Leader Quotes

All musicians are potential band leaders.

Every man or woman who turns to Christ must bear in mind that they are breaking with their old master, and enlisting under a new leader. Conversion is a revolutionary process.

There is something to be said for government by a great aristocracy which has furnished leaders to the nation in peace and war for generations; even a Democrat like myself must admit this.

A leader is an average, everyday person who is highly motivated.

Though leadership may be hard to define, the one characteristic common to all leaders is the ability to make things happen.

Everyone needs to get together and say: "Our objective is to preserve and enhance the game and the planet on which it's played. To make golf a leader in greening the world."

Vladimir Putin is a dictator. He's not a leader. Anybody who thinks otherwise doesn't know Russian history and they don't know Vladimir Putin.

I ask the GOP leaders also to stand up for the integrity of the American electoral process.

This is one where you can just kind of go to the tape on it. But Governor [Mike] Pence said inarguably Vladimir Putin is a better leader than President [Barack] Obama.

Donald Trump's living in a different time, a time that is not a match for what Americans now believe about who our leaders should be.

The success of a leader will rise or fall on the decisions that he or she makes about the people around him or her.

The U.S. used to be perceived as the moral leader of the world, and we have absolutely lost that.

Leaders must attend to one key growth question: How authentically am I showing up in the world and my organization?

Fidel Castro is one of the most inspiring leaders of the 20th century.

As Cuba's leader, Castro answered to no one and allowed no challenge to his authority.

An ability to embrace new ideas, routinely challenge old ones, and live with paradox will be the effective leader's premier trait.

Leaders do stuff that matters.

The selfish leader will attempt to lead others for their own gain and for the detriment of others.

The Australian public are very fair and they are always prepared to give the leader of a major political party a fair go.

A midnight knock on the door followed by execution is no way a leader should be treated.

Lord Cranborne told the leader of the opposition to 'back me or sack me' - he succeeded in doing both.

I am absolutely delighted to give my full support to Gordon as the next leader of the Labour Party and as prime minister and to endorse him fully.

He is a thermostat leader, not a thermometer...He does not react to the environment he's in. He changes every environment he's in.

I was a fervent Catholic, and I belonged to the national organizations, even becoming one of the national leaders, until the age of 21, 22.

The Secret Service is a strange group. They don't really have a leader. It's not set up like a military. Each one is supposed to be able to act like a leader when something comes up.

Will the new environmental leaders fight for eco-equity in this new "green economy" they are birthing?

Any leader who doesn't support the heart of evolving humanity is not a leader worthy of being followed.

We can't be confined to one way of thinking, and that terrifies our leaders. It means we can't be controlled. And it means that no matter what they do, we will always cause trouble for them.

I frown at him. How does he know all this information? And why, after two years of avoiding becoming a Dauntless leader at all costs, is he suddenly acting like one?

Always, in every human action, there are leaders.

It has never been more critical that a leader step forward to accelerate our understanding of cancer - and champion the effort to finally defeat it. That leader will be the Duke Cancer Institute.

The strength of the group is in the will of the leader, and the will is character in action.

There are also fundamental issues related to what the current leader, President [Barack] Obama, said. I am referring to his idea about American exceptionalism. I am skeptical about this idea.

It is a major world power, and today it is an economic and military leader - no doubt about it. That is why America has a strong influence on the situation in the world in general.

Polite and velvety leaders, who take care to avoid bruising others, are generally not as effective at forcing change.

Better to listen to the gospel than to a mortal leader.

Every movement has radicals. But the important thing is that the radicals are not the leaders.

If you're the leader, you've got to give up your omniscient and omnipotent fantasies - that you know and must do everything. Learn how to abandon your ego to the talents of others.

The first job of a leader is to define a vision for the organization...the capacity to translate vision into reality.

A leader is someone whose actions have the most profound consequences on other people's lives, for better or worse, sometime forever and ever.

Successful leaders are great askers

Understand the "Pygmalion Effect": Leaders should always expect the very best of those around them. They know that people can change and grow.

Effective leaders make a full commitment to be a learner, to keep increasing and nourishing their knowledge and wisdom.

Encourage reflective backtalk: Leaders know the importance of having someone in their lives who will unfailingly and fearlessly tell them the truth.

All great leaders constantly seek new information and new ways of thinking.

Great leaders love talent and know where to find it. They surround themselves with talented people who can work effectively together.

Leaders should always expect the very best of those around them. They know that people can change and grow.

Ineffective leaders often act on the advice and counsel of the last person they talked to.

Perhaps the central task of the leader of leaders thus becomes the development of other leaders.

The basis of leadership is the capacity of the leader to change the mindset, the framework of the other person.