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"The purpose of a leader is to lead others to lead themselves."

Courage, valor, inspiration, creativity, freedom -- these are not qualities that one can order another to have, like many other virtues these come from within; they are manifested within the mind and the heart of the individual. No book, no myth, no friend or family member, no leader will ever be able to just tell someone to be courageous, or to be inventive.
Not everyone knows how to search for that path inside themselves. The goal of a leader is to help a person get to that point, and then encourage him or her to find the answer for him or herself.
A society of free thinkers needs no leaders and no heroes, for every member is one. It would not be wrong, then, to say that a leader must lead him or herself into obsoleteness.