Leadership Quotes

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

30104 quotes

"Leadership is not about commanding but about inspiring."
Gioconda Belli
"The voice of conscience cannot be legislated into silence."
Miguel Ángel Asturias
"Leadership is service elevated to principle."
Miguel Ángel Asturias
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"You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today."
Abraham Lincoln
A
"Allow the president to invade a neighboring nation whenever he shall deem it necessary to do so, and you allow him to make war at pleasure."
Abraham Lincoln
A
"These are not mere official titles. A President is his country."
Abraham Lincoln
A
"If I save the Union, I am savior of the country."
Abraham Lincoln
A
"It is the man in the white speckled shirt who leads the orchestra with his baton, not the notes upon the page."
Abraham Lincoln
A
"When I am elected I shall not attempt to rule the Republican party; but I shall endeavor, so far as possible, to rule the nation."
Abraham Lincoln
M
"Leadership demands sacrifice from those who lead."
Mariano Azuela
M
"Leadership is service, not domination."
Mariano Azuela
R
"The role of the intellectual is to articulate the suffering of the masses."
Rosario Castellanos
R
"Leadership is the burden of seeing for others."
Rosario Castellanos
R
"Leadership is the privilege of serving those who believe in your vision"
Rubén Darío
R
"The true leader serves those they lead, never the reverse"
Rubén Darío
N
"In every revolution, there are those who lead and those who tell the story."
Nellie Campobello
E
"Leadership is the courage to admit when you've been wrong."
Elena Garro
O
"Power without responsibility is tyranny."
Octavio Paz
O
"Leadership means serving, not commanding."
Octavio Paz
C
"Leadership means serving others."
Carlos Fuentes
C
"Leadership requires vulnerability."
Carlos Fuentes
"We must become the visionaries our world so desperately needs."
Gioconda Belli
R
"The intellectual must engage with the struggles of ordinary people."
Rosario Castellanos
R
"The voice that speaks for the voiceless must be humble and accountable."
Rosario Castellanos
M
"Ambition without morality leads only to destruction."
Mariano Azuela
M
"Those who wield power must always remember the humanity of the powerless."
Mariano Azuela
R
"Leadership is the art of inspiring others to greatness."
Rubén Darío
R
"Those who inspire others carry the weight of great responsibility."
Rubén Darío
R
"Leadership is the responsibility to lift others."
Rubén Darío
E
"The kitchen table is where revolutions begin."
Elena Garro