There is a lot of literature written about leadership. Indeed leadership is a subject of scholarly discourse, with scholars taking a lot of interest on the qualities and aspect of exceptional leadership. Leadership authors highlight a number of personality traits and behaviours that make up great leaders. Such traits as endurance, hardwood and enjoyment of the job have been constantly highlighted by many leadership theorists. What is also commonly agreed amongst leadership theorists is that leadership is a long life effort that constitutes efforts that is never recognised and rewarded. It is after overcoming such long suffering in leadership position that finally leaders get to be recognised and rewarded. Along the course of ones leadership exploits lays potential pitfall and traps that might, and do derail leaders from attaining recognition. What makes the difference is the attitude of leaders on the challenges they face. Leadership is thus an epic journey in which leaders care enough to realise their dreams. Many young people who intend to be great leaders always work so hard to keep their leadership option open. However, fail to realise that such openness does not guarantee one the chance to be a leader. Great leadership involves making sacrifices. One of the most crucial sacrifices that great leaders make is to make a choice about the dream they want to pursue and make irrevocable commitment to it. It is after such great a sacrifice that care about ones dreams starts to emerge. Great leaders have not only cared about the realization of their dreams but also how the process of realising those dreams brings change to the society. Scum change must also be for the good of the entire society. The reason why leaders must care about their dreams is to make sure that those dreams are fully achieved and enjoyable to them and also to ensure that those dreams bring change in the society. Because nature abhors change, leaders must care and love their life changing tasks to be able to effectively bring about change (Badaracco, 2006). There is a price to pay for life changing leadership. Because nature abhors change, leaders intending to bring change have to go through unimaginable toil and pain, a burden they have carry throughout. A closer evaluation of successful leaders such as Abraham Lincoln reveals that such successful leadership comes at a price. Abraham Lincoln had to go through great struggle every day. He had to do relentless work that constitutes small, complicated and tasking activities on a daily basis. Doing this task respectively for along time exposes leaders to risks. It has been noted that some leaders have died of health complication resulting from their engagement to their work. Despite knowing the risk their work exposes them to still continued unhindered in the pursuit of their life changing dreams (Badaracco, 2006). Such leaders despite their suffering care enough about their work and the effects it would bring to the entire society. With time they develop the right character that enables them to stay on course even when quitting seemed to be the best ting to do (Iorg, 2007). As such they not only endure lessons that come with such hardships but also embrace