Leadership Quotes

What separates leaders from the crowd? These words from history's most influential figures reveal the answer.

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"A true leader serves the greatest good."
Emanuel Swedenborg
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"Society thrives when the strong protect the weak."
Emanuel Swedenborg
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"Leadership is not dominion but service rendered with humility."
Jonathan Edwards
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"Leadership that does not elevate those it leads is tyranny masquerading as authority."
Jonathan Edwards
"To serve others faithfully is to serve the divine itself."
Charles Wesley
"The measure of our leadership is not authority but influence born of love."
Charles Wesley
"To lead well is to serve well; there is no other true leadership."
Charles Wesley
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"The work of God is never finished; each generation must take it up anew."
George Fox
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"The conscience of the collective is awakened by the courage of the individual."
George Fox
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"True leadership demands the sacrifice of the comfortable."
Friedrich Nietzsche
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"The leader does not follow the crowd; the crowd follows the leader."
Friedrich Nietzsche
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"As to 'Methodist' lay preachers, I believe they are one great means which God is pleased to use in this work."
John Wesley
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"You are to live as the servants of Christ."
John Wesley
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"The power of example is more forcible than the power of precept."
John Wesley
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"Give me one hundred preachers who fear nothing but sin and desire nothing but God."
John Wesley
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"The true test of civilization is not the census, nor the size of cities, but the kind of man the country turns out."
William James
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"The most sacred duty of any leader is to listen deeply."
William James
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"In service to others, we find the highest form of self-realization."
Jacob Böhme
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"Leadership requires the courage to admit error and the humility to learn from others."
Emanuel Swedenborg
"Let us labor together to spread the gospel of Christ through words and deeds."
Charles Wesley
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"Better to be feared than pitied."
Spinoza
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"The Prophet is the one who brings good news and warns."
Ibn Arabi
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"Leadership is the art of service."
Ibn Arabi
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"Be patterns, be examples in all places, that your carriage and life may preach among all sorts of people."
George Fox
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"The greatest preaching is thy daily example."
George Fox
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"True nobility comes from serving others with a humble spirit."
George Fox
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"The true measure of a person is how they treat those they have power over."
Emanuel Swedenborg
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"Leadership requires first mastering one's own inner chaos."
Jacob Böhme
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"Leadership serves the good of the whole, not the elevation of the few."
Jacob Böhme
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"Wherever you stand, be the soul of that place."
Rumi (Jalal ad-Din Rumi)