Leadership
is getting someone to do what they don't want to do, to achieve what they want
to achieve.
-- Tom Landry
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 Tzu
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.
-- Lao Tzu
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Leadership
consists not in degrees of technique but in traits of character; it requires moral
rather than athletic or intellectual effort, and it imposes on both leader and
follower alike the burdens of self-restraint.
-- Lewis Lapham |
Leaders
don't force people to follow—they invite them on a journey.
-- Charles S.
Lauer
The
final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction
and the will to carry on.
-- Walter Lippman
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.
-- Vince Lombardi
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The masses are in reality
their own leaders, dialectically creating their own development process.
--
Rosa Luxemburg |
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“In
Iroquois society, leaders are encouraged to remember seven generations in the
past and consider seven generations in the future when making decisions that affect
the people.”
-- Wilma
Mankiller
“America would be a better
place if leaders would do more long-term thinking.”
-- Wilma
Mankiller |
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The
first step to leadership is servanthood.
-- John Maxwell
The
world leaders in innovation and creativity will also be world leaders in everything
else.
-- Harold R. McAlindon
Leadership
is action, not position.
-- Donald H. McGannon
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I
start with the premise that the function of leadership is to produce more leaders,
not more followers.
-- Ralph
Nader “A
leader has the vision and conviction that a dream can be achieved. He inspires
the power and energy to get it done.”
-- Ralph
Nader |
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Americans... still believe
in an America where anything's possible - they just don't think their leaders
do.
-- Barack Obama |
Leadership
should be more participative than directive, more enabling than performing.
-- Mary D. Poole
No
organization is stronger than the quality of its leadership, or ever extends its
constituency far beyond the degree to which its leadership is representative.
-- Edgar Powell
