Leadership Quotes

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

30104 quotes

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"Take the love of the people and you can do anything."
Henrik Ibsen
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"A leader is only as strong as the vision they inspire in others."
Henrik Ibsen
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"Leadership is not command, but the courage to follow vision before others see it."
Boris Pasternak
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"The true leader is a servant of something greater than themselves."
Boris Pasternak
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"A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way."
Nikolai Gogol
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"The measure of man is what he does with power."
Maxim Gorky
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"You can resolve to live your life with integrity. Let your credo be this: What stands if I do not?"
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
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"The measure of a man is what he does when he has power."
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
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"There is nothing more insulting to a man of intelligence than to be governed by a fool."
Mikhail Lermontov
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"Leadership is earned through virtue."
Mikhail Lermontov
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"Leadership is the courage to be misunderstood."
Vladimir Nabokov
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"A true leader inspires others."
Aleksandr Pushkin
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"Leadership demands vision and virtue."
Aleksandr Pushkin
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"Power without principle becomes tyranny."
Nikolai Gogol
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"Leadership is the ability to inspire without commanding."
Boris Pasternak
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"Leadership is not about power; it is about service."
Maxim Gorky
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"A leader who seeks power for its own sake is not a leader."
Maxim Gorky
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"To be great is to be misunderstood."
Ivan Turgenev
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"True leadership is the art of making others believe in themselves."
Aleksandr Pushkin
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"To advise in a crisis is the special privilege of the able."
Anton Chekhov
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"Leadership is the ability to make others believe your vision is their own."
Mikhail Lermontov
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"The only way to deal with the future is to create it."
Vladimir Nabokov
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"The leader is merely the servant of greater forces."
Nikolai Gogol
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"Miracle, mystery, and authority are what the masses need"
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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"Leadership is not about having all the answers, but about asking the right questions."
Maxim Gorky
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"True leadership empowers others to become leaders themselves."
Maxim Gorky
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"Leadership is service to something greater than oneself."
Ivan Turgenev
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"Leadership fails when the leader forgets those who follow."
Ivan Turgenev
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"Leadership is the art of inspiring others to believe in themselves."
Aleksandr Pushkin
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"Leadership is the burden of those who see too much."
Mikhail Lermontov