[mk_blockquote font_family=”none”]I am a leader by default, only because nature does not allow a vacuum.[/mk_blockquote]

Bishop Desmond Tutu

[mk_blockquote font_family=”none”]Every night, I try myself by court-martial to see if I have done anything effective during the day.  I don’t mean just pawing the ground; anyone can go through the motions; but something really effective.[/mk_blockquote]

Winston Churchill

[mk_blockquote font_family=”none”]Out of the Indian approach to life there comes a great freedom – an intense and absorbing love for nature; a respect for life; enriching faith in a Supreme Power; and principles of truth, honesty, generosity, equity, and brotherhood as a guide to mundane relations.[/mk_blockquote]

Luther Standing Bear, Oglala

[mk_blockquote font_family=”none”]We shall have to create leaders who embody virtues we can respect, who have moral and ethical principles we can applaud with an enthusiasm that enables us to rally support for them based on confidence and trust.  We will have to demand high standards and give consistent, loyal support to those who merit it.[/mk_blockquote]

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

[mk_blockquote font_family=”none”]There are seven things that will destroy us: Wealth without work; Pleasure without conscience; Knowledge without character; Religion without sacrifice; Politics without principle; Science without humanity; Business without ethics.[/mk_blockquote]

Mahatma Gandhi

[mk_blockquote font_family=”none”]All genuine leadership is built on trust.[/mk_blockquote]

Ken Blanchard, The Heart of a Leader

[mk_blockquote font_family=”none”]We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.[/mk_blockquote]

Winston Churchill

[mk_blockquote font_family=”none”]Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with the important matters.[/mk_blockquote]

Albert Einstein

[mk_blockquote font_family=”none”]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.[/mk_blockquote]

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

[mk_blockquote font_family=”none”]The respect that leadership must have requires that one’s ethics be without question. A leader not only stays above the line between right and wrong, he stays well clear of the gray areas.[/mk_blockquote]

G. Alan Bernard, President, Mid-Park, Inc.

[mk_blockquote font_family=”none”]In all your official acts, self-interest shall be cast aside. You shall look and listen to the welfare of the whole people and have always in view, not only the present but the coming generations- the unborn of the future Nation.[/mk_blockquote]

Dekawidah, Cherokee

[mk_blockquote font_family=”none”]I don’t know what your destiny will be, but one thing I know: The ones among you who will be really happy are those who have sought and found how to serve. [/mk_blockquote]

Albert Schweitzer

[mk_blockquote font_family=”none”]In looking for people to hire, you look for three qualities: integrity, intelligence, and energy. And if they don’t have the first, the other two will kill you.[/mk_blockquote]

Warren Buffet

[mk_blockquote font_family=”none”]Leaders are visionary

Leaders are passionate

Leaders do stuff that matters

Leaders nurture other leaders[/mk_blockquote]

Tom Peters, Leadership, The Essential Series

[mk_blockquote font_family=”none”]Anytime you use your influence to affect the thoughts and actions of others, you are engaging in leadership. … Remember, the best leaders are those who understand that their power flows through them; not from them.[/mk_blockquote]

Ken Blanchard, The Heart of a Leader

[mk_blockquote font_family=”none”]If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more, and become more; you are a leader.[/mk_blockquote]

John Quincy Adams

[mk_blockquote font_family=”none”]Leadership is an action, not a position.[/mk_blockquote]

Donald H. McGannon

[mk_blockquote font_family=”none”]The task of leadership is not to put greatness into people but to elicit it, for the greatness is there already. [/mk_blockquote]

John Buchan

[mk_blockquote font_family=”none”]Indian society is founded on status and social prestige. This largely reduces competition to inter-personal relationships instead of allowing it to run rampant in economic circles …. With competition confined within social events, each man must be judged according to his real self; not according to his wealth or educational prowess. Hence, a holder of great wealth is merely selfish unless he has redeeming qualities besides his material goods.[/mk_blockquote]

Vine Deloria, Jr., Custer Died for Our Sins

[mk_blockquote font_family=”none”]We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.[/mk_blockquote]

Winston Churchill

[mk_blockquote font_family=”none”]Test fast, fail fast, adjust fast.[/mk_blockquote]

Tom Peters

[mk_blockquote font_family=”none”]Change is hard because people overestimate the value of what they have—and underestimate the value of what they may gain by giving that up.[/mk_blockquote]

James Belasco and Ralph Stayer, Flight of the Buffalo

[mk_blockquote font_family=”none”]You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.[/mk_blockquote]

Winston Churchill

[mk_blockquote font_family=”none”]The true Indian sets no price upon either his property or his labor. His generosity is limited only by his strength and ability. He regards it as an honor to be selected for a difficult or dangerous service, and would think it shameful to ask for any reward, saying rather: “Let the person I serve express thanks according to his own bringing up and his sense of honor.[/mk_blockquote]

Charles Alexander Eastman, Santee Lakota

[mk_blockquote font_family=”none”]People eyeing you as a potential leader tend to ask three questions:

1. Are you committed?
2. Do you care about me?
3. Can I trust you?[/mk_blockquote]

Coach Lou Holtz

[mk_blockquote font_family=”none”]However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results.[/mk_blockquote]

Winston Churchill

[mk_blockquote font_family=”none”]Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with the important matters.[/mk_blockquote]

Albert Einstein

[mk_blockquote font_family=”none”]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.[/mk_blockquote]

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

[mk_blockquote font_family=”none”]Anytime you use your influence to affect the thoughts and actions of others, you are engaging in leadership. … Remember, the best leaders are those who understand that their power flows through them; not from them. [/mk_blockquote]

Ken Blanchard, The Heart of a Leader

[mk_blockquote font_family=”none”]Change is hard because people overestimate the value of what they have—and underestimate the value of what they may gain by giving that up.[/mk_blockquote]

James Belasco and Ralph Stayer, Flight of the Buffalo

[mk_blockquote font_family=”none”]I urge all of you, all of you, to enjoy your life, the precious moments you have. To spend each day with some laughter, and some thought, to get your emotions going, to be enthusiastic. Everyday…..to keep your dreams alive, in spite of problems… to be able to work hard to make your dreams become a reality.[/mk_blockquote]

Jimmy Valvano

[mk_blockquote font_family=”none”]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. [/mk_blockquote]

Theodore Roosevelt

[mk_blockquote font_family=”none”]When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced.
Live your life so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice.[/mk_blockquote]

White Elk