Leadership is a relationship founded on trust and confidence. Without trust and confidence, people don’t take risks. Without risks, there’s no change. Without change, organizations and movements die.
-The Leadership Challenge
In order to grow, you must accept new responsibilities, no matter how uncertain you may feel or how unprepared you are to deal with them. If comfort is what you’re seeking, then don’t aspire. Ambition is uncomfortable by definition.
-Pat Summit
It is only by UNITED EFFORTS that success can be obtained.
- E.T. Bowles
Do not follow where the path may lead.
Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
- Unknown
"The final test of a leader is that she leaves behind her in other men the conviction and will to carry on."
- Walter Lippmann, 20th-century American journalist
"Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood."
- Marie Curie, Physicist and first woman to win the Nobel Prize
"Leaders are visionaries with a poorly developed sense of fear and no concept of the odds against them. They make the impossible happen."
- Dr. Robert Jarvik, 20th-century American heart surgeon
“I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
-M. Angelou
“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, c omitted citizens can change the world.
Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.”
-Margaret Mead
Updated 6/8/2012
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“It is our choices that show what we truly are far more than our abilities.”
-Albus Dumbledore
The only test of leadership is that somebody follows.
-Robert K. Greenleaf
Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.
-Peter F. Drucker
A leader is best when people barely know she exists, not so good when people obey and acclaim her, worse when they despise her....But of a good leader who talks little when their work is done, their aim fulfilled, they will say, "We did it ourselves.”
-Lao Tzu