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About leadership: No person can be a great leader
unless he takes genuine joy
in the successes of those under him.
- W. A. Nance
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The high destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule.
- Albert Einstein
The man of genius inspires us with
a boundless confidence in our own powers.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Great leadership is not the visit of an unexpected fate
but rather a flame which is kept burning
in spite of the winds of risk and opposition.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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The man who promises everything, is sure to fulfill nothing,
and everyone who promises too much is in danger of
using evil means in order to carry out his promises,
and is already on the road to perdition.
- Carl Jung
Management is doing things right;
leadership is doing the right things.
- Peter F. Drucker
The full measure of a man is
not to be found in the man himself,
but in the colors and textures that
come alive in others because of him.
- Albert Schweitzer
You don't lead by hitting people over the head -
that's assault, not leadership.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
If your actions inspire others to dream more,
learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.
- John Quincy Adams
The price of greatness is responsibility.
- Winston Churchill
Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers,
who can cut through argument, debate, and doubt
to offer a solution everybody can understand.
- Colin Powell
Being a leader is like being a lady,
if you have to go around telling people you are one, you aren't.
- Margaret Thatcher
A leader has the vision and conviction that a dream can be achieved.
He inspires the power and energy to get it done.
- Ralph Nader
The reason why men do not obey us,
is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
When we step on the battlefield, I will be
The First Boots On and the Last Boots Off.
- LtG. Hal Moore
Lead follow or get out of the way.
- Thomas Paine
When trouble arises and things look bad,
there is always one individual who perceives a solution
and is willing to take command.
Very often, that individual is crazy.
- Dave Barry
Never tell people how to do things.
Tell them what to do and they will
surprise you with their ingenuity.
- George S. Patton
The signs of outstanding leadership
appear primarily among the followers.
Are the followers reaching their potential?
Are they learning? Serving?
Do they achieve the required results?
Do they change with grace? Manage conflict?
- Max De Pree
Your success will shine as a light of hope
and inspire numbers you cannot total.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Never hold discussions with the monkey
when the organ grinder is in the room.
- Winston Churchill
A leader is best when people barely know he exists;
when his work is done, his aim fulfilled,
they will say: we did it ourselves.
- Lao Tzu
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.
- Vince Lombardi
The buck stops here.
- Harry S. Truman
A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus
but a molder of consensus.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
It is better to displease the people
by doing what you know is right.
- William J. H. Boetcker
It is better to lead from behind
and to put others in front,
especially when you celebrate victory
when nice things occur.
You take the front line when there is danger.
Then people will appreciate your leadership.
- Nelson Mandela
Who hears me, who understands me, becomes mine,
a possession for all time.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
You manage things, you lead people.
- Grace Hopper
To lead people walk behind them.
- Lao Tzu
leading by example creates a degree of
loyalty and overall success
that cannot be achieved through
issuing orders from a lofty office.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When you can do the common things of life in an uncommon way,
you will command the attention of the world.
- George Washington Carver
Motivation is the art of getting people to do
what you want them to do because they want to do it.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Winners Dream Big Dreams.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The speed of the leader determines the rate of the pack.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Winners must have two things:
definite goals and a burning desire to achieve them.
- Anonymous
The wicked leader is he who the people despise.
The good leader is he who the people revere.
The great leader is he who the people say, "We did it ourselves."
- Lao Tzu
When the best leader's work is done the people say,
"We did it ourselves."
- Lao Tzu
The glue that holds all relationships together -
including the relationship between; the leader and the led
is trust, and trust is based on integrity.
- Brian Tracy
Leaders are those who empower others.
- Bill Gates
The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity.
Without it, no real success is possible,
no matter whether it is on a section gang,
a football field, in an army, or in an office.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Don't try to manage people;
You manage things; You lead people.
- Grace Hopper
A leader is not one who says, "Follow me."
A leader is one who says, "I'll go first."
- Neale Donald Walsch
I cannot trust a man to control others
who cannot control himself.
- Robert E. Lee
While most managers spend their time attempting
to predict the future accurately -
and while that's valuable -
the best managers are able to generate a future
which was not going to happen otherwise -
that is, a future which was not predictable.
- Werner Erhard
I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles;
but today it means getting along with people.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Some single mind must be master,
else there will be no agreement in anything.
- Abraham Lincoln
Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.
- John F. Kennedy
Example is leadership.
- Albert Schweitzer
The expert in battle seeks his victory
from strategic advantage
and does not demand it from his men.
- Sun Tzu
Battles are won by slaughter and maneuver.
The greater the general, the more he contributes in maneuver,
the less he demands in slaughter.
- Winston Churchill
I must follow the people.
Am I not their leader?
- Benjamin Disraeli
Honor bespeaks worth. Confidence begets trust.
Service brings satisfaction.
Cooperation proves the quality of leadership.
- James Cash Penney
Leadership is the art of getting someone else
to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born -
that there is a genetic factor to leadership.
This myth asserts that people simply either
have certain charismatic qualities or not.
That's nonsense; in fact, the opposite is true.
Leaders are made rather than born.
- Warren G. Bennis
No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship
of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other's worth.
- Robert Southey
There is a magic in the memory of schoolboy friendships;
it softens the heart,
and even affects the nervous system
of those who have no heart.
- Benjamin Disraeli
Friendship is a thing most necessary to life,
since without friends no one would choose to live,
though possessed of all other advantages.
- Aristotle
So long as we are loved by others,
I would almost say that we are indispensable;
and no man is useless while he has a friend.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
No man is the whole of himself;
his friends are the rest of him.
- Harry Emerson Fosdick
Let there be no purpose in friendship
save the deepening of the spirit.
- Khalil Gibran
I no doubt deserved my enemies,
but I don't believe I deserved my friends.
- Walt Whitman
One measure of friendship consists
not in the number of things friends can discuss,
but in the number of things they need no longer mention.
- Clifton Fadiman
There is no substitute for the comfort supplied
by the utterly taken-for-granted relationship.
- Iris Murdoch
We can never replace a friend.
When a man is fortunate enough to have several,
he finds they are all different.
No one has a double in friendship.
- Johann Schiller
There is no hope of joy except in human relations.
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Where there is love there is no question.
- Albert Einstein
Where there is no emotion,
there is no motive for violence.
- the character Spock in the Star Trek television series
The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend.
I have no wealth to bestow on him.
If he knows that I am happy in loving him, he will want no other reward.
Is not friendship divine in this?
- Henry David Thoreau
There is no neutrality.
There is only greater or lesser
awareness of one's bias.
- Phyllis Rose
Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man.
And man can be as big as he wants.
No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings.
- John F. Kennedy
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