Leadership

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LEADERSHIP: Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. (Muriel Strode, U.S. poet and writer, 1875-1930)
LEADERSHIP: Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. (Unknown Source)
LEADERSHIP: Leaders need to know who they are-including how others see them. (Unknown Source)
LEADERSHIP: There are two ways of spreading light. To be the candle or the mirror that reflects it. (Unknown Source)
LEADERSHIP: The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same. (Marie-Henri Beyle - pseudonym Stendhal, French novelist, 1783-1842)
LEADERSHIP: Remember the three Ds: Do it, Delegate it, or Dump it. (Unknown source)
LEADERSHIP: Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. (Muriel Strode, U.S. poet and writer, 1875-1930)
LEADERSHIP: The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; but the realist adjusts the sails. (William A. Ward, U.S. writer of essays, maxims, and poems, 1921-1994)
LEADERSHIP: Adversity causes some men to break; others to break records. (William A. Ward, U.S. writer of essays, maxims, and poems, 1921-1994)
LEADERSHIP: In our every deliberation, we must consider the impact of our decisions on the next seven generations. (Iroquois Nation maxim)
LEADERSHIP: To lead people, walk behind them. (Lao Tzu, ancient Chinese philosopher and writer who is the reputed founder of philosophical Taoism, 604-531 B.C.E.)
LEADERSHIP: A good leader takes a little more than his share of the blame, a little less than his share of the credit. (Arnold H. Glasow, U.S. businessman, 1905-1998)
LEADERSHIP: One of the tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency. (Arnold H. Glasow, U.S. businessman, 1905-1998)
LEADERSHIP: The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same. (Marie-Henri Beyle - pseudonym Stendhal, French novelist, 1783-1842)
LEADERSHIP: In a gentle way, you can shake the world. (Mahatma Gandhi, Indian leader of the Indian independence movement against British rule who inspired movements for civil rights and freedom across the world, 1869-1948)
LEADERSHIP: Great leaders use ambiguity but avoid unpredictability. (Martin Dempsey, United States Army general who served as the 18th Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Born 1952)
LEADERSHIP: If you allow weak leadership, then you must contend with it. (Unknown source)
LEADERSHIP: You may lead a horse to water but you can't make him drink. (English proverb)
LEADERSHIP: He who would rule must hear and be deaf, see and be blind. (German proverb)
LEADERSHIP: Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide. (Napoleon Bonaparte, French military and political leader who twice served as the Emperor of the French and built a large empire that ruled over continental Europe, 1769-1821)
LEADERSHIP: There are two levers for moving men - interest and fear. (Napoleon Bonaparte, French military leader during the French Revolution who also served twice as Emperor of the French, 1769-1821)
LEADERSHIP: A leader is a dealer in hope. (Napoleon Bonaparte, French military and political leader who twice served as the Emperor of the French and built a large empire that ruled over continental Europe, 1769-1821)
LEADERSHIP: To get others to come into our ways of thinking, we must go over to theirs; and it is necessary to follow, in order to lead. (William Hazlitt, English essayist and literary critic, 1778-1830)
LEADERSHIP: To lead the people, walk behind them. (Lao Tzu, ancient Chinese philosopher and writer who is the reputed founder of philosophical Taoism, 604-531 B.C.E.)
LEADERSHIP: I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles. But today it means getting along with people. (Indira Gandhi, prime minister of India, 1917-1984)
LEADERSHIP: A frightened captain makes a frightened crew. (Lister Sinclair, Canadian broadcaster, playwright, and polymath, 1921-2006)
LEADERSHIP: Dictators ride to and fro upon tigers from which they dare not dismount. (Hindu proverb)
LEADERSHIP: It is better to have a lion at the head of an army of sheep, than a sheep at the head of an army of lions. (Daniel Defoe, English trader, writer, journalist, pamphleteer, and spy, known for his authorship of Robinson Crusoe, 1660-1731)
LEADERSHIP: The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind in other men the conviction and the will to carry on. (Walter Lippmann, U.S. journalist who coined the term stereotype, 1889-1974)
LEADERSHIP: When we think we lead we most are led. (Lord Byron, English poet, peer, and politician, 1788-1824)
LEADERSHIP: No leader can be too far ahead of his followers. (Eleanor Roosevelt, politician, diplomat, and activist who was the longest-serving First Lady of the United States, 1884-1962)
LEADERSHIP: You know it's time for change when children act like leaders and leaders act like children. (Unknown source)