I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people.
Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence.
Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.
A leader is a dealer in hope.
Leadership does not always wear the harness of compromise.
Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.
A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.
To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart.
A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.
Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.
A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.
Leadership is a combination of strategy and character. If you must be without one, be without the strategy.
Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
Successful leaders see the opportunities in every difficulty rather than the difficulty in every opportunity.
The greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things. He is the one that gets the people to do the greatest things.
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.
You do not lead by hitting people over the head. That's assault, not leadership.
Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy.
Leadership involves finding a parade and getting in front of it.
Leadership does not always wear the harness of compromise.
It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.
A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.
A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don’t necessarily want to go, but ought to be.
You cannot be a leader, and ask other people to follow you, unless you know how to follow, too.
A great leader’s courage to fulfill his vision comes from passion, not position.