Top 100 Thought Leaders Quotes
#1. To allow your organization the permission to fail is a very powerful thing. If we want to really be thought leaders and industry leaders, it doesn't come without taking risks. We're not afraid to take those risks that will get us to a better place.
Rick Welts
#2. Lifetime corporate employment is dead; we're all free agents now, managing our own careers across multiple jobs and companies. And because today's primary currency is information, a wide-reaching network is one of the surest ways to become and remain thought leaders of our respective fields.
Keith Ferrazzi
#3. I meet people who use the term 'plant spirit' as a matter of course. Initially I thought they were all rather woo-woo, but as I met more brilliant, accomplished plant spirit thought leaders, my thoughts started to shift to, "What am I missing here?"
Zoe Helene
#4. The role of social media is critical because it helps to spread cognitive dissonance by connecting thought leaders and activists to ordinary citizens rapidly expanding the network of people who become willing to take action.
Simon Mainwaring
#5. I'm an activist and I come from a very socialist background. For me, my thinking was formed by great thought leaders. And wealth preserving wasn't part of my thinking.
Anita Roddick
#6. I'm hoping that the administration and other thought leaders will succeed eventually in bringing the country back to the older idea that the American dream is having a career, getting a job, and getting involved in it, and doing well. That was the core of the good life.
Edmund Phelps
#7. When my co-founder and I first had the idea for IronPort, an email security company, we triangulated a list of the 20 most relevant people in email - former CEOs, open source technologists, investors and thought leaders.
Scott Weiss
#8. Anyone who wants to prevent you from making other people happy is an enemy. If you are stopping yourself from making others happy, you are your own enemy.
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#9. What happens when a leader misses his steps on the ladder is what happens when a train misses the rail. Be on track.
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#10. You can't gather much if you won't go on risk expedition. Leaders never fear the thorns; they'll still go in for the beautiful roses no matter the number of pricks they'll get.
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#11. Leaders learn more from blames than praises. Praises make them know what's already done well; blames show them what's yet to be done well.
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#12. Don't fall in trap of mediocrity and loose thinking. Surround yourself with intellectual people and thinkers. Be an awesome version of yourself day after day!!
Reshma Wable
#13. The speed at which progress rolls is not determined by the number of people who started pushing it, but by the number of people who are passionate to hold on doing so.
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#14. The leader's commandment is made up of pledges to solve local and global problems, and not to create more problems to add to the existing ones.
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#15. It is good to exercise patience. But never let your patience be the type that will keep you refrained from acting.
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#16. Leaders are not worried about what they can't do; they know themselves very well and focus on what they can do. Think this way if you are willing to lead!
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#17. The time it takes to fall from the top of a mountain to the floor it shorter than what it takes to climb from the floor to the top. Only leaders with character can maintain their trusts.
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#18. For centuries the leaders of Christian thought spoke of women as a necessary evil, and the greatest saints of the Church are those who despise women the most.
Annie Besant
#19. If you will always remember your age and forget your dream, you will live great years and narrow impacts will come out of it.
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#20. Leaders know where they can function better. They don't cry over what they cannot do.
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#21. Leader discover themselves through a continuous fellowship and relationship with their sources of their life and wisdom. Self-discovery is the key to true leadership!
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#22. Who you are when you have no power to say anything, and who you become when you have power to say everything will determine whether you are a leader or not.
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#23. Your character and attitude is what takes the lead in your leadership role and you follow them as a true leader. Poor character and attitude is eventually poor leadership.
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#24. Never take tiny dreams for granted. They contain giant success stories.
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#25. Leadership is self-made. People who have deliberately decided to become problems solver lead better.
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#26. Leadership is not a raw gift given to a group of people. It is the product of any type of gift everyone one has. It therefore means, any kind of gift is a leadership gift!
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#27. The courageous attitudes of leaders ramble around coward followers and sooner or later, they become courageous too!
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#28. I promise to question everything my leaders tell me. I promise to use my critical faculties. I promise to develop my independence of thought. I promise to educate myself so I can make my own judgments.
