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Great powers can tend to be casual because the situation is not existential. This increases the cost of doing what is necessary. — George Friedman

Ordinary leaders move mounds,
good leaders move hills,
but great leaders move mountains. — Matshona Dhliwayo

While Lyndon Johnson was not, as his two assistants knew, a reader of books, he was, they knew, a reader of men - a great reader of men. — Robert A. Caro

The great illusion of leadership is to think that man can be led out of the desert by someone who has never been there. — Henri J.M. Nouwen

Few things feel as unbelievably great as working out hard. — Robin Sharma

True leadership has people who follow when they have the freedom not to. — James C. Collins

To overcome something great you must first learn to overcome your own fears. — Nikki Rowe

Impersonators, with time give up hope, but great leaders imitate with discretion. — S. E. Entsua-Mensah

Knowing that we can make a difference in this world is a great motivator. How can we know this and not be involved? — Susan Jeffers

Listen with your eyes as well as your ears. — Graham Speechley

Great leadership usually starts with a willing heart,
a positive attitude, and a desire to make a difference. — Mac Anderson

Leadership is your ability to hide your panic from others. — Laozi

A great strategy meeting is a meeting of minds. — Max McKeown

I never fired anyone for telling me I was wrong. — Graham Speechley

Great literature is like moral leadership; everyone deplores the lack of it, but there is a tendency to prefer it from the safely dead. — Shirley Hazzard

What you can't enforce, do not command. — Sophocles

the pen is as wise as the mind that speaks through it — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

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 are not defined by the absence of weakness, but rather by the presence of clear strengths. — John Peter Zenger

The key to long term success in the marketplace is to build relationships & acquire leadership skills that can build great teams. — JR

Great leadership has more to do with character, courage, and conviction than it does with specific skills or competencies. — William A. Adams

It takes healthy, resilient leaders and employees to achieve great results. — Sue Tetzlaff

(We need) leadership that is tough enough to demand a great deal from everyone, and leadership that is tender enough to encourage the heart. — Thomas J. Sergiovanni

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Jeb Bush is my friend. I think he'd make a great president. I've nudged him for some time. — John Boehner

The great leaders have always stage-managed their effects. — Charles De Gaulle

Not everyone is born a great leader, but anyone can foster core leadership competencies for themselves and become actionable, effective leaders. — Ravinder Tulsiani

Great leadership is not about giving orders, it's about taking others — Saji Ijiyemi

No great manager or leader ever fell from heaven, its learned not inherited. — Tom Northup

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

When you empower others to be great, you become a great leader. — Debasish Mridha

Greatness demands great courage. — Debasish Mridha

Success means leaving everything behind and standing persistently towards our aims with great determination. — Rajasaraswathii

Great masters merit emulation, not worship. — Alan Cohen

Caesar broke the law when he crossed the Rubicon," Frank said. "Great leaders have to think out side the box sometimes. — Rick Riordan

We're looking forward to a great season at the University of California - if we find a way to put cleats on their sandals. — Ronald Reagan

You must be a servant if you want to be great in life — Sunday Adelaja

A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don't necessarily want to go, but ought to be. — Rosalynn Carter

The great actors always play themselves. — Scott Farris

Discontented people are exactly the kind of people that made America so Great. Sometimes it's good to be frustrated; it leads to change. — Bradford Winters

You become like that, what you admire most. By admiring excellence and practicing, it can boost you to become excellent. — Mark LaMoure

Only a person who perceives that all human beings are important can become a great leader. — Auliq Ice

Every great leader has incredible odds to overcome. — Wayde Goodall

Do you know great people are continually quoted while the average always misquote great people? — Onyi Anyado

We play with enthusiasm and recklessness. We aren't afraid to lose. If we win, great; but win or lose, it is the competition that gives us pleasure. — Joe Paterno

Great leaders create more leaders, not followers. — Roy T. Bennett

Our values define who we're. Never met great persons who kept compromising their values. Let's go beyond lip service to defend our values... — Assegid Habtewold

An army of sheep led by a lion is better than an army of lions led by a sheep. — Alexander The Great

The dark comes before dawn. The financial markets are under great pressure because of the lack of leadership during the transition period. — George Soros

The reputation of a great work ethic that took years to build can be forgotten with one act of misjudgment. — Mark W. Boyer

