Submission: Becky Potter

"The real leader has no need to lead - he is content to point the way" 

- Henry Miller

Author, Henry Miller

Submission: Robyn Lambert

"Leadership is not a magnetic personality - that can just as well be a glib tongue. It is not 'making friends and influencing people' - that is flattery. Leadership is lifting a person's vision to high sights, the raising of a person's performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations"

- Peter Drucker

Author and management consultant, Peter Drucker

Submission: Cathy Freer-Leszczynski

"Leadership is a type of formal or natural authority based on a capacity to activate and support something in people that helps them see what to do and how to do it in a given situation..."

"Leaders have to be two-faced. Looking inside to know themselves and outside to know the community context"

- Ken Lowe

Submission: Susan Anderson

“Have a vision and dream big” 

- Stephen Abram

Past President of Canadian Library Association, Stephen Abram



Submission: Hormah Chinbuah

“The task of leadership is not to put greatness into humanity, but to elicit it, for the greatness is already there”

- John Buchan

Politician and writer, John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir



Submission: Heather Robertson

"If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader"

- John Quincy Adams



Submission: Joey Sayer

"I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody"

-Bill Cosby

Comedian and actor, Bill Cosby

Submission: Maureen Lallier

"Leadership and learning are indispensible to each other"

- John F. Kennedy

35th President of the U.S., John F. Kennedy

 

 

I chose this quote because I see the process of becoming a leader as one that involves continual openness to learning about new things, in new situations with new people.

Submission: Jean Ludlam

If I have the belief that I can do it, I will surely acquire the capacity
   to do it, even if I may not have it at the beginning

                                                                                    - Mahatma Gandhi

Political and spiritual leader of India, Mahatma Gandhi

Submission: Marje Wing

"It is better to lead from behind and to put others in front, especially when you celebrate victory when nice things occur. You take the front line when there is danger. Then people will appreciate your leadership"

- Nelson Mandela

Former South African president, Nelson Mandela

Submission: Josie Reiterer

“Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things”

- Peter F. Drucker

Author and management consultant, Peter Drucker

Submission: Azmin Poonja

“The very essence of leadership is that you have to have vision. You can’t blow an uncertain trumpet”

– Theodore M. Hesburgh

Former President of the University of Notre Dame, Theodore Hesburgh

Submission: Kim Bates

"If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader"

- John Quincy Adams

Sixth President of the U.S., John Quincy Adams

Submission: Chris Barry

"Don't tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results"

- George S. Patton

U.S General, George S. Patton

  

Submission: Gerry Burger-Martindale

"Leadership should be more participative than directive, more enabling than performing" 

- Mary D. Poole

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Submission: Wendy Stewart

"The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been"

- Henry Kissinger

Nobel Peace Prize recipient, Henry Kissinger

Submission: Kathy McKenzie

"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has" 

- Margaret Mead

Cultural anthropologist, Margaret Mead

"Real leaders are ordinary people with extraordinary determination" 

- Anonymous

Submission: Marshall Sumka

"Mountaintops inspire leaders but valleys mature them" 

- Winston Churchill

Former British Prime Minister, Winston Churchill

Submission: Valerie Viccars

“If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up people to collect wood and don’t assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea”

- Antoine de Saint-Exupery  

Aviator and author, Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Submission: Jerry Fawcett

“I start with the premise that the function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers” 

-Ralph Nader

Political activist and lecturer, Ralph Nader

 “As we look ahead to the next century, leaders will be those who empower others” 

- Bill Gates

Business magnate, Bill Gates