.com/coaching-software-archive/business-coaches/) and leadership quotes, like…

- Doing some personal reflection on them
- Using them as content for your social media posts
- Or quoting great words in your group workshops and one-on-one conversations with clients

But if you want a quote that has impact, any ol’ quote won’t do. You need the best.

So we’ve done the leg work for you and rounded up our favorite quotes about business coaching and [mentoring](https://paperbell.com/blog/coaching-vs-mentoring/ "Coaching VS Mentoring: A Guide for Coaches Who Wear Different Hats"). Because, as we all know, the two go together like glue. Coaching is the secret sauce of great leadership!

In this post, you’ll find 93 quotes in total: the top 33 quotes about the power of business coaching and 60 [inspirational quotes](https://paperbell.com/blog/positive-coaching-quotes/) about leadership.

## The Best Quotes About Business Coaching

Business coaching is a tremendous asset to executives and leadership teams. Great leadership, after all, is usually a learned skill. These 21 business coaching and business mentoring quotes delve into the very definition of this highly valued profession and what it means to an organization in the 21st century.

> Coaching is the universal language of change and learning.
>
> _CNN_

> Does coaching work? Yes. Good coaches provide a truly important service. They tell you the truth when no one else will.
>
> _Jack Welc_ h

> Listening is such a simple act. It requires us to be present, and that takes practice, but we don’t have to do anything else. We don’t have to advise, or coach, or sound wise. We just have to be willing to sit there and listen.
>
> _Margaret J. Wheatley_

> All coaching is, is taking a player where he can’t take himself.
>
> _Bill McCartney_

> When you are in any contest, you should work as if there were – to the very last minute – a chance to lose it. This is battle, this is politics, this is anything.
>
> _Dwight D. Eisenhower_

> Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.
>
> _Steve Jobs_

> The goal of coaching is good management: to make the most of an organization’s valuable resources.
>
> _Harvard Business Review_

> I think it’s very important to have a feedback loop, where you’re constantly thinking about what you’ve done and how you could be doing it better. I think that’s the single best piece of advice: constantly think about how you could be doing things better and questioning yourself.
>
> _Elon Musk_

> I absolutely believe that people, unless coached, never reach their maximum capabilities.
>
> _Bob Nardelli_

> I’ll bet most of the companies that are in life―or―death battles got into that kind of trouble because they didn’t pay enough attention to developing their leaders.
>
> _Wayne Calloway_

> Who, exactly, seeks out a coach? If you ask a coach the answer is usually the same: Winners who want even more out of life.
>
> _Chicago Tribune_

> A coach is someone who tells you what you don’t want to hear, who has to see what you don’t want to see, so you can be who you’ve always known you could be.
>
> _Tom Landry_

> I’m a big believer in crafting your own philosophy in the world based on your experiences and based on how you want the world to work. I don’t believe in blindly accepting ideas or philosophies from generations past.
>
> _Vishen Lakhiani_

> An organization’s ability to learn, and translate that learning into action rapidly, is the ultimate competitive advantage.
>
> _Jack Welch_

> Coaching is unlocking a person’s potential to maximize their own performance. It’s helping them to learn rather than teaching them.
>
> _Tim Gallwey_

> My goal was never to just create a company. A lot of people misinterpret that, as if I don’t care about revenue or profit or any of those things. But what not being just a company means to me is not being just that – building something that actually makes a really big change in the world.
>
> _Mark Zuckerberg_

> The best coaches really care about people. They have a sincere interest in people.
>
> _Byron & Catherine Pulsifer_

> Executives and HR managers know coaching is the most potent tool for inducing positive personal change, ensuring better than average odds of success and making the change stick for  the long term.
>
> _The Ivy Business Journal_

> I never cease to be amazed at the power of the coaching process to draw out the skills or talent that was previously hidden within an individual, and which invariably finds a way to solve a problem previously thought unsolvable.
>
> _John Russell_

> The goal of coaching is the goal of good management: to make the most of an organization’s valuable resources.
>
> _Harvard Business Review_

> To create a high-performance team, we must replace typical management activities like supervising, checking, monitoring, and controlling with new behaviors like coaching and communicating.
>
> _Ray Smith_

> Coaches have to watch for what they don’t want to see and listen to what they don’t want to hear.
>
> _John Madden_

