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Leadership Quotes by James MacGregor Burns
- Woodrow Wilson called for leaders who, by boldly interpreting the nation's conscience, could lift a people out of their everyday selves. That people can be…
- Divorced from ethics, leadership is reduced to management and politics to mere technique.
- Leadership is one of the most observed and least understood phenomena on earth.
- Such leadership occurs when one or more persons engage with others in such a way that leaders and followers raise one another to higher levels…
- The ultimate test of practical leadership is the realization of intended, real change that meets people's enduring needs.
- Leadership, in short, is power governed by principle, directed toward raising people to their highest levels of personal motive and social morality,
More Leadership Quotes
- We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. — Aristotle
- It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. — Aristotle
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others. — Aristotle
- Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever. — Lance Armstrong
- The speed of the leader is the speed of the gang. — Mary Kay Ash
- Every silver lining has a cloud. — Mary Kay Ash
- Sandwich every bit of criticism between two layers of praise. — Mary Kay Ash
- Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible. — Francis of Assisi
- It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching. — Francis of Assisi
- A functioning, robust democracy requires a healthy educated, participatory followership, and an educated, morally grounded leadership. — Chinua Achebe
- Each one of us, and, indeed, all those who aspire to national leadership must bring their own visions, views and styles to… — Ibrahim Babangida