Leadership Quotes
What separates leaders from the crowd? These words from history's most influential figures reveal the answer.
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"To lead is to bear the weight of others' trust with honor."Ann Radcliffe
"True leadership is the art of making others believe in themselves."Ann Radcliffe
"Leadership demands integrity above all other qualities."Henry Fielding
"A leader is remembered not by what he took but what he gave."Henry Fielding
"Leadership is not dominion but service."Daniel Defoe
"The legacy we leave is written in the lives we touch."Daniel Defoe
"Leadership requires integrity and compassion."Eliza Haywood
"A true leader serves those they lead."Eliza Haywood
"The character of a gentleman is the highest title of nobility."Jonathan Swift
"Leadership requires wisdom and compassion."Aphra Behn
"The pen is mightier than any weapon."Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
"The voice of one woman can change the world."Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
"Leadership without compassion is merely tyranny dressed in finer clothing."Eliza Haywood
"To be turned from one's course by men's opinions, by blame, and by misrepresentation shows a man unfit for any public station."Samuel Johnson
"We are the masters of our fate."Percy Bysshe Shelley
"How glorious is the youth of a State!"Percy Bysshe Shelley
"Leadership is not the ability to command but the wisdom to inspire."Aphra Behn
"The most sublime act is to set another before you."William Blake
"True nobility lies not in birth but in virtue and wisdom."Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
"Ambition without compassion breeds tyranny."Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
"Leadership is the art of inspiring others to believe in themselves."Percy Bysshe Shelley
"A leader serves others before themselves."Percy Bysshe Shelley
"Positiveness is a good quality for preachers and orators, because he that would have people believe him is unwise to seem to doubt it himself."Jonathan Swift
"Nothing is so unbelievable that oratory cannot make it acceptable."Jonathan Swift
"To lead is to be willing to be the first to stand for what is right."Eliza Haywood
"A leader must first master the art of listening."Aphra Behn
"Leadership demands that we see others as they might become."Aphra Behn
"The human race will not be judged by the height of its towers but by the character of its people."Samuel Johnson
"To lead is to inspire others toward their better selves."Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
"Leadership is earned through sacrifice, not claimed through ambition."Percy Bysshe Shelley