Leadership Quotes
What separates leaders from the crowd? These words from history's most influential figures reveal the answer.
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"The stage is not merely a place of entertainment but of moral instruction."Nikolai Gogol
"A leader is one who inspires others to become better than they are."Nikolai Gogol
"If you cry 'Forward!' you must make sure that you are not going backward."Anton Chekhov
"Leadership is earned through suffering for others."Fyodor Dostoevsky
"Leadership is not about control but about service."Ivan Turgenev
"Leadership is earned through sacrifice, not demanded through authority."Ivan Turgenev
"Leadership is the burden of those who understand its impossibility."Mikhail Lermontov
"A man of genuine principle always seems like a drunkard."Fyodor Dostoevsky
"The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting."Leo Tolstoy
"If you cry 'forward', you must make plain in what direction to go forward."Anton Chekhov
"A great man in his pride contemplates all the wisdom of the ancients."William Butler Yeats
"Good leaders are servants of something greater than themselves."William Butler Yeats
"Leadership is influence, nothing more, nothing less."Samuel Beckett
"Leadership is about lifting others up."Samuel Beckett
"To keep the literary moving, I have come to the conclusion that we must make his social position secure."Oscar Wilde
"The more one thinks of one's purpose, the more one discovers that one's true purpose is to serve others."Leo Tolstoy
"Leadership is the ability to inspire others to be their best selves."Leo Tolstoy
"Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven applies to the intellectual life."James Joyce
"If you cry 'Forward!' you must make sure that you are not going backward."Anton Chekhov
"A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way."George Bernard Shaw
"The greatest leaders are those who know how to listen in silence."William Butler Yeats
"Leadership is about inspiring others to follow."Thomas Hardy
"A true leader serves, not commands."Thomas Hardy
"Leadership is the art of inspiring others toward a shared vision."James Joyce
"Talent is a flame; responsibility is its keeper."Leo Tolstoy
"Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it."Leo Tolstoy
"A good leader serves, rather than commands."Anne Brontë
"Leaders are born through adversity."Anne Brontë
"Leaders serve a purpose greater than themselves."Anne Brontë
"Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people."William Butler Yeats