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The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.
Sep 10, 2025
Leadership is not about titles, positions or flowcharts. It is about one life influencing another.
The manager asks how and when; the leader asks what and why.
If your actions create a legacy that inspires others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, then, you are an excellent leader.
I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
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.
That's nonsense; in fact, the opposite is true. Leaders are made rather than born.
The art of leadership is saying no, not saying yes. It is very easy to say yes.
All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership.
Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.
The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born.
To do great things is difficult; but to command great things is more difficult.
When it comes to the pinch, human beings are heroic.
A leader is one who sees more than others see, who sees farther than others see, and who sees before others do." (Leroy Eims)
A ruler should be slow to punish and swift to reward.
The led must not be compelled; they must be able to choose their own leader.
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.
Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy.
A cowardly leader is the most dangerous of men.
Earn your leadership every day.
A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd.
Leadership cannot really be taught. It can only be learned.
To lead people, walk beside them ... As for the best leaders, the people do not notice their existence. The next best, the people honor and praise. The next, the people fear; and the next, the people hate ... When the best leader's work is done the people say, 'We did it ourselves!
Inventories can be managed, but people must be led.
If you think you are leading and turn around to see no one following, then you are just taking a walk.
I'm a shepherd, not a sheep, and I've always prided myself on being a leader and not a follower.
The growth and development of people is the highest calling of leadership.
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.
In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still.
To have long term success as a coach or in any position of leadership, you have to be obsessed in some way.
Jesse Owens had to be a very strong person. There were a lot of protests, but I think that he knew, despite the pressure on both sides, the pressure to go and the pressure not to go, he had to do it for himself. Unknowingly, he changed the world and broke so many barriers by doing so, by being a leader.
You don't lead by hitting people over the head - that's assault, not leadership.
The challenge of leadership is to be strong, but not rude; be kind, but not weak; be bold, but not bully; be thoughtful, but not lazy; be humble, but not timid; be proud, but not arrogant; have humor, but without folly.
Be strong, but not rude; Be kind, but not weak; Be bold, but not bully; Be humble, but not timid; Be prooud, but not arrogant.
A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week.
The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them.
A leader leads by example not by force.
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.
Leaders aren't born they are made.
Leaders are not born, they're made.
Leaders are visionaries with a poorly developed sense of fear and no concept of the odds against them.
Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.
A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.
It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are difficult
Leadership is getting someone to do what they don't want to do but to achieve what they want to achieve.
A leader is best when people barely know that he exists.
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.
Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced.
I've failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed.
Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.