Leadership isn’t an easy task or role to fill in. As a leader or potential one, you will have to set a good examples for others/followers. This is where your commitment, passion, empathy, honesty and integrity will be tested over and over again.
Having the right mindset, attitude and good-will towards the people you lead are major milestones in the pursuit of successful leadership.
Here are 17 quotes every leader must read:
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- It’s only after you’ve stepped outside your comfort zone that you begin to change, grow, and transform. ―
- Be grateful for what you already have while you pursue your goals. If you aren’t grateful for what you already have, what makes you think you would be happy with more. ―
- To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart. ―
- The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires. ―
- If you have a strong purpose in life, you don’t have to be pushed. Your passion will drive you there. ―
- Don’t follow the crowd, let the crowd follow you. ―
- The greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things. He is the one that gets the people to do the greatest things. ―
- Leadership is not about titles, positions or flowcharts. It is about one life influencing another. ―
- If you have a dream, don’t just sit there. Gather courage to believe that you can succeed and leave no stone unturned to make it a reality. ―
- If your actions create a legacy that inspires others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, then, you are an excellent leader. ―
- Don’t waste your energy trying to educate or change opinions; go over, under, through, and opinions will change organically when you’re the boss. Or they won’t. Who cares? Do your thing, and don’t care if they like it. ―
- Power isn’t control at all — power is strength, and giving that strength to others. A leader isn’t someone who forces others to make him stronger; a leader is someone willing to give his strength to others that they may have the strength to stand on their own. ―
- I have three precious things which I hold fast and prize. The first is gentleness; the second is frugality; the third is humility, which keeps me from putting myself before others. Be gentle and you can be bold; be frugal and you can be liberal; avoid putting yourself before others and you can become a leader among men. ―
- Only one man in a thousand is a leader of men — the other 999 follow women. ―
- If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work, and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea. ―
- Don’t tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results. ―
- Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things. ―
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