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At
one time or another, everyone chooses or is asked
to be a leader. With training and understanding,
we can all be better leaders when we are called
to be in a leadership position.
-- Robert
Alan Silverstein
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If
your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more,
do more and become more, you are a leader.
-- John Quincy Adams
Leadership
should be born out of the understanding of the needs of
those who would be affected by it.
-- Marian Anderson
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Whether
our task is fighting poverty, stemming the spread
of disease or saving innocent lives from mass murder,
we have seen that we cannot succeed without the leadership
of the strong and the engagement of all.
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Cautious,
careful people, always casting about to preserve their
reputation and social standing, never can bring about
a reform. Those who are really in earnest must be
willing to be anything or nothing in the world's estimation,
and publicly and privately, in season and out, avow
their sympathy with despised and persecuted ideas
and their advocates, and bear the consequences.
-- Susan
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Strong
people don't need strong leaders.
-- Ella
Baker
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The
manager asks how and when; the leader asks what and why.
-- Warren G. Bennis
Good
leaders make people feel that they're at the very heart
of things, not at the periphery. Everyone feels that he
or she makes a difference to the success of the organization.
When that happens people feel centered and that gives
their work meaning.
-- Warren Bennis
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.
-- Warren G. Bennis
The
key to successful leadership today is influence, not authority.
-- Kenneth Blanchard
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Leaders
should be collaborative, modest, and generous
-– Bill
Bradley
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There
are many elements to a campaign.Leadership is number one.
Everything else is number two.
-- Bernd Brecher
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“People
learn to lead because they care about something.”
--
Charlotte
Bunch
“We
need women leaders. But we need them to have a vision
for something.”
--
Charlotte
Bunch
“Whether
there are innately female leadership styles... is
not really the right question. It is more important
to ask why there has been so little attention paid
to women leaders over the years as well as why the
styles of leading more often exhibited by women
are particularly useful at this critical moment
in history.”
-- Charlotte
Bunch
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A
leader must have the courage to act against an expert's
advice.
-- James Callaghan
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No
man will make a great leader who wants to do it
all himself or get all the credit for doing it.
~ Andrew
Carnegie
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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.
-- Rosalynn
Carter
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Times
of upheaval require not just more leadership but
more leaders. People at all organizational levels,
whether anointed or self-appointed, must be empowered
to share leadership responsibilities.
-- Rosalynn
Carter
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Through
mutual understanding, sincerity and goodwill, and
with great wisdom and broad views, the leaders on
both sides should jointly initiate new opportunities
for peace, stability, cooperation and mutual benefit.
-- Chen
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It
is the responsibility of intellectuals to speak
the truth and expose lies.
-- Noam
Chomsky
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A
good leader is not the person who does things right, but
the person who finds the right things to do.
-- Anthony T. Dadovano
I
never had much faith in leaders. I am willing to be
charged with almost anything, rather than to be charged
with being a leader. I am suspicious of leaders, and
especially of the intellectual variety. Give me the
rank and file every day in the week. If you go to
the city of Washington, and you examine the pages
of the Congressional Directory, you will find that
almost all of those corporation lawyers and cowardly
politicians, members of Congress, and mis-representatives
of the masses -- you will find that almost all of
them claim, in glowing terms, that they have risen
from the ranks to places of eminence and distinction.
I am very glad I cannot make that claim for myself.
I would be ashamed to admit that I had risen from
the ranks. When I rise it will be with the ranks,
and not from the ranks.
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Leadership is much more an art, a belief, a condition
of the heart, than a set of things to do. The visible
signs of artful leadership are expressed, ultimately,
in its practice.
-- Max DePree
The
first responsibility of a leader is to define reality.
-- Max DePree
Every
successful leader must instill the vision of where the
organization is going and what is necessary to attain
that goal.
-- John Di Frances
The
six essential leadership attributes: set high standards;
live your standards and mentor those who follow; create
and share a vision; make the hard choices when necessary;
be visible and outfront; and instill hope in those who
follow.
-- John Di Frances
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Management
is doing things right; leadership is doing the right
things.
--
Peter
F. Drucker
Effective
leadership is not about making speeches or being
liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes.
-- Peter
F. Drucker
Leaders
grow; they are not made.
-- Peter
F. Drucker
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Checking
the results of a decision against its expectations shows
executives what their strengths are, where they need to
improve, and where they lack knowledge or information.
--
Peter
F. Drucker
No
institution can possibly survive if it needs geniuses
or supermen to manage it. It must be organized in such
a way as to be able to get along under a leadership composed
of average human beings.
