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21 " One of the functions of leadership is to lead, and weak managers may simply check and check and check with others because they are not capable of leading when it is required of them to lead. Benedict says that in matters of importance the abbot or prioress is to ask everyone in the community, 'starting with the youngest,' and then the abbot or prioress is to 'do what seems best. "
― Joan D. Chittister
22 " The power to compel is not the same thing as leadership, and one does inspire the other. You are not a leader, Walters, you are a bully and a coward of the worst kind. the fear you believe you inspire is merely the fear in which you constantly live, and it undermines the very leadership you profess to have. Strip a bully of his pulpit and he becomes a cowering, quivering thing... You will never lose the fear because it defines you, and the very things you seek to annihilate will be those which ultimately destroy you. "
― April White , Cheating Death (The Immortal Descendants, #5)
23 " Self-leaders are still true leaders even if they have no known followers. True leaders inspire by the influence of their characters and general self-made brands. Leadership is defined by the virtues of one's behaviour. "
― Israelmore Ayivor
24 " A young child is a leader to an elderly person once his purpose has a faithful, sincere and trustworthy influence on people. Leadership is not restricted to position and age; it is self-made and influencial. Everyone has this self-leadership quality. "
25 " The concept of leadership is abused by people who think a person becomes a leader when he grows grey hair, put into a position and expected to function. Everyone has a leadership potential carried within in a specific area of his or purpose. Leadership is universal and built on trust. "
26 " In order to know your ministry, you need to start serving and be under the leadership of someone, who already knows his ministry "
27 " Thought leadership is first and foremost life leadership. "
― Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
28 " You can provide the conditions for the motivation of others and the leadership to help them find a way but they must have the intrinsic spark, the desire, to move, to overcome the inertia of the status quo and change things. "
― Graham Speechley
29 " No! Leadership is not the business of people who need to be motivated! "
― Amit Chatterjee , Ascent: A Practising Manager's Growth Mantra
30 " Don't let your fear of criticism suffocate your leadership potential. Once you begin to speak your truth, you will discover the people who have been waiting for someone exactly like you. Until you speak up, all you need is the faith that they exist. And I promise you: they do. "
― Vironika Tugaleva
31 " Bear it in mind that people who do not take actions are not and cannot be leaders. Leadership is action. "
― Israelmore Ayivor , Leaders' Frontpage: Leadership Insights from 21 Martin Luther King Jr. Thoughts
32 " Any leadership that is observant and committed to its people, will always find better ways to solve problems. "
33 " This war has made racists of too many of the and too many of us, and it is the leadership in Khartoum that has stoked this fire, that has brought to the surface, and in some cases created from whole cloth, new hatreds that have bred unprecedented acts of brutality. "
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34 " This, the only occasion in the Iliad when furious Achilles smiles serves as a bittersweet reminder of the difference real leadership could have made to the events of the Iliad. Agamemnon's panicked prize-grabbing in Book One and even Nestor's rambling " authority" pale beside Achilles' instinctive and absolute command of himself and the dangers of this occasion. "
35 " It is far better to win a battle through skilled leadership and wise decisions than violence and bloodshed. It may not seem as glorious to the uninitiated, but in the end it results in fewer wounds--of any kind. "
― Frank Herbert
36 " Men who find themselves late are never sure. They are all the things the civics books tell us the good citizen should be: partisans but never zealots, respectors of the facts which attend each situation but never benders of those facts, uncomfortable in positions of leadership but rarely unable to turn down a responsibility once it has been offered . . . or thrust upon them. They make the best leaders in a democracy because they are unlikely to fall in love with power. "
― Stephen King , The Stand
37 " They accepted my donation, so they're aware they'd better serve my interests or I'll buy some leadership that will. "
― Tom Robbins , Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
38 " In these times, a great leader must be extremely brave. Their leadership must be steered only by their conscience, not a bribe. "
― , Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
39 " But for a younger generation of conservative operatives who would soon rise to power... They were true believers who meant what they said, whether it was 'No New Taxes' or 'We are a Christian Nation.' In fact, with their rigid doctrines, slash-and-burn style, and exaggerated sense of having been aggrieved, this new conservative leadership was eerily reminiscent of some of the New Left's leaders during the sixties. As with their left-wing counterparts, this new vanguard of the right viewed politics as a contest not just between competing policy visions, but between good and evil. Activists in both parties began developing litmus tests, checklists of orthodoxy, leaving a Democrat who questioned abortion increasingly lonely, any Republican who championed gun control effectively marooned. In this Manichean struggle, compromise came to look like weakness, to be punished or purged. You were with us or you were against us. You had to choose sides. "
― Barack Obama
40 " The parents of politics are lack of control and seeking to control. The parents of leadership are influence and trust. "
― Richie Norton