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Quotes About Guidance

The purpose of leadership is not to make the present bearable. The purpose of leadership is to make the future possible.
~ Joan D. Chittister
A real leader has the ability to motivate others to their highest level of achievement; then gives them the opportunity and the freedom to grow.
~ Buck Rodgers
Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.
~ Tacitus
Serious times require strong leadership.
~ Jeb Bush
It is often said that the best leaders are those who serve.
~ Michael Kirby
Without strong visionary leadership, no strategy will be executed effectively.
~ Robert S. Kaplan
One can lead a nation only by helping it see a bright outlook. A leader is a dealer in hope.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
He that thinketh he leadeth and hath no one following him is only taking a walk.
~ John C. Maxwell
Everyone is a leader because everyone influences someone.
~ John C. Maxwell
Leadership implies movement toward something and convictions provide that direction.
~ Don Shula
There's all kind of vision in this Book. Just open it up and your people will follow.
~ Matthew Carter
The function of a leader within any institution: to provide that regulation through his or her non-anxious, self-defined presence.
~ Edwin H Friedman
True leadership cannot be awarded, appointed, or assigned. It comes only from Influence.
~ John C. Maxwell
Leadership is not something that is done to people, like fixing your teeth. Leadership is unlocking people's potential to become better.
~ Bill Bradley
Leadership is about coping with change
~ John P. Kotter
The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.
~ Henry Kissinger
The only real training for leadership is leadership.
~ Antony Jay
To lead people, walk behind them.
~ Laozi
Spotting talent is one of the essential elements of great leadership.
~ David McCullough
Next to doing a good job yourself, the greatest joy is having someone else do a first class job under your direction.
~ William Feather
Leadership is not a matter of authority, it is a matter of influence. A true leader teaches others to understand more, motivates them to be more and inspires them to become more.
~ Michael Josephson
There are no office hours for leaders.
~ James Gibbons
Leadership is about moving people from where they are to where you hope they'll go.
~ Drew Gilpin Faust