Abraham Lincoln
“Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power.”

Nelson Mandela
“Lead from the back — and let others believe they are in front.”

Winston Churchill
“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”

Mahatma Gandhi
“The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.”

John C. Maxwell
“A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.”

Steve Jobs
“Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.”

Theodore Roosevelt
“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.”

Lao Tzu
“A leader is best when people barely know he exists… When his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.”

Martin Luther King Jr.
“A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.”

Alexander the Great
“I am not afraid of an army of lions led by a sheep; I am afraid of an army of sheep led by a lion.”