Leadership Quotes

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

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"The strongest leaders are those who empower others to lead."
Smith, Barry
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"Leadership is the art of making others feel capable of leading themselves."
Smith, Barry
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"Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower."
Perry, John
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"Success is not how high you have climbed, but how you make those climbing after you feel."
Perry, John
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"Democratic participation requires understanding the mechanisms of power."
Chomsky, Noam
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"Collective action requires shared understanding of common problems."
Chomsky, Noam
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"Mass movements begin when individuals recognize shared experience of injustice."
Chomsky, Noam
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"Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower."
Burge, Tyler
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"A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way."
Burge, Tyler
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"A leader's greatest gift is developing other leaders."
Burge, Tyler
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"We inherit the world; we are responsible for what we leave behind."
Kaplan, David
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"Leadership is the art of making others believe in themselves."
Kaplan, David
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"A leader's legacy is measured by how well they develop other leaders."
Kaplan, David
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"Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em."
Fine, Arthur
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"Give me my robe, put on my crown."
Fine, Arthur
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"In the arena of human life, the honors and rewards fall to those who show their good qualities in action."
Fine, Arthur
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"A leader's true power lies in making others powerful."
Perry, John
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"Leaders eat last, not because they are lesser, but because they are greater."
Perry, John
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"Leadership emerges from clarity of thought and purpose."
Fine, Kit
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"Leadership is the art of helping others see what they're capable of."
Burge, Tyler
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"The noble example shows the way, but it does not compel the will."
Wittgenstein, Richard
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"Leadership is the burden of seeing what others miss."
Fine, Arthur
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"Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality."
Lewis, David
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"A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way."
Lewis, David
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"Leadership is service to others."
Geach, Peter
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"Leadership begins with self-mastery."
Geach, Peter
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"Leadership is the courage to see what others cannot yet see."
Fine, Arthur
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"Collaboration amplifies human intelligence in ways individual minds cannot achieve alone."
Burge, Tyler
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"Peer review, despite flaws, provides structure for collective quality control."
Burge, Tyler
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"A leader's job is not to have all the answers but to ask the right questions."
Lewis, David