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"Woodrow Wilson called for leaders who, by boldly interpreting the nation's conscience, could lift a people out of their everyday selves. That people can be lifted into their better selves is the secret of transforming leadership."

James MacGregor Burns on Leadership

More quotes about Leadership

  • "If you think you can do a thing or think you can't do a thing, you're right."

    Henry Ford on Leadership

  • "A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus."

    Martin Luther King, Jr. on Leadership

  • "It is better to lead from behind and to put others in front, especially when you celebrate victory when nice things occur. You take the front line when there is danger. Then people will appreciate your leadership."

    Nelson Mandela on Leadership

  • "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."

    Lao Tzu on Leadership

  • "Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help or concluded you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership."

    Colin Powell on Leadership

More quotes by James MacGregor Burns

  • "Divorced from ethics, leadership is reduced to management and politics to mere technique."

  • "Divorced from ethics, leadership is reduced to management and politics to mere technique."

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