Leadership Quotes - E's and F's

Here are some fabulous leadership quotes from Dwight Eisenhower, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ben Franklin, Albert Einstein, Thomas Edison and Wyatt Earp...plus many more:

"You do not lead by hitting people over the head — that's assault, not leadership."— Dwight D. Eisenhower

"Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be."— Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The harder I worked, the luckier I got" - Sid Friedman

"She refused to be bored chiefly because she wasn’t boring" - Zelda Fitzgerald

"Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new" - Albert Einstein

"Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds" - Albert Einstein

"Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world" - Albert Einstein

"Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results" - Albert Einstein

"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former" - Albert Einstein

"Study and, in general, the pursuit of truth and beauty is the sphere in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives" - Albert Einstein

"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science" - Albert Einstein

"The significant problems we face today cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them" - Albert Einstein

"The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards" - Anatole France

"The world is a dangerous place to live, not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it" - Albert Einstein

"To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe" - Anatole France

"Diligence is the mother of good luck" - Benjamin Franklin

"If you would not be forgotten, as soon as you are dead and rotten, either write things worth reading, or do things worth the writing." - Benjamin Franklin

"Before a battle, planning is everything. Once the fighting has begun, it's worthless" - Dwight D. Eisenhower

"Even if I don't reach all my goals, I've gone higher than I would have if I hadn't set any." - Danielle Fotopoulos

"Good enough never is" - Debbi Fields

"Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it" - Dwight Eisenhower

"Pull the string, and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all." - Dwight Eisenhower

"Sound judgement, with discernment is the best of seers" - Euripides

"The crowd give the leader new strength." - Evenius

"Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave, whither thou goest" - Ecclesiastes 9:10 KJV

"If networks are to be more efficient...this will come about only on the basis of a high level of trust and the existence of shared norms of ethical behavior between network members" - Francis Fukuyama

"The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function" - F. Scott Fitzgerald

"Work on nothing less than epic scale" - Francis Ford Coppola

"Those who trust us, educate us" - George Eliot

"Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement" - Henry Ford

"Obstacles are those frightful things that you see when you take your eyes off your goal" - Henry Ford

"The growth and development of people is the highest calling of leadership" - Harvey S. Firestone

"The question. 'Who ought to be boss?', is like asking, 'Who ought to be the tenor in the quartet?' Obviously, the man who can sing tenor." - Henry Ford

"To manage is to forecast and plan, to organize, co-ordinate and to control" - Henri Fayol

"Tomorrow belongs to women" - Helen Fisher

"You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do" - Henry Ford

"Trust is a risk game. The leader must ante up first." - Irwin Federman

"Your job gives you authority. Your behaviour gives you respect" - Irwin Federman

"Idealism and realism meet in the actual" - Mary Parker Follett

"If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it" - Margaret Fuller

"Beware what you set your heart upon for it shall surely be yours" - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door" - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Character is not made in a crisis, it is only exhibited" - Robert Freeman

"Each man is a hero and an oracle to somebody" - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Every ship that comes to America got its chart from Columbus" - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"In every society, some men are born to rule, and some to advise" - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Talent for talent's sake is a bauble and a show. Talent working with joy in the cause of universal truth lifts the possessor to a new power as a benefactor" - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common" - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The greatest gift we can give one another is rapt attention to one another's existence" - Sue Atchley Ebaugh

"Genius in one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration" - Thomas Edison

"Great hopes make great men" - Thomas Fuller

"Let not thy will roar when thy power can be a whisper" - Thomas Fuller

"Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go" - T.S. Eliot

"The value of an idea lies in the using of it" - Thomas Edison

"There ain't no rules around here. We're trying to accomplish something" - Thomas Edison

"The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else" - Umberto Eco

"Fast is fine, but accuracy is everything" - Wyatt Earp

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