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 the courage to set direction."Amy Lowell
"Leadership is showing others what is possible."Hilda Doolittle
"Leadership is modeling integrity and commitment."Hilda Doolittle
"Leadership is service."Charlotte Perkins Gilman
"A leader serves those they lead."Mary Wilkins Freeman
"Leadership is measured by the well-being of others."Mary Wilkins Freeman
"The best leaders inspire by example, not by authority."Marianne Moore
"Leadership is not about being in charge; it's about taking care of those in your charge."Edna St. Vincent Millay
"A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way."Edna St. Vincent Millay
"Leadership means showing others the way forward through service."Charlotte Perkins Gilman
"Leadership is the burden of seeing what others do not yet see."Amy Lowell
"Leadership requires the humility to admit what you do not know."Amy Lowell
"To lead is to serve; to serve is to lead."Fannie Hurst
"The reason why great men are great is that they solve the problems of their times."O. Henry
"The measure of a man is what he does with power."O. Henry
"Leadership is about inspiring others to become their best selves."Kate Chopin
"A true leader serves others with humility and compassion."Kate Chopin
"The courage of America is the courage of its common people."Edna St. Vincent Millay
"Leadership is service to something greater than oneself."Fannie Hurst
"Leaders must first lead themselves to integrity."Fannie Hurst
"Leadership is service dressed in the clothes of authority."Amy Lowell
"A leader serves not by commanding but by illuminating possibility."Amy Lowell
"Leadership is not about being in charge; it's about taking care of others."O. Henry
"The man who can make the hardest decision is the greatest man."Jack London
"The only way to lead people is to appeal to their self-interest."Jack London
"Leadership is not about commanding others, but inspiring them to command themselves."Mary Wilkins Freeman
"Progress requires the sacrifice of the individual to the whole."Charlotte Perkins Gilman
"The human being's greatest strength is the ability to work together for a common purpose."Charlotte Perkins Gilman
"A leader is one who lights the way for others to follow."Edna St. Vincent Millay
"A leader who does not understand the hearts of those they lead is no leader at all."Kate Chopin