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Success And Influence Quotes About Leadership

The greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things. He is the one that gets the people to do the greatest things.
Ronald Reagan

A true leader has the confidence to stand alone, the courage to make tough decisions, and the compassion to listen to the needs of others.
Douglas MacArthur

The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.
Ralph Nader

The best leaders are those most interested in surrounding themselves with assistants and associates smarter than they are.
John C. Maxwell

Leadership is not about being in charge. It's about taking care of those in your charge.
Simon Sinek

The challenge of leadership is to be strong, but not rude; be kind, but not weak; be bold, but not bully; be thoughtful, but not lazy; be humble, but not timid; be proud, but not arrogant; have humor, but without folly.
Jim Rohn

The art of leadership is saying no, not saying yes. It is very easy to say yes.
Tony Blair

A good leader takes a little more than his share of the blame, a little less than his share of the credit.
Arnold H. Glasow

Success And Influence Quotes About Motivation

Believe in yourself and all that you are. Know that there is something inside you that is greater than any obstacle.
Christian D. Larson

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

The only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it.
Steve Jobs

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.
Albert Schweitzer

The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

Success is not how high you have climbed, but how you make a positive difference to the world.
Roy T. Bennett

The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
Nelson Mandela

The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Success is not measured by what you accomplish, but by the opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds.
Orison Swett Marden

The only way to do great work is to be passionate about what you do.
Steve Jobs

Success And Influence Quotes About Innovation

Innovation is the central issue in economic prosperity.
Michael Porter

Innovation is the key to success in this competitive world.
Travis Kalanick

Innovation is the unrelenting drive to break the status quo and embrace change.
Richard Branson

Innovation is the lifeblood of progress.
Bill Gates

Innovation is the only way to win.
Steve Jobs

Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.
Steve Jobs

Innovation is the specific instrument of entrepreneurship...the act that endows resources with a new capacity to create wealth.
Peter Drucker

Innovation is the calling card of the future.
Anna Eshoo

Innovation is the ability to see change as an opportunity - not a threat.
Anonymous

Success And Influence Quotes About Creativity

Creativity is intelligence having fun.
Albert Einstein

The chief enemy of creativity is 'good' sense.
Pablo Picasso

Creativity is the power to connect the seemingly unconnected.
William Plomer

Creativity is the key to success in the future, and primary education is where teachers can bring creativity in children at that level.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn't really do it, they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while.
Steve Jobs

Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature.
Eric Hoffer

Creativity is the foundation of innovation.
Naveen Jain

Creativity is the greatest expression of liberty.
Bryant H. McGill

Creativity is the spark of life that ignites and sustains all progress.
John H. Johnson

Creativity is the power to act.
Ai Weiwei

Success And Influence Quotes About Risk-Taking

The biggest risk is not taking any risk. In a world that's changing really quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks.
Mark Zuckerberg

If you don't take risks, you'll have a wasted soul.
Drew Barrymore

The biggest risk is not the risk itself. It's being comfortable with what you're doing and not taking risks.
Mark Cuban

Take risks: if you win, you will be happy; if you lose, you will be wise.
Unknown

The person who risks nothing, does nothing, has nothing, is nothing, and becomes nothing. He may avoid suffering and sorrow, but he simply cannot learn and feel and change and grow and love and live.
Leo F. Buscaglia

If you want to achieve greatness, stop asking for permission.
Unknown

The biggest risk in life is not taking one.
Barack Obama

Success And Influence Quotes About Goal-Setting

Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible.
Tony Robbins

If you want to be happy, set a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy, and inspires your hopes.
Andrew Carnegie

The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short, but in setting our aim too low and achieving our mark.
Michelangelo

A goal properly set is halfway reached.
Zig Ziglar

The trouble with not having a goal is that you can spend your life running up and down the field and never score.
Bill Copeland

You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.
C.S. Lewis

Goals are not only absolutely necessary to motivate us. They are essential to really keep us alive.
Robert H. Schuller

The only limit to the height of your achievements is the reach of your dreams and your willingness to work hard for them.
Michelle Obama

