The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and will to carry on. (Quote by - Walter J Lippman)

It is the characteristic excellence of the strong man that he can bring momentous issues to the fore and make a decision about them. The weak are always forced to decide between alternatives they have not chosen themselves. (Quote by - Dietrich Bonhoeffer)

The leader has to be practical and a realist, yet must talk the language of the visionary and the idealist. (Quote by - Eric Hoffer)

The only real training for leadership is leadership. (Quote by - Anthony Jay)

The crowd gives the leader new strength. (Quote by - Evenius)

Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm. (Quote by - Democritus)

As for the best leaders, the people do not notice their existence. The next best, the people honour and praise. The next, the people fear, and the next the people hate. When the best leader's work is done, the people say, 'we did it ourselves!' (Quote by - Lao-Tzu)

Leadership is practiced not so much in words as in attitude and in actions. (Quote by - Harold Geneen)

A true leader always keeps an element of surprise up his sleeve, which others cannot grasp but which keeps his public excited and breathless. (Quote by - Charles de Gaulle)

Leadership should be born out of the understanding of the needs of those who would be affected by it. (Quote by - Marian Anderson)

Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other. (Quote by - John F Kennedy)

Leadership has a harder job to do than just choose sides. It must bring sides together. (Quote by - Jesse Jackson)

I know I have the body of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a King, and of a King of England too. (Quote by - Elizabeth I)

When the effective leader is finished with his work, the people say it happened naturally. (Quote by - Lao Tse)

The reward of a general is not a bigger tent (Quote by - Oliver Wendell Holmes)

The slave begins by demanding justice and ends by wanting to wear a crown. He must dominate in his turn. (Quote by - Albert Camus)

There are two levers for moving men (Quote by - Napoleon Bonaparte)

You do not lead by hitting people over the head-- that's assault, not leadership. (Quote by - Dwight D Eisenhower)

He who would rule must hear and be deaf, see and be blind. (Quote by - German proverb)