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• True leadership must have follower-ship. Management styles can vary, but even an autocrat needs people who believe and simply don't follow from fear.

  James D. Robinson III

  Believe, People, Style

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• The highest manifestation of true leadership is to identify one’s replacement and to begin mentoring him or her.

  Myles Munroe

  Mentoring, Replacements, Manifestation

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• True leadership is measured by what happens after you die.

  Myles Munroe

  True Leader, Happens, Dies

  "The Leadership For Social Justice Project In Ghana: Planting Seeds Of Social Change" by Dr. Artika R. Tyner, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 16, 2016.

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• True Leadership always begins with the inner person.

  John C. Maxwell

  True Leader, Persons

  John C. Maxwell (2007). “The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership: Follow Them and People Will Follow You”, p.17, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Do not confuse objectives with methods. When the nation becomes substantially united in favor of planning the broad objectives of civilization, then true leadership must unite thought behind definite methods.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Wisdom, Civilization, Favors

  Roosevelt, Franklin D. (1941). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1937, Volume 6”, p.646, Best Books on

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  True leadership is when you are willing to risk your power and voice so that all of ours can be heard.

  Justin Timberlake

  Voice, Risk, Heard

  Twitter post from May 9, 2012

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• To enact a vision of human flourishing based on the qualities of life that Jesus modeled will invariably challenge the given structures of the social order. In this light, there is no true leadership without putting at risk one's time, wealth, reputation, and position.

  James Davison Hunter

  Jesus, Light, Order

  James Davison Hunter (2010). “To Change the World: The Irony, Tragedy, and Possibility of Christianity in the Late Modern World”, p.260, Oxford University Press

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• True greatness, true leadership, is achieved not by reducing men to one's service but in giving oneself in selfless service to them.

  J. Oswald Sanders

  Greatness, Men, Giving

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• The trouble with Nigeria is simply and squarely a failure of leadership. There is nothing basically wrong with the Nigerian land or climate or water or air or anything else. The Nigerian problem is the unwillingness or inability of its leaders to rise to the responsibility, to the challenge of personal example which are the hallmarks of true leadership.

  Chinua Achebe

  Responsibility, Air, Land

  Chinua Achebe (1984). “The Trouble with Nigeria”, p.1, Heinemann

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• Presenting leadership as a list of carefully defined qualities (like strategic, analytical, and performance-ori ented) no longer holds. Instead, true leadership stems from individuality that is honestly and sometimes imperfectly expressed.... Leaders should strive for authenticity over perfection.

  Sheryl Sandberg

  Perfection, Leader, Individuality

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• Leadership is influence, nothing more, nothing less...titles don't have much value when it comes to leading. True leadership cannot be awarded, appointed, or assigned, it comes only from influence, and that cannot be mandated. It must be earned.

  John C. Maxwell

  Titles, Influence, True Leader

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• True greatness,true leadership,is found in giving yourself in service to others, not in coaxing or inducing others to serve you. True service is never without cost. Often it comes with a painful baptism of suffering. But the true spiritual leader is focused on the service he and she can render to God and other people, not on the residuals and perks of high office or holy title. We must aim to put more into life than we take out.

  J. Oswald Sanders

  Spiritual, Greatness, People

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