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

I think a major act of leadership right now, call it a radical act, is to create the places and processes so people can actually learn together, using our experiences. ~ Margaret J. Wheatley

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

The cardinal responsibility of leadership is to identify the dominant contradiction at each point of the historical process and to work out a central line to resolve it. ~ Mao Tse-Tung

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

You must do the thing you think you cannot do ~ Eleanor Roosevelt

Productivity is never an accident. It is always the result of a commitment to excellence, intelligent planning, and focused effort ~ Paul J. Meyer

To be able to lead others, a man must be willing to go forward alone. ~ Harry Truman

The ability to summon positive emotions during periods of intense stress lies at the heart of effective leadership. ~ Jim Loehr

The will to win is worthless if you do not have the will to prepare. ~ Thane Yost

Leadership is not a one-day thing. It is a constant commitment to excellence, a habit . . . a daily practice. ~ Unknown

Challenge yourself all the days of your life. ~ Unknown

I dream of men who take the next step instead of worrying about the next thousand steps. ~ Theodore Roosevelt

You will always miss 100 percent of the shots you don't take. ~ Unknown

Difficulties mastered are opportunities won. ~ Winston Churchill

People who let events and circumstances dictate their lives are living reactively. That means that they don't act on life, they only react to it. ~ Stedman Graham

As a leader you should always start with where people are before you try to take them to where you want them to go. ~ Jim Rohn

Boldness, more boldness, and always boldness! ~ George Jacques Danton

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

Leadership is getting people to work for you when they are not obligated. ~ Fred Smith

The main characteristics of effective leadership are intelligence, integrity or loyalty, mystique, humor, discipline, courage, self sufficiency and confidence. ~ James L. Fisher

Forethought and prudence are the proper qualities of a leader. ~ Tacitus

Good leaders develop through a never-ending process of self-study, education, training, and experience. ~ Manual on military leadership

The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. ~ Max DePree (The Art of Leadership)

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