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Leadership Quotes

Somewhere, sometime, the leader within each of us may get the call to step forward.
-James M. Kouzes and Barry Z. Posner.

It isn't a calamity to die with dreams unfulfilled, but it is a calamity not to dream. -Benjamin Mays

The only safe ship in a storm is leadership.-Faye Wattleton


When you face a fork in the road, step on the accelerator.
-Pat Riley

Think big, believe big, act big, and the results will be big.
-Anonymous

Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.
-Thomas Jefferson

Our only limit to the realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
-Franklin. D. Roosevelt. 

A leaders takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don't necessarily want to go but ought to be.  -Rosalyn Carter
 
Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where their is no path and leave a trail.  -Anonymous

Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
-Robert F. Kennedy

The job of leaders is to think from their heads, communicate from their hearts and to act from their guts.  -David Gaster

Leadership is action, not position.  -Donald. H. McGannon

All leaders ask questions, keep promises, hold themselves accountable and atone for their mistakes.
-James Kouzes and Barry Posner

The price of greatness is responsibility.
-Sir Winston Churchill

Well behaved women rarely make history. -Laurel Thatchter Ulrich


You have to love people to serve them. Otherwise they will not allow you to serve them.
-Hartman Rector

Never trouble another for what you can do for yourself.
-Thomas Jefferson

All of our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.
-Walt Disney

There is nothing more dangerous than to build a society, with a larger segment of people in that society, who feel that they have no stake in it; who feel that they have nothing to lose.  People who have a stake in their society, protect that society, but when they don't have it, they unconsciously want to destroy it.
-Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.