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Leadership Quotes and Sayings

“Whatever you are, be a good one.” – Abraham Lincoln

“A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.” – John C. Maxwell

“Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.” – Steve Jobs

“Those who try to lead the people can only do so by following the mob” – Oscar Wilde

“You must do the thing you think you cannot do” – Eleanor Roosevelt

“The challenge of leadership is to be strong, but not rude; be kind, but not weak; be bold, but not bully; be thoughtful, but not lazy; be humble, but not timid; be proud, but not arrogant; have humor, but without folly.” – Jim Rohn

“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 them or concluded that you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership.” – Colin Powell

“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

leadership quotes and sayings“When the effective leader is finished with his work, the people say it happened naturally.” – Lao Tzu

“I have a different vision of leadership. A leadership is someone who brings people together.” – George W. Bush

“If you have no character to lose, people will have no faith in you” – Mahatma Gandhi

“The true leader is always led” – Carl Gustav Jung

“The best example of leadership, is leadership by example.” – Jerry McClain

“The real leader has no need to lead – he is content to point the way.” – Henry Miller

“People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. . . The leader works in the open, and the boss in covert. The leader leads, and the boss drives.” – Theodore Roosevelt

“Excellence is not an accomplishment. It is a spirit, a never-ending process.” – Lawrence M. Miller

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!” – Lao-tsu

“Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life.” – Sandra Carey

12 Wisdom Quotes

“The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Wisdom outweighs any wealth.” ~ Sophocles

“A single conversation with a wise man is better than ten years of study.” ~ Chinese Proverb

“No man was ever wise by chance.” ~ Seneca

“Wisdom is never on the menu, you have to own the restaurant.” ~ Carrie Latet

“Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification.” ~ Martin H. Fischer

wisdom quotes“Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life.” ~ Sandra Carey

“A man only becomes wise when he begins to calculate the approximate depth of his ignorance.” ~ Gian Carlo Menotti

“I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.” ~ Abraham Lincoln

“We seem to gain wisdom more readily through our failures than through our successes. We always think of failure as the antithesis of success, but it isn’t. Success often lies just the other side of failure.” ~ Leo F. Buscaglia

“A wise man makes his own decisions, an ignorant man follows public opinion.” ~ Chinese Proverb

“By three methods we may learn wisdom: first, by reflection, which is noblest; second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third, by experience, which is the most bitter.” ~ Confucius

Life Quotes

It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded – Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed- Dale Carnegie

To retaliate in kind would do nothing but intensify the existence of hate in the universe. Along the way of life, someone must have sense enough, and morality enough, to cut off the chain of hate. –Martin Luther King Jr

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love. ~ Sophocles

People need love even when they don’t deserve it. ~ Nikki Ledbetter

I wonder how many people never get the one they want, but end up with the one they’re supposed to have- Fried Green Tomatoes

I don’t know. It’s like, there’s this person that you want to be for other people. To make them proud of you. And then there’s you. And sometimes it’s hard to tell where one ends and the other begins. – Dawson’s Creek

Everyone can be okay, but it takes a real person to smile through the pain. – Michaela Marie

Courage is not defined by those who fought and did not fall … but those who fought, fell, and rose again. – Unknown

When you spend your life worrying about how others feel, you lose track of how you feel. – Unknown

I think that somehow, we learn who we really are and then live with that decision. – Eleanor Roosevelt

It’s impossible to please everyone so I suggest we all stop trying. – Jennifer Aniston

The world is so much better when you’re dreaming… – The Youth Ahead

When things are perfect, that’s when you need to worry most. – Drew Barrymore

If you tell the truth, you don’t have o remember anything- Mark Twain

Life QuotesSurround yourself with people you love being yourself with. – Unknown

You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection. – Buddha

Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter –MLK Jr.

Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth- Benjamin Disraeli

Sometimes paper is the only thing that will listen to you. – Unknown

Your life is the sum result of all the choices you make, both consciously and unconsciously. If you can control the process of choosing, you can take control of all aspects of your life. You can find the freedom that comes from being in charge of yourself. – Robert F. Bennett

Laughter gives us distance. It allows us to step back from an event, deal with it and then move on.- Bob Newhart

Forgiving is not forgetting, it’s letting go of the hurt. – Unknown

If you want to hear the truth, listen to the heart, because it doesn’t know how to lie- Gingerale

No matter the consequence those who are honest with themselves get further in life. – Unknown

Life is like fresh fallen snow, be careful where you walk, for every step will show. – Unknown

You never find yourself until you face the truth.- Pearl Bailey

Don’t put too much in any one person…they have a habit of taking more than you may be prepared to give. – Unknown

The most wasted day of all is that which we have not laughed. – Unknown

In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility. – Eleanor Roosevelt

What we call the secret of happiness is no more a secret than our willingness to choose life. – Leo Buscaglia

Once in a while it really hits people that they don’t have to experience the world in the way they have been told to.- Alan Keightley

If youre going to get in trouble for hitting someone, you might as well do it hard. – Unknown

Funny, sometimes it’s the smallest decistions that change your life forever. – Unknown

When I do something great, no one ever seems to remember, but when I do something wrong, no one can ever seem to forget. – Unknown

Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% of how you respond to it. – Unknown

To be persuasive, we must be believable. To be believable, we must be credible. To be credible, we must be truthful.- Hellmut Walters

Truth isn’t always beauty, but the hunger for it is.- Nadine Gordimer

Learn to see things as they really are, not as we imagine they are. – Vernon Howard

There is no shame in finding someone else to be attractive, or good company. Even if they don’t like you, there is still no shame. If you happen to be fond of someone, and they’re not fond of you, it’s OK…You don’t have to wait and see if they’ll love you back. You can announce it…Joy in life comes from expressing ourselves, in taking risks and jumping in. Everyone is not going to like you. But you can like who you like.- Andrew Matthews

Long Life Quotes

There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last. – Robert Louis Stevenson

You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream. – C. S. Lewis

We don’t stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing. – George Bernard Shaw

Grow old along with me, the best is yet to be. – Robert Browning

In the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years. – Abraham Lincoln

Every one desires to live long, but no one would be old. – Abraham Lincoln

It takes a long time to become young. – Pablo Picasso

Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong. – Winston Churchill

None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm. – Henry David Thoreau

In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility. – Eleanor Roosevelt

With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts. – Eleanor Roosevelt

It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop. – Confucius

Life well spent is long. – Leonardo da Vinci

A comfortable old age is the reward of a well-spent youth. Instead of its bringing sad and melancholy prospects of decay, it would give us hopes of eternal youth in a better world. – Maurice Chevalier

My only fear is that I may live too long. This would be a subject of dread to me. – Thomas Jefferson

For having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged, by better information or fuller consideration, to change opinions, even on important subjects, which I once thought right but found to be otherwise. – Benjamin Franklin

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young. – Henry Ford

The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Immortality is a long shot, I admit. But somebody has to be first. – Bill Cosby

Men cannot for long live hopefully unless they are embarked upon some great unifying enterprise – one for which they may pledge their lives, their fortunes and their honor. – C. A. Dykstra

Error is acceptable as long as we are young; but one must not drag it along into old age. – Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Getting older is no problem. You just have to live long enough. – Groucho Marx

May you live all the days of your life. – Jonathan Swift

How old would you be if you didn’t know how old you are? – Satchel Paige