With reproductive rights under attack across the nation, Illinois is once again establishing itself as a leader in ensuring access to health care services.

The highest type of leadership maintains itself by its intrinsic worth, sans panoply, pomp and power. Of course, there are never enough real leaders to go around. Wherefore it becomes necessary to dress some men up and by other artificial means to give them a prestige and a power which they could not win by their own resources.

I don’t want to be a follower; I want to be a leader and create new waves.

In framing a government, which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty is this: You must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place, oblige it to control itself.

The instability, injustice, and confusion introduced into the public councils, have, in truth, been the mortal diseases under which popular governments have everywhere perished; as they continue to be the favorite and fruitful topics from which the adversaries to liberty derive their most specious declamations.

In this digital age, there is no place to hide behind public relations people. This digital age requires leaders to be visible and authentic and to be able to communicate the decisions they’ve made and why they’ve made them, to be able to acknowledge when they’ve made a mistake and to move forward, to engage in the debate.

He felt the stress and strain of life, its fevers and sweats and wild insurgences – surely this was the stuff to write about! He wanted to glorify the leaders of forlorn hopes, the mad lovers, the giants that fought under stress and strain, amid terror and tragedy, making life crackle with the strength of their endeavor. And.

I spent a lot of time with Rahul Dravid, working on my game and chatting about cricket. He helped me a lot in the games I played for India ‘A.’

All I at any point needed to be was leader of the American League

The audience perked up the more. American conservatives were a combative tribe who didn’t speak of liberals as their “friends,” but here Reagan did. His tone was serious, but it wasn’t angry, the way Goldwater’s often was. Reagan criticized Democratic leaders, but he didn’t criticize Democrats. He condemned the direction the American government was going, but he professed confidence in the American people.

An old African leader says about leadership, he says that leadership should never be shared; it should always remain in the hands of the dispossessed people. We will lead the revolution.

They’re funny things, Accidents. You never have them till you’re having them.

Our leaders can’t feel compelled to tell their bosses what they want to hear.

I was walking along looking for somebody, and then suddenly I wasn’t anymore.

Leaders should lead as far as they can and then vanish. Their ashes should not choke the fire they have lit.

According to me, all Congress leaders are supporting me. MLAs and leaders are happy with me.

People ask the difference between a leader and a boss … The leader works in the open, and the boss in covert. The leader leads, and the boss drives.

If given the choice between Righteousness and Peace, I choose Righteousness.

If I’m out trailriding, I have a favorite motorcycle. Riding on the road, I’ve got a favorite. If I’m jumping, I have a favorite, and if I’m racing, I have a favorite.

There are two classes: the leaders and the followers.

Our leaders are lacking love, and love is lacking leaders.

When the leaders choose to make themselves bidders at an auction of popularity, their talents, in the construction of the state, will be of no service. They will become flatterers instead of legislators, the instruments, not the guides, of the people.

Leaders never use the word failure. They look upon setbacks as learning experiences.

The key responsibility of leadership is to think about the future. No one else can do it for you.

The true test of leadership is how well you function in a crisis.

The glue that holds all relationships together–including the relationship between the leader and the led–is trust, and trust is based on integrity.

Superior leaders are willing to admit a mistake and cut their losses. Be willing to admit that you’ve changed your mind. Don’t persist when the original decision turns out to be a poor one.

Integrity is the most valuable and respected quality of leadership. Always keep your word.

Entrepreneurial leadership requires the ability to move quickly when opportunity presents itself.

Leaders set high standards. refuse to tolerate mediocrity or poor performance.

You gotta be hungry for it. You’ve got to put everything you got on it. EVERYTHING! Every second. You have to be the first one in line. That’s how leaders are born.

Don’t take on things you don’t believe in and that you yourself are not good at. Learn to say no. Effective leaders match the objective needs of their company with the subjective competencies. As a result, they get an enormous amount of things done fast.

If leaders are unable to slough off yesterday, to abandon yesterday, they simply will not be able to create tomorrow.

Some of the best business and nonprofit CEOs I’ve worked with over a sixty-five-year consulting career were not stereotypical leaders. They were all over the map in terms of their personalities, attitudes, values, strengths, and weaknesses.

Too many leaders try to do a little bit of 25 things and get nothing done. They are very popular because they always say yes. But they get nothing done.

Leadership is all hype. We’ve had three great leaders in this century-Hitler, Stalin, and Mao.

Most leaders don’t need to learn what to do. They need to learn what to stop.

Charisma becomes the undoing of leaders. It makes them inflexible, convinced of their own infallibility, unable to change.

We spend a lot of time teaching leaders what to do. We don’t spend enough time teaching leaders what to stop. Half the leaders I have met don’t need to learn what to do. They need to learn what to stop.

Leaders grow; they are not made.

Now one of the changes that must come to Africa is the idea of limited rule, I mean in term of how long one leader can stay in power. The era of president for life is not gone yet but it is on its way out and that is one of the problems with Mugabe and others.

Please, sir, I want some more.

Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.

Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves

Attachment leads to suffering.

In the end, leaders are defined by the convictions they hold.

The masses in any given place are generally composed of three parts, the relatively active, the intermediate and the relatively backward. The leaders must therefore be skilled in uniting the small number of active elements around the leadership and must rely on them to raise the level of the intermediate elements and to win over the backward elements.

Real leaders must be ready to sacrifice all for the freedom of their people.

So we march on, following our leaders, toward an Armageddon of our own making.

People who cannot follow a leader intelligently cannot become efficient leaders.

Every great leader, from the dawn of civilization down to the present, was a dreamer

If you’re looking for the safe choice, you shouldn’t be supporting a black guy named Barack Obama to be the next leader of the free world.

Of course, there is no question that Libya – and the world – will be better off with Gaddafi out of power. I, along with many other world leaders, have embraced that goal, and will actively pursue it through non-military means. But broadening our military mission to include regime change would be a mistake.

We all remember Abraham Lincoln as the leader who saved our Union. Founder of the Republican Party.

Beware that you do not lose the substance by grasping at the shadow

Personally, I’d like to see more of our leaders take a technocratic approach to solving our biggest problems.

Do not count your chickens before they are hatched

As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.

The soul of our country needs to be awakened… When leaders act contrary to conscience, we must act contrary to leaders

Great leaders do not desire to lead but to serve.

Leaders are persuing a passion toward a purpose that gives them a sense of destiny.