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  1. “Leadership is the challenge to be something more than average.”- Jim Rohn
  2. “A great leader's courage to fulfill his vision comes from passion, not position.”-John Maxwell
  3. “One of the true tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency.” -Arnold Glaslow
  4. “if you do not choose to lead, you will forever be led by others. Find what scares you, and do it.” - J. Michael Straczynski
  5. "The visible signs of artful leadership are expressed, ultimately, in its practice.”- Max Dupree
  6. A leader's role is to raise people's aspirations for what they can become and to release their energies so they'll try to get there. -Gergen
  7. “Leadership is action, not position.” Donald H. McGannon
  8. “Leadership is the challenge to be something more than average.” -Jim Rohn
  9. “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, Sr.
  10. “To lead the people, walk behind them.” Lao Tzu
  11. “The led must not be compelled, they must be able to choose their own leader” -Albert Einstein
  12. “Leadership is practiced not so much in words as in attitude and in actions.” - Harold S. Geneen
  13. “Whatever you are, be a good one.” Abraham Lincoln
  14. “A great leader's courage to fulfill his vision comes from passion, not position.”- John C. Maxwell
  15. “A leader leads by example, whether he intends to or not.”
  16. “Anyone can give up. But to hold it together when everyone else would understand if you fell apart, that's true strength.”
  17. “If you wait to do everything until you're sure it's right, you'll probably never do much of anything.”- Win Borden
  18. “Courage is the discovery that you may not win, and trying when you know you can lose.” -Tom Krause
  19. "To do great things is difficult; but to command great things is more difficult." Friedrich Nietzsche
  20. "No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent." Abraham Lincoln