Quotes, Leadership
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More than ever, there's a need for people to seize these opportunities to lead us to greatness. Leadership isn't the private reserve of a few charismatic men and women. It's the process ordinary people use when they're bringing forth the best from themselves and others.
James M. Kouzes & Barry Z. Posner "The Leadership Challenge"

A leader is someone you choose to follow to a place you wouldn't go by yourself. Joel Barker

The teacher, if indeed wise, does not bid you to enter the house of their wisdom, but leads you to the threshold of your own mind. Kahlil Gibran

You've got to have athletes to win, I don't care who the coach is. You can't win without good athletes, but you can lose with them. This is where coaching makes the difference. Lou Holtz

What stops people is not what they don't know, but what they do know and are attached to. Eugene W. Wick Jr.

The bottom line is that leadership shows up in the inspired action of others. We traditionally have assessed leaders themselves. But maybe we should assess leadership by the degree to which people around leaders are inspired. Dr. Jack Weber

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

Leadership is the wise use of power. Power is the capacity to translate intention into reality and sustain it. Warren Bennis

Real leaders are ordinary people with extraordinary determinations. John Seaman Garns

To lead yourself, use your head; To lead others, use your heart. unknown

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man. George Bernard Shaw