--
Peter
F. Drucker
Leadership
is not magnetic personality—that can just as well be a
glib tongue. It is not "making friends and influencing
people"—that is flattery. Leadership is lifting a person's
vision to higher sights, the raising of a person's performance
to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond
its normal limitations.
-- Peter
F. Drucker
The
leaders who work most effectively, it seems to me, never
say "I." And that's not because they have trained themselves
not to say "I." They don't think "I." They think "we";
they think "team." They understand their job to be to
make the team function. They accept responsibility and
don't sidestep it, but "we" gets the credit…. This is
what creates trust, what enables you to get the task done.
-- Peter
F. Drucker
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“The
led must not be compelled, they must be able to
choose their own leader”
-- Albert
Einstein
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You
do not lead by hitting people over the head - that's
assault, not leadership.
-- Dwight
D. Eisenhower
Leadership:
the art of getting someone else to do something
you want done because he wants to do it.
-- Dwight
D. Eisenhower
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"America's
leadership and prestige depend, not merely upon
our unmatched material progress, riches and military
strength, but on how we use our power in the interests
of world peace and human betterment."
-- Dwight
D. Eisenhower
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"We
can't do it by ourselves, but if enough of us do it,
we change the cultural climate, and then the leaders
follow."
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main characteristics of effective leadership are intelligence,
integrity or loyalty, mystique, humor, discipline, courage,
self sufficieny and confidence.
-- James L. Fisher
Leadership
is the special quality which enables people to stand up
and pull the rest of us over the horizon.
-- James L. Fisher
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Every
man, every woman who has to take up the service
of government, must ask themselves two questions:
'Do I love my people in order to serve them better?
Am I humble and do I listen to everybody, to diverse
opinions in order to choose the best path?' If you
don't ask those questions, your governance will
not be good.
-- Pope
Francis
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The
trust of the people in the leaders reflects the
confidence of the leaders in the people.
-- Paulo
Freire
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Leadership
can be thought of as a capacity to define oneself to others
in a way that clarifies and expands a vision of the future.
-- Edwin H. Friedman
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I
suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but
today it means getting along with people.
-- Mohandas
K. Gandhi
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"A prime function of a leader is to keep hope alive."
-- John William Gardner
Most
important, leaders can conceive and articulate goals that
lift people out of their petty preoccupations and unite
them in pursuit of objectives worthy of their best efforts.
-- John William Gardner
Good
leaders must first become good servants.
-- Robert Greenleaf
The
only test of leadership is that somebody follows.
--Robert K. Greenleaf
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The
very essence of leadership is that you have to have
a vision.
-- Theodore
Hesburgh
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“We
need to be activating deep democracy because democracy
is fleeting through our fingers, and most people are unaware
of it. Democracy is about dispersing power among the interconnected
people. As a people, we need to rise to the level of forcing
our leaders to abide by our stated principles - really
exercise democracy, not only on our behalf but on behalf
of the world. We need to continue, as part and parcel
of the American experience created by the founding forefathers,
and now the foremothers, to insist, "We want democracy
to work, and that means every voice counts."
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I
never thought in terms of being a leader. I thought
very simply in terms of helping people.
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John Hume
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A community
is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take
the helm.
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"A
person, who no matter how desperate the situation,
gives others hope, is a true leader."
-- Daisaku
Ikeda
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Time
is neutral and does not change things. With courage
and initiative, leaders change things.
-- Jesse
Jackson
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Leadership
has a harder job to do than just choose sides. It
must bring sides together.
-- Jesse
Jackson
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So,
poetry becomes a means for useful dialogue between
people who are not only unknown, but mute to each
other. It produces a dialogue among people that
guards all of us against manipulation by our so-called
leaders.
-- June
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"Creativity
is a lot like looking at the world through a kaleidoscope.
You look at a set of elements, the same ones everyone
else sees, but then reassemble those floating bits and
pieces into an enticing new possibility. Effective leaders
are able to"
-- Rosabeth Moss Kanter
Leaders
are more powerful role models when they learn than when
they teach.
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Leadership
and learning are indispensable to each other.
-- John
F. Kennedy
A nation which has forgotten the quality of courage
which in the past has been brought to public life
is not as likely to insist upon or regard that quality
in its chosen leaders today - and in fact we have
forgotten.
-- John
F. Kennedy
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There's
nothing more demoralizing than a leader who can't clearly
articulate why we're doing what we're doing.
--James Kouzes and Barry Posner
you
must unite your constituents around a common cause and
connect with them as human beings.
--James Kouzes and Barry Posner
Leadership
is getting someone to do what they don't want to do, to
achieve what they want to achieve.
