"Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing." - Albert Schweitzer

"A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don't necessarily want to go, but ought to be." - Rosalynn Carter

"Successful leaders see the opportunities in every difficulty rather than the difficulty in every opportunity." - Reed Markham

"Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy." - Norman Schwarzkopf

"Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality." - Warren Bennis

"I have learned over the years that when one's mind is made up, this diminishes fear; knowing what must be done does away with fear." - Rosa Parks

"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

"Ninety percent of leadership is the ability to communicate something people want." - Dianne Feinstein

"Leadership consists of nothing but taking responsibility for everything that goes wrong and giving your subordinates credit for everything that goes well." - Dwight Eisenhower

"A leader is a dealer in hope." - Napoleon Bonaparte

"Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power." - Abraham Lincoln

"True leaders understand that leadership is not about them but about those they serve. It is not about exalting themselves but about lifting others up." - Sheri Dew

"A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better." - Jim Rohn

"What you do has far greater impact than what you say." - Stephen Covey

"To be a leader, you have to make people want to follow you, and nobody wants to follow someone who doesn't know where he is going." - Joe Namath

"Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers who can cut through argument, debate. and doubt to offer a solution everybody can understand." - Colin Powell

"The greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things. He is the one that gets the people to do the greatest things." - Ronald Reagan

"Leadership is the ability to guide others without force into a direction or decision that leaves them still feeling empowered and accomplished." - Lisa Cash Hanson

"You don't have to hold a position in order to be a leader." - Henry Ford

"To have long term success as a coach or in any position of leadership, you have to be obsessed in some way." - Pat Riley

"Our emerging workforce is not interested in command and control leadership. They don't want to do things because I said so, they want to do things because they want to do them."- Irene Rosenfield

"The pessimist complains about the wind. The optimist expects it to change. The leader adjusts the sails." - John Maxwell

"Outstanding leaders go out of the way to boost the self-esteem of their personnel. If people believe in themselves, it's amazing what they can accomplish." - Sam Walton

PS: Great leaders take the time to reflect on what it really means to be a leader. They turn theory into action. Towards that end, choose a quote above that you most resonate with and ask yourself how you can embody its particular wisdom on the job.

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