Leadership Quotes

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

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"A great person is one who has not lost the heart of a child."
Rumi (Jalal ad-Din Rumi)
"A true leader serves first and seeks power only to uplift others."
Charles Wesley
"Leadership without integrity is merely the exercise of tyranny."
Charles Wesley
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"The path of the wise is lit by their own inner light."
Ibn Arabi
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"Leadership is service; the leader exists for the led."
Ibn Arabi
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"Those who lead must lead through the strength of their ideas, not through force."
Spinoza
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"True leadership is the art of inspiring others to discover their own greatness."
Emanuel Swedenborg
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"True leaders serve their followers; false leaders demand to be served."
Emanuel Swedenborg
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"The master is one who has mastered himself."
Ibn Arabi
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"Even among the imperfect, there must be those who lead others toward perfection."
Teresa of Avila
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"To serve another is to serve the Divine within them."
Ibn Arabi
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"This is a holy space where God and I negotiate for the human soul."
Hafiz
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"Wherever you stand, be the soul of that place."
Rumi (Jalal ad-Din Rumi)
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"To seek power over others is to misunderstand the true nature of power."
Spinoza
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"The way your employees feel is exactly how your customers feel. And if your employees don't feel valued, neither will your customers."
Mother Teresa
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"Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person."
Mother Teresa
"Leadership is service disguised as authority."
Meister Eckhart
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"Authentic power is service."
Pope Francis
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"Leaders serve, they do not rule."
Pope Francis
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"Wherever you stand, be the soul of that place."
Rumi (Jalal ad-Din Rumi)
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"Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person."
Mother Teresa
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"We are called to be menders of the world, not destroyers of it."
Pope Francis
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"Leadership is service; those who lead must wash the feet of others."
Pope Francis
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"The church cannot abandon her task of interpreting the moral dimensions of worldly affairs."
Pope John Paul II
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"Leadership is the art of inspiring others toward truth and goodness."
Pope John Paul II
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"Wherever you stand, be the soul of that place."
Hafiz
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"Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person."
Mother Teresa
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"Leadership is about service, not power."
Pope Francis
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"Leadership means going first toward what is right."
Pope Francis
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"Use whatever influence you have, in order to increase the quantity of food, education, and medical care."
Dalai Lama (14th)