We must be prepared to keep pace with our leaders, stride for their every lengthened stride.
People who don't have goals work for people who do.
Many people are leaders trapped in a follower's body.
My firm belief is that people who aspire to public service should have the best advice up front, as they decide whether to run and the people decide whether to support them.
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.
We have to ask ourselves if we have become so focused on supporting personal choices that we're failing to encourage women to aspire to leadership.
Boys go to Washington to be somebody...men go to do something.
The race to be a leader is crowded, but the field is wide open for those willing to be servants
People innately have lots of solutions. It sounds like an obvious thing, but everyone thinks that they can be prime minister; everyone thinks that they can do a better job.
Across the globe there are girls who will one day lead nations, if only we afford them the chance to choose their own destinies.
Show me any top entertainer or top business executive, and I'll show you a guy who has mapped out his life from the very start.
If I look at the people that I look up to, a lot of them don't come to the forefront until their early to mid-30s. I think the most exciting roles are definitely yet to come.
Ontario’s colleges and universities offer our young people life-changing opportunities. With an education, you can go anywhere and do anything. I am so impressed with the way our postsecondary students are engaging in their communities, and I am inspired by their hope and optimism. They are not the leaders of tomorrow – they are leaders today.
Most of us are not leaders today because, in our hearts we don't believe that is who we are.
Leadership is the dream made reality.
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.
Only nut cases want to be president. This was true even in high school. Only clearly disturbed people ran for class president.
The higher you want to climb, the more you need leadership. The greater the impact you want to make, the greater your influence needs to be. Whatever you will accomplish is restricted by your ability to lead others.
The fact is that a woman who aspires to be chairman of the board - or a member of the House - does so for exactly the same reasons as any man. Basically, these are that she thinks she can do the job, and she wants to try.
Hope that there are many, many small leaders.
By saying that leaders - male or female - have to look or act a certain way to be respected as role models, we are not only hurting those individuals but also reinforcing rigid benchmarks for the next generation of passionate, aspiring leaders, who are watching.
The maxims for success laid out by the powerful are never much good as guides for those who aren't powerful.
