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Any great and inspiring leader or organization that ever existed set out to do something completely unrealistic.
Sep 10, 2025
Power isn't control at all-power is strength, and giving that strength to others. A leader isn't someone who forces others to make him stronger; a leader is someone willing to give his strength to others that they may have the strength to stand on their own.
Leadership is your ability to hide your panic from others.
Leadership cannot just go along to get along. Leadership must meet the moral challenge of the day.
Leadership is the key to 99 percent of all successful efforts.
Leadership does not always wear the harness of compromise.
Don't necessarily avoid sharp edges. Occasionally they are necessary to leadership.
I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples.
A man can only lead when others accept him as their leader, and he has only as much authority as his subjects give to him. All of the brilliant ideas in the world cannot save your kingdom if no one will listen to them.
The most inspiring leaders are those who... inspire the rest of us to be our best selves and to match our skills with our passions. They give us confidence to pursue our dreams.
Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren't used to an environment where excellence is expected.
When it comes to the pinch, human beings are heroic.
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 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.
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.
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.
To have long term success as a coach or in any position of leadership, you have to be obsessed in some way.
Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way.
You don't lead by hitting people over the head - that's assault, not leadership.
You can't blow an uncertain trumpet.
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.
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.
Leaders aren't born they are made.
Leaders are not born, they're made.
Where there is no vision, there is no hope.
An Airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.
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
Nothing is impossible, the word itself says 'I'm possible'!
What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.
Outstanding leaders go out of their way to boost the self-esteem of their personnel. If people believe in themselves, it's amazing what they can accomplish.
When you can’t change the direction of the wind — adjust your sails
I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.
People will never forget how you made them feel.
Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.
Often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.
In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.