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61 " True leaders understand that leadership is not about them but about those they serve. It is not about exalting themselves but about lifting others up. "
― Sheri Dew , Saying It Like It Is
62 " To all those watching tonight from beyond our shores, from parliaments and palaces, to those who are huddled around radios in the forgotten corners of the world, our stories are singular, but our destiny is shared, and a new dawn of American leadership is at hand. "
― Barack Obama
63 " Remember that mentor leadership is all about serving. Jesus said, “For even the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve others and to give his life as a ransom for many” (Mark 10:45). "
― Tony Dungy , The Mentor Leader: Secrets to Building People and Teams That Win Consistently
64 " You can’t move up in the staircase of leadership unless you are emotionally intelligent. "
― Amit Ray , Mindfulness Meditation for Corporate Leadership and Management
65 " When you accept a leadership role, you take on extra responsibility for your actions toward others. "
― Kelley Armstrong , The Calling (Darkness Rising, #2)
66 " The very essence of leadership is that you have to have vision. You can't blow an uncertain trumpet. "
67 " In essence, leadership is the sense of calling to a higher purpose. "
68 " (Patrick Henry) He understood that the home was the foundation of a stable society and that the authority a man " exercised within the larger society was rooted in the authority exercised at home." Thus ... the training ground for all sound leadership is the family. "
69 " The task of leadership is not to put greatness into humanity, but to elicit it, for the greatness is already there. "
― John Buchan
70 " The first key to leadership was self-control, particularly the mastery of pride, which was something more difficult, he explained, to subdue than a wild lion and anger, which was more difficult to defeat than the greatest wrestler. He warned them that " if you can't swallow your pride, you can't lead. "
71 " If there were only success in your life, you would not learn anything. Leadership is experience and you are still young. You still have much to learn about our people and war; it should not come easy to you. If it did, you would be robbed of life's most valuable teacher. "
― Rachel Higginson , Fearless Magic (Star-Crossed, #3)
72 " the condition of leadership adds new degrees of solitariness to the basic solitude of mankind. Every order that we issue increases the extent to which we are alone, and every show of deference which is extended to us separates us from our fellows. "
― Thornton Wilder , The Ides of March
73 " In a team setting, leadership is shared by a community of people, which counters the tendency for pastors to form congregations in their own images. "
― Adam S. McHugh , Introverts in the Church: Finding Our Place in an Extroverted Culture
74 " Exercising leadership is an expression of your aliveness... But when you cover yourself up, you risk losing something as well. In the struggle to save yourself, you can give up too many of those qualities that are the essence of being alive, like innocence, curiosity, and compassion. "
75 " If done " as God wants.' then leadership will surely include intercessory prayer. The saintly Bishop Azariah of India once remarked to Bishop Stephen Neill that he found time to pray daily, by name, for every leader in his extensive diocese. Little wonder that during his thirty years of eldering there, the diocese tripled its membership and greatly increase in spiritual effectiveness "
76 " Contrary to popular opinion, leadership is not a reserved position for a particular group of people who were elected or appointed, ordained or enthroned. Leadership is self-made, self-retained, self-inculcated and then exposed through a faithful, sincere and examplary life. "
― Israelmore Ayivor
77 " a leadership is a position of action process of abolition,completion of mission,over come oppositionand submission of duties "
78 " The essence of leadership is not giving things or even providing visions. It is offering oneself and one's spirit. "
79 " Some are born leaders, some achieve leadership, and some have leadership thrust upon them. Which of these are you, or would you rather not bother? "
80 " But oh, the perils of leadership in a species so anxious to be told what to do. How little they knew of what they created by their demands. Leaders made mistakes. And those mistakes, amplified by the numbers who followed without questioning, moved inevitably toward great disasters. "
― Frank Herbert , Chapterhouse: Dune (Dune, #6)