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Famous Leadership Quotes
From George Washington to Martin Luther King, JR., to Margaret Thatcher, Great Quotes from Great Leaders offers the insights and wisdom of the world's most inspirational and dynamic leaders. You will not only be uplifted by the quotes and you will be moved to share these thoughts with colleagues.
1. Everyone has the
POWER FOR GREATNESS,
not for fame but greatness
because greatness is
determined by service.
~Martin Luther King Jr.
2. IN THE END, WE WILL REMEMBER
NOT THE WORDS OF OUR ENEMIES,
BUT THE SILENCE OF
OUR FRIEND.
~Martin Luther King Jr.
3. I have a dream that my four little children
will one day live in a nations where
they will not be judged by the color
of their skin, but by the content
of their character.
~Martin Luther King Jr.
4. Darkness cannot drive out darkness;
only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate;
only Love can do that.
~Martin Luther King Jr.
5 . OUR LIVES BEGIN TO END THE DAY
WE BECOME SILENT ABOUT THINGS
THAT MATTER.
~Martin Luther King Jr.
6. And in the end it's not the years
in your life that count. It's the life
in your years.
in your life that count. It's the life
in your years.
~Abraham Lincoln
7. Nearly all man can stand adversity,
but if you want to test a man's character,
give him power.
~Abraham Lincoln
8. DISCIPLINE
is choosing between
what you want now
and what you
want most.
~Abraham Lincoln
9. WHEN YOU REACH THE END OF
YOUR ROPE, TIE A KNOT AND
HANG ON.
~Abraham Lincoln
10. BETTER TO REMAIN SILENT
AND BE THOUGHT A FOOL
THAN TO SPEAK OUT AND
REMOVE ALL DOUBTS.
~Abraham Lincoln
11. A MAN IS BUT THE PRODUCT
OF HIS THOUGHTS WHAT HE
THINKS, HE BECOMES.
~Mahatma Gandhi
12. It's easy to stand with the crowd.
It takes courage to stand alone.
~Mahatma Gandhi
13. You must not lose faith in humanity.
Humanity is like an ocean; if a few drops of the
ocean are dirty, the ocean does
not become dirty.
~Mahatma Gandhi
14. THE BEST WAY TO FIND YOURSELF
IS TO LOOSE YOURSELF IN THE
SERVICE OF OTHERS.
~Mahatma Gandhi
15. I WILL NOT LET ANYONE WALK
THROUGH MY MIND WITH THEIR
DIRTY FEET.
~Mahatma Gandhi
16. Everyone can rise above their
circumstances and achieve success if they
are dedicated to and passionate
about what they want.
~Nelson Mandela
17.The more informed you are,
the less arrogant and aggressive you are.
~Nelson Mandela
18. It always seems impossible
until it's done.
~Nelson Mandela
19. Do not judge me by my success
judge me by how many times
I fell down and get back
up again.
~Nelson Mandela
20. I learned that courage was not
the absence of fear, but the triumph over it.
The brave man is not he who does
not feel afraid, but he who
conquers that fear.
~Nelson Mandela
21. The worst wheel of the cart
makes the most noise.
~Benjamin Franklin
22. By failing to prepare,
you are preparing to fail.
~Benjamin Franklin
23. Half a truth
is often a great lie.
~Benjamin Franklin
24. I do not fail the test,
I just found 100 ways
to do it wrong.
~Franklin Benjamin
25. Do not fear mistakes.
You will know failure.
Continue to reach it.
~Benjamin Franklin
26. Any society that would give up
a little liberty to gain a little security
will deserve neither and lose both.
~Benjamin Franklin
27. Any fool can criticize,
condemn and complain
and most fool do.
~Benjamin Franklin
28. A pessimist sees the difficulty in
every opportunity; an optimist sees the
opportunity in every difficulty.
~Winston Churchill
29. Success is not final,
failure is not fatal; it is the courage to
continue that counts.
~Winston Churchill
30. It is a mistake to look too far
ahead. Only one link in the chain of destiny
can be handled at a time.
~Winston Churchill
31. Never bend your head.
Hold it high. Look the world
straight in the eye.
~Helen Keller
32. Life is either a daring
adventure or nothing.
~Helen Keller
33. When one door of happiness closes.
Another opens. But often we look so long at
the closed door that we do not see the
one that has been opened for us.
~Helen Keller
34. Optimism is the faith that leads.
the achievement. Nothing can be done
without hope and confidence.
