How A Leader Leads

Leadership is action, not position. - Samuel Gompers

Confidence is a very fragile thing. - Joe Montana

Perfection is impossible. Excellence is not. - Rob Feenie

Confidence is silent; insecurities are loud. - Unknown

Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence. - Joseph Krutch

Greatness is a road leading towards the unknown. - Charles de Gaulle

I rate enthusiasm even above professional skill. - Edward Appleton

Your compassion is a skill that can be exercised. - Simeon Lindstrom

Management is nothing more than motivating people. - Lee Iacocca

Lead me not into temptation. I can find the way myself. - Rita Mae Brown

Sometimes the cost of integrity is the loss of a friend. - Jack McDevitt

The wolf that one hears is worse than the orc that one fears. - JRR Tolkien

You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink. - English Proverb

If you are prepared, you will be confident, and will do the job. - Tom Landry

To succeed in life, you need two things: ignorance and confidence. - Mark Twain

Philosophy: A route of many roads leading from nowhere to nothing. - Ambrose Bierce

Take care of your costume and your confidence will take care of itself. - Amit Kalantri

Politics is a profession where the paths of glory lead but to the gravy. - Billy Boy Franklin

Amateurs wait for inspiration. The rest of us just get up and go to work. - Chuck Close

There are many kinds of joy, but they all lead to one: the joy to be loved. - Michael Ende

The best training a top manager can be engaged in is management by example. - Carlos Ghosn

The impossible often has a kind of integrity which the merely improbable lacks. - Douglas Adams

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act, but a habit. - Aristotle

Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence. - Vince Lombardi

You can only go as high on the leadership ladder as your character will allow you. - John C Maxwell

You can lead a herring to water, but you have to walk really fast or he'll die. - Rose

Anger begets more anger, and forgiveness and love lead to more forgiveness and love. - Mahavira

Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well too. - David Storey

Instead of letting your hardships and failures discourage or exhaust you, let them inspire you. - Michelle Obama

Leaders come in two flavors: expanders and containers. The best leadership teams have a mix of both. - Barbara Corcoran

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence. - Robert Frost

The Good of man is the active exercise of his soul's faculties in conformity with excellence or virtue. - Aristotle

I wouldn't describe myself as lacking in confidence, but I would say that the ghosts you chase you never catch. - John Malkovich

Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend. - Albert Camus

Leadership is all about caring, daring and sharing. Caring for people, Daring to Act fearlessly, and Sharing the success with all. - Sujit Lalwani

Faithfulness is essential to the character of a friend: without this there can be no safety in intimacy with and confidence in him. - Samuel Hopkins

The more difficulties one has to encounter, within and without, the more significant and the higher in inspiration his life will be. - Horace Bushnell

Wolves directly affect the entire ecosystem, not just moose populations, their main prey, because less moose equals more tree growth. - Rolf Peterson

Bill Gates has always been a mentor and inspiration for me even before I knew him. Just growing up, I admired how Microsoft was mission-focused. - Mark Zuckerberg

Don't assume, ask. Be kind. Tell the truth. Don't say anything you can't stand behind fully. Have integrity. Tell people how you feel. - Warsan Shire