I got this list of quotes on leadership in an email from my wonderful mother. Many of them are terrific and insightful:

“Never tell people how to do things.
Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.”
— George S. Patton

“Treat people as if they were what they ought to be,
and you help them to become what they are capable of being.”
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Do not go where the path may lead,
go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.”
— Warren G. Bennis

“The man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd.”
— James Crook

“If you command wisely, you’ll be obeyed cheerfully.”
— Thomas Fuller

“A leader takes people where they want to go.
A great leader takes people where they don’t necessarily want to go, but ought to be.”
— Rosalynn Carter

“A leader’s role is to raise people’s aspirations for what they can become
and to release their energies so they will try to get there.”
— David Gergen

“Outstanding leaders go out of their way to boost the self-esteem of their personnel.
If people believe in themselves, it’s amazing what they can accomplish.”
— Sam Walton

“The real leader has no need to lead—he is content to point the way.”
— Henry Miller