~Helen Keller
35. You cannot touch love.....
But you can feel the sweetness
it pours into everything.
~Helen Keller
36. Life is a series of experiences, each one
of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes
it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks, and gives which we endure help us
in our marching onward.
~Henry Ford
37. Whether you think that you can,
or that you can't, you are right.
~Henry Ford
38. If money is your hope for independence
you will never have it. The only real security that
a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
~Henry Ford
39. Any one who stops learning is old
whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who
keeps learning stays young.
~Henry Ford
40. When everything seems to be going
against you, remember that the airplane takes off
against the wind, not with it.
~Henry Ford
41. YOU CAN DO ANYTHING
IF YOU HAVE ENTHUSIASM.
~Henry Ford
42. FAILURE IS SIMPLY
THE OPPORTUNITY TO BEGIN AGAIN,
THIS TIME MORE INTELLIGENTLY.
~Henry Ford
43. YOU CAN'T BUILD A REPUTATION
ON WHAT YOU'RE GOING TO DO.
~Henry Ford
44. Even a mistake may turn out
to be the one thing necessary to a
worthwhile achievement.
~Henry Ford
45. OBSTACLES are those
frightful things you see when you take
your eyes off your GOALS.
~Henry Ford
46. Every body is genius. But if you
judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree
it will live its whole life believing
that is stupid.
~Albert Einstein
47. A PERSON WHO NEVER MADE
A MISTAKE. NEVER TRIED
NEW THING.
~Albert Einstein
48. THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN
STUPIDITY AND GENIUS IS THAT
GENIUS HAS ITS LIMITS.
~Albert Einstein
49. IMAGINATION IS
MORE IMPORTANT THAN
KNOWLEDGE.
~Albert Einstein
50. IF YOU WANT TO LIVE
A HAPPY LIFE, TIE IT TO A GOAL,
NOT TO PEOPLE OR OBJECTS.
~Albert Einstein
51. Any man who who can drive safely
while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving
the kiss the attention it deserves.
~Albert Einstein
52. The world will not be destroyed
by those who do evil, but by those watch
them without doing anything.
Albert Einstein
53. Education is not the learning
of facts, but the training of
the mind to think.
~Albert Einstein
54. THE TRUE SIGN OF
INTELLIGENCE IS NOT KNOWLEDGE
BUT IMAGINATION.
~Albert Einstein
55. Try not to become a man of
success rather try to become
a man of value.
~Albert Einstein
56. All the adversity I've had in my life,
all my troubles and obstacles, have strengthened me.........you may not realized it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best
thing in the world for you.
~Walt Disney
57. HAPPINESS is a state of mind.
It's just according to the way you
look at thing.
~Walt Disney
58. All our DREAMS
can true if we have the courage
to PURSUE them.
~Walt Disney
59. We keep moving forward,
opening new doors, and doing new things,
because we're curious and curiosity keeps
leading us down new things.
~Walt Disney
60. If you can dream it,
you can do it. Remember that this
whole thing started with a dreams
and a mouse.
~Walt Disney
61. The more you like yourself,
The less you are like anyone else,
Which makes you unique.
~Walt Disney
62. LAUGHTER is timeless.
IMAGINATION has no age.
And DREAMS are forever.
~Walt Disney
63. Faith is the most important thing
If you believe in something, believe it till the end, unequivocally and without hesitation.
~Walt Disney
64. Do a Good a Job.
You don't have to worry about the money.
It will take care of itself.
Just do you best work.
~Walt Disney
65. In bad times and good,
I have never lost my sense of
ZEST for LIFE.
~Walt Disney
66. The future belongs to those
who believe in the beauty of their
DREAMS.
~Eleanor Roosevelt
67. NO ONE CAN MAKE
YOU FEEL INFERIOR WITHOUT
CONSENT.
~Eleanor Roosevelt
68. Great Minds discuss IDEAS,
Average Minds discuss EVENTS,
Small Minds discuss PEOPLE.
~Eleanor Roosevelt
69. YOU MUST DO THE THINGS
YOU THINK YOU CANNOT DO.
~Eleanor Roosevelt
70. DO ONE THINGS EVERY DAY
THAT SCARES YOU.
~Eleanor Roosevelt
71. Many people will walk in and out
of your life, but only true friends will leave
footprints on your heart.
~Eleanor Roosevelt
72. LIFE IS
WHAT YOU MAKE IT.
