"The Church expects that each of us carry a share of the burden of leadership.  There is no paid clergy.  The work is done because of a love of the cause.  And as people serve, they grow in capacity.  The time and effort is not a sacrifice because there is returned more than is given."

      "God does not begin by asking us about our ability, but only about our availability, and if we then prove our dependability, he will increase our capability!"

        "No matter how attractive the personality may be, that leader or teacher fails in the work assigned if the leader or teacher directs the love of the member only to the personality of the leader or teacher.  It is the leader's duty, or the teacher's duty, to teach the member to love--not the leader or teacher, but the truth of the gospel.   Always, everywhere, we find Christ losing himself for his Father's will; and so also should our leaders and teachers, so far as their personalities are concerned, lose themselves for the truth he desires to have them teach.

        "When the people came to Jesus and asked for bread, or the truth, he never turned them away with a stone.  He always had truth to give.  He understood it.  It radiated from his being.  He understood how to use illustrations, the natural things around him, to impress that truth upon his hearers.  In other words, he was filled with his subject and then was enabled to give that subject to his hearers."

"Leaders on every level should be primarily interested in rendering compassionate caring for others."

"Leadership is the ability to encourage the best efforts of others in working toward a desirable goal."

        "There are too many tacit, silent deals in which one person agrees not to demand full measure, if the other person will agree to mediocrity when excellence may be possible.

        "The unwillingness of most leaders to set standards, to administer feedback when standards are not met, to praise clearly when standards are met, stands in the way of the development of excellence.  The leader who makes no demands of his disciples cannot really lead them at all.  The sense of new excitement and new challenge generated by the gospel will be blunted by leaders who shield followers from the full demands of fellowship."

        "Leadership is a matter of having people look at you and gain confidence by seeing how you react.  If you're in control, they're in control."

        "When people have a real sense of legacy, a sense of mattering, a sense of contribution, it seems to tap into the deepest part of their heart and soul.  It brings out the best and subordinates the rest."

        "Every bishop can testify to the promptings that attend calls to serve in the Church. Frequently the call seems to be for the benefit not so much of those to be taught or led as for the person who is to teach or lead."

        "We are all leaders--whether we want to be or not.  There is always someone we are influencing--either leading them to good--or away from good."

        "Nothing so conclusively proves a man's ability to lead others as what he does from day to day to lead himself."

        "Everywhere I go in the Church, nationally and internationally, I find that our young men and young women are the leaders in their schools. They are the student body officers, the outstanding scholars, the finest athletes. They set the standard for morality and dress.  Everyone looks up to them for guidance and excellence.  Those that I am talking about are you.  We are extremely pleased about your leadership. We expect nothing less from you, and neither does your Heavenly Father."