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

Work without joy is drudgery. Drudgery does not produce champions, nor does it produce great organizations. — John Wooden

By connecting and being part of a community with a shared vision and goals, we can create great things. — David J. Greer

Leave the fishing-rod, Great General, to us sovereigns of Pharos and Canopus. Your game is cities and kings and continents. — Cleopatra

Surround yourself with great people; delegate authority; get out of the way — Ronald Reagan

Leadership is an ability to have a great vision for the future and the ability to inspire others to follow. — Debasish Mridha

Great leaders are the first to say, "I was wrong. Let's make a change. — Beth Ramsay

Serve one another with great humility. — Lailah Gifty Akita

You can't be a great leader if your heart is not filled with greatness. — Debasish Mridha

Great leaders are teachable leaders. — Gary Rohrmayer

Great journeys live long in the memory of those who participate in them — John Stein

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

Wouldn't it be great if life was only Legos? If we could give our kids the right, simple building blocks? — Chris Bent

He is not the leader of great causes, but the broker of little ones. — Robert A. Caro

Great leaders make leadership look so easy. — Pat Heim

I'm not perfect and the older I get the more I realise that. — Graham Speechley

The mark of a great man is one who knows when to set aside the important things in order to accomplish the vital ones. — Brandon Sanderson

The mediocre leader tells. The good leader explains. The superior leader demonstrates. The great leader inspires. — Gary Patton

Don't just stand back and play the way you're coached. A great player must rise to the occasion and turn the game around on his own. — Joe Paterno

The Court's great power is its ability to educate, to provide moral leadership. — William O. Douglas

Great business leaders of our time stand above the crowd not because of what they do, but what they don't do. — Shawn Casemore

Emperors are not made from cowards; they are made from those who take great risk where there stands to be even greater gain. — A.J. Darkholme

Absolute identity with one's cause is the first and great condition of successful leadership. — Woodrow Wilson

In the great mass of our people there are plenty individuals of intelligence from among whom leadership can be recruited. — Herbert Hoover

To be an enduring, great company, you have to build a mechanism for preventing or solving problems that will long outlast any one individual leader. — Howard Schultz

No leader, however great, can long continue unless he wins battles. The battle decides all. — Vince Lombardi

Great leaders create memorable journeys — John Stein

If one wishes to be a great project manager, one needs to talk less and write more. — GE Paulus

The great political problem in our modern democracy is how to induce our leaders to lead. — Edward L. Bernays

Leaders become great, not because of their power, but because of their ability to empower others. — John C. Maxwell

Great leadership is by definition relentlessly developmental. — Bill Hybels

The defining qualities that will distinguish great leaders from the rest are stemmed from the mindset level. — Pearl Zhu

By acknowledging our boundaries and limitations, we attain greater heights than we ever will by appearing to think we know everything. — Graham Speechley

The Senate used to be a place of great debate and accomplishment. Now it is run like a dictatorship shutting out the voices of millions of Americans. — John Cornyn

It is unfortunate, that many in positions of leadership, both great and small, have been found guilty of such practices — Anonymous

I want you to be a connoisseur of great questions? Here's one - what would we do if we had no money? — Jeff Henderson

The idea that the UN system could provide real leadership on the great development challenges will strain credulity in some quarters. — Jeffrey Sachs

It is through aversion to hardship that great ideas are born, but it is only through acceptance of it that these ideas can be implemented — Agona Apell

Great leadership produces great success.
Weak leadership produces failure. — Ellen J. Barrier

At the heart of great leadership is a curious mind, heart, and spirit. — Chip Conley

When people feel trusted, they'll begin to understand they are contributors--and you'll get great ideas and happy people. — Eunice Parisi-Carew

No person can be a great leader unless he takes genuine joy in the successes of those under him. — W. H. Auden

A leader does not develop leadership by gaining more followers. Great leaders make more leaders. — J.R. Rim

No great leader can be made by image-builders. — Ymatruz

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

My job is to teach them to believe they could perform better than they realize. Great coaches teach athletes to go beyond the barriers. — John Roderick

Opportunities loiter in every corner. Everyone may see them, but it's only great leaders that stop by to give them lifts! — Israelmore Ayivor

Don't wait to be a great man; be a great boy! — Ralph Jordan