ALWAYS HAS BEEN,
ALWAYS WILL BE,
~Eleanor Roosevelt
73. The purpose of life is to live it.
To taste experience to the utmost. To reach out
eagerly and without fear for newer and
Richer Experience.
~Eleanor Roosevelt
74. An 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
75. If someone betrays you once,
it's their fault; if they betray you twice;
it's your fault.
~Eleanor Roosevelt
76. I alone cannot change the world,
but I can cast a stone across the waters
to create many ripples.
~Mother Teresa
77. Kind words are short and easy
to speak, but their echoes are
truly endless.
~Mother Teresa
78. IF YOU JUDGE PEOPLE,
YOU HAVE NO TIME TO
LOVE HIM.
~Mother Teresa
79. The hunger for love is
much more difficult to remove than
the hunger for bread.
~Mother Teresa
80. NOT ALL OF US
CAN DO GREAT THINGS.
BUT WE CAN DO SMALL THINGS
WITH GREAT LOVE.
~Mother Teresa
81. Don't expect your friend
to be a perfect person. But help your
friend to become a perfect person.
That's true friendship.
~Mother Teresa
82. When the people fear the
government there is tyranny; when the
government fears the people
there is liberty
~Thomas Jefferson
83. That government is best
which governs the least, because its
people discipline themselves.
~Thomas Jefferson
84. Our greatest happiness does not depend on
the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but it always the result of good conscience,
good health, occupation, and freedom
in all just pursuits.
~Thomas Jefferson
85. DO YOU WANT TO KNOW
WHO YOU ARE? DON'T ASK. ACT IT!
ACTION WILL DELINEATE AND
DEFINE YOU.
~Thomas Jefferson
86. The end of democracy and the
defeat of the American Revolution will
occur when government falls into
the hands of lending institutions
and moneyed incorporation.
~Thomas Jefferson
87. Its easy to have principles
when you're rich. The important thing
is to have principles when you're poor.
~Ray Kroc
88. If you work just for money,
you'll never make it, but if you love what you're doing and you always put the customers first, SUCCESS will be Yours.
~Ray Kroc
89. Luck is the dividend of sweat.
The more you sweat, the
luckier you get.
~Ray Kroc
90. The quality of a leader
is reflected in the standards they
set for themselves.
~Ray Kroc
91. If you're not a risk taker,
you should get the hell
out of business.
~Ray Kroc
92. COMMITMENT IS
THE KEY TO SUCCESS TO
EVERYTHING.
~Sam Walton
93. Outstanding leaders go
out of their way to boost the self-esteem
of their personnel. If people believed
in themselves, it's amazing what
they can accomplish.
~Sam Walton
94. There is only on Boss.
The Customers. And he can fire
everybody in the company from
the Chairman on down, simply
by spending his money
somewhere else.
~Sam Walton
95. If you love your work,
you'll out there everyday trying to do
it the best you possibly can.
~Sam Walton
96. BELIEVE
YOU CAN AND YOU'RE
HALF THERE.
~Theodore Roosevelt
97. IT IS HARD TO FAIL,
BUT IT IS WORSE NEVER
TO HAVE TRIED TO
SUCCESS.
~Theodore Roosevelt.
98. DO WHAT YOU CAN,
WITH WHAT YOU HAVE,
WHERE YOU ARE.
~Theodore Roosevelt
99. I care not what others think
of what I do, but I care very much about
what I think of what I do!
That is the character!
~Theodore Roosevelt
100. The things that will destroy America
are Prosperity-at-any-Price, Peace-at-any-price,
Safety-first instead of Duty-First, the love
of Soft living, and the Get-Rich-Quick
Theory of Life.
~Theodore Roosevelt
21. The worst wheel of the cart
makes the most noise.
~Benjamin Franklin
22. By failing to prepare,
you are preparing to fail.
~Benjamin Franklin
23. Half a truth
is often a great lie.
~Benjamin Franklin
24. I do not fail the test,
I just found 100 ways
to do it wrong.
~Franklin Benjamin
25. Do not fear mistakes.
You will know failure.
Continue to reach it.
~Benjamin Franklin
26. Any society that would give up
a little liberty to gain a little security
will deserve neither and lose both.
~Benjamin Franklin
27. Any fool can criticize,
condemn and complain
and most fool do.