Carl Sagan
#29. Leaders don't fall in love with mediocrity. The status quo isn't their desire to maintain but to improve.
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#30. A leader is someone who creates better ways of doing things and better ways are new and comfortable ways.
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#31. A person with passion will not look somewhere to see who is not doing it; they will focus and do what they can.
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#33. If you haven't found yourself yet, it's difficult to help someone to discover himself. False leaders make more false leaders!
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#34. Never undermine the power of passion. You have a very high chance of achieving anything you are passionate about.
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#35. Leaders should know how fast time runs and how faster they can beat it. Poor leaders run slowly till time overtakes them.
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#36. I never liked the atmosphere of Washington . I early saw that it was impossible to build up a race of which the leaders were spending most of their time, thought and energy in trying to get into office, or in trying to stay there after they were in.
Booker T. Washington
#37. The leader's job is to show the way. The bottom line is that you can't tell anything about the condition of the way if you've not traveled on it yourself!
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#38. Passion gives power while attitude designs excellence! You can do it because you have the passion; you can do it very well because you have the right attitude!
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#39. Love people who hate you and their hatred won't get grounds to gain roots.
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#40. The active minority in the world is the fraction that makes the world a better place for the passive majority.
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#41. Whatever you want is behind the mountain of struggles. Nothing great comes with ease.
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#42. Develop the muscles for hard work and never be an early quitter.
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#43. Sometimes it is difficult to different between leaders and misleaders. However, with the measurement of true service to mankind, the evidence is very clear!
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#44. Since you can't be influence by people who hate you, you cannot influence people you hate also.
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#45. Leaders show examples. They have something to offer and they'll offer it by the process of how they got it. Anyone who has no examples to show may not lead better.
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#46. Go out and lead the world; but never forget to begin by leading yourself first at home. You can't lead the environment if you can't lead yourself in it.
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#47. Leaders fight hard wars against
injustice and unfairness. They
believe that the truth is a weapon;
when triggered, the lie dies.
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#48. Leadership is about focus and concentrations. To be in focus, choose a clear direction. To concentrate, remain in that direction!
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#49. The reason why nothing happens is because nothing was done. Something will happen when something is done. Leaders take actions!
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#50. A leader isn't born after 9 months' conception. When talents are discovered, skills are mastered & values are developed, a leader is born.
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#51. I never did give them hell. I just told the truth, and they thought it was hell.
Harry Truman
#53. Leaders know the great deal of productivity that comes out of a strong self-esteem. They help others to develop this esteem so that productivity can increase.
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#54. Whatever you are waiting for won't come to you; you have to go for it.
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#55. Contrary to popular opinion, leaders aren't created out of fame. Fame is just a shadow. When you enter dark times in, it leaves you.
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#56. You may gain a position, but that does not mean you've gained leadership. You may lose position, but that does not mean you've lost leadership! When you gain true character, you can leadership and when you lose it, you cease to be a leader!
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#57. God has buried your leadership roles in your gifting. To take the lead, you got to unzip the gift bag. It's your responsible to make it happen!
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#58. Leaders motivate people to understand that they can do better than they've already done and go farther than they've reached.
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#59. A leader does not lose focus because he wants to please his followers.
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#60. You can't shower happiness on others without getting few drops back on yourself.
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#61. I have always thought that what is needed is the development of people who are interested not in being leaders as much as in developing leadership in others.
Ella Baker
#62. We have seen an unprecedented gathering of the leaders of black America coming together to speak with one voice, ... The whole spectrum of black thought was represented on this stage ...
This tells us that a new day is dawning in America.
Louis Farrakhan
#63. People who boast about age are actually forgetting something special. Age is not barrier to or elevator to success; that's the job of vision.
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#64. Never reject the opportunity to take the first step. The first step is the key to obtaining the experience you have longed for.
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#65. You put your own joy in prison if you work hard to make other people's happiness suffocate.
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#66. Leaders make impacts. If your riches don't help you to make impacts, you aren't leading anyone; rather, money is leading you.
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#67. Sometimes, people don't need our homes to live in or our bodies to lean on. All they need are our hands to lift them up.
