Great Leader Quotes

• 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

  Motivational, Leadership, People

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• Leadership is not about titles, positions or flowcharts. It is about one life influencing another.

  John C. Maxwell

  Motivational, Leadership, Inspiration

  FaceBook post by John C. Maxwell from Aug 20, 2016

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• Rely on your own strength of body and soul. Take for your star self-reliance, faith, honesty and industry. Don't take too much advice - keep at the helm and steer your own ship, and remember that the great art of commanding is to take a fair share of the work. Fire above the mark you intend to hit. Energy, invincible determination with the right motive, are the levers that move the world.

  Noah Porter

  Inspirational, Leadership, Determination

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• Leadership is defined by results not attributes.

  Peter Drucker

  Leadership, Future Leaders, Results

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• People buy into the leader before they buy into the vision.

  John C. Maxwell

  Motivational, Inspiring, Leadership

  John C. Maxwell (2005). “Developing the Leader Within You”, p.108, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• The real leader has no need to lead - he is content to point the way.

  Henry Miller

  Inspirational, Leadership, Business

  Henry Miller (1941). “The Wisdom of the Heart”, p.46, New Directions Publishing

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• He that cannot obey, cannot command.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Relationship, Leadership, Discipline

  Benjamin Franklin (2008). “The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac”, Nayika Publishing

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• The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.

  Ralph Nader

  Inspirational, Motivational, Inspiring

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• When it comes to the pinch, human beings are heroic.

  George Orwell

  Leadership, Courage, Empowering Others

  George Orwell (1970). “A Collection of Essays”, p.114, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd.

  Max Lucado

  Motivational, Strength, Leadership

  Max Lucado (2010). “Chronicles of the Cross Collection”, p.205, Harper Collins

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• In this world a man must either be anvil or hammer.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Leadership, Work, Character

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1839). “Hyperion: A Romance”, p.203

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• Leaders aren't born they are made. And they are made just like anything else, through hard work. And that's the price we'll have to pay to achieve that goal, or any goal.

  Vince Lombardi

  Motivational, Leadership, Graduation

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• The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on.

  Walter Lippmann

  Inspirational, Change, Success

  New York Herald Tribune 14 Apr. 1945

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  No man is good enough to govern another man without the other's consent.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Leadership, Witty, Men

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• Ill can he rule the great that cannot reach the small.

  Edmund Spenser

  Leadership, Motivation, Ill

  Edmund Spenser, George Stillman Hillard (1842). “Faerie queene. book III-V”, p.245

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• What you can't enforce, do not command.

  Sophocles

  Leadership, Future Leaders, Command

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• A leader is best when people barely know that he exists.

  Witter Bynner

  Leadership, People, Boss

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• Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success

  Stephen Covey

  Leadership, Climbing Up, Top Management

  Stephen R. Covey (2016). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change Interactive Edition”, p.120, Mango Media Inc.

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• No general can fight his battles alone. He must depend upon his lieutenants, and his success depends upon his ability to select the right man for the right place.

  Philip Danforth Armour

  Inspirational, Leadership, Fighting

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• Leaders don't create followers, they create more leaders.

  Tom Peters

  Leadership, Business, Insperational

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• Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help or concluded you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership.

  Colin Powell

  Motivational, Inspiring, Leadership

  Colin L. Powell, Joseph E. Persico (2010). “My American Journey”, p.52, Ballantine Books

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• The leaders who work most effectively, it seems to me, never say "I." And that's not because they have trained themselves not to say "I." They don't think "I." They think "we"; they think "team." They understand their job to be to make the team function. They accept responsibility and don't sidestep it, but "we" gets the credit. This is what creates trust, what enables you to get the task done.

  Peter Drucker

  Leadership, Teamwork, Jobs

  Peter Drucker (2012). “Managing the Non-Profit Organization”, p.14, Routledge

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• The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them.

  Colin Powell

  Leadership, Military, Army

  Colin L. Powell (1995). “My American Journey”, Random House Incorporated

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• He who cannot be a good follower cannot be a good leader.

  Aristotle

  Leadership, Dancing, Followers

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• A leader is one who sees more than others see, who sees farther than others see, and who sees before others do." (Leroy Eims)

  John C. Maxwell

  Leadership, Being A Leader, Inspiring Leader

  John C. Maxwell (2007). “The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership: Follow Them and People Will Follow You”, p.38, Thomas Nelson Inc

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