Becoming A Leader Quotes

• A leader leads by example not by force.

  Sun Tzu

  Encouragement, War, Army

  "The Art of War" by Sun Tzu, translated by Chow-Hou Wee, (Chapter IX), 2003.

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

  Jack Welch

  Leadership, Educational, Inspiration

  Jack Welch, Janet Lowe (2007). “Jack Welch Speaks: Wit and Wisdom from the World's Greatest Business Leader”, John Wiley & Sons

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  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

  Inspirational, Leadership, Confidence

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  The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it.

  Michelangelo

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

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• No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit for doing it.

  Andrew Carnegie

  Inspirational, Leadership, Confidence

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

  John Quincy Adams

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.

  Helen Keller

  Inspirational, Leadership, Loyalty

  "Helen and Teacher: The Story of Helen Keller and Anne Sullivan Macy". Book by Joseph P. Lash, 1980.

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• Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.

  Peter Drucker

  Inspirational, Change, Leadership

  "Seven Habits of Highly Effective People" by Stephen R. Covey, (p. 101), 1989.

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• Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.

  Warren G. Bennis

  Inspirational, Motivational, Leadership

  "Executive's Portfolio of Model Speeches for All Occasions". Book by Dianna Daniels Booher, 1991.

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• There goes my people. I must follow them, for I am their leader.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Leadership, Spiritual, People

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• A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.

  John C. Maxwell

  Inspirational, Leadership, Basketball

  "Leadership 101: 3 Key Lessons on Advancing Racial Equity" by Dr. Artika R. Tyner, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 15, 2015.

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• Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

  John F. Kennedy

  Inspirational, Leadership, Educational

  Undelivered Speech to the Dallas Citizens Council, delivered 22 November 1963, Trade Mart, Dallas, Texas

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• Become the kind of leader that people would follow voluntarily; even if you had no title or position.

  Brian Tracy

  Leadership, Helping Others, People

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• You can't blow an uncertain trumpet.

  Theodore Hesburgh

  Leadership, Blow, Common Vision

  Interview with Philip Scarpino, tobiascenter.iu.edu. January 6, 2009.

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• 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

  Inspirational, Leadership, Appreciation

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Be gentle and you can be bold; be frugal and you can be liberal; avoid putting yourself before others and you can become a leader among men.

  Laozi

  Leadership, Humility, Army

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• The very essence of leadership is that you have to have vision. You can't blow an uncertain trumpet.

  Theodore Hesburgh

  Leadership, Business, Blow

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• Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Inspirational, Motivational, Friendship

  "My Country", Volume 2, No. 3, published by Litchfield Historical Society, p. 23, September 1968.

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• Good leaders must first become good servants.

  Robert K. Greenleaf

  Leadership, Future Leaders, Firsts

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• Becoming a leader is synonymous with becoming yourself. It is precisely that simple, and it is also that difficult.

  Warren G. Bennis

  Leadership, Honesty, Simple

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• The leader has a clear idea of what he wants to do professionally and personally,
  and the strength to persist in the face of setbacks, even failures

  Warren G. Bennis

  Leadership, Ideas, Want

  Warren G. Bennis, Patricia Ward Biederman (2009). “The Essential Bennis”, p.204, John Wiley & Sons

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• It is impossible to imagine anything which better becomes a ruler than mercy.

  Seneca the Younger

  Leadership, Motivation, Impossible

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• I have three precious things which I hold fast and prize. The first is gentleness; the second frugality; the third is humility, which keeps me from putting myself before others. Be gentle and you can be bold; be frugal and you can be liberal; avoid putting yourself before others and you can become a leader among men.

  Laozi

  Leadership, Humility, Men

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• You manage things, you lead people. We went overboard on management and forgot about leadership. It might help if we ran the MBAs out of Washington.

  Grace Hopper

  Inspirational, Leadership, Basketball

  "The Wit and Wisdom of Grace Hopper". The OCLC Newsletter, No. 167, www.cs.yale.edu. March/April 1987.

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• If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

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