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The graveyards are full of indispensable men.

The greater a man is in power above others, the more he ought to excel them in virtue. None ought to govern who is not better than the governed.

The great difference between the real leader and the pretender is that the one sees into the future, while the other regards only the present; the one lives by the day, and acts upon expediency; the other acts on enduring principles and for the immortality.

The greatest artists like Dylan, Picasso and Newton risked failure. And if we want to be great, we've got to risk it, too.

The greatest leader in the world could never win a campaign unless he understood the men he had to lead.

The greatest joy of my is when Jesus moves on my heart and tells me to give to someone.

The greatest leaders mobilize others by coalescing people around a shared vision.

The greatest of all mistakes is to do nothing because you think you can only do a little.

The great leaders in history were great not because of what they owned or earned but because of what they gave their lives to accomplish. They made a difference!

The great leader attracts to himself men of kindred character, drawing them towards him as the loadstone draws iron.

The great leaders are like the best conductors - they reach beyond the notes to reach the magic in the players.

The great majority of people are “wandering generalities” rather than “meaningful specifics”. The fact is that you can't bit a target that you can't see. If you don't know where you are going, you will probably end up somewhere else. You have to have goals.

The great task of statesmanship is to apply past lessons to new situations, to draw correct analogies to understand and act upon present forces, to recognise the need for change.

The great vice of democracy is that for a generation we have been busy getting ourselves on to the list of beneficiaries and removing ourselves from the list of contributors, as if somewhere there was somebody else's effort on which we could thrive.

The group will not prosper if the leader grabs the lion's share of the credit for the good work that has been done.

The high destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule.

The highest service we can perform for others is to help them help themselves.

The history of the world is full of men who rose to leadership, by sheer force of self-confidence, bravery and tenacity.

The ideal leader is one who hears the voice of God, and beckons on as the voice calls him and them.

The idea of molding men means a lot to me.

The important thing is that we recognize our President's leadership, that he is not saying: I am going to walk away from this. He is saying: I am going to do the right thing.

The intelligent employer encourages challenge, questioning--not blind acceptance and "our Leader knows best" acclaim.

The Internet is disrupting every media industry...people can complain about that, but complaining is not a strategy. And Amazon is not happening to book selling, the future is happening to book selling.

The job of the leader is to speak to the possibility.

The key to good decision making is not knowledge... It's whether our work fulfills us.

The Irish Republican Army has kept every commitment made by its leadership.

The is always much to be said for not attempting more than you can do and for making a certainty of what you try. But this principle, like others in life and war, has it exceptions.

The kinds of people we need in government are precisely the kinds of people who are most reluctant to go into government -- people who understand the inherent dangers of power and feel a distaste for using it, but who may do so for a few years as a civic duty. The worst kind of people to have in government are those who see it as a golden opportunity to impose their own superior wisdom and virtue on others.

The leader builds dispersed and diverse leadership - distributing leadership to the outermost edges of the circle to unleash the power of shared responsibility.

The leader seeks to communicate his vision to his followers. He captures their attention with his optimistic intuition of possible solutions to their needs. He influences them by the dynamism of his faith.

The leadership lost its nerve. Instead of taking the lead in the reform movement... they pulled the plug on it. They tried and are still trying to return the church to the dry ice of the previous century and a half.

The leadership spirit possess a natural love for all human beings.

The leader can never close the gap between himself and the group. If he does, he is no longer what he must be. He must walk a tightrope between the consent he must win and the control he must exert.

The leader finds the dream and then the people. The people find the leader and then the dream.

The leader sees leadership as responsibility rather than as rank and privilege.

The leaders we revere and the businesses that last are generally not the result of a narrow pursuit of popularity or personal advancement, but of devotion to some bigger purpose. That's the hallmark of real success. The other trapping of success might be the by product of this larger mission, but it can't be the central thing.

The leaders who work most effectively, it seems to me, never say 'I'. They don't think 'I'. They think 'we'; they think 'team'.

The length of life takes the leading place among inquiries about events following birth.

The last thing I want to do is pastor a church Jesus ain't at.

The leader, mingling with the vulgar host, Is in the common mass of matter lost.

The leader works in the open and the boss in covert. The leader leads, and the boss drives.

The leader beyond the millennium will not be the leader who has learned the lessons of how to do it, with ledgers of 'hows' balanced with 'its' that dissolve in the crashing changes ahead. The leader for today and the future will be focused on how to be - how to develop quality, character mind-set, values, principles, and courage.

The leader is a person who has the possibility through destiny to know the people, to recognize their capacities, and to bring them to bear on the problem.

The leader is one who mobilizes others toward a goal shared by leader and followers.

The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves.

The leader continually passes on the vision to those who come around, knowing that dreams, if presented right, are contagious.

The main characteristics of effective leadership are intelligence, integrity or loyalty, mystique, humor, discipline, courage, self sufficieny and confidence.

The main ingredient of stardom is the rest of the team.

The leader is a teacher who succeeds without taking credit. And, because credit is not taken, credit is received.

The man of genius is he and he alone who finds such joy in his art that he will work at it come hell or high water.