Quotation by

James Buchanan

The test of leadership is not to put greatness into humanity, but to elicit it, for the greatness is already there.

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Leadership is about drawing out the existing strengths and potential within people rather than trying to create those qualities from scratch. It recognizes that everyone already has the ability to be great, and a leader’s role is to help reveal and develop that ability.

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