Greatness And Leadership Quotes

The greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things. He is the one that gets the people to do the greatest things.

Ronald Reagan

Inspirational, Leadership, Wisdom

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We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

Winston Churchill

Love, Inspirational, Life

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If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.

John Quincy Adams

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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Happiness is not so much in having as sharing. We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

Norman MacEwen

Inspirational, Life, Happiness

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No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men.

Thomas Carlyle

Men, Greatness, History

On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic "The Hero as Divinity" (1841)

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A great leader's courage to fulfill his vision comes from passion, not position.

John C. Maxwell

Inspirational, Success, Leadership

John C. Maxwell (2007). “The 21 Indispensable Qualities of a Leader: Becoming the Person Others Will Want to Follow”, p.89, Thomas Nelson Inc

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He who cannot be a good follower cannot be a good leader.

Aristotle

Leadership, Dancing, Followers

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The task of leadership is not to put greatness into people, but to elicit it, for the greatness is there already.

John Buchan

Inspirational, Motivational, Leadership

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The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them.

Colin Powell

Leadership, Military, Army

Colin L. Powell (1995). “My American Journey”, Random House Incorporated

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A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.

Laozi

Inspirational, Leadership, Wisdom

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A leader is best when people barely know that he exists.

Witter Bynner

Leadership, People, Boss

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I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples.

Mother Teresa

Inspirational, Change, Positive

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Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.

Mother Teresa

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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Do not follow where the path may lead.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Graduation, Travel, Adventure

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Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.

Warren G. Bennis

Inspirational, Motivational, Leadership

"Executive's Portfolio of Model Speeches for All Occasions". Book by Dianna Daniels Booher, 1991.

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The art of leadership is saying no, not saying yes. It is very easy to say yes.

Tony Blair

Motivational, Leadership, Art

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Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.

Albert Einstein

Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Leadership, Art, Business

Eisenhower, Dwight D. (1960). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1954”, p.477, Best Books on

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Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

John F. Kennedy

Inspirational, Leadership, Educational

Undelivered Speech to the Dallas Citizens Council, delivered 22 November 1963, Trade Mart, Dallas, Texas

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Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Inspirational, Motivational, Happiness

Quoted in Vidette-Messenger (Valparaiso, Ind.), 7 June 1941 See Channing 1

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Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.

Mark Twain

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

Mark Twain, Caroline Thomas Harnsberger (2009). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.354, Courier Corporation

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Greatness is not a function of circumstance. Greatness, it turns out, is largely a matter of conscious choice, and discipline.

James C. Collins

Inspirational, Success, Business

"Turn on, tune in - or drown in a sea of mediocrity" by Simon Caulkin, www.theguardian.com. September 2, 2006.

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To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Inspirational, Leadership, Team

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To lead people, walk behind them.

Laozi

Leadership, Business, People

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