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“If your actions create a legacy that inspires others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, then, you are an excellent leader.”

“The challenge of leadership is to be strong, but not rude; be kind, but not weak; be bold, but not bully; be thoughtful, but not lazy; be humble, but not timid; be proud, but not arrogant; have humor, but without folly.”

“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.”

“The leaders who work most effectively, it seems to me, never say "I." And that's not because they have trained themselves not to say "I." They don't think "I." They think "we"; they think "team." They understand their job to be to make the team function. They accept responsibility and don't sidestep it, but "we" gets the credit. This is what creates trust, what enables you to get the task done.”

“The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them.”

“The key to successful leadership today is influence, not authority.”

“It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are difficult”

“High sentiments always win in the end. The leaders who offer blood, toil, tears and sweat always get more out of their followers than those who offer safety and a good time. When it comes to the pinch, human beings are heroic.”

“A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.”

“Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others.”

“Leadership is lifting a person's vision to high sights, the raising of a person's performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations.”

“He who has never learned to obey cannot be a good commander.”

“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.”

“To do great things is difficult; but to command great things is more difficult.”

“Inventories can be managed, but people must be led.”

“Remember the difference between a boss and a leader. A boss says, Go! A leader says, Let's go!”

“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!”

“Be gentle and you can be bold; be frugal and you can be liberal; avoid putting yourself before others and you can become a leader among men.”

“Leadership is understanding people and involving them to help you do a job. That takes all of the good characteristics, like integrity, dedication of purpose, selflessness, knowledge, skill, implacability, as well as determination not to accept failure.”