Do the difficult….

….. things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

– Lao Tzu

The genius of……

………. a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully.

– Walter Lippmann

To be a great leader…..

…… and so always master of the situation, one must of necessity have been a great thinker in action.

– James Thomas

Great leaders are….

….. almost always great simplifiers who can cut through argument, debate, and doubt to offer a solution that everybody can understand.

– Colin Powell

Leaders must be…..

…….. close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them.

– John C Maxwell

Good leadership is…..

……. largely invisible. When everything runs smoothly, no one notices.

– Brian Herbert & Kevin Anderson

Real leadership is ….

……not about calling yourself “leader”; rather, it’s about taking up the cause to change some piece of the world for the better. Real leadership, in other words, is an extreme act rooted in love and motivated by a desire to create a better world–whether it’s the world of your company, team, neighbourhood, or family.

– Steve Farber & Matthew Kelly

The first act of leadership is …

….. coming to grips with yourself, who you are, where you are, and what is of value to you, and shaping yourself by acts of conscious will into what you want to become.

– Fenwick English

If leadership is….

…… the act of going beyond what is … it begins by going beyond what is within ourselves.

– Kevin Cashman

Leaders are creatures…..

…… of their environment, but unlike most creatures, they are also movers of it. As movers of and within the organization, they push it forward, at the same time shaping it as much as it shapes them.

– John Baldoni