Leadership Quotes

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

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"Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people."
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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"Let him who glory seeks, first learn to serve"
Lord Byron
"We are the architects of our own destiny."
Mary Shelley
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"I am the door. I open and close. I open to the deserving, I close to the undeserving."
Victor Hugo
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"No one is dispossessed who possesses himself."
Victor Hugo
"Leaders inspire; tyrants compel."
William Wordsworth
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"A true leader serves, not commands."
Lord Byron
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"Leadership is the burden of seeing what others cannot."
Lord Byron
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"Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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"Whatever creed be his, he is a good man who thinks always of the future generation."
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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"Leadership is the art of inspiring others toward a common purpose."
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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"I think a Hero is that person who has done something fearless and noble."
John Keats
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"Better to rule one's soul than nations."
John Milton
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"Darkened so, yet shone above them all the Archangel."
John Milton
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"Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears"
William Shakespeare
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"Madness in great ones must not unwatched go"
William Shakespeare
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"The great lesson of life is that we are masters of our own destiny."
Lord Byron
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"To rule oneself and guide others is the gift of true leadership."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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"There are three classes of people: the discoverers, the authorities, and the mass."
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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"True nobility of character manifests itself in action."
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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"The measure of a leader is not in their power but in their principles."
John Milton
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"True leadership is service to something greater than oneself."
John Milton
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"Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears"
William Shakespeare
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"Those who will not change cannot lead effectively."
Lord Byron
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"I have learned that true nobility is not inherited but earned."
Lord Byron
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"A great leader must have the courage to act upon his convictions."
Dante Alighieri
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"Leadership is the burden and blessing of those called to serve."
Dante Alighieri
"He loved chivalry, truth, and honour."
Geoffrey Chaucer
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"One should as a ruler of one's own reason never capitulate to the senses and instincts alone."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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"Cry 'God for Harry, England, and Saint George!'"
William Shakespeare