A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.
If you can't swallow your pride, you can't lead. Even the highest mountain had animals that step on it.
If you do not look at things on a large scale, it will be difficult to master strategy.
Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes.
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.
The task of leadership is not to put greatness into people, but to elicit it, for the greatness is there already.
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.
Don't find fault, find a remedy.
Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy.
Surround yourself with the best people and then get out of their way. Give them a chance to exceed your expectations and they usually will.
Honor bespeaks worth. Confidence begets trust. Service brings satisfaction. Cooperation proves the quality of leadership.
Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.
Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.
Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfils the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.
True Grit is making a decision and standing by it, doing what must be done. No moral man can have peace of mind if he leaves undone what he knows he should have done.
Discipline yourself to do the things you need to do when you need to do them, and the day will come when you will be able to do the things you want to do when you want to do them!
The man who promises everything is sure to fulfil 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.
The quality of a leader is reflected in the standards they set for themselves.
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.
The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.
The leaders who work most effectively, it seems to me, never say "I." And that's not because they have trained themselves not to say "I." They don't think "I." They think "we"; they think "team." They understand their job to be to make the team function. They accept responsibility and don't sidestep it, but "we" gets the credit. This is what creates trust, what enables you to get the task done.
Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help or concluded you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership.
I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure - which is: Try to please everybody.
A man cannot govern a nation if he cannot govern a city; he cannot govern a city if he cannot govern a family; he cannot govern a family unless he can govern himself; and he cannot govern himself unless his passions are subject to reason
The four Cs of making dreams come true: Curiosity, Courage, Consistency, Confidence.
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