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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, as quoted in The 101 Greatest Business Principles of All Time
Great leaders genuinely care for and love the people they lead more than they love leading itself. Leadership without love degenerates into self-serving manipulation.
RICK WARREN, Ladies' Home Journal, Oct. 2008
Leadership consists of nothing but taking responsibility for everything that goes wrong and giving your subordinates credit for everything that goes well.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER, attributed, Stars: A Study in Military Character and Leadership
To be a leader, you have to make people want to follow you, and nobody wants to follow someone who doesn't know where he is going.
A person always doing his or her best becomes a natural leader, just by example.
When we think we lead, we are most led.
LORD BYRON, The Two Foscari
Those who command themselves, command others.
WILLIAM HAZLITT, Characteristics
Great leaders inspire. They maintain a hopeful attitude, even in the face of discouraging setbacks, constant criticism and abundant opposition. People don't follow discouraged leaders. They follow those who persist with hope.
RICK WARREN, Ladies' Home Journal, Oct. 2008
Leading means running fast enough to keep ahead of your people.
S. M. STIRLING, The Sunrise Lands
Perhaps those who are best suited to power are those who have never sought it. Those who ... have leadership thrust upon them, and take up the mantle because they must, and find to their own surprise that they wear it well.
J. K. ROWLING, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
Every age fraught with discord and danger seems to spawn a leader meant only for that age, a political giant whose absence, in retrospect, seems inconceivable when the history of that age is written.
DAN SIMMONS, The Fall of Hyperion
The multitude who require to be led, still hate their leaders.
WILLIAM HAZLITT, Characteristics
People try so hard to believe in leaders now, pitifully hard. But we no sooner get a popular reformer or politician or soldier or writer or philosopher — a Roosevelt, a Tolstoi, a Wood, a Shaw, a Nietzsche, than the cross-currents of criticism wash him away. My Lord, no man can stand prominence these days. It's the surest path to obscurity. People get sick of hearing the same name over and over.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD, This Side of Paradise
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS, attributed, The Paradox of Power
When one sheep leads the way all the rest follow.
A leader has the vision and conviction that a dream can be achieved. He inspires the power and energy to get it done.
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