> Your mindset matters. It affects everything – from the business and investment decisions you make, to the way you raise your children, to your stress levels and overall well-being.
>
> _Peter Diamandis_

> Probably my best quality as a coach is I ask a lot of questions and let the person come up with the answers.
>
> _Phil Dixon_

> I believe that wherever there is mastery, coaching is occurring and whenever coaching is done, mastery will be the outcome.
>
> _Andrea J. Lee_

> [Executive coaches](https://paperbell.com/blog/executive-coaching-software/) often are brought in to help a star player navigate a new role or advance faster inside a company. Other businesses, however, hire a coach to fix a manager’s flaws, such as poor interpersonal skills. View an Executive Coach As an Aide, Not an Enemy.
>
> _The Wall Street Journal_

> Coaching is a profession of love. You can’t coach people unless you love them.
>
> _Eddie Robison_

> Even modest improvements can justify hiring a coach. An investment of $30,000 or so in an executive who has responsibility for tens of millions of dollars is a rounding error.
>
> _Jerome Abarbanel_

> When it comes to getting the best out of life – whether in your own life or from your team, there is no doubt that good coaching can play a pivotal role. Getting it right is about learning how to motivate yourself and others in a way that works. It means listening to yourself and others rather than just speaking at them. The good coach knows that they may not have all the answers.
>
> _Steve Gold_

> Everything in coaching hinges on listening because what we are listening for affects where we are speaking from and unfolds how we are being with and for each other.
>
> _Marilyn Atkinson_

> Coaching is about helping clients unlock the treasure-chest of their lives – worth bearing in mind then that diamonds are made from coal under pressure and it’s the grit in the oyster which creates the pearls.
>
> _Sarah Durrant_

## The Top Leadership Quotes

It has been famously said that leadership is earned, but it must also be learned and developed (and that’s where you business coaches come in). The 57 leadership quotes below, highlight that. These quotes also make clear [ethical](https://paperbell.com/blog/ethics-in-coaching/ "Ethics in Coaching: How To Run a Business Without Losing Sleep at Night") leadership is about others, listening to them, fostering trust, and giving them the space to flourish.

> The art of communication is the language of leadership.
>
> _James Humes_

> A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd.
>
> _Max Lucado_

> It is better to lead from behind and to put others in front, especially when you celebrate victory when nice things occur. You take the front line when there is danger. Then people will appreciate your leadership.
>
> _Nelson Mandela_

> Leadership is practiced not so much in words as in attitude and in actions.
>
> _Harold S. Geneen_

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

> Leadership is not about a title or a designation. It’s about impact, influence, and inspiration. Impact involves getting results, influence is about spreading the passion you have for your work, and you have to inspire team-mates and customers.
>
> _Robin S. Sharma_

> There are three rules for being a good leader: 1. Don’t say you are one; 2. Show that you are one; and 3. Lead by example.
>
> _Georg W. F. Hegel_

> It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the ones most responsive to change
>
> _Charles Darwin_

> To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart.
>
> _Eleanor Roosevelt_

> The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it.
>
> _Theodore Roosevelt_

> Outstanding leaders go out of their way to boost the self-esteem of their personnel. If people believe in themselves, it’s amazing what they can accomplish.
>
> _Sam Walton_

> A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.
>
> _John Maxwell_

> People buy into the leader before they buy into the vision.
>
> _John Maxwell_

> Leadership is not about titles, positions, or flowcharts. It is about one life influencing another.
>
> _John Maxwell_

> A good leader is a person who takes a little more than his share of the blame and a little less than his share of the credit.
>
> _John Maxwell_

> A leader is a dealer in hope.
>
> _Napoleon_

> If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work, and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea.
>
> _Antoine de Saint-Exupéry_

> One of the tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency.
>
> _Arnold Glasow_

> A good leader takes a little more than his share of the blame, a little less than his share of the credit.
>
> Arnold Glasow

> A true leader has the confidence to stand alone, the courage to make tough decisions, and the compassion to listen to the needs of others. He does not set out to be a leader, but becomes one by the equality of his actions and the integrity of his intent.
>
> _Douglas MacArthur_

> To lead people, walk behind them.
>
> _Lao Tzu_

> 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_

> If your actions create a legacy that inspires others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, then, you are an excellent leader.
>
> _Dolly Parton_

> Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
>
> _General George Patton_

> Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
>
> _Dwight Eisenhower_

> You don’t lead by hitting people over the head—that’s assault, not leadership.
>
> _Dwight Eisenhower_

> Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.
>
> _Warren Bennis_

> The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born-that there is a genetic factor to leadership. That’s nonsense; in fact, the opposite is true. Leaders are made rather than born.
>
> _Warren Bennis_

> Management is about arranging and telling. Leadership is about nurturing and enhancing.
>
> _Tom Peters_

> If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.
>
> _African proverb_

> Where there is no vision, the people perish.
>
> _Proverbs 29:18_

> Don’t find fault, find a remedy; anybody can complain.
>
> _Henry Ford_

> What you do has far greater impact than what you say.
>
> _Stephen Covey_

> There are three essentials to leadership: humility, clarity and courage.
>
> _Fuchan Yuan_

> To build a strong team, you must see someone else’s strength as a complement to your weakness, and not a threat to your position or authority.
>
> _Christine Caine_

> Growth and comfort do not coexist.
>
> _Ginny Rometty_

> Successful leaders see the opportunities in every difficulty rather than the difficulty in every opportunity.
>
> _Reed Markham_

> Everyone can rise above their circumstances and achieve success if they are dedicated to and passionate about what they do.
>
> _Mother Teresa_

> Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.
>
> _Mother Teresa_

> Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.
>
> _John F. Kennedy_

> A good leader inspires others with confidence in the leader. A great leader inspires others with confidence in themselves.
>
> _Unknown_

> Leadership Is cause; everything else Is effect.
>
> Unknown

> Coaching is releasing a person’s potential to maximize their own performance. It is helping them to learn rather than teaching them.
>
> _Unknown_

> Mountaintops inspire leaders but valleys mature them.
>
> _Winston Churchill_

> The key to successful leadership today is influence, not authority.
>
> Kenneth Blanchard

> Feedback is meant to address the problem, not the person.
>
> _Travis Bradberry_

> A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don’t necessarily want to go, but ought to be.
>
> _Rosalynn Carter_

> First rule of leadership: everything is your fault.
>
> _A Bug’s Life_

> For the great achiever, it’s all about me. For a great leader, it’s all about them.
>
> _Alan Mulally_

> The greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things. He is the one that gets people to do the greatest things.
>
> _Ronald Reagan_

> Great leaders are not defined by the absence of weakness, but rather by the presence of clear strengths.
>
> _John Zenger_

> Leadership is not about a title or a designation. It’s about impact, influence, and inspiration.
>
> _Robin Sharma_

> 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_

> Toxic environments are not the result of spontaneous bad fortune. They are the result of toxic leaders.
>
> _Panos Mourdoukoutas and M.A. Soupios_

> Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others.
>
> _Jack Welch_

> Nobody rises to low expectations.
>
> _Calvin Lloyd_

> The task of leadership is not to put greatness into humanity, but to elicit it, for the greatness is already there.
>
> _John Buchan_

> When a leader makes a promise he [builds hope when he keeps it, he builds trust](https://paperbell.com/blog/how-to-use-paperbell/), and that is the game-changer.
>
> _Tushar Vakil_

> Great leaders harness personal courage, capture the hearts and minds of others and empower new leaders to make the world a better place.
>
> _Maxine Driscoll_

> The quality of a leader is reflected in the standards they set for themselves.
>
> _Ray Kroc_

> Leadership is action, not position.
>
> _Donald H. McGannon_

> It’s better to hang out with people better than you. Pick out associates whose behavior is better than yours and you’ll drift in that direction.
>
> _Warren Buffet_

## Some Final Words of Wisdom

This blog post is full of words of wisdom, but we also want to leave you with some parting thoughts to dig a bit deeper.

When you read these leadership and business coaching quotes, did you think about what kind of coach you want to be and the relationships you want to foster?

Just like leaders in their organizations, good relationships are key for your business coaching to have an impact.

[Removing any friction or sticking points in the services](https://paperbell.com/) you provide is so important, especially when dealing with clients who feel overwhelmed. And to achieve client transformation, you need coaching tools and models that are easy to follow and consistently deliver results. To help you with that, [check out this blog post about the best coaching tools, to find out what works best for you and your clients](https://paperbell.com/blog/the-top-8-coaching-tools-that-actually-work-for-client-transformation/).

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_Editor’s Note: This post was originally published in March 2021 and has since been updated for accuracy._

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