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1. Leadership is lifting a person’s vision to high sights, the raising of a person’s performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations. Peter F. Drucker
2. Let the elders who rule well be considered worthy of double honor, especially those who labor in preaching and teaching. 1 Timothy 5:17
3. Leadership is not about a title or a designation. It’s about impact, influence and inspiration. Impact involves getting results, influence is about spreading the passion you have for your work, and you have to inspire team-mates and customers. Robin S. Sharma
4. Leadership is hard to define and good leadership even harder. But if you can get people to follow you to the ends of the earth, you are a great leader. Indra Nooyi
5. I know of no single formula for success. But over the years I have observed that some attributes of leadership are universal and are often about finding ways of encouraging people to combine their efforts, their talents, their insights, their enthusiasm and their inspiration to work together. Queen Elizabeth II
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6. Every time you have to speak, you are auditioning for leadership. James Humes
7. Leadership is about creating, day by day, a domain in which we and those around us continually deepen our understanding of reality and are able to participate in shaping the future. This, then, is the deeper territory of leadership – collectively ‘listening to what is wanting to emerge in the world, and then having the courage to do what is required. Joseph Jaworski
8. But among you it will be different. Whoever wants to be a leader among you must be your servant. Matthew 20:26
9. In leadership, staying connected to God is key. If we lose our connection, we lose our foundation.
10. Leadership is about vision and responsibility, not power. Seth Berkley
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11. The most effective way to lead is to lead from within. Lolly Daskal
12. Leadership can change its mind; leadership can open its eye. Leadership can even be replaced. Ehud Barak
13. Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help or conclude you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership. Colin Powell
14. A man is only a leader when a follower stands beside him. Mark Brouwer
15. I learned that leadership is about falling in love with the people and the people falling in love with you. It is about serving the people with selflessness, with sacrifice, and with the need to put the common good ahead of personal interests. Joyce Banda
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16. If you want to build something great, you should focus on what the change is that you want to make in the world. Mark Zuckerberg
17. Leadership is a matter of having people look at you and gain confidence, seeing how you react. If you’re in control, they’re in control. Tom Landry
18. As leaders, we’re not always going to do things right. We’re going to make mistakes. We’re even going to make decisions that lead to failures. We need to learn from those mistakes and continue to take risks.
19. Leadership cannot really be taught. It can only be learned. Harold Geneen
20. Let nothing be done through selfish ambition or conceit, but in lowliness of mind let each esteem others better than himself. Let each of you look out not only for his own interests, but also for the interests of others. Philippians 2:3-4
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21. Leadership is an individual sport, one that has to be fine-tuned to each of the people that reports to you. Leaders also need to provide the direction, energy, encouragement and inspiration for each person who reports directly to the leader as well as for the overall organisation. David Petraeus
22. Leaders are visionaries with a poorly developed sense of fear and no concept of the odds against them. Robert Jarvik
23. As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others. Bill Gates
24. Some people want it to happen. Some wish it would happen. Others make it happen. Michael Jordan
25. The supreme quality of leadership is integrity. Dwight D. Eisenhower
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26. Leadership means forming a team and working toward common objectives that are tied to time, metrics, and resources. Russel Honore
27. Whether we’re talking about leadership, teamwork, or client service, there is no more powerful attribute than the ability to be genuinely honest about one’s weaknesses, mistakes, and needs for help. Patrick Lencioni
28. Leadership is an active role; ‘lead’ is a verb. But the leader who tries to do it all is headed for burnout and in a powerful hurry. Bill Owens
29. If you want to make enemies, try to change something. Woodrow Wilson
30. The growth and development of people is the highest calling of leadership. Harvey S. Firestone
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31. True leadership lies in guiding others to success, in ensuring that everyone is performing at their best, doing the work they are pledged to do and doing it well. Bill Owens
32. As a business owner, leadership is more than just telling others what to do. Leadership is about the investment we make into others and the responsibilities we accept for being the voice and direction that others count on. Lewis Howes
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33. You call me Teacher and Lord, and you are right, for so I am. If I then, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also ought to wash one another’s feet. For I have given you an example, that you also should do just as I have done to you. Truly, truly, I say to you, a servant is not greater than his master, nor is a messenger greater than the one who sent him. John 13:13-17
34. The leadership instinct you are born with is the backbone. You develop the funny bone and the wishbone that go with it. Elaine Agather
35. Character matters; leadership descends from character. Rush Limbaugh
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36. To do great things is difficult; but to command great things is more difficult. Friedrich Nietzsche
37. 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
38. 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
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39. “I urge, then, first of all, that petitions, prayers, intercession and thanksgiving be made for all people— for kings and all those in authority, that we may live peaceful and quiet lives in all godliness and holiness. This is good, and pleases God our Savior. 1 Timothy 2:1-2
40. Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence. Albert Einstein