Success And Influence Quotes About Learning

The best way to predict your future is to create it.
Abraham Lincoln

The only way to do great work is to love what you do.
Steve Jobs

The capacity to learn is a gift; the ability to learn is a skill; the willingness to learn is a choice.
Brian Herbert

The beautiful thing about learning is that no one can take it away from you.
B.B. King

The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.
Dr. Seuss

Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
William Butler Yeats

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
Socrates

The greatest enemy of learning is knowing.
John Maxwell

The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you.
B.B. King

Success And Influence Quotes About Self-Improvement

The biggest room in the world is the room for improvement.
Helmut Schmidt

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Success And Influence Quotes About Perseverance

Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after the other.
Walter Elliot

Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did.
Newt Gingrich

The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.
Vince Lombardi

Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.
Julie Andrews

Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.
Winston Churchill

Perseverance is the master impulse of the firmest souls, the discipline of the noblest virtues.
William Ellery Channing

Success is not the absence of failure; it's the persistence through failure.
Aisha Tyler

Perseverance is not a personality trait. It's a habit we cultivate.
Mel Robbins

Success And Influence Quotes About Determination

I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
Thomas A. Edison

Believe you can and you're halfway there.
Theodore Roosevelt

Success And Influence Quotes About Hard Work

Success is no accident. It is hard work, perseverance, learning, studying, sacrifice and most of all, love of what you are doing or learning to do.
Pele

There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.
Colin Powell

I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed.
Booker T. Washington

The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.
Vidal Sassoon

I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it.
Thomas Jefferson

Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.
Robert Collier

The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work.
Harry Golden

The difference between try and triumph is just a little umph!
Marvin Phillips

Success And Influence Quotes About Passion

Passion is energy. Feel the power that comes from focusing on what excites you.
Oprah Winfrey

Passion is the genesis of genius.
Tony Robbins

Passion is the driving force behind success and happiness that allows us all to live better lives.
Unknown

Passion is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.
Albert Schweitzer

Passion is the fuel that drives the engine of success.
Unknown

Passion is the difference between having a job and having a career.
Unknown

Passion is the starting point of all great achievements.
Napoleon Hill

Passion is the bridge that takes you from pain to change.
Frida Kahlo

Passion is the fire that drives us to express who we really are.
Unknown

Passion is the magnet that draws us to our dreams.
Unknown

Success And Influence Quotes About Teamwork

Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.
Helen Keller

Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success.
Henry Ford

Great things in business are never done by one person. They're done by a team of people.
Steve Jobs

Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence win championships.
Michael Jordan

Unity is strength... when there is teamwork and collaboration, wonderful things can be achieved.
Mattie Stepanek

The strength of the team is each individual member. The strength of each member is the team.
Phil Jackson

None of us is as smart as all of us.
Ken Blanchard

If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself.
Henry Ford

Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision. The ability to direct individual accomplishments toward organizational objectives. It is the fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.
Andrew Carnegie

Individually, we are one drop. Together, we are an ocean.
Ryunosuke Satoro

Success And Influence Quotes About Communication

The art of communication is the language of leadership.
James Humes

The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn't said.
Peter Drucker

Communication is the fuel that keeps the fire of your relationship burning, without it, your relationship goes cold.
William Paisley

The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.
George Bernard Shaw

The way we communicate with others and with ourselves ultimately determines the quality of our lives.
Tony Robbins

Good communication is just as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Communication is a skill that you can learn. It's like riding a bicycle or typing. If you're willing to work at it, you can rapidly improve the quality of every part of your life.
Brian Tracy

The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said.
Peter Drucker

Communication is the solvent of all problems and is the foundation for personal development.
Peter Shepherd

The art of communication is not mastering what is said, but mastering what is not said.
Unknown

Success And Influence Quotes About Adaptability

It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change.
Charles Darwin

Adaptability is not imitation. It means power of resistance and assimilation.
Mahatma Gandhi

The measure of intelligence is the ability to change.
Albert Einstein

Adaptability is about the powerful difference between adapting to cope and adapting to win.
Max McKeown

Adaptability is being able to adjust to any situation at any given time.
John Wooden

The art of life is a constant readjustment to our surroundings.
Kakuzo Okakura

The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.
Alan Watts

The only thing that is constant is change.
Heraclitus

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