~Benjamin Franklin
28. A pessimist sees the difficulty in
every opportunity; an optimist sees the
opportunity in every difficulty.
~Winston Churchill
29. Success is not final,
failure is not fatal; it is the courage to
continue that counts.
~Winston Churchill
30. It is a mistake to look too far
ahead. Only one link in the chain of destiny
can be handled at a time.
~Winston Churchill
31. Never bend your head.
Hold it high. Look the world
straight in the eye.
~Helen Keller
32. Life is either a daring
adventure or nothing.
~Helen Keller
33. When one door of happiness closes.
Another opens. But often we look so long at
the closed door that we do not see the
one that has been opened for us.
~Helen Keller
34. Optimism is the faith that leads.
the achievement. Nothing can be done
without hope and confidence.
~Helen Keller
35. You cannot touch love.....
But you can feel the sweetness
it pours into everything.
~Helen Keller
36. Life is a series of experiences, each one
of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes
it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks, and gives which we endure help us
in our marching onward.
~Henry Ford
37. Whether you think that you can,
or that you can't, you are right.
~Henry Ford
38. If money is your hope for independence
you will never have it. The only real security that
a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
~Henry Ford
39. Any one who stops learning is old
whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who
keeps learning stays young.
~Henry Ford
40. When everything seems to be going
against you, remember that the airplane takes off
against the wind, not with it.
~Henry Ford
41. YOU CAN DO ANYTHING
IF YOU HAVE ENTHUSIASM.
~Henry Ford
42. FAILURE IS SIMPLY
THE OPPORTUNITY TO BEGIN AGAIN,
THIS TIME MORE INTELLIGENTLY.
~Henry Ford
43. YOU CAN'T BUILD A REPUTATION
ON WHAT YOU'RE GOING TO DO.
~Henry Ford
44. Even a mistake may turn out
to be the one thing necessary to a
worthwhile achievement.
~Henry Ford
45. OBSTACLES are those
frightful things you see when you take
your eyes off your GOALS.
~Henry Ford
46. Every body is genius. But if you
judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree
it will live its whole life believing
that is stupid.
~Albert Einstein
47. A PERSON WHO NEVER MADE
A MISTAKE. NEVER TRIED
NEW THING.
~Albert Einstein
48. THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN
STUPIDITY AND GENIUS IS THAT
GENIUS HAS ITS LIMITS.
~Albert Einstein
49. IMAGINATION IS
MORE IMPORTANT THAN
KNOWLEDGE.
~Albert Einstein
50. IF YOU WANT TO LIVE
A HAPPY LIFE, TIE IT TO A GOAL,
NOT TO PEOPLE OR OBJECTS.
~Albert Einstein
51. Any man who who can drive safely
while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving
the kiss the attention it deserves.
~Albert Einstein
52. The world will not be destroyed
by those who do evil, but by those watch
them without doing anything.
Albert Einstein
53. Education is not the learning
of facts, but the training of
the mind to think.
~Albert Einstein
54. THE TRUE SIGN OF
INTELLIGENCE IS NOT KNOWLEDGE
BUT IMAGINATION.
~Albert Einstein
55. Try not to become a man of
success rather try to become
a man of value.
~Albert Einstein
56. All the adversity I've had in my life,
all my troubles and obstacles, have strengthened me.........you may not realized it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best
thing in the world for you.
~Walt Disney
57. HAPPINESS is a state of mind.
It's just according to the way you
look at thing.
~Walt Disney
58. All our DREAMS
can true if we have the courage
to PURSUE them.
~Walt Disney
59. We keep moving forward,
opening new doors, and doing new things,
because we're curious and curiosity keeps
leading us down new things.
~Walt Disney
60. If you can dream it,
you can do it. Remember that this
whole thing started with a dreams
and a mouse.
~Walt Disney
61. The more you like yourself,
The less you are like anyone else,
Which makes you unique.
~Walt Disney
62. LAUGHTER is timeless.
IMAGINATION has no age.
And DREAMS are forever.
~Walt Disney
63. Faith is the most important thing
If you believe in something, believe it till the end, unequivocally and without hesitation.
~Walt Disney
64. Do a Good a Job.
You don't have to worry about the money.
It will take care of itself.
Just do you best work.
~Walt Disney
65. In bad times and good,
I have never lost my sense of
ZEST for LIFE.
~Walt Disney
66. The future belongs to those
who believe in the beauty of their
DREAMS.
