The first duty of a leader is to make himself be loved without courting love. To be loved without 'playing up' to anyone - even to himself.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Love exercised while duty is neglected will make children headstrong, willful, perverse, selfish, and disobedient. If stern duty is left to stand alone without love to soften and win, it will have a similar result. Duty and love must be blended in order that children may be properly disciplined.
It is the solemn obligation of a leader always to be a leader. Even when - perhaps especially when - you don't feel like being a leader.
A leader must be a good listener. He must be willing to take counsel. He must show a genuine concern and love for those under his stewardship.
To love without role, without power plays, is revolution.
Leadership is the other side of the coin of loneliness, and he who is a leader must always act alone. And acting alone, accept everything alone.
A person always doing his or her best becomes a natural leader, just by example.
Love can do much, but duty more.
The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between, the leader is a servant.
Leadership is about being a servant first.
I learned that leadership is about falling in love with the people and the people falling in love with you. It is about serving the people with selflessness, with sacrifice, and with the need to put the common good ahead of personal interests.