-- Tom Landry
A
leader is best when people barely know he exists, not
so good when people obey and acclaim him, worse when they
despise him....But of a good leader who talks little when
his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say, "We
did it ourselves.
-- Lao Tzu
Be
gentle and you can be bold; be frugal and you can be liberal;
avoid putting yourself before others and you can become
a leader among men.
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Leadership
consists not in degrees of technique but in traits
of character; it requires moral rather than athletic
or intellectual effort, and it imposes on both leader
and follower alike the burdens of self-restraint.
-- Lewis
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Leaders
don't force people to follow—they invite them on a journey.
-- Charles S. Lauer
The
final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in
other men the conviction and the will to carry on.
-- Walter Lippman
Leaders
aren't born they are made. And they are made just like
anything else, through hard work. And that's the price
we'll have to pay to achieve that goal, or any goal.
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The masses are in reality their own leaders, dialectically
creating their own development process.
-- Rosa
Luxemburg
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“In
Iroquois society, leaders are encouraged to remember
seven generations in the past and consider seven
generations in the future when making decisions
that affect the people.”
-- Wilma
Mankiller
“America
would be a better place if leaders would do more
long-term thinking.”
-- Wilma
Mankiller
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The
first step to leadership is servanthood.
-- John Maxwell
The
world leaders in innovation and creativity will also be
world leaders in everything else.
-- Harold R. McAlindon
Leadership
is action, not position.
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I
start with the premise that the function of leadership
is to produce more leaders, not more followers.
-- Ralph
Nader
“A
leader has the vision and conviction that a dream
can be achieved. He inspires the power and energy
to get it done.”
-- Ralph
Nader
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Americans... still believe in an America where anything's
possible - they just don't think their leaders do.
-- Barack
Obama
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Leadership
should be more participative than directive, more enabling
than performing.
-- Mary D. Poole
No
organization is stronger than the quality of its leadership,
or ever extends its constituency far beyond the degree
to which its leadership is representative.
-- Edgar Powell
When
we allow one group of people to look down upon
another, then we may for a short time bring hardship
on some particular group of people, but the real
hardship and the real wrong is done to democracy
and to our nation as a whole. We are then breeding
people who cannot live under a democratic form
of government but must be controlled by force.
We have but to look out into the world to see
how easy it is to become stultified, to accept
without protest wrongs done to others, and to
shift the burden of decision and responsibility
for any action onto some vague thing called a
government or some individual called a leader.
-- Eleanor
Roosevelt
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“People
ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The
leader leads, and the boss drives.”
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“It’s
quite possible to arrive in the year 2030 where
people are no longer dying of poverty. We could
actually help lead a global end-not a reduction,
but an end-to absolute poverty…I have always found
that a committed, powerful group of leaders, can
make a huge difference.”
-- Jeffrey
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Widespread
intellectual and moral docility may be convenient
for leaders in the short term, but it is suicidal
for nations in the long term. One of the criteria
for national leadership should therefore be a talent
for understanding, encouraging, and making constructive
use of vigorous criticism.
-- Carl
Sagan
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Leadership
is not so much about technique and methods as it is about
opening the heart. Leadership is about inspiration—of
oneself and of others. Great leadership is about human
experiences, not processes. Leadership is not a formula
or a program, it is a human activity that comes from the
heart and considers the hearts of others. It is an attitude,
not a routine.
-- Lance Secretan
Leaders
are the ones who keep faith with the past, keep step with
the present, and keep the promise to posterity.
-- Harold J. Seymour
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Leadership
is not manifested by coercion, even against the
resented. Greatness is not manifested by unlimited
pragmatism, which places such a high premium on
the end justifying any means and any measures.
-- Margaret
Chase Smith
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Ma
muaka kite a muri
Ma muri ka ora a mua
(Those who lead give sight to those who follow
Those who follow give life to those who lead)
-- Pauline
Tangiora
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"Do
not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person."
-- Mother
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The
only safe ship in a storm is leadership.
-- Faye
Wattleton
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Whoever
is providing leadership needs to be as fresh and
thoughtful and reflective as possible to make the
very best fight.
-- Faye
Wattleton
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When
leaders take back power, when they act as heroes and
saviors, they end up exhausted, overwhelmed, and deeply
stressed.
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The
ear of the leader must ring with the voices of the
people.
-- Woodrow
Wilson
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We
Americans are world leaders and we must lead by
example - particularly in times that require careful
deliberation before any precipitous action - lest
we fail to walk in the shoes of those we might injure.
-- Peter
Yarrow
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