Leadership Quotes

I'm not the boss of my house. I don't know how I lost it, I don't know when I lost it, I don't really think I ever had it. But I've seen the boss's job...and I don't want it!

I have no family. My only responsibility is the welfare of Quebec. I belong to the province.

The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.

My attitude is never to be satisfied, never enough, never.

So much of what you do physically happens because you've thought about it and mentally prepared for it.

The main characteristics of effective leadership are intelligence, integrity or loyalty, mystique, humor, discipline, courage, self sufficieny and confidence.

Begin to live each day as if it was your last.

Many people are aware that we are in peril and that there is no trustworthy leadership.

I am reminded how hollow the label of leadership sometimes is and how heroic followership can be.

[The Master] doesn't glitter like a jewel... [but is] as rugged and common as a stone.

It's lonely at the top, so you better know why you are there.

Leadership is particularly necessary to ensure ready acceptance of the unfamiliar and that which is contrary to tradition.

Those who are to change significantly that which they freshly encounter must themselves be changed by the changing of it.

I think one of the reasons our court system wants to remove The 10 Commandments is because The 10 Commandments reminds us we are sinners.

God prepares leaders with a specific place and task in mind. Training methods are adapted to the mission, and natural and spiritual gifts are given with clear purpose.

At the heart of leadership is the leader's relationship with followers. People will entrust their hopes and dreams to another person only if they think the other is a reliable vessel.

To lead people, walk behind them.

Next to doing a good job yourself, the greatest joy is having someone else do a first class job under your direction.

We need standards with flexibility, not standardization with force if we are to get the best from our teachers.

The only real training for leadership is leadership.

A true Leader asks advice, when he has time to think; but he never asks advice in a crisis. He acts.

No general can fight his battles alone. He must depend upon his lieutenants, and his success depends upon his ability to select the right man for the right place.

When asked if he was a basketball player he replied No I clean giraffe ears.

Don't tell me you can pitch...pitch. Don't tell me you can sell...sell.

I'm not dismissing the value of higher education; I'm simply saying it comes at the expense of experience.

When a leader is in the Democratic Party he's a boss. When he's in the Republican Party he's nothing but a leader.

Spotting talent is one of the essential elements of great leadership.

The purpose of life is to matter and be ever mindful of the opportunities that we can both individually and collectively provide for others.

Socrates had a student named Plato, Plato had a student named Aristotle, and Aristotle had a student named Alexander the Great.

The quality & morale of teachers is absolutely central to the well being of students and their learning.

Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three children and no theories.

True leadership is servanthood. Put the interests of others at the center of your decisions.

We accomplish all that we do through delegation - either to time or to other people.

Leadership is the art of serving God by helping His people become more like His Son through the indefatigable pursuit of His vision and values.

It is time for us to seek again the leadership of the Holy Spirit. Man's lordship has cost us too much.

The symbol of the lion, throughout history, throughout cultures, is one pure, radiant symbol and that is leadership, kingship

I am convinced that we must train not only the head, but the heart and hand as well.

The rank of office is not what makes someone a leader. Leadership is the choice to serve others with or without any formal rank.

When it comes to the pinch, human beings are heroic.

No man is a hero in his own country.

Try not to do too many things at once. Know what you want, the number one thing today and tomorrow. Persevere and get it done.

And as a football coach in the National Football League, I know for sure that it's going to end someday.

Life is a perpetual instruction in cause and effect.

Customers should be number 1, Employees number 2, and then only your Shareholders come at number 3.

It's sort of easy to make a challenge. It's very hard to put the full fate of your government behind the challenge and make it happen. That's real leadership.

Leadership comes with consistency.

I can foresee no circumstance in which I would allow my name to be put forward for the leadership of the Conservative Party.

Adopt and change before any major trends or changes.

Every organization must be prepared to abandon everything it does to survive in the future.

You must learn how to hold a team together. You must lift some men up, calm others down, until finally they've got one heartbeat. Then you've got yourself a team.