We must become the change we want to see.
-Mahatma Gandhi

No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself, or to get all the credit for doing it.
-Andrew Carnegie

You don't have to hold a position in order to be a leader.
-Anthony D'Angelo

A leader leads by example, whether (s)he intends to or not.
-Anonymous

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

Lead and inspire people. Don't try to manage and manipulate people. Inventories can be managed but people must be led.
-Ross Perot

Nobody rises to low expectations.
-Calvin Lloyd

Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them.
-John Maxwell

If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.
-Isaac Newton

In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.
-Thomas Jefferson

Leadership is action, not position.
-Donald H. McGannon

Mountaintops inspire leaders but valleys mature them.
-Winston Churchill

It is not fair to ask of others what you are unwilling to do yourself.
-Anna Eleanor Roosevelt

Example is leadership.
-Albert Schweitzer

A community is like a ship: Everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm.
-Henrik Ibsen

What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

Speak little, do much.
-Benjamin Franklin

The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.
-H. Norman Schwarzkopf

Change your thoughts and you change your world.
-Norman Vincent Peale

No one cares how much you know, until they know how much you care.
-Don Swartz

Believe in something larger than yourself.
-Barbara Bush

And if not now, when?
-Talmud

Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

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