* The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and will to carry on.
Walter Lippmann

* Leadership should be more participative than directive, more enabling than performing.
Mary D. Poole

* Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
George Washington

* With all the power that a president has, the most important thing to bear in mind is this: You must not give power to a man unless, above everything else, he has character. Character is the most important qualification the president of the United States can have.
Richard Nixon

* A leader is best when people barely know he exists, not so good when people obey and acclaim him, worse when they despise him....But of a good leader who talks little when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say, "We did it ourselves.
Lao Tzu

* All leaders must face some crisis where their own strength of character is the enemy.
Richard Reeves

* A true leader always keeps an element of surprise up his sleeve, which others cannot grasp but which keeps his public excited and breathless.
Charles deGaulle

* Leadership is not magnetic personality that can just as well be a glib tongue. It is not "making friends and influencing people"—that is flattery. Leadership is lifting a person's vision to higher sights, the raising of a person's performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations.
Peter F. Drucker

* Leaders are visionaries with a poorly developed sense of fear and no concept of the odds against them. They make the impossible happen.
Dr. Robert Jarvik

* The main characteristics of effective leadership are intelligence, integrity or loyalty, mystique, humor, discipline, courage, self sufficieny and confidence.
James L. Fisher

* When the leadership is right and the time is right, the people can always be counted upon to follow—to the end and at all costs.
Harold J. Seymour

* There is a secret pride in every human heart that revolts at tyranny. You may order and drive an individual, but you cannot make him respect you.
William Hazlitt

* Leadership is getting someone to do what they don't want to do, to achieve what they want to achieve.
Tom Landry

* Leaders aren't born, they are made. And they are made just like anything else, through hard work. And that's the price we'll have to pay to achieve that goal, or any goal.
Vince Lombardi

* Good leaders make people feel that they're at the very heart of things, not at the periphery. Everyone feels that he or she makes a difference to the success of the organization. When that happens people feel centered and that gives their work meaning.
Warren Bennis