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Success And Power 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 leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.
John C. Maxwell

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

The price of greatness is responsibility.
Winston Churchill

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

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.
Steve Jobs

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

If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.
John Quincy Adams

Power is not given to you. You have to take it.
Beyoncé Knowles

Success And Power Quotes About Ambition

Ambition is enthusiasm with a purpose.
Frank Tyger

Ambition is the path to success. Persistence is the vehicle you arrive in.
Bill Bradley

The starting point of all achievement is desire.
Napoleon Hill

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

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

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

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

Success is not about being powerful, it's about being purposeful.
Michelle Obama

Success And Power Quotes About Focus

The successful person doesn't use others, other people use the successful person, for above all the success is of service.
Mark Amend

The successful person has the habit of doing the things failures don't like to do. They don't like doing them either necessarily. But their disliking is subordinated to the strength of their purpose.
E.M. Gray

The successful person is the one who makes a habit of doing what the failing person doesn't like to do.
Donald Riggs

The successful person is the one who can spur his or her supporters to work harder than ever before.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

The successful person is the one who is able to take control of their life and focus on what they want to achieve.
Unknown

The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus.
Bruce Lee

Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work in hand. The sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus.
Alexander Graham Bell

The successful person is the one who focuses on the solution, not the problem.
Roy T. Bennett

The key to success is to focus our conscious mind on things we desire, not things we fear.
Brian Tracy

The successful man is the one who finds out what is the matter with his business before his competitors do.
Roy L. Smith

Success And Power Quotes About Motivation

Success is not a destination, but the road that you're on. Being successful means that you're working hard and walking your walk every day. You can only live your dream by working hard towards it. That's living your dream.
Marlon Wayans

Success is not about how much money you make, it's about the difference you make in people's lives.
Michelle Obama

Success And Power Quotes About Excellence

Excellence is not a skill. It is an attitude.
Ralph Marston

Excellence is the gradual result of always striving to do better.
Pat Riley

The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential... these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence.
Confucius

Excellence is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.
John W. Gardner

Excellence is not a destination; it is a continuous journey that never ends.
Brian Tracy

The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor.
Vince Lombardi

Excellence is not being the best; it is doing your best.
Unknown

Excellence is the unlimited ability to improve the quality of what you have to offer.
Rick Pitino

Excellence is not a gift, but a skill that takes practice. We do not act 'rightly' because we are 'excellent', in fact we achieve 'excellence' by acting 'rightly'.
Plato

The secret of joy in work is contained in one word - excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.
Pearl S. Buck

Success And Power Quotes About Achievement

Success is not about being a genius or getting lucky. Success is about how persistent and resilient you are in the face of obstacles.
Michelle Obama

Power is not brute force and money; power is in your spirit. Power is in your soul. It is what your ancestors, your old people gave you. Power is in the earth; it is in your relationship to the earth.
Winona LaDuke

Power is not something that can be given or taken away; power is something that we have within ourselves, and it is up to us to use it.
Laverne Cox

Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship.
George Orwell

Success And Power Quotes About Influence

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

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Edmund Burke

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

The power of imagination makes us infinite.
John Muir

Success And Power Quotes About Determination

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

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

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

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

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

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

Success And Power Quotes About Perseverance

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

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

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

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

Perseverance is the secret of all triumphs.
Victor Hugo

Perseverance is failing 100 times without giving up.
Unknown

Success And Power 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

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

Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire.
Arnold H. Glasow

Success And Power Quotes About Discipline

Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.
Jim Rohn

Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable; procures success to the weak, and esteem to all.
George Washington

Discipline is the foundation upon which all success is built. Lack of discipline inevitably leads to failure.
Jim Rohn

Discipline is the key to success. The key to self-discipline is doing the things you know you need to do, even if you don't feel like doing them.
Unknown

Discipline is the difference between what you want now and what you want most.
Unknown

Discipline is the fuel of achievement.
Unknown

Discipline is the refining fire by which talent becomes ability.
Roy L. Smith

Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment, and without discipline, dreams and goals are just wishes.
Unknown

Discipline is the foundation of a successful and happy life.
Unknown

Discipline is the key to success; without it, there is no achievement.
Unknown

Success And Power Quotes About Success Mindset

Success is not about being the best. It's about always getting better.
Behdad Sami

Success is not easy and I think everyone should know that hard work and perseverance and being open to giving back are so much more powerful than stepping all over people to get to the top.
Aerin Lauder

Success is not a function of the size of your title but the richness of your contribution.
Robin Sharma

Success is not a matter of mastering subtle, sophisticated theory but rather of embracing common sense with uncommon levels of discipline and persistence.
Patrick Lencioni

Success And Power Quotes About Overcoming Obstacles

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.
Booker T. Washington

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
Henry Ford

The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.
Moliere

The only thing standing between you and your goal is the bullshit story you keep telling yourself as to why you can't achieve it.
Jordan Belfort

Success And Power Quotes About Taking Risks

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

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

You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.
Wayne Gretzky

Success And Power Quotes About Innovation

Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.
Steve Jobs

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

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 central issue in economic prosperity.
Michael Porter

Innovation is the key to success in this competitive world.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

Innovation is the ability to convert ideas into invoices.
L. Duncan

Innovation is the unrelenting drive to break the status quo and embrace change.
Todd Davis

Innovation is the lifeblood of progress.
Bill Gates

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