Ability Quote by George Will

A friend of mine characterizes leaders simply like this: Leaders don't inflict pain. They bear pain.

— Max De Pree

“Meaningful acts of leadership usually cause people to accept some short-term pain (extra cost or effort, delayed gratification) in order to increase the long-term…

— Tom DeMarco

Leaders don't inflict pain - they share pain.

— Max De Pree

Leadership is about empathy. It is about having the ability to relate to and connect with people for the purpose of inspiring and empowering…

— Oprah Winfrey

I'll tell you what leadership is. It's persuasion and conciliation, and education, and patience.

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

Leadership is the ability to get a person to do what you want him to do, when you want it done, in a way…

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

Leadership is the activity of influencing people to cooperate towards some goal which they come to find desirable and which motivates them over the…

— Ordway Tead

Leadership is the ability to decide what is to be done and then get others to do it.

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

Leadership is the science of giving life to your goal and the art of making people see and aspire for it.

— Tasneem Hameed

Leadership is the ability to recognize the special abilities and limitations of others, combined with the capacity to fit each one into the job…

— J. Oswald Sanders

Leadership is the ability to lift and inspire.

— Paul Dietzel

Leadership is much more an art, a belief, a condition of the heart, than a set of things to do.

— Max De Pree