Use on training handouts, noticeboards, newsletters and campaigns. Here's our top 10 favourite leadership quotations..........

“It is a terrible thing to look over your shoulder when you are trying to lead - and find no one there”

FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT

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

NELSON MANDELA

“A leader can make the whole better than the sum of the parts”

JOSE MOURINHO

“None of us is as smart as all of us”

WARREN BENNIS

“People are not disturbed by things, but by the view they take of them”

EPICTETUS GREEK PHILOSOPHER

“I love argument, I love debate. I don't expect anyone just to sit there and agree with me, that's not their job”

MARGARET THATCHER

“A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty”

SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL

“Image is only what other people see of you. And if you’re going to rely on what other people’s opinions of you are to make you happy, you are never going to be happy”

LILY ALLEN

“I failed my way to success”

THOMAS EDISON

“If you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain”

DOLLY PARTON

Drawn from our Business Quotations Compendium, consisting of 200 inspirational quotes, downloadable free of charge.

Bryan Edwards is Managing Director of ABC Training Solutions Ltd (www.abctrainingsolutions.biz) which delivers training and markets a range of fully-designed, ready to deliver workshops, self study packs and other training exercises for the busy trainer. He can be contacted on 07747 602215 or [email protected]