Linda Sarsour Quotes

We have had imperfect leaders in the past, and we will have imperfect leaders in the future.

I would assert that highly effective leaders are made more than they're born. Every leader I know who's been highly effective has worked hard at it, and they've been students of it. The more you're a student of leadership, the more you figure out what works for you and the more effective you're going to be.

The very exercise of leadership fosters capacity for it.

Leadership does take work. And it should. If you aspire to be a leader, you ought to treat leadership as a craft, you ought to become a student of it, and you ought to work at it. And if you're not willing to work at it, well, you get what you give.

The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born-that there is a genetic factor to leadership. This myth asserts that people simply either have certain charismatic qualities or not. That's nonsense; in fact, the opposite is true. Leaders are made rather than born.

Though there are lessons that can be learned about becoming a great leader, most exist inherently in the bellies of those who lead.

I don't think you just become a leader.

I think that you can't choose leadership. You have to deal with the leadership that the people respond to.

The ONLY thing leaders have in common is the shared decision to lead.

Leadership is one of the most observed and least understood phenomena on earth.

Leadership is a series of behaviors rather than a role for heroes.

It's all very well to put the government in the hands of the perfect man, but what do you do when the perfect man gets a bellyache?

I think any time there's a change in leadership there's a different personality, there's a different style involved with it, different demeanor.

Leadership cannot be taught. Either you're a leader by the time you're 12 years old, or you never will be.

Leadership is learned, earned, and discerned. You develop it. It's based on trust and credibility. Others see it in you. You can't demand it.

I told them I was but a man, and they must not expect me to be perfect; if they expected perfection from me, I should expect it from them; but if they would bear with my infirmities and the infirmities of the brethren, I would likewise bear with their infirmities.

If you want to be a leader who attracts quality people, the key is to become a person of quality yourself.

All leaders are influenced by those they admire. Reading about them and studying their traits inevitably allows an inspiring leader to develop his own leadership traits.

Be the leader you wish you had.

Though leadership may be hard to define, the one characteristic common to all leaders is the ability to make things happen.

It is the capacity to develop and improve their skills that distinguishes leaders from followers.

Leadership is never given on a silver platter, one has to earn it.

The real test of leadership isn't where you start out. It's where you end up.

Leadership is not just one quality, but rather a blend of many qualities; and while no one individual possesses all of the needed talents that go into leadership, each man can develop a combination to make him a leader.

It's harder for a leader to be born in a palace than to be born in a cabin.