Jesse Jackson
Leaders must be tough enough to fight, tender enough to cry, human enough to make mistakes, humble enough to admit them, strong enough to absorb the pain, and resilient enough to bounce back and keep on moving.

Dale Carnegie
Do the hard jobs first. The easy jobs will take care of themselves.

Gail Sheehy
The secret of a leader lies in the tests he has faced over the whole course of his life and the habit of action he develops in meeting those tests.

Ray Kroc
The quality of a leader is reflected in the standards they set for themselves.

Anna Eleanor Roosevelt
It is not fair to ask of others what you are unwilling to do yourself.

Rosalynn Carter
A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don't necessarily want to go, but ought to be.

Mother Teresa
Do not wait for leaders. Do it alone, person to person.

Mary D. Poole
Leadership should be more participative than directive, more enabling than performing.

Indira Gandhi
My grandfather once told me that there were 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. There is much less competition.

Rosemary Brown
Until all of us have made it, none of us have made it.

Anais Nin
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.

Marie Curie
One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done.

Harold S. Geneen
Leadership is practiced not so much in words as in attitude and in actions.

Arnold H. Glasgow
A good leader takes a little more than his share of the blame, a little less than his share of the credit.

Stephen R. Covey
Management works in the system; leadership works on the system.

Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf
Leadership is a combination of strategy and character. If you must be without one, be without the strategy.

Blaine Lee
The great leaders are like the best conductors - they reach beyond the notes to reach the magic in the players.

Arnold Glasgow
One of the tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency.

Stephen Covey
Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out.

Unknown Author
A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.

John C. Maxwell
A big man is one who makes us feel bigger when we are with him.

Ronald Reagan
A leader, once convinced that a particular course of action is the right one, must be undaunted when the going gets tough.

Napoleon Hill
The best job goes to the person who can get it done without passing the buck or coming back with excuses.

Andrew Carnegie
No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself or to get all the credit for doing it.

Peter Drucker
No executive has ever suffered because his subordinates were strong and effective.

Donald H. McGannon
Leadership is action, not position.

Joe Batten
The first task of a leader is to keep hope alive.

John C. Maxwell
A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way and shows the way.

Henry Kissinger
Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.

Thomas Huxley
The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon, but only to hold a man's foot long enough to enable him to put the other somewhat higher.

John C. Maxwell
A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way and shows the way.

Lao-Tzu
I have three precious things which I hold fast and prize. The first is gentleness; the second is frugality; the third is humility, which keeps me from putting myself before others. Be gentle and you can be bold; be frugal and you can be liberal; avoid putting yourself before others and you can become a leader among men.

Dwight D. Eisenhower
Pull the string, and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all.

Max Lucado
A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.

Henry Ford
I am looking for a lot of men who have an infinite capacity to not know what can't be done.

George Bernard Shaw
A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

William James
A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.

Arab proverb
An army of sheep led by a lion would defeat an army of lions led by a sheep.

John Steinbeck
It is the nature of man to rise to greatness if greatness is expected of him.

Edmund Burke
The great difference between the real leader and the pretender is that the one sees into the future, while the other regards only the present; the one lives by the day, and acts upon expediency; the other acts on enduring principles and for the immortality.

Jim Rohn
Leadership is the challenge to be something more than average.

Laurence J. Peter
Slump, and the world slumps with you. Push, and you push alone.

Theodore Roosevelt
The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint to keep from meddling with them while they do it.

George Patton
Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.

Henry Gilmer
Look over your shoulder now and then to be sure someone's following you.

Ken Kesey
You don't lead by pointing and telling people some place to go. You lead by going to that place and making a case.

Sam Rayburn
You cannot be a leader, and ask other people to follow you, unless you know how to follow, too.

Dwight Eisenhower
You do not lead by hitting people over the head - that's assault, not leadership.

Lao Tzu
To lead people, walk beside them ... As for 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".

Vincent Lombardi
Leadership is based on a spiritual quality; the power to inspire the power to inspire others to follow.

