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"It's not failure, but low aim is crime."

** Lowell


"Success is that old ABC ** ** ability, breaks, and courage."

** Charles Luckman


"You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try."

** Beverly Sills


"The only time you don't fail is the last time you try anything and it works."

** William Strong


"Men are born to succeed, not to fail."

** Henry David Thoreau


"Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure."

** George E. Woodberry


"A study at Cornell University's Johnson Graduate School of Management found that compassion and building teamwork

will be two of the most important characteristics business leaders will need for success a decade from now."

** Doc Childre and Bruce Cryer


"Self- security will be a hallmark of the leaders and exceptional organizations of the future. Self** security in

an individual or a system brings a high ratio of coherence. Leaders or organizations with self** security can push

power and authority downstream and develop centers of innovation and excellence at all levels of the

organization."

** Doc Childre and Bruce Cryer


"To work in the world lovingly means that we are defining what we will be for, rather than reacting to what we are

against."

** Christina Baldwin


"The only test of leadership is that somebody follows."

** Robert K. Greenleaf


"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


"More than anything else today, followers believe they are part of a system, a process that lacks heart. If there

is one thing a leader can do to connect with followers at a human, or better still a spiritual level, it is to

become engaged with them fully, to share experiences and emotions, and to set aside the processes of leadership we

have learned by rote."

** Author Unknown


"Blessed is the leader who seeks the best for those he serves."

** Author Unknown


"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


"American philanthropic custom owes much to leadership by business and professional people."

** Robert L. Payton


"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


"An army of a thousand is easy to find, but, ah, how difficult to find a general."

** Author Unknown


"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."

** Lao Tzu


"Leadership is action, not position."

** Donald H. McGannon


"Leadership is getting people to work for you when they are not obligated."

** Fred Smith


"A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune."

** Anon


"Leadership should be more participative than directive, more enabling than performing."

** Mary D. Poole


"Leadership should be born out of the understanding of the needs of those who would be affected by it."

** Marian Anderson


"The main characteristics of effective leadership are intelligence, integrity or loyalty, mystique, humor,

discipline, courage, self sufficiency and confidence."

** James L. Fisher


"Leaders are the ones who keep faith with the past, keep step with the present, and keep the promise to

posterity."

** Harold J. Seymour


"Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not

attributes."

** Peter Ferdinand Drucker


"When the leadership is right and the time is right, the people can always be counted upon to follow—to the end

and at all costs."

** Harold J. Seymour


"A true leader always keeps an element of surprise up his sleeve, which others cannot grasp but which keeps his

public excited and breathless."

** Charles deGaulle


"A good leader inspires others with confidence in him; a great leader inspires them with confidence in

themselves."

** Author Unknown


"A good leader can't get too far ahead of his followers."

** Franklin D. Roosevelt


"Forethought and prudence are the proper qualities of a leader."

** Tacitus


"Leadership is getting someone to do what they don't want to do, to achieve what they want to achieve."

** Tom Landry


"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


"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


"Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other."

** John F. Kennedy


"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


"Leadership is the special quality which enables people to stand up and pull the rest of us over the horizon."

** James L. Fisher


"Leadership: the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it."

** Dwight D. Eisenhower


"Good leaders develop through a never** ending process of self** study, education, training, and experience."

** Author Unknown


"He who cannot agree with his enemies is controlled by them."

** Author Unknown


"Leadership is action, not position."

** Donald H. McGannon


"There are many elements to a campaign.Leadership is number one. Everything else is number two."

** Bernd Brecher


"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 am more afraid of an army of 100 sheep led by a lion than an army of 100 lions led by a sheep."

** Talleyrand


"The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on."

** Walter Lippmann


"Great necessities call forth great leaders."

** Abigail Adams


"Leaders don't force people to follow—they invite them on a journey."

** Charles S. Lauer


"Children need love especially when they don't deserve it."

** Harold S. Hulbert


"I start with the premise that the function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers."

** Ralph Nader


"Leadership has a harder job to do than just choose sides. It must bring sides together."

** Jesse Jackson


"I have to get the most energy out of a man and have discovered that it cannot be done if he hates another man.

Hate blocks his energy and he isn't up to par until he eliminates it and develops a friendly feeling..."

** Knute Rockne


"The first step to leadership is servanthood."

** John Maxwell


"The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality."

** Max DePree


"Leaders are those who know what to do next, know why that is important, and know what
appropriate resources to bring to bear on the problem at hand. Then, through effective communication they

influence others to follow."

** Barry Bowater


"Good leadership is motivating and mobilizing others to accomplish a task or to think in ways that
are for the benefit of all concerned."

** Don Page


"Some men see the world as it is and ask why; others see the world as it might be and ask why not."

** Bernard Shaw


"Leadership: The art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it."

** Dwight Eisenhower


"Real leaders have no need to advertise their leadership except by their conduct, sympathy, understanding, and

ability. (taken from a book called Leadership). Be more concerned with your character than with your reputation.

Your character is what you really are while your reputation is merely what others think you are."

