The signs of outstanding leadership appear primarily among the followers. Are the followers reaching their potential? Are they learning? Serving? Do they achieve the required results? Do they change with grace? Manage conflict?

Each one of us should lead a life stirring enough to start a movement.

charisma in the Christian sense.

Above all else, know that good leaders always define their own reality. No one else can build a discipling culture for you—it must begin in your own life and then overflow into the lives of those you lead. You will not be the perfect example, but you can be a living example.

We could sum up thre entire message of this book in the following way; leaders stand for something - vision. Leaders stand on something - values.

Am I, in any way, violating the trust of those who have placed their faith in me? What impact am I having on those who are influenced or affected by my behavior?

Don't expect your success to carry you in life. Rather, let your success be carried by your character.

People become leaders when they make the decision not to sacrifice their principles on the altar of convenience or compromise.

I was a hotheaded young man who attempted to make up for his ignorance with militancy.

Become the change you want to see - those are words I live by.

Don't trust anyone over thirty," the 1960s radicals cried. "Don't trust anyone under three hundred," came Thomas Oden's wise reply.

The youth of America is their oldest tradition. It has been going on now for three hundred years.