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It's only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.
Sep 17, 2025
It's hard to lead a cavalry charge if you think you look funny on a horse.
Leaders are made, they are not born
Leaders think and talk about the solutions. Followers think and talk about the problems.
The nation will find it very hard to look up to the leaders who are keeping their ears to the ground.
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.
The building of a personality beyond its normal limitations.
Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy.
Earn your leadership every day.
A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd.
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.
He who has never learned to obey cannot be a good commander.
High sentiments always win in the end. The leaders who offer blood, toil, tears and sweat always get more out of their followers than those who offer safety and a good time. When it comes to the pinch, human beings are heroic.
The best executive is one who has sense enough to pick good people to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it.
People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader leads, and the boss drives.
The best thing you can do is follow your dreams
Leadership is the challenge to be something more than average.
The worst thing you can do is nothing.
If you have a 2 or 3 year old who is not talking, you must start an early intervention program. The worst thing you can do with an autistic 3 year old is to do nothing.
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.
Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
Leaders aren't born they are made.
Leaders are not born, they're made.
Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it's only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.
Everything you've ever wanted is on the other side of fear.
A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better.
A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.
Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
Winning is not everything, but wanting to win is.
The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.
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.
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.
I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.
Build your own dreams, or someone else will hire you to build theirs.
Nothing is impossible, the word itself says 'I'm possible'!
The secret of getting ahead is getting started
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.
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life.
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.
Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out.
I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.
Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.