Leaders aren’t born, they are made. And they are made just like anything else, through hard work.
Leadership is unlocking people’s potential to become better.
A leader is a dealer in hope.
Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate, and doubt to offer a solution everybody can understand.
The leaders who offer blood, toil, tears and sweat always get more out of their followers than those who offer safety and a good time. When it comes to the pinch, human beings are heroic.
Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them.
Power isn't control at all--power is strength, and giving that strength to others. A leader isn't someone who forces others to make him stronger; a leader is someone willing to give his strength to others that they may have the strength to stand on their own.
A leader is a dealer in hope.
Leadership does not always wear the harness of compromise.
To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart.
The led must not be compelled. They must be able to choose their own leader.
Leadership is an action, not a position.
Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.
Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.
You cannot be a leader, and ask other people to follow you, unless you know how to follow, too.
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.
It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.
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.
A cowardly leader is the most dangerous of men.
It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.
Leadership is a combination of strategy and character. If you must be without one, be without the strategy.
A good leader is a person who takes a little more than his share of the blame and a little less than his share of the credit.
Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence.
High expectations are the key to everything.