Leadership Quotes
To be an ethical leader is indeed to be different. This kind of leader acknowledges the complexity of running a responsible business, yet tries to do it anyway.
The greatest leader in the world could never win a campaign unless he understood the men he had to lead.
Women in leadership roles can help restore balance and wholeness to our communities.
After you plant a seed in the ground, you don't dig it up every week to see how it is doing
Leadership, in short, is power governed by principle, directed toward raising people to their highest levels of personal motive and social morality.
I believe that the mindset that allows you to spend your working life thanking and congratulating people rather than being unpleasant to them is the mainstay of good leadership.
Leaders learn by leading, and they learn bestby leading in the face of obstacles. As weather shapes mountains, problems shape leaders.
Leadership is found in the action to defeat that which would defeat you… You are made by the struggles you choose.
Every single person has leadership ability. Some step up and take them. Some don't. My answer was to step up and lead.
A true leader always keeps an element of surprise up his sleeve, which others cannot grasp but which keeps his public excited and breathless.
Most people return small favors, acknowledge medium ones and repay greater ones - with ingratitude.
For thousands of years art was seen as a source of responsible moral and ethical leadership. Today, taking that stance is almost seen as comic.
The three most important ways to lead people are:... by example... by example... by example.
If you're not confused, you're not paying attention.
Empowerment is what managers do to people. Engagement is what managers do with people.
Deep within man dwell those slumbering powers; powers that would astonish him, that he never dreamed of possessing; forces that would revolutionize his life if aroused and put into action.
The price of excellence is discipline. The cost of mediocrity is disappointment.
Good NCOs are not just born-they are groomed and grown through a lot of hard work and strong leadership by senior NCOs.
If America ever passes out as a great nation, we ought to put on our tombstone: America died from a delusion she had Moral Leadership.
The best leader does not ask people to serve him, but the common end. The best leader has not followers, but men and women working with him.
I believe in white supremacy until the blacks are educated to the point of responsibility. I don't believe in giving authority and positions of leadership and judgment to irresponsible people.
Girls playing sports is not about winning gold medals. It's about self-esteem, learning to compete and learning how hard you have to work in order to achieve your goals.
I am endlessly fascinated that playing football is considered a training ground for leadership, but raising children isn't.
Leadership is the ability to step outside the culture to start evolutionary change processes that are more adaptive.
The ultimate test of practical leadership is the realization of intended, real change that meets people's enduring needs.
Great leadership is not attained by pursuing greatness but by persevering through great tests.
If becoming a high performing organization is the destination, leadership is the engine.
A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.
Every advance in this half-century-Social Security, civil rights, Medicare, aid to education, one after another-came with the support and leadership of American Labor.
It is the first time in the history of Rwanda that political change in the highest leadership of the country has taken place in peace and security.
Leaders are people who do the right thing; managers are people who do things right.
The beauty of empowering others is that your own power is not diminished in the process.
Your past is not your potential. In any hour you can choose to liberate the future.