Leadership Quotes

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

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"To speak truth to power requires both wisdom and courage"
Dante Alighieri
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"The true measure of a leader is how they treat those with no power"
Dante Alighieri
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"A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way."
Pickering Edward
"A leader's worth is measured by the care given to the least."
Geoffrey Chaucer
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"The man who has never learned to obey cannot be a good commander."
Ovid
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"Leadership is not about power, but about service."
Ovid
"I have always believed that science should serve humanity."
Annie Jump Cannon
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"True leadership is service in disguise."
Virgil
"Leadership is the art of making others great."
Geoffrey Chaucer
"A leader serves those who follow."
Geoffrey Chaucer
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"The leader who listens learns more than he who merely commands."
Homer
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"Great leaders inspire not through force but through vision."
Homer
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"A leader's true measure is not their authority but their ability to inspire."
Pickering Edward
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"A kingdom is not destroyed by siege from outside but by rot from within."
Ovid
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"To rule oneself is greater than to rule an empire."
Ovid
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"A leader is one who serves before he commands."
Virgil
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"The true leader leads by example, not by decree."
Virgil
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"The finest leaders are servants in disguise."
Virgil
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"Through the study of light, we learn what it means to illuminate."
Henrietta Leavitt
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"A man of few words but many deeds is worth ten orators."
Homer
"Leadership means lifting others as you rise."
Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin
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"True leadership is the willingness to be last in line and first in service."
Pickering Edward
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"Leadership is the art of making others believe in themselves more than you do."
Pickering Edward
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"A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way."
George Lemaitre
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"One of the most important responsibilities of a leader is to ask hard questions and demand hard answers."
Fritz Zwicky
"A woman's place is wherever her intellect and determination can take her."
Annie Jump Cannon
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"Scientific integrity means following truth even when it contradicts expectation."
Harlow Shapley
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"Our responsibility is to leave a clearer understanding of the universe for those who come after us."
Edwin Hubble
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"Leadership begins with the courage to admit what you do not know."
Pickering Edward
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"Leadership is the privilege of service."
Pickering Edward