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The best leaders realize their success depends on their people.
Sep 10, 2025
...the best leaders are servant leaders - they serve those they lead.
The best leaders blend courage with compassion.
The best leaders... almost without exception and at every level, are master users of stories and symbols.
Because sometimes the best leaders are the ones who have no interest in leading. Those are often the ones who are most interested in doing what is right, not what is popular.
Daily exercise is an insurance policy against future illness. The best Leaders Without Titles are the fittest.
The best leaders are the best notetakers, best askers, and best learners.
You can't get it all done yourself. The best leaders are not afraid of picking people who are better than they are and who may one day replace them.
The best leaders are humble enough to realize their victories depend upon their people.
A great leader's courage to fulfill his vision comes from passion, not position.
Leaders think and talk about the solutions. Followers think and talk about the problems.
Only one man in a thousand is a leader of men -- the other 999 follow women.
He who has great power should use it lightly.
When I give a minister an order, I leave it to him to find the means to carry it out.
The nation will find it very hard to look up to the leaders who are keeping their ears to the ground.
A competent leader can get efficient service from poor troops, while on the contrary an incapable leader can demoralize the best of troops.
What you do has far greater impact than what you say.
I can't give you the sunset, but I can give you the night.
What chance gathers, she easily scatters. A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together.
The leader works in the open and the boss in covert. The leader leads, and the boss drives.
I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people.
The building of a personality beyond its normal limitations.
People buy into the leader before they buy into the vision.
You don't lead by pointing and telling people some place to go. You lead by going to that place and making a case.
People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader leads, and the boss drives.
Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way.
Leadership is defined by results not attributes.
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.
Management is about arranging and telling. Leadership is about nurturing and enhancing.
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.
Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.
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.
He who has learned how to obey will know how to command.
No man is good enough to govern another man without the other's consent.
Leaders aren't born they are made.
Leaders are not born, they're made.
Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
Leaders are visionaries with a poorly developed sense of fear and no concept of the odds against them.
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our Light, not our Darkness, that most frightens us.
It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us.
Part of the task of the leader is to make others participate in his leadership. The best leader knows how to make his followers actually feel power themselves, not merely acknowledge his power.
COURAGE isn't an absence of fear. It is doing what you are afraid to do, letting go of the familiar and forging ahead into new territory. What I have discovered is that the best leaders have the courage to act - are willing to take the risk, make the statement, point the way, lead the way - when others hesitate out of fear. Effective leadership requires the ability to stand up, stand out, and the conviction to do it. I have never known a successful leader that was not courageous.
Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out.
Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.
Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.