food for thought: on leadership

• “….leadership is the highest of the arts, simply because it enables all the other arts and professions to work.” – Stephen Covey
  
  
• “He that would govern others first should be master of himself.” – Philip Massinger
  
  
• “Do not say things. What you are stands over you the while, and thunders so that I cannot hear what you say to the contrary.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
  
  
• “The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but reveal to them their own." – Benjamin Disraeli
  
  
• “You don’t have to like what your players do. But you have love them.” – Vince Lombardi
  
  
• “The quickest way to kill the human spirit is to ask someone to do mediocre work.” – Ayn Rand
  
  
• “I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel." – Maya Angelou
  
  
• “Leaders don't create followers, they create more leaders." – Tom Peters
  
  
• “It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.” – Theodore Roosevelt
  
  
• “The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.”– Martin Luther King Jr.
  
  
• “It is a rare person who wants to hear what he doesn’t want to hear.” – Dick Cavett
  
  
• “The leader of the past was a person who knew how to tell. The leader of the future will be a person who knows how to ask.” – Peter Drucker
  
  
• “The leader for today and the future will be focused on how to be – how to develop quality, character, mind-set, values, principles and courage.” – Frances Hesselbein