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Lead From the Front With Famous Leadership Quotes

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What are the virtues of a true leader? Are leaders born or made? Can you learn to be a leader? Find answers to these intriguing questions in these inspirational quotes on leadership. Discover your leadership potential.
    Edward Bulwer-Lytton
    The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself.

    Malcolm Forbes
    The best vision is insight.

    Thucydides
    The bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and yet notwithstanding, go out and meet it.

    Don Coryell
    The country is full of good coaches. What it takes to win is a bunch of interested players.

    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.

    John W Gardner
    The cynic says, "One man can't do anything". I say, "Only one man can do anything."

    Henry Ward Beecher
    The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one often comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't.

    Lucretius
    The drops of rain make a hole in the stone, not by violence, but by oft falling.

    Woodrow Wilson
    The ear of the leader must ring with the voices of the people.

    Andrew Carnegie
    The first one gets the oyster the second gets the shell.

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