Leadership
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.
John Quincy Adams
When one man, for whatever reason, has an opportunity to lead an extraordinary life, he has no right to keep it to himself.
Jacques Cousteau
The task of leadership is not to put greatness into people, but to elicit it, for the greatness is there already.
John Buchan
To lead people, walk beside them … As for the best leaders, the people do not notice their existence. The next best, the people honor and praise. The next, the people fear; and the next, the people hate … When the best leader’s work is done the people say, ‘We did it ourselves!
Lao-Tsu
Do not follow where the path may lead.
Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
Harold R. McAlindon
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
I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure: which is: Try to please everybody.
Herbert B. Swope
The very essence of leadership is that you have to have vision. You can’t blow an uncertain trumpet.
Theodore M. Hesburgh
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, concerned citizens can change world. Indeed it is the only thing that ever has.
Margaret Mead