Leadership Quotes
What separates leaders from the crowd? These words from history's most influential figures reveal the answer.
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"Leadership is about lifting others up."Margaret Atwood
"The successful man doesn't use other people, other people use themselves."Robertson Davies
"Leadership is the ability to inspire others to achieve greatness."Robertson Davies
"The greatest leadership is invisible—it leaves no monuments."Seán Ó Faoláin
"Leadership is influence, nothing more and nothing less."Frank O'Connor
"The purpose of leadership is to serve, not to be served."Joyce Carol Oates
"Leadership is about making a difference."Joyce Carol Oates
"Leadership is the courage to do what others fear to attempt."Sean O'Casey
"The future belongs to those who understand that doing more with less is compassionate."Douglas Coupland
"We still think of a powerful man as a born leader and a powerful woman as an anomaly."Margaret Atwood
"Leadership is the burden of seeing what others refuse to see."Joyce Carol Oates
"Leadership is about serving others, not commanding them."Carson McCullers
"If you don't go into politics, someone else will."Margaret Atwood
"It is not the most intellectual of people who lead the world, nor is it the kindest; it is the most stubborn."Robertson Davies
"Leadership is the ability to guide without force."Cormac McCarthy
"A leader serves his people."Cormac McCarthy
"Leaders are servants of the future."Cormac McCarthy
"Leadership requires vision."Cormac McCarthy
"Leadership requires the willingness to make unpopular decisions and accept responsibility for consequences."Joyce Carol Oates
"It was times like these when I thought my father, who hated guns and had never been to any wars, was the bravest man who ever lived."Harper Lee
"In every town, there are those who uplift and those who pull down."Harper Lee
"A man of talent owes a debt to his country"Robertson Davies
"Leadership is the art of inspiring others to their best selves"Robertson Davies
"Leadership is the burden of knowing what no one else knows and bearing it alone."Cormac McCarthy
"Leadership requires the humility to admit when you are mistaken."Joyce Carol Oates
"The measure of a person is not how they treat those above them, but those beneath them."Harper Lee
"We teach best by example, not by lecture or demand."Harper Lee
"Authority is not valid unless it is delegated with care."David Foster Wallace
"You measure yourself by the people around you. Choose them wisely."Cormac McCarthy
"The greatest act of leadership is creating space for others to become themselves."Carson McCullers