 ** John Wooden


"The price of greatness is responsibility."

** Winston Churchill


"From now on, any definition of a successful life must include serving others."

** President George Bush


"Our earlier belief that leadership comes about primarily through managerial ability has been replaced by an

awareness of skills needed for understanding people and dealing with their problems productively."

** Academic Leader,


"Women have for centuries been recognized as talented listeners, nurturers, motivators, and excellent

communicators. These very qualities that we once were told were unbusinesslike are precisely the qualities that

business needs most to tap human potential."

** Mary Cunningham Agee


"You don’t need to be brilliant to be a good leader. But you do have to understand other people ** how they feel,

what makes them tick, and the best way to influence them."

** Author unknown


"The leadership that frees people to be their best, affirms them in their diversity and includes them in the

dreams, decisions and benefits of the organization is a servant leader."

** James M. Childs, Jr.


"The size of a leader is determined by the depth of his convictions, the height of his ambitions, the
breath of his vision and the reach of his love."

** D.N. Jackson


"Don’t lose sight of the most important factors that lead to successful leadership: commitment, a
passion to make a difference, a vision for achieving positive change, and the courage to take action."

 ** Lorraine Matusak


"If I have seen farther than other men, it is because I stood on the shoulders of giants."

** Sir Isaac Newton 


"The right man is the one who seizes the moment."

** Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


"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


"There comes a moment when you have to stop revving up the car and shove it into gear."

** David Mahoney


"I would rather regret the things I have done than the things I have not."

** Lucille Ball


"Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other."

** John F. Kennedy


"Big thinking precedes great achievement"

** Wilfred Peterson


"Never try to teach a pig to sing: it wastes your time and it annoys the pig."

** Paul Dickson


"Surround yourself with the best people you can find, delegate authority, and don’t interfere as long as the

policy you’ve decided upon is being carried out."

** Ronald Reagan


"Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning

against the right wall."

** Stephen R. Covey


"A desk is a dangerous place from which to view the world."

** John Le Care’


"I have yet to find a man, however exalted his station, who did not do better work and put forth greater effort

under a spirit of approval than under a spirit of criticism."

** Charles Schwab


"The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them."

** General Colin Powell


"You can have brilliant ideas, but if you can’t get them across, your ideas won’t get you anywhere."

** Lee Iacocca


"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."

** Sam Walton


"The pessimist complains about the wind. The optimist expects it to change. The leader adjusts the sails."

** John Maxwell


"Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don’t

quit."

** Conrad Hilton, Hilton Hotels


"Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not

attributes."

** Peter Drucker


"There is something that is much more scarce something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize

ability."

** Robert Half


"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."

** John Kenneth Galbraith


"The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been."

** Henry Kissinger


"Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate, and doubt to offer a

solution everybody can understand."

** General Colin Powell


"Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it."

** Dwight Eisenhower


"Leadership is the activity of influencing people to cooperate toward some goal which they come to find desirable. "

** Ordway Tead


"Any business or industry that pays equal rewards to its goof** offs and eager beavers sooner or later will find

itself with more goof** oofs than eager beavers."

** Mick Delaney…


"There is a powerful driving force inside every human being that once unleashed can make any vision, dream, or

desire a reality."

** Anthony Robbins


"Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have."

** Zig Ziglar


"If there is a trait which does characterize leaders it is opportunism. Succesful people are very often those who

steadfastly refuse to be daunted by disadvantage and have the ability to turn disadvantage to good effect. They

are people who seize opportunity and take risks. Leadership then seems to be a matter of personality and

character."

** John Viney


"Things may come to those who wait, but only what’s left behind by those that hustle."

** Abraham Lincoln


"Don’t wait for your ship to come in, swim out to it."

** Author Unknown 


"Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who believed that something inside of them was superior to circumstance."

** Bruce Barton


"Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them."

** John Maxwell


"The life which is unexamined is not worth living."

** Plato


"Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage."

** Anais Nin


"Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly."

** Robert Francis Kennedy


"It’s never crowded along the extra mile."

** Wayne Dyer


"There is plenty of room at the top – but no place to sit down."

** Author Unknown 


"Clear your mind of can’t."

** Samuel Johnson


"The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it is on a section gang, a football field, in an army, or in an office."

** Dwight D. Eisenhower


"Beginning is half done."

** Unknown


"Presidential leadership needn’t always cost money. Look for low and no** cost options. They can be surprisingly

effective."

** Donald Rumsfeld…


"A leader is a dealer in hope."
 
** Napoleon Bonaparte
 

"I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?"
 
** Benjamin Disraeli


"The leadership instinct you are born with is the backbone. You develop the funny bone and the wishbone that go

with it."
 
** Elaine Agather


"Delegating work works, provided the one delegating works, too."
 
** Robert Half


"Leadership is influence."
  
** John 


"The will to succeed is important, but what’s more important is the will to prepare."
  
** Bobby Knight


"One of the tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency."

** Arnold Glasow

 
"The only place success come before work is in the dictionary."

** Donald Kendall


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