A leader is best when people barely know that he exists.
A great leader's courage to fulfill his vision comes from passion, not position.
A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.
Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.
A true leader has the confidence to stand alone, the courage to make tough decisions, and the compassion to listen to the needs of others. He does not set out to be a leader, but becomes one by the equality of his actions and the integrity of his intent.
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.
Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.
In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still.
Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
Courage is more exhilarating than fear and in the long run it is easier. We do not have to become heroes over night. Just a step at a time, meeting each thing that comes up, seeing it is not as dreadful as it appeared, discovering we have the strength to stare it down.
It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
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.
Courage is not the absence of fear...
It is not the critic who counts...The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena.
It is not the critic who counts
I have three precious things which I hold fast and prize. The first is gentleness; the second 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.
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.
The real leader has no need to lead - he is content to point the way.
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