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Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy.

No institution can possibly survive if it needs geniuses or supermen to manage it. It must be organized in such a way as to be able to get along under a leadership composed of average human beings.

Leadership is the other side of the coin of loneliness, and he who is a leader must always act alone. And acting alone, accept everything alone.

In giving us children, God places us in a position of both leadership and service. He calls us to give up our lives for someone else sake - to abandon our own desires and put our child's interests first. Yet, according to His perfect design, it is through this selflessness that we can become truly fulfilled.

God will never direct us to be prideful, arrogant and unforgiving, immoral or slothful or full of fear. We step into these things because we are insensitive to the leadership of the Holy Spirit within us.

Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.

My leadership will end the Obama era and begin a new era of American prosperity.

Central to America's rise to global leadership is our Judeo-Christian tradition with the vision of the goodness and possibilities of every human life.

Leadership is a matter of having people look at you and gain confidence, seeing how you react. If you are in control, they are in control.

Leadership to me means duty, honor, country. It means character, and it means listening from time to time.

A functioning, robust democracy requires a healthy educated, participatory followership, and an educated, morally grounded leadership.

The growth and development of people is the highest calling of leadership.

Leadership in today's world requires far more than a large stock of gunboats and a hard fist at the conference table.

Leadership is getting players to believe in you. If you tell a teammate you are ready to play as tough as you are able to, you'd better go out there and do it. Players will see right through a phony. And they can tell when you are not giving it all you've got.

I have a different vision of leadership. A leadership is someone who brings people together.

Black leadership has to recognize that principles more than speech, character more than a claim, is greater in advancing the cause of our liberation than what has transpired thus far.

Leadership is an opportunity to serve. It is not a trumpet call to self-importance.

Half a century ago, the amazing courage of Rosa Parks, the visionary leadership of Martin Luther King, and the inspirational actions of the civil rights movement led politicians to write equality into the law and make real the promise of America for all her citizens.

All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership.

Leadership can not be measured in a poll or even in the result of an election. It can only be truly seen with the benefit of time. From the perspective of 20 years, not 20 days.