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List of leadership quotes
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This is a list of leadership quotes
Bad leaders
In countries where innocent people are dying, the leaders are following their blood rather than their brains.
Nelson Mandela
Becoming presidentIn my country we go to prison first and then become President.
Nelson Mandela
Enlightened leadershipEnlightened leadership is spiritual if we understand spirituality not as some kind of religious dogma or ideology but as the domain of awareness where we experience values like truth, goodness, beauty, love and compassion, and also intuition, creativity, insight and focused attention.
Deepak Chopra
Genuine leaders
Getting along with peopleI suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people.
Mahatma Gandhi
Good leadersA good leader can engage in a debate frankly and thoroughly, knowing that at the end he and the other side must be closer, and thus emerge stronger. You don't have that idea when you are arrogant, superficial, and uninformed.
Nelson Mandela
How leadership is appreciatedIt is better to lead from behind and to put others in front, especially when you celebrate victory when nice things occur. You take the front line when there is danger. Then people will appreciate your leadership.
Nelson Mandela
Leader and bossPeople ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader leads, and the boss drives.
Theodore Roosevelt
LeadersAs we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.
Bill Gates
Molder of consensus
Not a messiahI was not a messiah, but an ordinary man who had become a leader because of extraordinary circumstances.
Nelson Mandela
Not a prophetI stand here before you not as a prophet, but as a humble servant of you, the people.
Nelson Mandela
We did it ourselvesWhen the best leader's work is done the people say, 'We did it ourselves.'
Lao Tzu
Wisely led silodiersTen soldiers wisely led will beat a hundred without a head.
Euripides
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