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Success And Leadership Quotes About Perseverance

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

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

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

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

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

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 choice we make to never give up.
Simon Sinek

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

Success And Leadership Quotes About Motivation

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

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

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

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

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

The best way to predict the future is to create it.
Peter Drucker

Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.
Warren Bennis

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

Success And Leadership Quotes About Vision

A vision is not just a picture of what could be; it is an appeal to our better selves, a call to become something more.
Rosabeth Moss Kanter

The most pathetic person in the world is someone who has sight but no vision.
Helen Keller

A leader's role is to raise people's aspirations for what they can become and to release their energies so they will try to get there.
David Gergen

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

The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it.
Michelangelo Buonarroti

The very essence of leadership is that you have to have a vision.
Theodore Hesburgh

A vision without a strategy remains an illusion.
Lee Bolman

A leader has the vision and conviction that a dream can be achieved. He inspires the power and energy to get it done.
Ralph Lauren

Success And Leadership 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 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 the key to survival in the modern era, where business is not only fast-paced but also constantly evolving.
Naveen Jain

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

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

Adaptability is not an act of compromise or cowardice, it is the art of survival.
Unknown

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

Adaptability is not just about change, it is about the power to change and the strength to survive through change.
Unknown

Success And Leadership Quotes About Courage

Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, 'I will try again tomorrow.'
Mary Anne Radmacher

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the assessment that something else is more important than fear.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

Success is not for the timid. It is for those who seek guidance, make decisions, and take decisive action.
Jose Silva

Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others.
Winston Churchill

Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.
C.S. Lewis

Courage is the willingness to confront fear, pain, danger, uncertainty, or intimidation.
Tim Fargo

Success is not about being fearless, it's about taking risks even when you're afraid.
Nate Berkus

The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
Robert Green Ingersoll

Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
Clare Boothe Luce

Success And Leadership Quotes About Humility

Humility is the true key to success. Successful people lose their way at times. They often embrace and overindulge from the fruits of success. Humility halts this arrogance and self-indulging trap. Humble people share the credit and wealth, remaining focused and hungry to continue the journey of success.
Rick Pitino

The greatest leaders are not necessarily the ones who do the greatest things. They are the ones that inspire others to do great things.
Ronald Reagan

The greatest leaders are willing to admit their mistakes and learn from them. That takes humility, intellectual honesty, and a strong sense of self-awareness.
Bill George

Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it's thinking of yourself less.
C.S. Lewis

The best leaders are those most interested in surrounding themselves with assistants and associates smarter than they are. They are frank in admitting this and are willing to pay for such talents.
Antos Parrish

The greatest leaders are those who empower others.
Bill Gates

The greatest leaders are not necessarily the ones who have the most followers. They are the ones who create the most leaders.
Neale Donald Walsch

The greatest leaders are those who serve others.
Unknown

The greatest leaders are those who are humble enough to learn from their mistakes.
John C. Maxwell

The greatest leaders are those who are willing to admit when they are wrong and take steps to correct their mistakes.
Unknown

Success And Leadership Quotes About Learning

The only source of knowledge is experience.
Albert Einstein

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

Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.
John F. Kennedy

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

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

Success And Leadership 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're not a risk taker, you should get the hell out of business.
Ray Kroc

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

The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible.
Arthur C. Clarke

Success And Leadership Quotes About Resilience

Resilience is accepting your new reality, even if it's less good than the one you had before.
Elizabeth Edwards

Success And Leadership Quotes About Teamwork

Individual commitment to a group effort--that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.
Vince Lombardi

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

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

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

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

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

The best teamwork comes from men who are working independently toward one goal in unison.
James Cash Penney

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

No one can whistle a symphony. It takes a whole orchestra to play it.
H.E. Luccock

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

Success And Leadership Quotes About Communication

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

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

Good communication is the bridge between confusion and clarity.
Nat Turner

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

The art of communication is not mastering what is said, but also mastering when it is left unsaid.
Anonymous

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 successful people are those who are good at plan B.
James Yorke

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

Success And Leadership Quotes About Innovation

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

Innovation is the calling card of the future.
Anna Eshoo

Innovation is the key to success in this new economy.
John McCain

Innovation is the central issue in economic prosperity.
Michael Porter

Innovation is the lifeblood of any successful business.
Robynne Sisco

Innovation is the specific tool of entrepreneurs, the means by which they exploit change as an opportunity for a different business or a different service.
Peter Drucker

Success And Leadership Quotes About Integrity

Integrity is the most valuable and respected quality of leadership. Always keep your word.
Brian Tracy

The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it is on a section gang, a football field, in an army, or in an office.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

Integrity is not a conditional word. It doesn't blow in the wind or change with the weather. It is your inner image of yourself, and if you look in there and see a man who won't cheat, then you know he never will.
John D. MacDonald

Integrity is doing the right thing, even when no one is watching.
C.S. Lewis

The strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home.
Confucius

Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody's going to know whether you did it or not.
Oprah Winfrey

Integrity is the essence of everything successful.
R. Buckminster Fuller

Integrity is the first step to true greatness. Men love to praise, but are slow to practice it. To maintain it in high places costs self-denial; in all places it is liable to opposition, but its end is glorious, and the universe will yet do it homage.
Charles Simmons

Integrity is not something you show others. It is how you behave behind their back.
Unknown

Integrity is the foundation upon which all other values are built.
Brian Tracy

Success And Leadership Quotes About Accountability

The price of greatness is responsibility.
Winston Churchill

Accountability breeds response-ability.
Stephen Covey

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

The best way to predict your future is to create it.
Peter Drucker

Success on any major scale requires you to accept responsibility... in the final analysis, the one quality that all successful people have... is the ability to take on responsibility.
Michael Korda

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

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

The greatest gift of leadership is a boss who wants you to be successful.
Jon Taffer

Success And Leadership Quotes About Empathy

Empathy is about finding echoes of another person in yourself.
Mohsin Hamid

Empathy is the starting point for creating a community and taking action. It's the impetus for creating change.
Max Carver

Empathy is the most important leadership skill needed today.
Satya Nadella

Empathy is seeing with the eyes of another, listening with the ears of another, and feeling with the heart of another.
Alfred Adler

Empathy is the ability to step outside of your own bubble and into the bubbles of other people.
C. JoyBell C.

Empathy is the key to great leadership.
Bill McDermott

Empathy is the antidote to shame.
Brené Brown

Empathy is the ability to understand and share the feelings of others.
Unknown

Empathy is the glue that holds relationships together.
Unknown

Empathy is the first step in creating a community or taking action. It's the bridge that connects us to others.
Barack Obama

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