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