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 wisdom and compassion."James Fenimore Cooper
"A leader must serve his people."James Fenimore Cooper
"The successful man doesn't use other people, he works with them."Sinclair Lewis
"The businessman who doesn't understand his responsibility to society is a moral coward."Sinclair Lewis
"Power comes not from dominion but from influence earned through character."Louisa May Alcott
"Leadership is earned through service, not demanded through authority."Louisa May Alcott
"In the service of our country, we believe that a service so rendered is a privilege and honor."Washington Irving
"Leadership is the ability to make others serve your vision as their own."Theodore Dreiser
"Leadership is not dominion but stewardship of others' potential."James Fenimore Cooper
"Leadership is the art of inspiring others to believe in themselves."Edith Wharton
"A leader is not one who commands, but one who inspires."Edith Wharton
"Women are the real architects of society."Harriet Beecher Stowe
"A great soul serves everyone with equal consideration."Harriet Beecher Stowe
"The test of a person's strength is not how high they climb, but how they treat those below them."Harriet Beecher Stowe
"Leadership means serving those you lead, not commanding them."Louisa May Alcott
"The greatest encouragement for virtue is the companionship of good people."Washington Irving
"The essence of leadership is the ability to inspire others to greatness."Washington Irving
"True leadership inspires others to become the best versions of themselves."Harriet Beecher Stowe
"Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail."Ralph Waldo Emerson
"To lead is to serve those you command, not to lord over them."James Fenimore Cooper
"The task before us is not to fix blame for the past but to secure the future."Edgar Allan Poe
"Greatness is not accompanied by change; rather greatness is the ability to handle change."Willa Cather
"The greatest leaders serve others with humility."Louisa May Alcott
"In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing."Harriet Beecher Stowe
"A leader who does not listen to his people deserves neither their loyalty nor their respect."James Fenimore Cooper
"A leader is one who walks ahead not to be followed, but to show the way for others."Washington Irving
"Leadership begins when we stop thinking of ourselves and start thinking of what we can give."Washington Irving
"The man of action is often the slave to circumstance; the man of thought is ever his master."Edgar Allan Poe
"Leadership demands that one be willing to walk alone."Edgar Allan Poe
"To be good is noble, but to teach others to be good is nobler—and less trouble."Mark Twain