……. is not to put greatness into humanity, but to elicit it, for the greatness is already there.”
— John Buchan
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“Nothing so conclusively……
……. proves a man’s ability to lead others as what he does from day to day to lead himself.”
– Thomas J. Watson Sr.
“True leaders understand…..
… that leadership is not about them but about those they serve. It is not about exalting themselves but about lifting others up.”
– Sheri L Dew
“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.”
– Ronald Reagan
“Leaders are not, …..
…… as we are often led to think, people who go along with huge crowds following them. Leaders are people who go their own way without caring, or even looking to see, whether anyone is following them. “Leadership qualities” are not the qualities that enable people to attract followers, but those that enable them to do without them. They include, at the very least, courage, endurance, patience, humour, flexibility, resourcefulness, stubbornness, a keen sense of reality, and the ability to keep a cool and clear head, even when things are going badly. True leaders, in short, do not make people into followers, but into other leaders.”
– John Holt
A leader is one who…..
…… out of madness or goodness, volunteers to take upon himself the woe of the people. There are few men so foolish, hence the erratic quality of leadership in the world.
– John Updike
I am endlessly fascinated…..
……. that playing football is considered a training ground for leadership, but raising children isn’t.
– Dee Dee Myers
I am personally convinced that….
…….one person can be a change catalyst, a transformer in any situation, any organization. Such an individual is yeast that can leaven an entire loaf. It requires vision, initiative, patience, respect, persistence, courage, and faith to be a transforming leader.”
– Stephen R Covey
“The leaders who work most effectively….
…… it seems to me, never say ‘I’. And that’s not because they have trained themselves not to say ‘I’. They don’t think ‘I’. They think ‘we’; they think ‘team’. They understand their job to be to make the team function. They accept responsibility and don’t sidestep it, but ‘we’ gets the credit…. This is what creates trust, what enables you to get the task done.”
– Peter F Drucker
“The best is he who calls men……
…… to the best. And those who heed the call are also blessed. But worthless who call not, heed not, but rest.”
— Hesiod
8th Century BC Greek poet
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