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.
-- Lao Tzu
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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 Lapham
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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.
-- Vince Lombardi
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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.
-- Donald H. McGannon
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I
start with the premise that the function of
leadership is to produce more leaders, not more
followers.
-- Ralph Nader
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“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
