Leadership Quotes

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

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"Plant trees that will provide shade for future generations."
Alice Walker
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"Leadership means serving your community's needs."
Toni Cade Bambara
"A good leader listens more than they speak."
Carl Sandburg
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"Being the boss anywhere is lonely. God was the boss in the very beginning. God is lonely."
Robert Frost
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"Don't follow where the path may lead; go instead where there is no path and leave a trail."
Robert Frost
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"The purpose of any group must be the transmission of value."
T.S. Eliot
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"There is nothing to be said for the advantage of rank except the possibility of leading an honest life."
Ezra Pound
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"Leadership is the art of saying no without making enemies."
Ezra Pound
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"We are responsible for the world we create with our choices."
Toni Cade Bambara
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"We are responsible for each other's freedom."
Toni Cade Bambara
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"Your legacy is what you leave behind through your choices."
Alice Walker
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"Leadership means listening more than speaking."
Alice Walker
"Leadership is not about power, but about service."
Carl Sandburg
"Leadership is earned through integrity."
Carl Sandburg
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"Community organizing starts with listening."
Toni Cade Bambara
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"Leadership is service."
Toni Cade Bambara
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"Young people are not just waiting to be told what to do."
Robert Frost
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"A leader is someone who brings out the best in others."
Robert Frost
"The authority I assert for myself will be questioned."
Toni Morrison
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"Leadership means listening more than speaking and serving more than commanding."
Alice Walker
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"Leadership requires the courage to stand alone."
Richard Wright
"Responsibility rests upon the shoulders of individuals."
Ralph Ellison
"The burden of leadership is awesome in its power to harm."
Ralph Ellison
"The cost of leadership is personal sacrifice."
Ralph Ellison
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"It's a tremendous responsibility, being a witness to the times we live in."
Toni Cade Bambara
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"Leadership that demands blind obedience is not leadership but tyranny."
Richard Wright
"Legacy is not what you leave for people. It is what you leave in them."
Maya Angelou
"Leadership is the ability to inspire others to move beyond their self-imposed limitations."
Ralph Ellison
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"We need unity for strength and to build a better world."
Langston Hughes
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"We are the ones we've been waiting for."
Langston Hughes