Leadership Quotes

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

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"I've always tried to lead by example rather than by decree."
Jacinda Ardern
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"Leadership isn't about being perfect, it's about being present."
Jacinda Ardern
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"Working in public service is a privilege and a responsibility."
Jacinda Ardern
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"I think the measure of a leader is how they treat the most vulnerable."
Jacinda Ardern
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"I try to lead with my heart as well as my head."
Jacinda Ardern
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"I think the best leaders are those who lift others up."
Jacinda Ardern
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"The leadership that is needed in today's world is the leadership of compassion and wisdom."
Aung San Suu Kyi
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"The quality of a nation's leadership determines the quality of its future."
Aung San Suu Kyi
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"Great leaders are those who inspire others to believe in themselves."
Aung San Suu Kyi
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"The buck stops here."
Harry Truman
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"A president is a public servant."
Harry Truman
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"A leader is a man of tomorrow, not yesterday."
Harry Truman
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"The greatest asset of a president is to have a sympathetic ear."
Harry Truman
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"A person cannot be a public servant without the trust of the people."
Harry Truman
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"It is a terrible thing to be president in a crisis."
Harry Truman
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"A president serves at the pleasure of the people."
Harry Truman
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"The power of example is greater than the example of power."
Harry Truman
"Do you know that one of the great problems of our age is that we are governed by people who care more about feelings than they do about thoughts and ideas."
Margaret Thatcher
"I am not a consensus politician."
Margaret Thatcher
"If you lead a country, you must love your countrymen."
Margaret Thatcher
"If you have doubts about the Constitution, you should not have become Prime Minister."
Margaret Thatcher
"I respect men of independent thought."
Margaret Thatcher
"The Conservative Party must never sound nasty."
Margaret Thatcher
"Politics is about people."
Margaret Thatcher
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"Ask not what your country can do for you. Ask what you can do for your country."
John F. Kennedy
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"The most important office is that of citizen."
John F. Kennedy
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"Our task is not to fix the blame for the past, but to secure the future."
John F. Kennedy
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"The responsibility of great states is to serve and not to dominate the world."
John F. Kennedy
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"Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other."
John F. Kennedy
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"All this effort and all this wealth has been in vain if we have not prepared ourselves for an ethical and moral leadership."
John F. Kennedy