~Eleanor Roosevelt
67. NO ONE CAN MAKE
YOU FEEL INFERIOR WITHOUT
CONSENT.
~Eleanor Roosevelt
68. Great Minds discuss IDEAS,
Average Minds discuss EVENTS,
Small Minds discuss PEOPLE.
~Eleanor Roosevelt
69. YOU MUST DO THE THINGS
YOU THINK YOU CANNOT DO.
~Eleanor Roosevelt
70. DO ONE THINGS EVERY DAY
THAT SCARES YOU.
~Eleanor Roosevelt
71. Many people will walk in and out
of your life, but only true friends will leave
footprints on your heart.
~Eleanor Roosevelt
72. LIFE IS
WHAT YOU MAKE IT.
ALWAYS HAS BEEN,
ALWAYS WILL BE,
~Eleanor Roosevelt
73. The purpose of life is to live it.
To taste experience to the utmost. To reach out
eagerly and without fear for newer and
Richer Experience.
~Eleanor Roosevelt
74. An 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
75. If someone betrays you once,
it's their fault; if they betray you twice;
it's your fault.
~Eleanor Roosevelt
76. I alone cannot change the world,
but I can cast a stone across the waters
to create many ripples.
~Mother Teresa
77. Kind words are short and easy
to speak, but their echoes are
truly endless.
~Mother Teresa
78. IF YOU JUDGE PEOPLE,
YOU HAVE NO TIME TO
LOVE HIM.
~Mother Teresa
79. The hunger for love is
much more difficult to remove than
the hunger for bread.
~Mother Teresa
80. NOT ALL OF US
CAN DO GREAT THINGS.
BUT WE CAN DO SMALL THINGS
WITH GREAT LOVE.
~Mother Teresa
81. Don't expect your friend
to be a perfect person. But help your
friend to become a perfect person.
That's true friendship.
~Mother Teresa
82. When the people fear the
government there is tyranny; when the
government fears the people
there is liberty
~Thomas Jefferson
83. That government is best
which governs the least, because its
people discipline themselves.
~Thomas Jefferson
84. Our greatest happiness does not depend on
the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but it always the result of good conscience,
good health, occupation, and freedom
in all just pursuits.
~Thomas Jefferson
85. DO YOU WANT TO KNOW
WHO YOU ARE? DON'T ASK. ACT IT!
ACTION WILL DELINEATE AND
DEFINE YOU.
~Thomas Jefferson
86. The end of democracy and the
defeat of the American Revolution will
occur when government falls into
the hands of lending institutions
and moneyed incorporation.
~Thomas Jefferson
87. Its easy to have principles
when you're rich. The important thing
is to have principles when you're poor.
~Ray Kroc
88. If you work just for money,
you'll never make it, but if you love what you're doing and you always put the customers first, SUCCESS will be Yours.
~Ray Kroc
89. Luck is the dividend of sweat.
The more you sweat, the
luckier you get.
~Ray Kroc
90. The quality of a leader
is reflected in the standards they
set for themselves.
~Ray Kroc
91. If you're not a risk taker,
you should get the hell
out of business.
~Ray Kroc
92. COMMITMENT IS
THE KEY TO SUCCESS TO
EVERYTHING.
~Sam Walton
93. Outstanding leaders go
out of their way to boost the self-esteem
of their personnel. If people believed
in themselves, it's amazing what
they can accomplish.
~Sam Walton
94. There is only on Boss.
The Customers. And he can fire
everybody in the company from
the Chairman on down, simply
by spending his money
somewhere else.
~Sam Walton
95. If you love your work,
you'll out there everyday trying to do
it the best you possibly can.
~Sam Walton
96. BELIEVE
YOU CAN AND YOU'RE
HALF THERE.
~Theodore Roosevelt
97. IT IS HARD TO FAIL,
BUT IT IS WORSE NEVER
TO HAVE TRIED TO
SUCCESS.
~Theodore Roosevelt.
98. DO WHAT YOU CAN,
WITH WHAT YOU HAVE,
WHERE YOU ARE.
~Theodore Roosevelt
99. I care not what others think
of what I do, but I care very much about
what I think of what I do!
That is the character!
~Theodore Roosevelt
100. The things that will destroy America
are Prosperity-at-any-Price, Peace-at-any-price,
Safety-first instead of Duty-First, the love
of Soft living, and the Get-Rich-Quick
Theory of Life.
~Theodore Roosevelt
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