About leadership: No person can be a great leader
unless he takes genuine joy
in the successes of those under him.
- W. A. Nance
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The full measure of a man is
not to be found in the man himself,
but in the colors and textures that
come alive in others because of him.
- Albert Schweitzer
Winners Dream Big Dreams.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie 
If your actions inspire others to dream more,
learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.
- John Quincy Adams
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When we step on the battlefield, I will be
The First Boots On and the Last Boots Off.
- LtG. Hal Moore
Great leadership is not the visit of an unexpected fate
but rather a flame which is kept burning
in spite of the winds of risk and opposition.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
The price of greatness is responsibility.
- Winston Churchill
The glue that holds all relationships together -
including the relationship between; the leader and the led
is trust, and trust is based on integrity.
- Brian Tracy
It is better to displease the people
by doing what you know is right.
- William J. H. Boetcker
Your success will shine as a light of hope
and inspire numbers you cannot total.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
You don't lead by hitting people over the head -
that's assault, not leadership.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
The buck stops here.
- Harry S. Truman
Management is doing things right;
leadership is doing the right things.
- Peter F. Drucker
The reason why men do not obey us,
is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is better to lead from behind
and to put others in front,
especially when you celebrate victory
when nice things occur.
You take the front line when there is danger.
Then people will appreciate your leadership.
- Nelson Mandela
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.
- Lao Tzu
The speed of the leader determines the rate of the pack.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity.
Without it, no real success is possible,
no matter whether it is on a section gang,
a football field, in an army, or in an office.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
I cannot trust a man to control others
who cannot control himself.
- Robert E. Lee
A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus
but a molder of consensus.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Leaders are those who empower others.
- Bill Gates
When the best leader's work is done the people say,
"We did it ourselves."
- Lao Tzu
Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers,
who can cut through argument, debate, and doubt
to offer a solution everybody can understand.
- Colin Powell
Don't try to manage people;
You manage things; You lead people.
- Grace Hopper
A leader is not one who says, "Follow me."
A leader is one who says, "I'll go first."
- Neale Donald Walsch
When trouble arises and things look bad,
there is always one individual who perceives a solution
and is willing to take command.
Very often, that individual is crazy.
- Dave Barry
The signs of outstanding leadership
appear primarily among the followers.
Are the followers reaching their potential?
Are they learning? Serving?
Do they achieve the required results?
Do they change with grace? Manage conflict?
- Max De Pree
Winners must have two things:
definite goals and a burning desire to achieve them.
- Anonymous
Never tell people how to do things.
Tell them what to do and they will
surprise you with their ingenuity.
- George S. Patton
The wicked leader is he who the people despise.
The good leader is he who the people revere.
The great leader is he who the people say, "We did it ourselves."
- Lao Tzu
Who hears me, who understands me, becomes mine,
a possession for all time.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
When you can do the common things of life in an uncommon way,
you will command the attention of the world.
- George Washington Carver
Lead follow or get out of the way.
- Thomas Paine
Motivation is the art of getting people to do
what you want them to do because they want to do it.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
To lead people walk behind them.
- Lao Tzu
Honor bespeaks worth. Confidence begets trust.
Service brings satisfaction.
Cooperation proves the quality of leadership.
- James Cash Penney
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
You manage things, you lead people.
- Grace Hopper
leading by example creates a degree of
loyalty and overall success
that cannot be achieved through
issuing orders from a lofty office.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.
- John F. Kennedy
I must follow the people.
Am I not their leader?
- Benjamin Disraeli
While most managers spend their time attempting
to predict the future accurately -
and while that's valuable -
the best managers are able to generate a future
which was not going to happen otherwise -
that is, a future which was not predictable.
- Werner Erhard
I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles;
but today it means getting along with people.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Being a leader is like being a lady,
if you have to go around telling people you are one, you aren't.
- Margaret Thatcher
Never hold discussions with the monkey
when the organ grinder is in the room.
- Winston Churchill
Example is leadership.
- Albert Schweitzer
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
The man of genius inspires us with
a boundless confidence in our own powers.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The expert in battle seeks his victory
from strategic advantage
and does not demand it from his men.
- Sun Tzu
The high destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule.
- Albert Einstein
The man who promises everything, is sure to fulfill nothing,
and everyone who promises too much is in danger of
using evil means in order to carry out his promises,
and is already on the road to perdition.
- Carl Jung
Leadership is the art of getting someone else
to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Battles are won by slaughter and maneuver.
The greater the general, the more he contributes in maneuver,
the less he demands in slaughter.
- Winston Churchill
The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born -
that there is a genetic factor to leadership.
This myth asserts that people simply either
have certain charismatic qualities or not.
That's nonsense; in fact, the opposite is true.
Leaders are made rather than born.
- Warren G. Bennis
Some single mind must be master,
else there will be no agreement in anything.
- Abraham Lincoln
How do you want to be remembered?
Live life full out - Begin today.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Be curious; be adventurous; live life full-out.
Accept the challenge, and reach for the brass ring.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is full of beauty. Notice it.
Notice the bumble bee, the small child,
and the smiling faces.
Smell the rain, and feel the wind.
Live your life to the fullest potential,
and fight for your dreams.
- Ashley Smith
Although the world is full of suffering,
it is full also of the overcoming of it.
- Helen Keller
If you don't take full responsibility
for your own happiness,
who do you suppose will?
Your happiness is a one person job -
it begins and ends with you.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Play full-out and enjoy all of Life.
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Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead.
- David Farragut
Although the world is full of suffering,
it is full also of the overcoming of it.
My optimism, then, does not rest on the absence of evil,
but on a glad belief in the preponderance of good
and a willing effort always to cooperate with the good,
that it may prevail.
- Helen Keller
Without adventure civilization is in full decay.
- Alfred North Whitehead
All the world is full of suffering.
It is also full of overcoming.
- Helen Keller
Life is a dangerous - ultimately fatal - endeavor,
so you may as well live it full out.
Chart your course, cast off the lines,
and boldly sail the seas of life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
What is our family?
We touch our full hearts and see ourselves
reflected whole in each other's eyes.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Spirit is always waiting to rush into us,
but we are too full of worldly things.
It is like trying to pour fine wine into a cup filled with mud -
the wine is waiting, but the mud must be removed first.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment,
full effort is full victory.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
We come this way but once.
We can either tiptoe through life
and hope we get to death without being badly bruised
or we can live a full, complete life achieving
our goals and realizing our wildest dreams.
- Bob Proctor
It cannot be wisdom to assert the truth of one faith over another.
In our troubled world so full of contradictions,
the wise person makes justice his guide and learns from all.
- Akbar the Great (1542-1605)
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