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120 Inspiring Leadership Quotes For Future Leaders | Churchill, FDR, and Napoleon on Leadership


What makes a great leader, great? While some of history's greatest leaders couldn't tell you why they were great leaders, their words can give us a pretty good clue. This story post is to inspire future leaders, the leaders of tomorrow. So here's what history's greatest leaders (and a few extra) had to say about what makes a good leader...


 

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Winston Churchill Quotes on Leadership




“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”

Winston Churchill



“You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.”

Winston Churchill



“History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.”

Winston Churchill



“Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.”

Winston Churchill



“Kites rise highest against the wind, not with it.”

Winston Churchill



“The price of greatness is responsibility.”

Winston Churchill



“To each there comes in their lifetime a special moment when they are figuratively tapped on the shoulder and offered the chance to do a very special thing, unique to them and fitted to their talents. What a tragedy if that moment finds them unprepared or unqualified for that which could have been their finest hour.”

Winston Churchill



“The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.”

Winston Churchill


 
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“You will never reach your destination if you stop and throw stones at every dog that barks.”

Winston Churchill



“Before you can inspire with emotion, you must be swamped with it yourself. Before you can move their tears, your own must flow. To convince them, you must yourself, believe.”

Winston Churchill



“Sometimes doing your best is not good enough. Sometimes you must do what is required.”

Winston Churchill



“Difficulties mastered are opportunities won.”

Winston Churchill


 

Julius Caesar Quotes on Leadership



“I assure you I had rather be the first man in a village than the second man in Rome.”

Julius Caesar



“Men in general are quick to believe that which they wish to be true.”

Julius Caesar



“It is better to suffer once than to be in perpetual apprehension.”

Julius Caesar



“What is out of sight disturbs men’s minds more seriously than what they see.”

Julius Caesar



“Experience is the teacher of all things.”

Julius Caesar



“A coward dies a thousand deaths, the gallant only taste death once.”

Julius Caesar