Leadership Quotes

The spiritual leader will choose the hidden path of sacrificial service and approval of the Lord over the flamboyant self-advertising of the world.

Don't just let your career happen to you. You need to be strategic about how you define your leadership journey and where that takes you.

My headmaster chastised me with a diabolical instrument a leather strap tacked to a piece of wood but he taught me with such villainous success that I am now Prime Minister.

Continuing to believe the same thing, even in the face of new evidence to the contrary, is the definition of insanity - except in politics where it's called leadership.

I admire Chancellor Merkel for her leadership qualities, but she is leading Europe in the wrong direction.

A leader is the man who has the ability to get other people to do what they don't want to do, and like it.

Leadership must be likeable, affable, cordial, and above all emotional. The fashion of authoritarian leadership is gone. Football is about life. You can't be angry all day.

Two commanders on the same field are always one too many.

One can lead a nation only by helping it see a bright outlook. A leader is a dealer in hope.

Ordinary people need to lead and not sit there and think that governments are going to spoon-feed them and look after them and look after the country, because they won't.

A man who is influenced by the polls or is afraid to make decisions which make him unpopular is not a man to represent the welfare of the country.

By listening with calm and understanding, we can ease the suffering of another person.

The nation will find it very hard to look up to the leaders who are keeping their ears to the ground.

The commander in the field is always right and the rear echelon is wrong, unless proved otherwise.

Idealism without pragmatism is impotent. Pragmatism without idealism is meaningless. The key to effective leadership is pragmatic idealism.

What men value in this world is not rights but privileges.

Success in politics demands that you must take your people into confidence about your views and state them very clearly, very politely, very calmly, but nevertheless, state them openly.

He that thinketh he leadeth and hath no one following him is only taking a walk.

Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.

Our expectation in ourselves must be higher than our expectation in others.

A leader is always first in line during times of criticism and last in line during times of recognition.

One of the greatest joys of leadership is assembling and knitting together teams of fantastic people.

We very often confuse personality with leadership.

If I were to command a general to turn into a seagull, and if the general did not obey, that would not be the general's fault. It would be mine.

A job is bound to be miserable if it doesn't involve measurement.

Produce great men, the rest follows.

The led must not be compelled; they must be able to choose their own leader.

The high destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule.

Everyone is a leader because everyone influences someone.

Leadership is not something you do to people. It's something you do with people.

A leader is a person who must take special responsibility for what's going on inside of himself or herself ... lest the act of leadership create more harm than good.

To fulfill you potential, you need to move out of your comfort zone and into the legacy zone.

What is the difference between the Marine Corps and the Boy Scouts? The Boy Scouts have adult leadership.

You can't compartmentalize unforgiveness. You can't control sin. You can't manage sin. Sin is never satisfied with the amount of you it possesses.

Leaders set high standards. Refuse to tolerate mediocrity or poor performance.

There are those who would misteach us that to stick in a rut is consistency - and a virtue, and that to climb out of the rut is inconsistency - and a vice.

T-shirts create a sense of "We". Food says, "We don't mind spending money on you."

Leadership is an action, not a position.

If you want to be the best, find out what the top people do & do it yourself.

Leadership implies movement toward something and convictions provide that direction.

Customers perceive service in their own unique, idiosyncratic, emotional, irrational, end-of-the-day, and totally human terms. Perception is all there is!

Let's be pastors who cast vision that are worth people giving their life for.

Crisis moments create opportunity. Problems and crises ignite our greatest creativity and thought leadership as it forces us to focus on things outside the norm.

The only limits are, as always, those of vision.

Leadership is about creating new realities.

There are two levers for moving men - interest and fear.

The most successful people have the same twenty-four hours in a day that you do.

Leadership in telecommunications is also essential, since we are now in the age of e-commerce.

Sinn Fein has demonstrated the ability to play a leadership role as part of a popular movement towards peace, equality and justice.

Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men's blood.