"Leadership is influencing a community to follow Jesus." - Dan Kimball

"Leadership is influence. Leadership says, 'Here's where we're going, here's how we'll get there, and these are the values we'll take with us.'"- Jake Perk

"Leadership is the ability to know where you're going and take others with you." - Rick Wood

"Leadership is the ability to energize human communities by painting a picture of the preferable future and empowering people to sculpt activities to match the picture." - Tammy Kelley

"Leadership is the ability to influence people and motivate them to do what needs to be done to accomplish a goal, vision, or mission." - Robert Johnson

"Leadership is the ability to inspire others to follow you. A leader never pushes or pulls. A leader moves, and those around him fall in behind and go with him wherever he takes them because they trust him." - Brian Cameron

"Leadership: The relational process whereby a person or people energize others to accomplish together what they could not individually." - Alan Nelson

"The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between the two, the leader must become a servant and a debtor. That sums up the progress of an artful leader." - Max DePree

"As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others." - Bill Gates

"Leaders are those who make the most of every moment, of every opportunity, and of every available resource." - Theodore Roosevelt

"Great leaders never tell people how to do their jobs. Great leaders tell people what to do and establish a framework within which it must be done. Then they let people on the front lines, who know best, figure out how to get it done." - General H. Norman Schwarzkopf

"Leaders are visionaries with a poorly developed sense of fear and no concept of the odds against them." - Dr. Robert Jarvik, inventor or the Jarvik-7 artificial heart

"Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it." - Dwight D. Eisenhower, quoted in The Toronto Sun

"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, concerned citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has." - Margaret Mead

"The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart and head and hands." - Robert Pirsig

"Charisma becomes the undoing of leaders. It makes them inflexible, convinced of their own infallibility, unable to change." - Peter Drucker

"If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more, and become more, you are a leader." - John Quincy Adams

"The key to successful leadership today is influence, not authority." - Kenneth Blanchard

"A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don't necessarily want to go, but ought to be." - Rosalynn Carter

"Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers who can cut through argument, debate, and doubt to offer a solution everybody can understand." - General Colin Powell

"The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between, the leader is a servant." - Max DePree

"Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall." - Stephen Covey

"Any committee is only as good as the most knowledgeable, determined, and vigorous person on it. There must be somebody who provides the flame." - Lady Bird Johnson

"The leadership instinct you are born with is the backbone. You develop the funny bone and the wishbone that go with it." - Elaine Agather

"I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish humble tasks as though they were great and noble. The world is moved along not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker." - Helen Keller

"If you want to know the temperature of your organization, put a thermometer is the leader's mouth." - Rick Warren

"Outstanding leaders go out of their way to boost the self-esteem of their personnel. If people believe in themselves, it's amazing what they can accomplish." - Sam Walton

"The pessimist complains about the wind. The optimist expects it to change. The leader adjusts the sails." - John Maxwell

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