Leadership Quotes

438 Votes

"The buck stops here." — Harry S. Truman
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"Every man in a leadership position must know when it's time to hand over the reins," — Eddie Compass
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298 Votes

"No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself, or to get all the credit for doing it" — Andrew Carnegie
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"Search others for their virtue, and yourself for your vices." — R. Buckminster Fuller
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293 Votes

"You cannot be a leader, and ask other people to follow you, unless you know how to follow, too." — Sam Rayburn
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292 Votes

"A chief is a man who assumes responsibility. He says I was beaten, he does not say My men were beaten." — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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"Leadership is liberating people to do what is required of them in the most effective and humane way possible." — Max Depree
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289 Votes

"Any leader who doesn't support the heart of evolving humanity is not a leader worthy of being followed." — Vanna Bonta
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288 Votes

"Tell a person they are brave and you help them become so." — Thomas Carlyle
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287 Votes

"Leaders are not born, they're made." — Vince Lombardi
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"Among the blind the one eyed is king." — Proverb Proverbs
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281 Votes

"Our chief want in life is somebody who will make us do what we can." — Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd." — Max Lucado
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"Leaders don't inflict pain - they share pain." — Max Depree
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278 Votes

"If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people together to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea" — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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277 Votes

"The led must not be compelled, they must be able to choose their own leader." — Albert Einstein
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274 Votes

"Blessed are the people whose leaders can look destiny in the eye without flinching but also without attempting to play God." — Henry A. Kissinger
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273 Votes

"Six traits of effective leaders: 1. Make others feel important 2. Promote a vision 3. Follow the golden rule 4. Admit mistakes 5. Criticize others only in private 6. Stay close to the action Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire." — Christian Nevell Bovee
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"Example is not the main thing in influencing others, it is the only thing." — Albert Schweitzer
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269 Votes

"Leadership has a harder job to do than just choose sides. It must bring sides together." — Jesse Jackson
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266 Votes

"You don't lead by hitting people over the head-that's assault, not leadership." — Dwight D. Eisenhower
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