Leadership Quotes
Community leadership is the courage, creativity and capacity to inspire participation, development and sustainability for strong communities.
The ability to choose cannot be taken away or even given away-it can only be forgotten.
we should think not only of what the leader does to the group, but also of what the group does to the leader.
The presidency is not merely an administrative office...It is pre-eminently a place of moral leadership.
Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.
Girls are twice as likely as boys to avoid leadership roles for fear of being deemed 'bossy' by their peers.
We know that leadership is very much related to change. As the pace of change accelerates, there is naturally a greater need for effective leadership.
To me, hockey was always tremendous fun. That's what kept me going for so long. I simply love to play hockey.
Progress on problems is the measure of leadership; leaders mobilize people to face problems, and communities make progress on problems because leaders challenge them and help them to do so.
Communication is the conduit of leadership from the Prime Minister down to the leading hand of a small group of council workers fixing the roads. Leadership uncommunicated is leadership unrequited!
The men who have done big things are those who were not afraid to attempt big things, who were not afraid to risk failure in order to gain success.
We need to awaken the next generation to understand that we are all change-makers. The nation is not as strong as its government but its next generation
True leaders understand that leadership is not about them but about those they serve. It is not about exalting themselves but about lifting others up.
True greatness, true leadership, is achieved not by reducing men to one's service but in giving oneself in selfless service to them.
Those that recognize the inevitability of change stand to benefit the most from it.
I think that my leadership style is to get people to fear staying in place, to fear not changing.
Believing in people before they have proved themselves is the key to motivating people to reach their potential.
When you meet someone better than yourself, turn your thoughts to becoming his equal. When you meet someone not as good as you are, look within and examine your own self.
The trouble in modern democracy is that men do not approach to leadership until they have lost the desire to lead anyone.
I'm not going to ask for anything unless the workers want it. If they want it, they'll ask for it.
There are many reasons for why a man does what de does. To be himself he must be able to give it all. If a leader cannot give it all he cannot expect his people to give anything.
If a man is known by the company he keeps, so also his character is reflected in the books he reads.
A president either is constantly on top of events or, if he hesitates, events will soon be on top of him. I never felt that I could let up for a moment.
First, make yourself a reputation for being a creative genius. Second, surround yourself with partners who are better than you are. Third, leave them to go get on with it.
Comrade Deng Xiaoping - along with other party elders - gave the party leadership their firm and full support to put down the political disturbance using forceful measures.
Become the kind of leader that people would follow voluntarily; even if you had no title or position.
Leaders are like gardeners ... As leaders we are not only responsible for harvesting our own success but for cultivating the success of the next generation.
The greatest artists like Dylan, Picasso and Newton risked failure. And if we want to be great, we've got to risk it, too.
You can't be successful with other people if you haven't paid the price of success with yourself.
People who let events and circumstances dictate their lives are living reactively. That means that they don't act on life, they only react to it.
Market leadership can translate directly to higher revenue, higher profitability, greater capital velocity and correspondingly stronger returns on invested capital.
Australia has got some of the best sports people in the world, but we've also got some of the best scientists and innovators too, and that needs to be celebrated more.