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#68. Inspiring leadership communication is not about great oratory or great charisma; rather it is about getting others to believe in themselves and believe in your cause, and then achieve more than they thought was possible.
Kevin Murray
#69. Leadership is about inspiration with character, not manipulation with position!
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#70. You break the legs of your leadership chair when you chase after other people's assignments instead of pursing yours!
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#71. Everyone matures. When I was Newt's age, I thought I had the right answer to things. The baby-boomers as political leaders are still on trial by the American people.
Pete Du Pont
#72. I think this is a moment where Donald Trump recognized the Republican establishment was much weaker, the party leaders were much weaker than they thought they were in terms of being able to dictate any outcomes.
Ben Domenech
#73. The Talented Tenth of the Negro race must be made leaders of thought and missionaries of culture among their people.
W.E.B. Du Bois
#74. We are a race prone to monsters, she thought, and when we produce one we worship it.
Iain M. Banks
#75. It was a real surprise to me to come across the evidence that Christianity might once have been a danced religion. Certainly, some of the early church leaders thought this was great and spoke of what seems to have been circle dancing, perhaps around an altar.
Barbara Ehrenreich
#76. A compassionate government does not need to pay too much attention to those who don't have needs. True leadership is to fulfill a need of the needy. People who have needs need attention indeed! Be a true leader!
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#77. Watch out; success will only arrive when your action are strong enough to attract them.
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#78. Leaders heal; they don't kill. They unite; they don't disintegrate.
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#79. You don't become the person you wish to become; you become the person you choose to become. True leadership does not come true wishes; it comes by choices!
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#80. A bold attitude is what true leaders use to crash down failure before they venture with their visions!
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#81. You can't lead people if you can't lead yourself. Self-leadership qualities qualifies you to become a co-operate leader.
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#82. People will know you for who you are, but will remember you for what you have done. True leaders make long lasting impacts!
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#83. When you are a person people can trust, they will call on upon you, love to be around you and work with you.
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#84. Harbour no hatred in your heart against anyone. People who do this have placed their influence on the risky line.
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#85. To simply think about the people, as the dominators do, without any self-giving in that thought, to fail to think with the people, is a sure way to cease being revolutionary leaders.
Paulo Freire
#86. Hatred is a burden that can hunt you day by day, robbing you off your personal joy in broad day light.
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#88. A society with too few independent thinkers is vulnerable to control by disturbed and opportunistic leaders. A society which wants to create and maintain a free and democratic social system must create responsible independence of thought among its young.
John Dewey
#89. It distresses me, this failure to keep pace with the leaders of thought, as they pass into oblivion.
Max Beerbohm
#90. They [political leaders ] thought the only problem was the banking system, and if they fixed the banking system, all would be fine. But the banking system and the mortgage problem were symptomatic of some deeper problems, and evidently they still haven't recognized those deeper problems.
Joseph Stiglitz
#91. I have always thought that one of the signs of natural leaders of men (and women) was their readiness to take the necessary pains to keep their followers with them.
Judy LaMarsh
#92. Leaders are deep thinkers. They don't relax for problem to lay eggs before they attempt dealing with them.
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#93. Leaders don't settle for less. When you do so, you rob humanity of what you are supposed to deliver!
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#94. Leaders fail when they begin to fall in love with negative mindsets of other people!
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#95. To know God, you must appreciate the salvaging will of His son. Through Christ, we become true leaders worthy of rewards!
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#96. Your personal brand determines the kind of leadership influence you'll provide.
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#97. Great leaders inspire us to go places we would never go on our own, and to attempt things we never thought we had in us.
Hans Finzel
#98. Always dare to be in the company of those stronger than you. Sooner or later, you will be stronger than those who were once stronger than you, but unfortunately, they joined the company of those who are weaker than them!
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#99. The real character of leaders does not show in fair weathers. When the sun of life begins to go hot, you will see for yourself some leaders are already melting off!
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#100. Between a plan and it's achievement is a leader in the middle. With his one arm he makes the plan. With the other one he carries them through.
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