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Great leaders always have self-discipline -without exception.
— John C. Maxwell
Great leaders don't succeed because they are great. They succeed because they bring out the greatness in others.
— Jon Gordon
Ordinary leaders move mounds,
good leaders move hills,
but great leaders move mountains. — Matshona Dhliwayo
good leaders move hills,
but great leaders move mountains. — Matshona Dhliwayo
Great leaders never accept the world as it was and always work for the world as it should be
— Condoleezza Rice
Impersonators, with time give up hope, but great leaders imitate with discretion.
— S. E. Entsua-Mensah
Great leaders have no need for reputation. Reputation is what you are in public. Character is who you are in private.
— Myles Munroe
Unquestioning obedience is hailed as a great virtue only by those leaders whose commands are highly questionable.
— George Hammond
What you can't enforce, do not command.
— Sophocles
The ability to stay calm and focused in the midst of change is what distinguishes great leaders from those just collecting a paycheck.
— Todd Stocker
In a servant leadership culture we learn by choice or example that if we want to be great, we have to serve others respectfully.
— Vern Dosch
Great leaders have a heart for people. They take time for people. They view people as the bottom line, not as a tool to get to the bottom line.
— Pat Williams
Great leaders are not defined by the absence of weakness, but rather by the presence of clear strengths.
— John Peter Zenger
Hines Ward, Plaxico Burress, Jerome Bettis-they are great leaders. I listen to everything they say.
— Ben Roethlisberger
Great leaders are willing to sacrifice the numbers to save the people. Poor leaders sacrifice the people to save the numbers.
— Simon Sinek
Leadership is all hype. We've had three great leaders in this century-Hitler, Stalin, and Mao.
— Peter Drucker
Great leadership is about human experiences, not processes.
— Lance Secretan
If you want to be a truly great leader, you'll develop other great leaders below you.
— Bo Schembechler
Remember that our nation's first great leaders were also our first great scholars.
— John F. Kennedy
If you want to become a great leader, you need to prepare yourself to become a great leader, and the best way to do that is to study great leaders.
— Bo Schembechler
Not everyone is born a great leader, but anyone can foster core leadership competencies for themselves and become actionable, effective leaders.
— Ravinder Tulsiani
Great leaders create more leaders, not followers.
— Roy T. Bennett
Very few of the great leaders ever get through their careers without failing, sometimes dramatically.
— Phil Crosby
Saladin had the same immediate successor as all the great Muslim leaders of his time: civil war. Barely had he died that his empire was dismembered.
— Amine Maalouf
If you will always remember your age and forget your dream, you will live great years and narrow impacts will come out of it.
— Israelmore Ayivor
Great leaders understand that the right attitude will set the right atmosphere, which enables the right response from others.
— John C. Maxwell
Great leaders don't play by the existing rules.
— Mark V. Hurd
It is a great privilege, as well as our responsibility, to pray for our government leaders.
— Billy Graham
The great leaders have always stage-managed their effects.
— Charles De Gaulle
Culture is more important than vision. Some leaders have great vision, but have created a toxic culture where that vision will never happen.
— Phil Cooke
Great Leaders do NOT break the law, not because of the fear of being caught but because of the fear of God & love for the land
— Fela Durotoye
True leaders must be willing to suffer for the sake of objectives great enough to demand their wholehearted obedience.
— J. Oswald Sanders
Great leaders love to see people grow. The day you are afraid of them being better than you is the day you fail as a leader.
— Jack Welch
DECISIVENESS SEPARATES GREAT LEADERS FROM DREAMERS AND TALKERS.
— Jack Canfield
It's no accident that most of the great black spokespersons and leaders understood the centrality of self-affirmation, self-respect and self-love.
— Cornel West
Average leaders inspire people to punch a time clock. Great leaders inspire industry and passion.
— Joseph B. Wirthlin
Good leaders ask great questions that inspire others to dream more, think more, learn more, do more, and become more.
— John C. Maxwell
Caesar broke the law when he crossed the Rubicon," Frank said. "Great leaders have to think out side the box sometimes.
— Rick Riordan
Great leaders inspire greatness in others.
— Lolly Daskal
Great leaders don't blame the tools they are given. Great leaders work to sharpen them.
— Simon Sinek
Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers who can cut through the argument debate and doubt to offer a solution everybody can understand.
— Colin Powell
Great leaders must have two things: a vision of the world that does not yet exist and the ability to communicate that vision clearly.
— Simon Sinek
Whatever you want is behind the mountain of struggles. Nothing great comes with ease.
