influence them in his favor if he dislikes or scorns them. He must neither cringe nor sneer. He must have both self-respect and respect for others."
Herbert N. Casson
"There are three essentials to leadership: humility, clarity and courage."
Chan Master Fuchan Yuan
"I am certainly not one of those who need to be prodded. In fact, if anything, I am the prod."
Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill
"The nation will find it very hard to look up to the leaders who are keeping their ears to the ground."
Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill
"There is no worse mistake in public leadership than to hold out false hope soon to be swept away."
Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill
"Leadership is not magnetic personality, that can just as well be a glib tongue. It is not "making friends and influencing people" -- that is flattery. 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."
Peter F. Drucker
"The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between, the leader is a servant."
Max DuPree
"Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it."
General Dwight David Eisenhower
"You do not lead by hitting people over the head, that's assault, not leadership."
General David Dwight Eisenhower
"Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly, and they will show themselves great."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The common characteristics of people make a community possible, but it is their uncommon qualities that make it better."
John H. Fischer
"Leadership cannot really be taught. It can only be learned."
Harold S. Green
"The human mind is as driven to understand as the body is driven to survive."
Hugh Gilmore
"A salesman, like the storage battery in your car, is constantly discharging energy. Unless he is recharged at frequent intervals he soon runs dry. This is one of the greatest responsibilities of sales leadership."
R. H. Grant
"What is a committee? A group of the unwilling, picked from the unfit, to do the unnecessary."
Richard Harkness
"The very essence of leadership is that you have to have a vision. It's got to be a vision you articulate clearly and forcefully on every occasion. You can't blow an uncertain trumpet."
Reverend Theodore M. Hesburgh
"The leader has to be practical and a realist, yet must talk the language of the visionary and the idealist."
Eric Hoffer
"Respect a man, he will do the more."
James Howell
"Leadership has a harder job to do than just choose sides. It must bring sides together."
Jesse Jackson
"The only real training for leadership is leadership."
Anthony Jay
"No two men can be half an hour together, but one shall acquire an evident superiority over the other."
Dr. Samuel Johnson
"You can send a message around the world in one-fifth of a second, yet it may take years for it to get from the outside of a man's head to the inside."
Charles Franklin Kettering
"Lift, Lead and Love."
Spencer W. Kimball
"A leader is best
When people barely know he exists.
Not so good
When people obey and acclaim him.
Worse when they despise him.
But of a good leader
Who talks little
When his work is done,
His aim fulfilled, They will say "We did it ourselves."
Lao Tse
"Rule a kingdom as though you were cooking a small fish, don't overdo it."
Lao Tse
"There are no dumb questions, only dumb answers."
Marshall Loeb
"A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd."
Max Lucado
"To command is to serve, nothing more and nothing less."
Andre Malraux
"Leadership is influence."
John C. Maxwell
"Leadership is an action, not a position."
Donald H. McGannon
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Marjorie Thelen
Wendy Corsi Staub
Lee Stephen
Eva Pohler
Gemma Mawdsley
Thomas J. Hubschman
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