Leadership Quotes

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

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"Leadership requires the humility to serve those you lead."
Kate Chopin
"We grow stronger when we help others grow."
Fannie Hurst
"Leadership is service to others."
Fannie Hurst
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"When the workers of the world understand their power they'll take over the world."
Upton Sinclair
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"Leadership is the art of making people want to do what you do."
Upton Sinclair
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"A leader is one who serves, not one who commands."
O. Henry
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"The price of greatness is responsibility."
Jack London
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"The leader serves; the tyrant commands."
Jack London
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"Leadership is earned through service, not through authority."
Mary Wilkins Freeman
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"The world would be better if women ruled. They can't possibly do worse."
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
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"Leadership is not about commanding but about inspiring."
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
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"A true leader serves, rather than commands."
Booth Tarkington
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"Leadership is defined by those who follow willingly."
Booth Tarkington
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"Leadership that ignores the suffering of ordinary people is leadership in name only."
Upton Sinclair
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"Leadership is the ability to inspire others to believe in themselves."
Mary Wilkins Freeman
"I am a man of the people, and I know the people."
Sherwood Anderson
"The man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd."
Sherwood Anderson
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"Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do what you want him to do because he wants to do it."
O. Henry
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"Leadership is not about being in charge; it's about serving."
Booth Tarkington
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"Those who lead must first serve the interests of the many, not the few."
Upton Sinclair
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"I am first of all a revolutionary, and I am a writer only incidentally."
Jack London
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"The only way to lead is by example and force of personality."
Jack London
C
"The duty of a woman is to make the world better, not merely to bear children."
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
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"Leadership is the art of moving people toward a shared vision of justice."
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
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"The man who makes no enemies is the man who makes nothing."
O. Henry
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"A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they will never sit under."
Booth Tarkington
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"The essence of leadership is service, not dominion."
Booth Tarkington
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"True leadership elevates others, not oneself."
Booth Tarkington
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"The man who fails to prepare is preparing to fail."
Jack London
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"The leader is the one who serves the most."
Jack London