Greatness And Leadership Quotes

I can do small things in a great way.

I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples.

Greatness is not a function of circumstance. Greatness, it turns out, is largely a matter of conscious choice, and discipline.

A great leader's courage to fulfill his vision comes from passion, not position.

The task of leadership is not to put greatness into people, but to elicit it, for the greatness is there already.

The art of leadership is saying no, not saying yes. It is very easy to say yes.

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.

He who cannot be a good follower cannot be a good leader.

To lead people, walk behind them.

Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart.

The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them.

Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.

Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.

Do not follow where the path may lead.

Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.

Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.

If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.

Happiness is not so much in having as sharing. We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men.

A leader is best when people barely know that he exists.

A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.

Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.