1. Leadership is about having principles. A leader must have a vision and principles that will endure for all time and must always be true to these principles, applying them to changing circumstances.' 

– Margaret Thatcher 

2. Leadership is about empathy. It is about having the ability to relate to and connect with people for the purpose of inspiring and empowering their lives.' 

– Oprah Winfrey

3. Mountaintops inspire leaders but valleys mature them.'

– Winston Churchill

4. I do not know anyone who has gotten to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but it will get you pretty near.'

– Margaret Thatcher

5. He who has never learned to obey cannot be a good commander.

—Aristotle

6. A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.

—Lao Tzu

7. Good management consists in showing average people how to do the work of superior people.'

– John D. Rockefeller

8. Management is about persuading people to do things they do not want to do, while leadership is about inspiring people to do things they never thought they could.'

 –Steve Jobs

9. Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.'

– Winston Churchill

10. Being a good listener is absolutely critical to being a good leader; you have to listen to the people who are on the front line.'

– Richard Branson

11. We live in a society obsessed with public opinion. But leadership has never been about popularity.'

– Marco Rubio

12. Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.'

– Stephen Hawking

13. Leaders think and talk about the solutions. Followers think and talk about the problems.

– Brian Tracy

14. It is better to lead from behind and to put others in front, especially when you celebrate victory when nice things occur. You take the front line when there is danger. Then people will appreciate your leadership.

– Nelson Mandela

15. As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.

– Bill Gates

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

– Tony Blair

17. People buy into the leader before they buy into the vision.

– John Maxwell

18. 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

19. Do what you feel in your heart to be right–for you’ll be criticized anyway.

– Eleanor Roosevelt

20. Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

– John F. Kennedy

21. When I give a minister an order, I leave it to him to find the means to carry it out.

– Napoleon Bonaparte

22.Become the kind of leader that people would follow voluntarily; even if you had no title or position.

– Brian Tracy

23. The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity.

– Amelia Earhart

24. Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do, so throw off the bowlines, sail away from safe harbor, catch the trade winds in your sails.  Explore, Dream, Discover.

–Mark Twain

25. The best revenge is massive success.

– Frank Sinatra

26. The mind is everything. What you think you become.  

– Buddha

27. Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.

– Steve Jobs

28. A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.

– Albert Einstein

29.It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.

– Confucius

30. If you look at what you have in life, you'll always have more. If you look at what you don't have in life, you'll never have enough. –Oprah Winfrey