Quotations About Leadership
Present students with two or more of the following quotes from well-known public servants, and begin to generate a list of qualities associated with leadership.
Taking Stands
"If an individual wants to be a leader and isn't controversial, that means he never stood for anything."
  Richard M. Nixon

"Leadership has a harder job to do than just choose sides. It must bring sides together."
  Jesse Jackson

"I believe that no man who holds a leader's position should ever accept favors from either side. He is then committed to show favors. A leader must stand alone."
  Mother Jones

Power of Persuasion
"Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far."
  Theodore Roosevelt

"Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it."
  Dwight D. Eisenhower

"You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake."
  Jeannette Rankin

Making Change
"The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully."
  Walter Lippmann

"Social advance depends as much upon the process through which it is secured as upon the result itself."
  Jane Addams

"I never ran my train off the track, and I never lost a passenger."
  Harriet Tubman

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