— Israelmore Ayivor
Leaders stand out. Good leaders succeed. Great leaders make a difference in the world.
— Cheryl Richardson
Great leaders gain authority by giving it away.
— James Stockdale
Great leaders are never too proud to learn.
— John Donahoe
Great leaders communicate a vision that captures the imagination and fires the hearts and minds of those around them.
— Joseph B. Wirthlin
The major factor that makes a great leader to fail emerge from the decision of people who surround him/her.
— Israelmore Ayivor
Great leaders don't just know the sweet spots of their people. They tap into and unchain the infinite potential imprisoned within their people...
— Assegid Habtewold
Great leaders rally people to a better future.
— Marcus Buckingham
A leader does not develop leadership by gaining more followers. Great leaders make more leaders.
— J.R. Rim
People fail 2 ways: 1) don't know what to do 2) don't do what they know; therefore, great leaders must educate and inspire.
— Orrin Woodward
Great leaders are inspired by a challenge, a need, a problem, an issue that needs to be corrected.
— Del Suggs
Great leaders must be able to realize when something isn't working-no matter how hard they've worked to make it succeed.
— Jim Rohn
Opportunities loiter in every corner. Everyone may see them, but it's only great leaders that stop by to give them lifts!
— Israelmore Ayivor
Great leaders make people feel important.
— John Addison
Serve one another with great humility.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Great leaders are teachable leaders.
— Gary Rohrmayer
A great company in the media business needs visionary leaders, not a conglomerate structure headquartered in Columbus Circle that second guesses.
— Carl Icahn
This is all about having great leaders who can drive agile innovation and agile decision-making.
— Steve Ballmer
We all know that great leaders can create great successes.
— Kenneth C. Griffin
Great leaders focus on equipping their team. It is unfair to expect what you did not equip.
— Chris Hogan
Be wary of great leaders.
— Pete Seeger
Great leaders make leadership look so easy.
— Pat Heim
Lots of countries have great constitutions, but their leaders have a practice of ignoring the rules whenever they feel like it.
— Adam Davidson
Great leaders state out loud what they intend to do and in doing so, they get things done.
— Simon Sinek
The mediocre leader tells. The good leader explains. The superior leader demonstrates. The great leader inspires.
— Gary Patton
Great business leaders of our time stand above the crowd not because of what they do, but what they don't do.
— Shawn Casemore
Great leaders create memorable journeys
— John Stein
Great leaders don't need to act tough. Their confidence and humility serve to underscore their toughness.
— Simon Sinek
What great leaders have in common is that each truly knows his or her strengths - and can call on the right strength at the right time.
— Tom Rath
The captain of a ship can run a great ship, but he can't do anything about the tides.
— Matthew Norman
We always enter markets where the leaders are not doing a great job, so we can go in and disrupt them by offering better quality services.
— Richard Branson
Great leadership produces great success.
Weak leadership produces failure. — Ellen J. Barrier
Weak leadership produces failure. — Ellen J. Barrier
The great political problem in our modern democracy is how to induce our leaders to lead.
— Edward L. Bernays
Great leaders help their people see how they can directly impact the company's objectives and their own personal goals.
— Chip Conley
Leaders become great, not because of their power, but because of their ability to empower others.
— John C. Maxwell
Great charismatic leaders don't just say what voters want to hear; they say what voters want to say.
— C.L. Gammon
More people can be great leaders than think they can, but they need a purpose greater than themselves.
— William J. Clinton
If I can inspire some leaders, that would be great. I don't know if I want to be a leader.
— Joe Wurzelbacher
The defining qualities that will distinguish great leaders from the rest are stemmed from the mindset level.
— Pearl Zhu
I'll proudly stand with one of the great leaders this state and country have ever produced: Rick Perry.
— Taya Kyle
Leaders must be released from the idea that they must be great prayer warriors before they can begin to call others to prayer.
— David Bryant
The downfall of any great nation ... always comes at the hands of it's pompous and insensitive leaders.
— Timothy Pina
Great leaders see money as fuel, not a destination.
— Simon Sinek
America is a country of entrepreneurship and great business leaders.
— Nicky Oppenheimer
It's a pity that the land of great leaders like Chandragupta Maurya, Ashoka and Akbar, has to be led by a dummy PM. - Shruti Ranjan
— Tuhin A. Sinha
Great leaders are comfortable with conflict....not because we enjoy it, but because we are eager to get beyond it.
— Lana Krumwiede
Great obstacles make great leaders.
— Billy Diamond