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“The art of leadership is saying no, not saying yes. It is very easy to say yes.”

“I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure - which is: Try to please everybody.”

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

“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.”

“I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples.”

“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.”

“A great leader's courage to fulfill his vision comes from passion, not position.”

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

“No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit for doing it.”

“Where there is no vision, there is no hope.”

“To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart.”

“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.”

“You manage things, you lead people. We went overboard on management and forgot about leadership. It might help if we ran the MBAs out of Washington.”

“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.”