<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Leaders - Maxioms.com</title><description>Quotes, Famous Quotes, Sayings, Proverbs, Maxims, Axioms, Maxioms</description><link>http://www.maxioms.com</link><language>en-us</language><copyright>Copyright 2026 Maxioms.com. All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66138]]></link><description><![CDATA[A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66138</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The leader can never close the gap between himself and the group. If he does, he is no longer what ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64437]]></link><description><![CDATA[The leader can never close the gap between himself and the group. If he does, he is no longer what he must be. He must walk a tightrope between the consent he must win and the control he must exert.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64437</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Leaders aren't born they are made. And they are made just like anything else, through hard work. And that's the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64435]]></link><description><![CDATA[Leaders aren't born they are made. And they are made just like anything else, through hard work. And that's the price we'll have to pay to achieve that goal, or any goal.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64435</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lead, follow, or get out of the way. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63589]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lead, follow, or get out of the way.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63589</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When the effective leader is finished with his work, the people say it happened naturally. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24418]]></link><description><![CDATA[When the effective leader is finished with his work, the people say it happened naturally.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24418</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You don't have to hold a position in order to be a leader. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24419]]></link><description><![CDATA[You don't have to hold a position in order to be a leader.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24419</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You do not lead by hitting people over the head-- that's assault, not leadership. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24420]]></link><description><![CDATA[You do not lead by hitting people over the head-- that's assault, not leadership.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24420</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself, or to get all the credit ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24421]]></link><description><![CDATA[No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself, or to get all the credit for doing it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24421</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24423]]></link><description><![CDATA[The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24423</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The quality of a leader is reflected in the standards they set for themselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24424]]></link><description><![CDATA[The quality of a leader is reflected in the standards they set for themselves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24424</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you lead on the people with correctness, who will dare not to be correct? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24405]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you lead on the people with correctness, who will dare not to be correct?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24405</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24406]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24406</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between, the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24407]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between, the leader is a servant.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24407</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The crowd gives the leader new strength. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24408]]></link><description><![CDATA[The crowd gives the leader new strength.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24408</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first duty of a leader is to make himself be loved without courting love. To be loved without 'playing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24409]]></link><description><![CDATA[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.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24409</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24410]]></link><description><![CDATA[Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24410</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The leader has to be practical and a realist, yet must talk the language of the visionary and the idealist. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24411]]></link><description><![CDATA[The leader has to be practical and a realist, yet must talk the language of the visionary and the idealist.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24411</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and will to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24412]]></link><description><![CDATA[The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and will to carry on.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24412</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Leadership should be born out of the understanding of the needs of those who would be affected by it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24413]]></link><description><![CDATA[Leadership should be born out of the understanding of the needs of those who would be affected by it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24413</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Leadership has a harder job to do than just choose sides. It must bring sides together. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24414]]></link><description><![CDATA[Leadership has a harder job to do than just choose sides. It must bring sides together.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24414</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only real training for leadership is leadership. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24415]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only real training for leadership is leadership.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24415</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whether a man is burdened by power or enjoys power; whether he is trapped by responsibility or made free by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24417]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whether a man is burdened by power or enjoys power; whether he is trapped by responsibility or made free by it; whether he is moved by other people and outer forces or moves them -- this is of the essence of leadership.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24417</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where are they now that we, the men whom they sent off to war, have returned? These are commanders who ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8991]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where are they now that we, the men whom they sent off to war, have returned? These are commanders who have deserted their troops, and there is no more serious crime in the law of war. The Army says they never leave their wounded. The Marines say they never leave even their dead. These men have left all the casualties and retreated behind a pious shield of public rectitude. They have left the real stuff of their reputation bleaching behind them in the sun in this country.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8991</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our Founding Fathers would shudder to see how easily forces outside the mainstream now seem to effortlessly push some Senate ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/269]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our Founding Fathers would shudder to see how easily forces outside the mainstream now seem to effortlessly push some Senate leaders toward conduct the American people don't want from their elected leaders: Abusing power. Inserting the government into our private lives. Injecting religion into debates about public policy. Jumping through hoops to ingratiate themselves to their party’s base, while step by step, day by day, real problems that keep American families up at night fall by the wayside here in Washington.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/269</guid></item></channel></rss>