If given a choice between a potentially great hardship and doing nothing, people gravitate toward what was most familiar and comfortable. That was why leadership was needed. To do what was necessary rather than what was easy.

Michael J. Sullivan
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One of the great leaders in American history, Abraham Lincoln, said, “If given a choice between a potentially great hardship and doing nothing, people gravitate toward what was most familiar and comfortable. That was why leadership was needed. To do what was necessary rather than what was easy.” Leaders have the power to change the direction of others’ lives. Yet they have to go against their own preferences in order to do so. That is why leaders are a necessity for a world that needs them.

Source: Age Of Myth

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