Successful leaders have the courage to take action where others hesitate.
Get me outa here. F*ckin' creepy cheerleaders.
Leadership is communicating to people their worth and potential so clearly that they come to see it in themselves.
Very few of the great leaders ever get through their careers without failing, sometimes dramatically.
Great necessities call forth great leaders.
The leaders we revere and the businesses that last are generally not the result of a narrow pursuit of popularity or personal advancement, but of devotion to some bigger purpose. That's the hallmark of real success. The other trapping of success might be the by product of this larger mission, but it can't be the central thing.
I'm really glad that our young people missed the Depression, and missed the great big war. But I do regret that they missed the leaders that I knew. Leaders who told us when things were tough, and that we would have to sacrifice, and these difficulties might last awhile. They didn't tell us things were hard for us because we were different, or isolated, or special interests. They brought us together and they gave us a sense of national purpose.
Leadership is practiced not so much in words as in attitude and in actions.
Leaders live by choice, not by accident.
Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.