Inspiring Leader Quotes - Page 5

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  The quality of a leader is reflected in the standards they set for themselves.

  Ray Kroc

  Inspirational, Motivational, Leadership

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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  I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.

  Stephen Covey

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Stephen R. Covey (2016). “An Effective Life: Inspirational Philosophy from Dr. Covey’s Life”, p.88, FranklinCovey Co.

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• A ruler should be slow to punish and swift to reward.

  Ovid

  Leadership, Vision, Empowering Others

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• Great leaders are not defined by the absence of weakness, but rather by the presence of clear strengths.

  John Peter Zenger

  Leadership, Vision, Weakness

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• If you think you can't, you're right.

  Carol Bartz

  Inspirational, Positive, Smart

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• Leadership is your ability to hide your panic from others.

  Laozi

  Leadership, Panic, Great Leader

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• Animation can explain whatever the mind of man can conceive.

  Walt Disney

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  "OpenGL Shading Language". Book by Randi J. Rost, 2006.

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• Those who try to lead the people can only do so by following the mob.

  Oscar Wilde

  Leadership, People, Trying

  Oscar Wilde (2000). “Oscar Wilde - The Major Works”, p.279, OUP Oxford

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• Average leaders raise the bar on themselves; good leaders raise the bar for others; great leaders inspire others to raise their own bar.

  Orrin Woodward

  Motivational, Inspiring, Leadership

  Twitter post from Mar 18, 2016

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• Leadership is the key to 99 percent of all successful efforts.

  Erskine Bowles

  Leadership, Successful, Keys

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• To lead people, walk beside them ... As for the best leaders, the people do not notice their existence. The next best, the people honor and praise. The next, the people fear; and the next, the people hate ... When the best leader's work is done the people say, 'We did it ourselves!

  Laozi

  Leadership, Hate, People

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• The greatest leaders mobilize others by coalescing people around a shared vision.

  Ken Blanchard

  Leadership, Helping Others, People

  Ken Blanchard, Garry Ridge (2013). “Improve Your Career Performance (Collection)”, p.53, FT Press

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• Inventories can be managed, but people must be led.

  Ross Perot

  Leadership, Business, People

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• When I give a minister an order, I leave it to him to find the means to carry it out.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Leadership, Mean, Order

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• Being responsible sometimes means pissing people off.

  Colin Powell

  Motivational, Leadership, Mean

  Colin L. Powell, Joseph E. Persico (2010). “My American Journey”, p.85, Ballantine Books

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• I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Leadership, People, Vision

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• Men make history and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better.

  Harry S. Truman

  Change, Leadership, Men

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• It's hard to lead a cavalry charge if you think you look funny on a horse.

  Adlai E. Stevenson

  Inspirational, Funny, Motivational

  "Born to Run: Origins of the Political Career". Book by Ronald Keith Gaddie, p. 119, 2003.

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  Don't necessarily avoid sharp edges. Occasionally they are necessary to leadership.

  Donald Rumsfeld

  Leadership, Rough Edges, Vision

  Donald Rumsfeld (2001). “Public Statements of Donald H. Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense, 2001”

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• Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help or concluded you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership.

  Colin Powell

  Motivational, Inspiring, Leadership

  Colin L. Powell, Joseph E. Persico (2010). “My American Journey”, p.52, Ballantine Books

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• Leaders don't create followers, they create more leaders.

  Tom Peters

  Leadership, Business, Insperational

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• Leadership involves finding a parade and getting in front of it.

  John Naisbitt

  Leadership, Parades, Findings

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• We're here for a reason. I believe a bit of the reason is to throw little torches out to lead people through the dark.

  Whoopi Goldberg

  Motivational, Inspiring, Leadership

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• When you can’t change the direction of the wind — adjust your sails

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

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• My own definition of leadership is this: The capacity and the will to rally men and women to a common purpose and the character which inspires confidence.

  Bernard Law Montgomery

  Leadership, Motivation, Character

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