Leadership Quotes - Page 6

• Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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  Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible.

  Francis of Assisi

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  President Gellhaus’ Speech, annualmeeting.acog.org. 2016.

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• Power is like being a lady... if you have to tell people you are, you aren't.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Business, Women, Power

  Margaret Thatcher, Iain Dale (1997). “As I said to Denis--: the Margaret Thatcher book of quotations”, Robson Book Ltd

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• You're only as good as the people you hire.

  Ray Kroc

  Mcdonalds, People, Business Success

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

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• Education is the mother of leadership.

  Wendell Willkie

  Inspirational, Education, Mother

  Wendell Lewis Willkie (1943). “Freedom and the Liberal Arts”

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• Leadership cannot really be taught. It can only be learned.

  Harold Geneen

  Taught, Born Leaders, Great Leader

  "Managing". Book by Harold Geneen, 1984.

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• Leadership is the challenge to be something more than average.

  Jim Rohn

  Motivational Sports, Average, Challenges

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from May 26, 2016

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  You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Life, Motivational, Inspiring

  Woodrow Wilson, Albert Bushnell Hart (2002). “Selected Addresses and Public Papers of Woodrow Wilson”, p.15, The Minerva Group, Inc.

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• To do great things is difficult; but to command great things is more difficult.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Excellence, Vision, Empowering Others

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.160, Penguin

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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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• Leaders are fascinated by future. You are a leader if and only if, you are restless for change, impatient for progress and deeply dissatisfied with status quo. Because in your head, you can see a better future. The friction between 'what is' and 'what could be' burns you, stirs you up, propels you. This is leadership.

  Marcus Buckingham

  Inspirational, Change, Future

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• If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.

  William James

  Motivation, Philosophical, Careers

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• A man is but the product of his thoughts what he thinks, he becomes.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

  Mahatma Gandhi (2012). “The Essential Gandhi: An Anthology of His Writings on His Life, Work, and Ideas”, p.163, Vintage

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• Average leaders raise the bar on themselves; good leaders raise the bar for others; great leaders inspire others to raise their own bar.

  Orrin Woodward

  Motivational, Inspiring, Average

  Twitter post from Mar 18, 2016

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• Leaders don’t complain about what’s not working. Leaders celebrate what is working and work to amplify it.

  Simon Sinek

  Motivational, Work, Persistence

  Twitter post from Sep 19, 2012

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• Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there.

  Stevie Wonder

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• A competent leader can get efficient service from poor troops, while on the contrary an incapable leader can demoralize the best of troops.

  John J. Pershing

  Vision, Troops, Poor

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• The task of leadership is not to put greatness into people, but to elicit it, for the greatness is there already.

  John Buchan

  Inspirational, Motivational, Business

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• Leadership is understanding people and involving them to help you do a job. That takes all of the good characteristics, like integrity, dedication of purpose, selflessness, knowledge, skill, implacability, as well as determination not to accept failure.

  Arleigh Burke

  Inspiring, Determination, Jobs

  "Naval Leadership : Voices of Experience". Book by Karel Montor (p. 18), 1998.

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• All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Inspirational, Motivational, Essence

  "The Age of Uncertainty". Book by John Kenneth Galbraith, 1977.

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• Remember this: Anticipation is the ultimate power. Losers react; leaders anticipate.

  Tony Robbins

  Inspirational, Life, Success

  Twitter post from Mar 21, 2016

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• A leader is not an administrator who loves to run others, but someone who carries water for his people so that they can get on with their jobs.

  Robert Townsend

  Running, Jobs, People

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• The true leader is always led.

  Carl Jung

  Leader, True Leader

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• You have to think anyway, so why not think big?

  Donald Trump

  Inspirational, Motivational, Encouragement

  Twitter post from

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• When you're finished changing, you're finished.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Change, Inspiration, Changing The World

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