| "The wicked leader is he who the people despise. The good leader is he who the people revere. The great leader is he who the people say, 'We did it ourselves.'" »Lao Tzu |
| "The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between, the leader is a servant." »Max De Pree |
| "A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader." »Harry S Truman |
| "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 |
| "Passive acceptance of the teacher's wisdom is easy to most boys and girls. It involves no effort of independent thought, and seems rational because the teacher knows more than his pupils it is moreover the way to win the favour of the teacher unless he is a very exceptional man. Yet the habit of passive acceptance is a disastrous one in later life. It causes man to seek and to accept a leader, and to accept as a leader whoever is established in that position." »Bertrand Russell |
| "The difference between a boss and a leader a boss says, 'Go' - a leader says, 'Let's go'" »E. M. Kelly |
| "I must follow the people. Am I not their leader" »Benjamin Disraeli |
| "The crowd gives the leader new strength." »Evenius |
| "In simplest terms, a leader is one who knows where he wants to go, and gets up, and goes." »John Erksine |
| "You don't have to hold a position in order to be a leader." »Anthony D'Angelo |
| "Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader." »Tacitus |
| "Today a reader--tomorrow a leader." »W. Fusselman |
| "I'm not a natural leader. I'm too intellectual I'm too abstract I think too much." »Newt Gingrich |
| "A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune." »Anonymous |
| "No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself, or to get all the credit for doing it." »Andrew Carnegie |
| "The quality of a leader is reflected in the standards they set for themselves." »Ray Kroc |
| "If an individual wants to be a leader and isn't controversial, that means he never stood for anything." »Richard Milhous Nixon |
| "When you get right down to it, one of the most important tasks of a leader is to eliminate his people's excuse for failure." »Robert Townsend |
| "The leader of genius must have the ability to make different opponents appear as if they belonged to one category." »Adolf Hitler |
| "The leader who exercises power with honor will work from the inside out, starting with himself." »Blaine Lee |
| "The leader has to be practical and a realist, yet must talk the language of the visionary and the idealist." »Eric Hoffer |
| "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 |
| "No amount of study or learning will make a man a leader unless he has the natural qualities of one." »Archibald Wavell |
| "In Pierre Elliott Trudeau, Canada has at last produced a political leader worthy of assassination." »Irving Layton |
| "The ultimate leader is one who is willing to develop people to the point that they eventually surpass him or her in knowledge and ability." »Fred A. Manske, Jr. |
| "The most important quality in a leader is that of being acknowledged as such. All leaders whose fitness is questioned are clearly lacking in force." »Andr Maurois |
| "The leader can never close the gap between himself and the group. If he does, he is no longer what he must be. He must walk a tightrope between the consent he must win and the control he must exert." »Vince Lombardi |
| "Just as every conviction begins as a whim so does every emancipator serve his apprenticeship as a crank. A fanatic is a great leader who is just entering the room." »Heywood |
| "A good leader is a person who takes a little more than his share of the blame and a little less than his share of the credit." »John C. Maxwell |
| "The first duty of a leader is to make himself be loved without courting love. To be loved without 'playing up' to anyone - even to himself." »Andre Malraux |
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