If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.
Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.
Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.
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.
Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others.
A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.
A leader is best when people barely know that he exists.
No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit for doing it.
You don't lead by hitting people over the head - that's assault, not leadership.
The building of a personality beyond its normal limitations.
The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on.
The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality.
The challenge of leadership is to be strong, but not rude; be kind, but not weak; be bold, but not bully; be thoughtful, but not lazy; be humble, but not timid; be proud, but not arrogant; have humor, but without folly.
Leaders aren't born they are made.
Leaders are not born, they're made.
People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader leads, and the boss drives.
The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.
Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.
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.
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