Leadership is action, not position.  ~Donald H. McGannon

You can't lead anyone else further than you have gone yourself.  ~Gene Mauch

You don't have to hold a position in order to be a leader.  ~Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book

Example is not the main thing in influencing others.  It is the only thing.  ~Albert Schweitzer

Leaders are visionaries with a poorly developed sense of fear and no concept of the odds against them.  ~Robert Jarvik

You do not lead by hitting people over the head.  That's assault, not leadership.  ~Dwight D. Eisenhower

Nothing so conclusively proves a man's ability to lead others as what he does from day to day to lead himself.  ~Thomas J. Watson

Leaders don't create followers, they create more leaders.  ~Tom Peters

One measure of leadership is the caliber of people who choose to follow you.  ~Dennis A. Peer

A good leader is a person who takes a little more than his share of the blame and a little less than his share of the credit.  ~John C. Maxwell

I am more afraid of an army of one hundred sheep led by a lion than an army of one hundred lions led by a sheep. ~Charles Maurice, Prince de Talleyrand-Périgord

A man is only a leader when a follower stands beside him.  ~Mark Brouwer

The real leader has no need to lead - he is content to point the way.  ~Henry Miller, The Wisdom of the Heart

I suppose that leadership at one time meant muscle; but today it means getting along with people.  ~Indira Gandhi

The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it.   ~Theodore Roosevelt

Every leader needs to look back once in a while to make sure he has followers.  ~Author Unknown

Leadership:  the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.  ~Dwight D. Eisenhower

When trouble arises and things look bad, there is always one individual who perceives a solution and is willing to take command.  Very often, that person is crazy.                        ~Dave Barry, "Things That It Took Me 50 Years to Learn"

Authority without wisdom is like a heavy axe without an edge, fitter to bruise than polish.  ~Anne Bradstreet

To lead the people, walk behind them.  ~Lao-Tzu

Charlatanism of some degree is indispensable to effective leadership.  ~Eric Hoffer