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If you lead on the people with correctness, who will dare not to be correct?

Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.

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

The crowd gives the leader new strength.

The first duty of a leader is to make himself be loved without courting love. To be loved without 'playing up' to anyone - even to himself.

Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

The leader has to be practical and a realist, yet must talk the language of the visionary and the idealist.

The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and will to carry on.

Leadership should be born out of the understanding of the needs of those who would be affected by it.

Leadership has a harder job to do than just choose sides. It must bring sides together.

The only real training for leadership is leadership.

I start with the premise that the function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.

Whether a man is burdened by power or enjoys power; whether he is trapped by responsibility or made free by it; whether he is moved by other people and outer forces or moves them -- this is of the essence of leadership.

When the effective leader is finished with his work, the people say it happened naturally.

You don't have to hold a position in order to be a leader.

You do not lead by hitting people over the head-- that's assault, not leadership.

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

Leadership is practiced not so much in words as in attitude and in actions.

The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.

The quality of a leader is reflected in the standards they set for themselves.