Leadership Quotes

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

30104 quotes

"To lead is to serve those who follow with humility."
Robert Browning
"Leadership is service in its highest form."
Robert Browning
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"Wherever I go, I only see that a certain number of people follow me about, imitating all I do."
Hans Christian Andersen
J
"Leadership is the courage to show your vulnerability."
Johan Christian Andersen
J
"Leadership is service to others."
Johan Christian Andersen
K
"Leadership emerges from understanding one's flaws."
Knut Hamsun
K
"True leadership is serving others' growth, not one's ego."
Knut Hamsun
D
"The artist's duty is to witness and reveal."
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
K
"The leader who must prove his worth is no leader."
Knut Hamsun
H
"Leadership is not about power, but about lifting others up."
Hans Christian Andersen
S
"Every person is capable of expressing their entire potential."
Søren Kierkegaard
E
"Leadership is the art of inspiring others to believe in themselves."
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
E
"A leader's worth is measured by those they lift up."
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
J
"Leadership is the art of inspiring others to greatness."
Johan Christian Andersen
J
"A true leader lifts others as they rise."
Johan Christian Andersen
K
"Leadership is the ability to convince others to march toward your own abyss."
Knut Hamsun
A
"All his large man-child nature, all his lazy-seeming strength, is neither lazy nor false."
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
H
"Leadership is not command but inspiration."
Hans Christian Andersen
H
"A true leader lifts others as they rise."
Hans Christian Andersen
S
"Leadership is service to others."
Selma Lagerlöf
S
"A leader serves those they lead."
Selma Lagerlöf
"Leadership is the art of lifting others upward."
Robert Browning
S
"One must learn to obey before one can command."
Søren Kierkegaard
"Leadership is about service, not dominion."
Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson
A
"Leadership is not about being in charge. It's about taking care of those in your charge."
August Strindberg
S
"A true leader serves, not commands."
Selma Lagerlöf
S
"Leadership is the art of inspiring others to believe in themselves."
Selma Lagerlöf
H
"Leadership is the art of getting people to do what you want."
Henrik Ibsen
"A leader serves before commanding."
Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson
H
"A true leader lifts others as they climb."
Hans Christian Andersen