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