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“We tend to select top men for their character and capacity, then overload them according to their willingness.”

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Author:Clarence Benjamin Jones

“Leadership is evoking in others the capacity to dream.”

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Book:The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership: Follow Them and People Will Follow You

Source: The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership: Follow Them and People Will Follow You

“Leadership is tested not by one's capacity to survive politically but by the ability to make tough decisions in trying times.”

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Author:Ehud Olmert

“Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.”

“In organizations, real power and energy is generated through relationships. The patterns of relationships and the capacities to form them are more important than tasks, functions, roles, and positions.”

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Author:Margaret J. Wheatley

“It is the capacity to develop and improve their skills that distinguishes leaders from followers.”

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Book:Leaders: the strategies for taking charge

Source: Leaders: the strategies for taking charge

“My own definition of leadership is this: The capacity and the will to rally men and women to a common purpose and the character which inspires confidence.”

“Leadership rests not only upon ability, not only upon capacity; having the capacity to lead is not enough. The leader must be willing to use it. His leadership is then based on truth and character. There must be truth in the purpose and will power in the character.”

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Book:Motivation Lombardi Style

Source: Motivation Lombardi Style

“Having the capacity to lead is not enough. The leader must be willing to use it.”

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Book:Motivation Lombardi Style

Source: Motivation Lombardi Style

“The tragedy of life is not found in failure but complacency. Not in you doing too much, but doing too little. Not in you living above your means, but below your capacity. It's not failure but aiming too low, that is life's greatest tragedy.”

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Author:Benjamin E. Mays

“I believe that the capacity that any organization needs is for leadership to appear anywhere it is needed, when it is needed.”

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Author:Margaret J. Wheatley