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Quotes of the Day for 3 April 2005 - Leadership

A man I deeply admire died yesterday. Born Karol Wojtyla, he lost his parents at an early age, spent time in a forced labor camp when the Nazis occupied his homeland, became a priest to serve his community, faced down the Communist authorities who made him bishop because they thought they could control him, and became the Bishop of Rome. As a Lutheran, I didn't agree with many of his positions, and I felt that some of his positions were wrong for his church. But as John Paul II he was the leader of the world's billion Roman Catholics because of his faith, his integrity, his energy. He embodied Leadership in a period of change and challenge. Pax vobiscum.

The leader has to be practical and a realist, yet must talk the language of the visionary and the idealist.
     - Eric Hoffer, 1902 - 1983

Leaders get out in front and stay there by raising the standards by which they judge themselves - and by which they are willing to be judged.
     - Frederick Smith

The secret of a leader lies in the tests he has faced over the whole course of his life and the habit of action he develops in meeting those tests.
     - Gail Sheehy

Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy.
     - H. Norman Schwarzkopf

The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it is on a section gang, a football field, in an army, or in an office.
     - Lucille Ball, 1911 - 1989

Leadership is action, not position
     - Donald H. McGannon

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