Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.
Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible.
Power is like being a lady... if you have to tell people you are, you aren't.
You're only as good as the people you hire.
Education is the mother of leadership.
Leadership cannot really be taught. It can only be learned.
Leadership is the challenge to be something more than average.
You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand.
To do great things is difficult; but to command great things is more difficult.
Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.
Leaders are fascinated by future. You are a leader if and only if, you are restless for change, impatient for progress and deeply dissatisfied with status quo. Because in your head, you can see a better future. The friction between 'what is' and 'what could be' burns you, stirs you up, propels you. This is leadership.
If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.
A man is but the product of his thoughts what he thinks, he becomes.
Average leaders raise the bar on themselves; good leaders raise the bar for others; great leaders inspire others to raise their own bar.
Leaders don’t complain about what’s not working. Leaders celebrate what is working and work to amplify it.
Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there.
A competent leader can get efficient service from poor troops, while on the contrary an incapable leader can demoralize the best of troops.
The task of leadership is not to put greatness into people, but to elicit it, for the greatness is there already.
Leadership is understanding people and involving them to help you do a job. That takes all of the good characteristics, like integrity, dedication of purpose, selflessness, knowledge, skill, implacability, as well as determination not to accept failure.
All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership.
Remember this: Anticipation is the ultimate power. Losers react; leaders anticipate.
A leader is not an administrator who loves to run others, but someone who carries water for his people so that they can get on with their jobs.
The true leader is always led.
You have to think anyway, so why not think big?
When you're finished changing, you're finished.
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