A boss creates fear, a leader confidence. A boss fixes blame, a leader corrects mistakes. A boss knows all, a leader asks questions. A boss makes work drudgery, a leader makes it interesting. A boss is interested in himself or herself, a leader is interested in the group.                                                                                    —Russell H. Ewing

I’m really glad that your young people missed the Depression and missed the 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’d have to sacrifice, and that these difficulties might last awhile... They brought us together and they gave us a sense of national purpose.        —Ann Ri

A leader is a dealer in hope.                           —Napoleon Bonaparte

A leader’s role is to raise people’s aspirations for what they can become and to release their energies so they will try to get there.   —David Gergen

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

—General H. Norman Schwarzkopf

Lots of folks confuse bad management with destiny.

—Kin Hubbard

When you get right down to it, one of the most important tasks of a leader is to eliminate his people’s excuse for failure.

—Robert Townsend

You can judge a leader by the size of the problem he tackles... Other people can cope with the waves, it’s his job to watch the tide.   —Antony Jay

Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.  

                                                                           —Dwight D. Eisenhower

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

—Elaine Agather

A leader is best / When people barely know he exists, / When his work is done, his aim fulfilled, / They will say: / We did it ourselves.                                                                                                     —Lao-Tzu

Good leaders make people feel that they’re at the very heart of things, not at the periphery. Everyone feels that he or she makes a difference to the success of the organization. When that happens people feel centered and that gives their work meaning.

—Warren Bennis

The best test as a leader is: Do those served grow as persons; do they become healthier, wiser, freer, more autonomous, more likely themselves to become leaders?                            —Robert Greenleaf

Leadership is getting someone to do what they don’t want to do, to achieve what they want to achieve.     —Tom Landry

The man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd.       —James Crook

Leaders who win the respect of others are the ones who deliver more than they promise, not the ones who promise more than they can deliver.                                                                       —Mark A. Clement

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