Leadership Quotes - T's

Fabulous leadership quotes from: Tallyrand, Margaret Thatcher, Mother Theresa, Lao-Tse, Lao-Tzu, Mark Twain, Leo Tolstoy, J.R.R. Tolkein, Henry David Thoreau, Donald Trump, William Makepeace Thackeray, Harry S Truman and many more.

"To lead people, walk beside them ... As for the best leaders, the people do not notice their existence. The next best, the people honour and praise. The next, the people fear; and the next, the people hate ... When the best leader's work is done the people say, 'We did it ourselves!'"— Lao-Tsu

"Men make history and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skilful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better."— Harry Truman

"Truth persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading" - Quintus Septimius Tertullianus

"A leader is best when people barely know he exists, not so good when people obey and acclaim him, worst when they despise him. But of a good leader, who talks little, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say, 'We did this ourselves.'"— Lao-Tse

"Despotism may govern without faith, but Liberty cannot" - Alexis De Tocqueville

"If you have the right knowledge you can substitute it for all the other facts of production" - Alvin Tofler

"Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers" - Alfred Lord Tennyson

"The illiterate of the 21st Century will not be those who cannot read or write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn and relearn." - Alvin Toffler

"You've got to think about big things while you're doing small things, so that all the small things go in the right direction" - Alvin Toffler

"As long as you are going to be thinking anyway, THINK BIG" - Donald Trump

"Instead of waiting for someone to take you under his wing, go out and find a wing to climb under" - David Thomas

"In every triumph there's a lot of try" - Frank Tyger

"The international manager reconciles cultural dilemmas" - Fons Trompenaars

"Your future depends on many things, but mostly on you" - Frank Tyger

"I never did give anybody hell, I just told the truth, and they thought it was hell" - Harry S Truman

"If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavours to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with success unexpected in common hours" - Henry David Thoreau

"If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost ... now put foundations under them" - Henry David Thoreau

"Leadership is the ability to get men to do what they don't want to do and like it" - Harry S. Truman

"Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it" - Henry David Thoreau

"Things do not change: we change" - Henry David Thoreau

"Not all those who wander are lost" - J.R.R. Tolkien

"He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still" - Lao-Tzu

"We learn the rope of life by untying its knots" - Jean Toomer

"A Leader is best when people barely know he exists. Not so good when people obey and acclaim him. Worse when they despise him. But of a good leader who talks little when his work is done ... they will say "We did it ourselves"" - Lao-Tzu

"Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself" - Leo Tolstoy

"When the effective leader is finished with his work, the people say that it happened naturally." - Lao Tse

"Be kind and merciful. Let no one ever come to you without coming away better and happier" - Mother Theresa

"Disciplining yourself to do what you know is right and importance, although difficult, is the high road to pride, self-esteem, and personal satisfaction" - Margaret Thatcher

"Success is a journey, not a destination. It requires constant effort, vigilance and re-evaluation" - Mark Twain

"The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and the lightning bug" - Mark Twain

"The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them" - Mark Twain

"The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex, overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and then starting on the first one" - Mark Twain

"Unless we change our ways and our direction, our greatness as a nation will soon be a footnote in the history books, a distant memory of an offshore island, lost in the mists of time like Camelot" - Margaret Thatcher

"What is success? I think it is a mixture of having a flair for the thing that you are doing; knowing that it is not enough, that you have got to have hard work and a certain sense of purpose" - Margaret Thatcher

"Life's greatest gift is natural talent" - P. K. Thomajan

"Man is asked to make of himself what he is supposed to become to fulfil his destiny." - Paul Tillich

"Out of the frying pan into the fire" - Quintus Septimius Tertullianus

"Big companies are small companies that succeeded" - Robert Townsend

"Opportunities multiply as they are seized" - Sun Tzu

"The general who wins the battle makes many calculations in his temple before his battle is fought. The general who loses makes but few calculations beforehand" - Sun Tzu

"I am more afraid of an army of 100 sheep led by a lion than an army of 100 lions led by a sheep" - Talleyrand

"Reason and judgement are the qualities of a leader" - Tacitus

"Never lose a chance of saying a kind word" - William Makepeace Thackeray

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