If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.
~ John Quincy Adams (1767-1848) 6th President of the United States
To achieve greatness, start where you are, use what you have, do what you can.
~ Arthur Ashe, Tennis Champion & Philanthropist
Conductors of great symphony orchestras do not play every musical instrument; yet through leadership the ultimate production is an expressive and unified combination of tones.
~ Thomas D. Bailey
The ability to make people feel strong is the single most important contribution of leaders.
~ Ross Barnett
Leadership is not wielding authority, its empowering people.
~ Becky Brodin
I know my players better than they know themselves. How else could I get the best out of them?
~ Bear Bryant, Football coach, University of Alabama
The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People: Be Proactive, Begin with the End in Mind, Put First Things First, Think Win/Win, Seek First to Understand.Then to Be Understood, Synergize, and Sharpen the Saw.
~ Stephen R. Covey, author of The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People & Principled-Center Leadership
Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.
~ Stephen R. Covey
A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd.
~ James Crook
Diversity allows each of us to contribute in a special way to make our special gifts a part of the effort.
~ Max DePree author of Leadership Is An Art
Leadership means that a group, large or small, is willing to entrust authority to a person who has shown judgment, wisdom, personal appeal, and proven competence.
~ Walt Disney
If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground, they want rain without thunder and lightening.
~ Frederick Douglass (1818-1895), Early American civil rights leader
Leadership [is] the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
~ Dwight Eisenhower (1890-1969), 34th President of the US
To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
In the small matters trust the mind, in the large one's the heart.
~ Sigmund Freud
Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof.
~ John Kenneth Galbraith
My grandfather once told me there are two kinds of people: those who do the work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group because there was less competition there.
~ Indira Gandhi (1917-1984)
We must become the change we want to see.
~ Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948), Spiritual & political leader of India
A leader is useless when he acts against the promptings of his own conscience.
~ Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948), Spiritual & political leader of India
The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitude of mind.
~ William James, Psychologist
Leadership is no longer the province of the few, the privileged, or even the ambitious.
~ Kellogg Foundation
Don't agonize, organize.
~ Florence R. Kennedy, Former head of NOW's legal division& founder of the US Feminist Party
It is time for a new generation of leadership to cope with new problems and opportunities. For there is a new world to be won.
~ John F. Kennedy (1917-1963), 35th President of US
Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.
~ John F. Kennedy (1917-1963), 35th President of US
The ultimate measure of a human is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
Life's most persistent and urgent question, what are we doing for each other.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
The time is always right to do what is right.
~ Martin Luther King Jr.
Leadership is a relational process of people together attempting to accomplish change or make a difference to benefit the common good.
~ Komives, Lucas, McMahon authors of Exploring Leadership
The purpose of life is not to win. The purpose of life is to grow and to share. When you come to look back on all that you have done in life, you will get more satisfaction from the pleasure you have brought to other people's lives than you will from the times that you outdid and defeated them.
~ Rabbi Harold Kushner
I do the best I know how - the very best I can; and I mean to keep doing so until the end. If the end brings me out all right, what is said against me won't amount to anything. If the end brings me out wrong, ten thousand angels swearing I was right would make no difference.
~ Abraham Lincoln, 16th President of US
The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in others the conviction and the will to carry on.
~ Walter Lippmann (1819-1974), American journalist & political writer
Competence goes beyond words. It's the leaders ability to say it, plan it, and do it in such a way that others know that you know how-and know that they want to follow you.
~ John C. Maxwell
People don't care how much you know, until they know how much you care.
~ John C. Maxwell
Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them.
~ John Maxwell
Leadership is action, not position.
~ Donald McGannon
What people say, what people do, and what they say they do are entirely different things.
~ Margaret Mead, Anthropologist
The real leader has no need to lead; he is content to point the way.
~ Henry Miller
You can learn more about a person through an hour of games than you can through conversing with him for a year.
~ Plato
You take people as far as they go, not as far as you would like them to go.
~ Jeannett Rankin (1880-1973), Feminist, pacifist, 1st woman in US Congress
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
~ Eleanor Roosevelt
Leadership is a superb opportunity for reapplying, applying in new conditions, the simple rules of human conduct to which we always go back. Without leadership alert and sensitive to change, we are all bogged up or lose our way.
~ Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882-1945), 32nd President of the US
The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.
~ Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919), American President
To waste, to destroy our natural resources, to skin and exhaust the land instead of using it so as to increase its usefulness, will result in undermining in the days of our children the very prosperity which we ought by right hand down to them amplified and developed.
~ Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919), American President
Leadership is an influence relationship among leaders and collaborators who intend real changes that reflect their mutual purposes.
~ Joseph C. Rost, author of Leadership for the Twenty-First Century
Success is a journey, not a destination.
~ Ben Sweetland
Reason and judgment are all the qualities of a leader.
~ Tacitus (AD 56-118), Latin historian
If you just set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing.
~ Margaret Thatcher
As far as the best leaders, the people do not notice their existence; the next best, the people honor and praise; the next, the people fear; and the next, the people hate. When the best leader's work is done, the people say, 'We did it ourselves.'
~ Lao-Tzu (500 BC), Chinese philosopher; wrote book of Taosim
Everybody does have a leader inside.
~ Robert Wright, Former Secretary of Labor
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