Lao Tzu
To lead the people, walk behind them.

Napoleon Bonaparte
A leader is a dealer in hope.

Unknown Author
A leader leads by example, whether he intends to or not.

Gene Mauch
You can't lead anyone else further than you have gone yourself.

John Kotter
Great leaders.... motivate large groups of individuals to improve the human condition.

John Maxwell
Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them.

Buck Rodgers
Leadership is the ability of a single individual through his or her actions to motivate others to higher levels of achievement.

Peter Drucker
Leadership is not magnetic personality - that can just as well be a glib tongue. It is not "making friends and influencing people" - that is flattery. Leadership is lifting a person's vision to high sights, the raising of a person's performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations.

Kenneth Blanchard
The key to successful leadership today is influence, not authority.

Toma Landry
Leadership is getting someone to do what they don't want to do, to achieve what they want to achieve.

John Maxwell
A big man is one who makes us feel bigger when we are with him.

Unknown Author
You can't measure the heart of a champion.

Harry Truman
Men make history, and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better.

Aristotle
He who has never learned to obey cannot be a good commander.

Rosalynn Carter
A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don't necessarily want to go, but ought to be.

Vincent Lombardi
Leaders aren't born, they are made. And they are made just like anything else, through hard work. And that's the price we'll have to pay to achieve that goal, or any goal.

Mark Clement
Leaders who win the respect of others are the ones who deliver more than they promise, not the ones who promise more thatn they can deliver.

Anais Nin
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.

Unknown Author
The key to successful leadership is influence, not authority.

Tacitus
Reason and judgement are the qualities of a leader

George Bernard Shaw
Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.

Shakespeare
Such as we are made of, such we be.

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

George Van Valkenburg
Leadership is doing what is right when no one is watching.

Theodore Roosevelt
The best executive is one who has sense enough to pick good people to do what he wants done, and self-restrain enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it.

Harlan Cleveland
Leaders are problem solvers by talent and temperament, and by choice.

Oliver Wendell Holmes
People can be divided into two classes: those who go ahead and do something, and those people who sit still and inquire, why wasn't it done the other way?

Lou Holtz
Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.

Napoleon
Impossible is a word found only in a fool's dictionary.

Vincent Lombardi
Leaders aren't born, they are made. And they are made just like anything else, through hard work. And that's the price we'll have to pay to achieve that goal, or any goal.

"Responsibility is the one thing people dread most of all. Yet
it is the one thing in the world that develops us."

-- Frank Crane

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"The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if
he knew he never would be found out."

-- Macaulay

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"Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation
determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do
it."

-- Raymond Chandler
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"There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not
to be true to the best one knows."

-- George Eliot

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"I think that at some point in your life you realize you don't
have to worry if you do everything you're supposed to do
right. Or if not right, if you do it the best you can... what
can worry do for you? You are already doing the best you can."

-- Joe Namath

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"It's fine to celebrate success but it is more important to
heed the lessons of failure."

-- Bill Gates

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"Again and again, the impossible problem is solved when we see
that the problem is only a tough decision waiting to be made."

-- Robert H. Schuller

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"Every job is a self-portrait of the person who did it.
Autograph your work with excellence."

-- Unknown

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"No one is born hating another person because of the color of
his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must
learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be
taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human
heart than its opposite."

-- Nelson Mandela

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"The only kind of dignity which is genuine is that which is
not diminished by the indifference of others."

-- Dag Hammarskjold

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"We all have different desires and needs, but if we don't
discover what we want from ourselves and what we stand for, we
will live passively and unfulfilled."

-- Bill Watterson

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"If you have time to whine and complain about something then
you have the time to do something about it."

-- Anthony J. D'Angelo

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"It matters little where a man may be at this moment; the
point is whether he is growing."

-- George MacDonald

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"Smooth seas do not make a skillful sailor."

-- African proverb

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"The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being
can alter his life by altering his attitudes."

-- William James

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"If you can find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn't
lead anywhere."

-- Frank A. Clark

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