“The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born.”
Source: The Art and Adventure of Leadership: Understanding Failure, Resilience and Success
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“The true leader makes each team member twice the person they were before.”
Source: Summoned to Lead
Source: Simple secrets of success: what scientists have learned and how you can use it
Source: The Language of leadership
Source: The Language of leadership
“The leaven of true leadership cannot lift others unless we are with and serve those to be led.”
Source: The Teachings of Spencer W. Kimball, Twelfth President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Source: Spiritual Leadership: Principles of Excellence For Every Believer
“That's nonsense; in fact, the opposite is true. Leaders are made rather than born.”
Source: The Art and Adventure of Leadership: Understanding Failure, Resilience and Success
“A person, who no matter how desperate the situation, gives others hope, is a true leader.”
“Leadership cannot just go along to get along. Leadership must meet the moral challenge of the day.”
“A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.”
“Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them.”
“People buy into the leader before they buy into the vision.”
Source: Developing the Leader Within You
“The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.”
“Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.”
Source: Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century
“The art of leadership is saying no, not saying yes. It is very easy to say yes.”
“A great leader's courage to fulfill his vision comes from passion, not position.”
Source: The 21 Indispensable Qualities of a Leader: Becoming the Person Others Will Want to Follow
“No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit for doing it.”
“The key to successful leadership today is influence, not authority.”
Source: The Wicked Wit of Winston Churchill
“He who has never learned to obey cannot be a good commander.”
Source: Politics
“When I give a minister an order, I leave it to him to find the means to carry it out.”
“A good general not only sees the way to victory; he also knows when victory is impossible.”
“Leadership does not always wear the harness of compromise.”
Source: Woodrow Wilson: the essential political writings
“Leaders think and talk about the solutions. Followers think and talk about the problems.”
Source: The Other Side of Leadership