Without leadership….

… command is a hollow experience, a vacuum often filled with mistrust and arrogance

– Eric Shinseki

The people…

… who are lifting the world onward and upward are those who encourage more than they criticize

– Elizabeth Harrison

It takes…

… great goals to lead us out of our everyday limits into accomplishing more than we ever thought we could or would.

– Robert Cooper

Keep…

… your fears to yourself, but share your inspiration with others

– Robert Louis Stevenson

The pessimist….

… complains about the wind. The optimist expects it to change. The leader adjusts the sails.

– John Maxwell

While it is…

…. essential for a leader to mobilize commitment to high performance at all levels of an organisation, it is equally essential for leaders to stimulate ‘performance anxiety’ and drive concerns about the status quo downward through the organisation.

– David Hunter

Leadership flows…

… from the minds of followers more than from the titles of leaders, more from the perception of willing followers than from anointment.

– Lane Secretan

If we…

… cannot envision the world we would like to live in, we cannot work towards its creation. If we cannot place ourselves in it in our imagination, we will not believe it is possible.

– Chellis Glendinning

What…

… we do for ourselves dies with us. What we do for others and the world, is and remains immortal.

– Albert Pine

Managers…

… maintain an efficient status quo while leaders attack the status quo to create something new

– Orrin Woodward