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Leadership is an action, not a position.

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 ability of a single individual through his or her actions to motivate others to higher levels of achievement.

Leadership is the challenge to be something more than average.

Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy.

Dictators are rulers who always look good until the last ten minutes.

Leadership is the special quality which enables people to stand up and pull the rest of us over the horizon. -James L. Fisher.

Every man of action has a strong dose of egotism, pride, hardness, and cunning. But all those things will be forgiven him, indeed, they will be regarded as high qualities, if he can make them the means to achieve great ends.

It is a characteristic of all movements and crusades that the psychopathic element rises to the top.

Leadership is the other side of the coin of loneliness, and he who is a leader must always act alone. And acting alone, accept everything alone.

A leader may symbolize and express what is best in people, like Pericles, or what is worst, like Hitler, but he cannot successfully express what is only in his heart and not in theirs.

Sunwands turn rain droplets into blackberry drupelets as enkindled okra seeds acknowledge heliocracy.

You cannot be a leader, and ask other people to follow you, unless you know how to follow, too.

A frightened captain makes a frightened crew.

To work in the world lovingly means that we are defining what we will be for, rather than reacting to what we are against. -Christina Baldwin.

American philanthropic custom owes much to leadership by business and professional people. -Robert L. Payton.

A true leader always keeps an element of surprise up his sleeve, which others cannot grasp but which keeps his public excited and breathless.

The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.

Anyone can steer the ship when the sea is calm.

The main characteristics of effective leadership are intelligence, integrity or loyalty, mystique, humor, discipline, courage, self sufficieny and confidence. -James L. Fisher.