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“I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people.”

“I think this transition to a candidacy will allow me to be more direct about my advocacy of the leadership skills necessary for the next president to fix a few things, and as a candidate, contrary to someone who has been listening and learning along the way, I'll offer up alternatives to the path we're on as well, so I'll be more specific on policy.”

“If you apply conservative principles and you stick with it, and you have the leadership skills to bring people toward the cause, you can move the needle on these things, i reject the notion that we can't solve problems, that the gridlock is too enormous to forge consensus. It requires some creativity to get to a win for everybody.”

“The very essence of leadership is that you have to have vision. You can't blow an uncertain trumpet.”

“Leaders are not born, they're made.”

“Be strong, but not rude; Be kind, but not weak; Be bold, but not bully; Be humble, but not timid; Be prooud, but not arrogant.”

“Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.”

“Leaders aren't born they are made. And they are made just like anything else, through hard work. And that's the price we'll have to pay to achieve that goal, or any goal.”

“If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.”

“The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.”

“Leaders don't create followers, they create more leaders.”

“Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help or concluded you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership.”

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

“Good leaders make people feel that they're at the very heart of things, not at the periphery.”

“Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.”

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

“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.”

“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 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.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

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

“Good leaders make people feel that they're at the very heart of things, not at the periphery. Everyone feels that he or she makes a difference to the success of the organization. When that happens people feel centered and that gives their work meaning.”

“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.”

“Leadership is defined by results not attributes.”