What it Takes to be a Leader

What does it take to be a leader? Did God only pick those who were successful and elite to lead His people?

Samuel Logan Brengle says, “Leadership is not won by promotion but by many prayers and tears. It is attained by confessions of sin, and much heart searching and humbling before God; by self-surrender, a courageous surrender of every idol, a bold, deathless, uncompromising and uncomplaining embracing of the cross, and by and eternal, unfaltering looking unto Jesus crucified.”