Leadership Quotes

You know capitalism is this wonderful thing that motivates people, it causes wonderful inventions to be done. But in this area of diseases of the world at large, it's really let us down.

There is a certain responsibility that accrued to me when I got to this unexpected position.

I do think this next century, hopefully, will be about a more global view. Where you don't just think, 'Yes, my country is doing well,' but you think about the world at large.

Fine counsel is confusing, but example is always clear

I once said coaching a first-year team was a religious experience. You do a lot of praying - but most of the time the answer is NO.

Spiritual leadership is knowing where God wants people to be and taking the initiative to get them there by God's means in reliance on God's power.

I'll quit competing when my heart quits beating

If a leader's actions don't back up his or her words, those who are trying to follow will first grow confused.

Americans don't want leadership. They want alchemy.

Whether you are a business leader or political leader, you need people around you who are prepared to tell the truth.

The thing we've learned from the last 20 years of counterterrorism is the significant value you get from removing leadership from the battlefield in degrading the organization.

Tony Blair has turned his back on the principles he claimed he believed in before he stood shoulder-to-shoulder with George W. Bush. He was an entirely different kind of leader.

My intent was not to go after Rush - I have enormous respect for Rush Limbaugh. I was maybe a little bit inarticulate. ... There was no attempt on my part to diminish his voice or his leadership.

What's emerging is a new synthesis of science, spirituality and leadership as different facets of a single way of being.

Ethics must begin at the top of an organization. It is a leadership issue and the chief executive must set the example.

Leadership is all about right and wrong.

I am confident, with the leadership and the backing of the American people, President Obama will turn this country around.

Do not do that which you would not have known.

Don't overwork your squad. If you're going to make a mistake, under-work them.

I was writing a chapter of Beautiful Evidence on the subject of the sculptural pedestal, which led to my thinking about what's up on the pedestal - the great leader.

Get the winners into the game.

But it's still a coach's game. Make no mistake. You start at the top. If you don't have a good one at the top, you don't have a cut dog's chance.

Don't talk too much. Don't pop off. Don't talk after the game until you cool off.

Leadership is tested not by one's capacity to survive politically but by the ability to make tough decisions in trying times.

We've weakened America's place in the world. It's been a combination of factors, but mostly it's been a lack of leadership.

A leader is one who sees more than others see, who sees farther than others see, and who sees before others do." (Leroy Eims)

Leadership potential exists in everybody. What I think we have missed is that we have somehow relegated leadership only to a special, talented few people.

Leaders have two characteristics: first they are going somewhere, and second they are able to persuade other people to go with them.

If you can raise up leaders, you will always have followers, but if you can't raise up leaders, you will only have followers.

Fail early, fail often, but always fail forward.

I believe every woman should have the right to live in a home free of deadly weapons.

Leadership is birthed out of anger!

Leaders never outgrow the need to change.

Managers must see themselves as experimenters who lead learning, not dictators who impose control.

Leadership has less to do with position than it does with disposition.

For, what is a family without a steward, a ship without a pilot, a flock without a shepherd, a body without a head, the same, I think, is a kingdom without the health and safety of a good monarch.

Accept the fact that we have to treat almost anybody as a volunteer.

Leadership will either lead you into a ditch or lead you into purpose. We need our leaders, especially those who are teaching our young people, to have the right message.

[President Obama] made so many promises. We thought that he was going to be -- I shouldn't say this at Christmastime -- but the next messiah.

You can judge a leader by the size of the problem he tackles... Other people can cope with the waves, it's his job to watch the tide.

It often happens that less depends upon the valor of an army than the skill of the leader.

Leadership is not a right-it is a responsibility.

America has a right to be a leader. This leadership should be realized through partnership, not domination.

Leaders need 5 core competences: soul, head, hand, heart, body. Where do you need to grow?

It is wise to persuade people to do things and make them think it was their own idea.

Leaders will have to give clear and decisive leadership towards a world of tolerance and respect for difference, and an uncompromising commitment to peaceful solutions of conflicts and disputes.

Scouting is a game for boys under the leadership of boys under the direction of a man.

The inevitable end of multiple chiefs is that they fade and disappear for lack of unity.

Leaders have to be dealers in hope.

We have to show leadership in protecting our environment so that we have a future for our children and grandchildren.