A leader that I want to be ...

...great ones make you feel that you too, can become great.

The human heart feels things the eyes cannot see, and knows what the mind
cannot understand.
- Robert Vallett

If people are coming to work excited . . . if they're making mistakes freely and fearlessly . . .
if they're having fun . . . if they're concentrating doing things,
rather than preparing reports and going to meetings - then somewhere you have leaders.
- Robert Townsend

Be an example. Walk the talk.

People prefer to follow those who help them, not those who intimidate them.
- C. Gene Wilkes

Striving for excellence motivates you; striving for perfection is demoralizing.
- Harriet Braiker


Watch your thoughts; they become words.
Watch your words; they become actions.
Watch your actions; they become habits.
Watch your habits; they become character.
Watch your character; it becomes your destiny.
- Frank Outlaw 

Kites rise highest against the wind -- not with it. 
- Sir Winston Churchill

The greatest motivational act one person can do for another is to listen.
- Roy Moody

Everyone is trying to accomplish something big, not realizing that life is made up of little things. 
- Frank A. Clark 

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