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A great leader has brains, vision, soul, values and a heart.

A great leader is one who surrounds himself with great people who then, collectively, innovate and implement with success. If he tries to do it all by himself, he is an egotist and likely to fail.

A great leader needs to love and respect people, and he needs to be comfortable with himself and with the world. He also needs to be able to forgive himself and others. In other words, a leader needs grace.

A great leader makes what is visible in their mind, visible to all.

A key thing in being a leader is you’ve got to pause yourself.

Alas, criticism has always been what human beings, especially leaders, most hate to hear.

A leader can transform an army of frightened people into fearless people.

A leader, first and foremost, is human. Only when we have the strength to show our vulnerability can we truly lead.

A leader has a sound program, has a good policy, and then brings people together to solve problems.

A leader has to be one of two things: he either has to be a brilliant visionary himself, a truly creative strategist, in which case he can do what he likes and get away with it; or else he has to be a true empowerer who can bring out the best in others.

A leader in America or anyone who says they truly care about this nation without taking some kind of action is either a liar or insane. In either case, they are unfit to lead.

A leader is not someone who says: Follow me.......A leader is someone who says: I'll go first.

A leader must be inspired by the people before a leader can inspire the people.

A leader must not let critics set the agenda.

A leader's job is not to do the work for others; it's to help others figure out how to do it themselves, to get things done and to succeed beyond what they thought possible.

A leader's responsibility is to cause a vision and mission to have tangible results in the real world.

A leader without a title is better than a title without the ability to lead.

A leader has the capacity of vision, the ability to see where things are headed before people in general see those things.

A leader has to be positive about all things that happen to his team. Look at nothing in the past as failure.

A leader has to show the face his team needs to see.

A leader is a man who can adapt principles to circumstances.

A leader is a reader.

A leader is only able to lead others because he disciplines himself. The person who does not know how to bow to discipline imposed from without, who does not know how to obey, will not make a good leader-nor will the one who has not learned to impose discipline within his own life. Those who scorn scripturally or legally constituted authority, or rebel against it, rarely qualify for high leadership positions.

A leader is someone who knows what they want to achieve and can communicate that.

A leader is useless when he acts against the promptings of his own conscience.

A leader must be ready to send the soldiers under his command to their deaths

A leader must face danger. He must take the risk and the blame, and the brunt of the storm.

A leader on the pitch is someone who can turn a game in the right direction, he isn't someone who has a go at his colleagues after the match for everything they did wrong.

A leader sees greatness in other people. He nor she can be much of a leader if all she sees is herself.

A leader shapes and shares a vision, which gives point to the work of others.

A leader who develops people adds; a leader who develops leaders multiplies.

A leader can't make excuses. There has to be quality in everything you do. Off the court, on the court, in the classroom.

A leader has to keep saying the same things over and over again.

A leader is the wave pushed ahead by the ship.

A leader must listen to those under their supervision.

A leader's first duty is to look after his or her people, especially those who are sick, hungry, or thirsty.

A leader's most valuable asset is not their time but their energy and ability to energize others.

A leader who accepts the outside financing of his movement is like the man who accustoms his body to live on medication. To the extent an organism is administered medication, to the same extent it is condemned to being unable to react on its own. Moreover, when it is deprived of the medication, it dies; it is at the mercy of the pharmacist! Likewise, a political movement is at the mercy of those who finance it. These could cease their financing at any given moment and the movement, unaccustomed to living on its own, dies.

A leader can`t move a country that`s not ready. You can`t make the waves, but when you see them coming, you can help direct them.

A leader gets things done.

A leader has to appear consistent. That doesn't mean he has to be consistent.

A leader is one of the things that distinguishes a mob from a people. He maintains the level of individuals. Too few individuals and a people reverts to a mob.

A leader is someone whose actions have the most profound consequences on other people's lives, for better or worse, sometime forever and ever.

A leader leads by example not by force.

A leader moves ahead but not so fast that the others can't keep up.

A leader must inspire or his team will expire.

A leader should never risk their ability to make a difference by making an unnecessary point.

A leader should not take credit when things go right if they are not willing to accept responsibility when things go wrong.

A leader tuned out of his internal world will be rudderless; one blind to the world of others will be clueless; those indifferent to the larger systems within which they operate will be blindsided.

A leader can't dash ahead around the bend out of sight.