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“The led must not be compelled, they must be able to choose their own leader”
-- Albert Einstein

You do not lead by hitting people over the head - that's assault, not leadership.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower

Leadership: the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower

* "America's leadership and prestige depend, not merely upon our unmatched material progress, riches and military strength, but on how we use our power in the interests of world peace and human betterment."
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower

* "It is better to have one person working with you than three people working for you."
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower

* "We can't do it by ourselves, but if enough of us do it, we change the cultural climate, and then the leaders follow."
-- Riane Eisler

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

Leadership is the special quality which enables people to stand up and pull the rest of us over the horizon.
-- James L. Fisher

* The trust of the people in the leaders reflects the confidence of the leaders in the people.
--
Paulo Freire

Leadership can be thought of as a capacity to define oneself to others in a way that clarifies and expands a vision of the future.
-- Edwin H. Friedman

* "Today a reader, tomorrow a leader. "
-- Margaret Fuller

 

* I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people.
-- Mohandas K. Gandhi

 

"A prime function of a leader is to keep hope alive."
-- John William Gardner

Most important, leaders can conceive and articulate goals that lift people out of their petty preoccupations and unite them in pursuit of objectives worthy of their best efforts.
-- John William Gardner

Good leaders must first become good servants.
-- Robert Greenleaf

The only test of leadership is that somebody follows.
--Robert K. Greenleaf

The very essence of leadership is that you have to have a vision.
-- Theodore Hesburgh

“We need to be activating deep democracy because democracy is fleeting through our fingers, and most people are unaware of it. Democracy is about dispersing power among the interconnected people. As a people, we need to rise to the level of forcing our leaders to abide by our stated principles - really exercise democracy, not only on our behalf but on behalf of the world. We need to continue, as part and parcel of the American experience created by the founding forefathers, and now the foremothers, to insist, "We want democracy to work, and that means every voice counts."
-- Dr. Azizah al-Hibri

* I never thought in terms of being a leader. I thought very simply in terms of helping people.
-- John Hume

 


A community is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm.
-- Henrik Ibsen

* "A person, who no matter how desperate the situation, gives others hope, is a true leader."
-- Daisaku Ikeda

Time is neutral and does not change things. With courage and initiative, leaders change things.
-- Jesse Jackson

* Leadership has a harder job to do than just choose sides. It must bring sides together.
-- Jesse Jackson

So, poetry becomes a means for useful dialogue between people who are not only unknown, but mute to each other. It produces a dialogue among people that guards all of us against manipulation by our so-called leaders.
-- June Jordan

"Creativity is a lot like looking at the world through a kaleidoscope. You look at a set of elements, the same ones everyone else sees, but then reassemble those floating bits and pieces into an enticing new possibility. Effective leaders are able to"
-- Rosabeth Moss Kanter

Leaders are more powerful role models when they learn than when they teach.
-- Rosabeth Moss Kantor

* Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.
-- John F. Kennedy

A nation which has forgotten the quality of courage which in the past has been brought to public life is not as likely to insist upon or regard that quality in its chosen leaders today - and in fact we have forgotten.
-- John F. Kennedy

* A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr

There's nothing more demoralizing than a leader who can't clearly articulate why we're doing what we're doing.
--James Kouzes and Barry Posner

you must unite your constituents around a common cause and connect with them as human beings.
--James Kouzes and Barry Posner

 

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