There has always been people who tried to change things for the good. These people saw things differently and had no respect for the status quo. They all believed in one important thing – Change. They tried hard, succeeded and emerged as true leaders in different walks of lives.

Here are 26 amazing quotes by some great leaders.

1. Imagination is more important than knowledge. – Albert Einstein

 

2. The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing. – Walt Disney

 

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

 

4. The life which is unexamined is not worth living. – Socrates

 

5. Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever. – M.K. Gandhi

 

6. Get up, stand up, Stand up for your rights. Get up, stand up, Don’t give up the fight. – Bob Marley

 

7. It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves. – Shakespeare

 

8. We are what we repeatedly do; excellence, then, is not an act but a habit. – Aristotle

 

9. Watch your thoughts; they become words. Watch your words; they become actions. Watch your actions; they become habits. Watch your habits; they become character. Watch your character; it becomes your destiny. – Lao-Tze

 

10. The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. – George Bernard Shaw

 

11. Never look down on anybody unless you’re helping him up. – Jesse Jackson

 

12. You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don’t do too many things wrong. – Warren Buffett

 

13. Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm. – Sir Winston Churchill

 

14. Eighty percent of success is showing up. – Woody Allen

 

15. Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things. – Peter F. Drucker

 

16. Don’t tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results. – George S. Patton

 

17. Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it. – Dwight Eisenhower

 

18. Confidence sells — people believe in those who believe in themselves. No one wants to be stuck in a room with other people who feel like they don’t deserve to be there. Stop wondering if you’re good enough. Know you are, and start acting like it. – Simon Black

 

19. Success is a little like wrestling a gorilla. You don’t quit when you are tired — you quit when the gorilla is tired. – Robert Strauss

 

20. Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside and something else will take its place. If I quit, however, it lasts forever. – Lance Armstrong

 

21. Something I learned early is to not worry about what I can’t control… But what I can control is my attitude, my effort, and my focus every single day. – Tim Tebow

 

22. Do not care about what other people think of you. It will not change anything in your life. – Steve Jobs

 

23. Conquer yourself and you’ll win thousands of battles. – Buddha

 

24. There’s nothing impossible in this world for a heart full of desires. – Abraham Lincoln

 

25. Enjoy what you do and you will never have to work a single day of your life. – Bill Gates

 

26. If you can’t fly then run, if you can’t run then walk, if you can’t walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward. – Martin Luther King

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