Leadership Quotes - Q's and R's

Great leadership quotes from: Anita Roddick, Theodore Roosevelt, Franklin D Roosevelt, Eleanor Roosevelt, Pat Riley, John D Rockefeller, Tony Robbins, John Ruskin and others.

"You cannot be a leader, and ask other people to follow you, unless you know how to follow, too."— Sam Rayburn

"People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader leads, and the boss drives."— Theodore Roosevelt

"Speak Softly and carry a big stick; you will go far."— Theodore Roosevelt

"The leader must know, must know that he knows, and must be able to make it abundantly clear to those around him that he knows."— Clarence Randall

"Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values" - Ayn Rand

"If you do things well, do them better. Be daring, be first, be different, be just" - Anita Roddick OBE

"If you think you're too small to have an impact, try going to bed with a mosquito" - Anita Roddick OBE

"It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possile to find it elsewhere." - Agnes Repplier

"Success is the result of good judgement, good judgement is a result of experience, experience is often the result of bad judgement" - Anthony Robbins

"One of the best ways to persuade others is with your ears - by listening to them" - Dean Rusk

"Do what you feel in your heart to be right - for you'll be criticized anyway" - Eleanor Roosevelt

"Remember no one can make you feel inferior without your consent" - Eleanor Roosevelt

"You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing you think you cannot do" - Eleanor Roosevelt

"Almost all our faults are more pardonable than the methods we employ to hide them" - Francois de La Rochefoucauld

"It is a terrible thing to look over your shoulder when you are trying to lead and find no one there." - Franklin D Roosevelt

"I believe that the first test of a truly great man is his humility" - John Ruskin

"I would rather have a first-class manager running a second-rate business than a second-class manager running a first-rate business" - Jack E. Reichert

"The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it" - John Ruskin

"The most important thing for a young man is to establish credit - a reputation, character" - John D. Rockefeller

"The road to happines lies in two simple principles: find what interests you and you can do well, and put your whole soul into it - every bit of energy and ambition and natural ability you have" - John D Rockefeller

"Assume nothing, pursue everything" - Kevin Riper

"A leader has two important characteristics; first he is going somewhere; second he is able to persuade others to go with him" - Maximilian Francois Robespierre

"Shoulda, coulda, and woulda won't get it done. In attacking adversity, only a positive attitude, alertness, and regrouping to basics can launch a comeback" - Pat Riley

"And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, evolve some distant day into the answer" - Rainer Maria Rilke

"The successful person is one who is able to take his talents and invest them in the business of living in a manner that leads to the accomplishment of a full life of service" - Sol Roth

"Do what you can, with what you have, where you are" - Theodore Roosevelt

"People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. . . . The leader works in the open, and the boss in covert. The leader leads, and the boss drives" - Theodore Roosevelt

"The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self restraint enough to keep from meddling while they do it" - Theodore Roosevelt

"My mother taught me very early to believe I could achieve any accomplishment I wanted to. The first was to walk without braces" - Wilma Rudolph

"The road to success is dotted with many tempting parking spaces" - Will Rodgers

"It is much easier to try one's hand at many things than to concentrate one's powers on one thing" - Quintilian

"Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly" - Quintilian

"Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish" - Quintilian

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