Leadership Quotes

The overwhelming majority of our nation - intellectuals, academics, theologians, the greats, and the leadership - are in favor of getting the sanctions removed.

I want to live in light of eternity. I want to do now what I'll be glad I did then.

If you create a new party... to try to deny the communist party leadership, then not be allowed to exist.

There's a special place in hell for what some people have done but there's also a special place in God's heart for their forgiveness.

Entrepreneurial leadership requires the ability to move quickly when opportunity presents itself.

Leaders' careers will usually be determined by their handling of one or two critical events that no one could possibly anticipate or plan for.

The best way to support dreams and stretch is to set apart small ideas with big potential, then give people positive role models and the resources to turn small projects into big businesses.

How long can we go without real leadership? It's like an experiment. It's [a problem with] both parties, it's beyond belief.

I still don't think like that. Because of Benazir, nobody else [in her party] was thinking about leadership. This position comes about only because of the vacuum that was created with her death.

One is too small a number to achieve greatness. No accomplishment of real value has ever been achieved by a human being working alone.

Staff has a genius for sitting on its brains and coming up with perfect hindsight.

Successful charitable fund-raising has much in common with managing a business: It requires leadership, persistence, and creativity.

I believe that leadership acts should be manifested by engaging in external work that can be observed and shared with everyone else.

King Fahd was a man of great vision and leadership who inspired his countrymen for a quarter of a century as king. He led Saudi Arabia through a period of unparalleled progress and development.

The leader is a person who has the possibility through destiny to know the people, to recognize their capacities, and to bring them to bear on the problem.

First, there is no typical grief cycle, and second, it's not something I went through. I'm still grieving.

God allows us to feel pain for a reason: to protect us.

The blessing of influence is helping others succeed. It is lifting up Christ with your established platform.

Leaders of men are later remembered less for the usefulness of what they have achieved than for the sweep of their endeavors.

A brave captain is as a root, out of which, as branches, the courage of his soldiers doth spring.

The way I would measure leadership is this: of the people that are working with me, how many wake up in the morning thinking that the company is theirs?

When human power becomes so great and original that we can account for it only as a kind of divine imagination, we call it genius

Will you ask God to bring you to the place where you're willing to be willing?

I think leadership of any kind requires trust and transparency and voters should demand no less from their political leadership in government.

Creativity requires the willingness to look stupid.

Listening is not a displacement for leadership. You have to have leadership.

Character creates consistency, and if your people know what they can expect from you, they will continue to look to you for leadership.

In leadership writ large, mutually agreed upon purposes help people achieve consensus, assume responsibility, work for the common good, and build community.

Leadership, pure and simple, is the assumption of responsibility for the pursuit of excellence in group life.

More leaders have been made by accident, circumstance, sheer grit, or will than have been made by all the leadership courses put together.

Excellent value relative to the week investment of time....To my mind, this is the definitive course on leadership.

Intelligence we gathered at the time indicated that this was in fact leadership and we struck the leadership.

Leadership is an influence relationship among leaders and followers who intend real changes that reflect their mutual purposes.

Let him who would move and convince others, be first moved and convinced himself.

I was fortunate enough to have baseball to teach me the values relative to success. The sport gifted me with leadership and team building skills that translate in a relatable way in the world.

When a man begins to feel that he is the only one who can lead in this republic, he is guilty of treason to the spirit of our institutions.

Do not bring me your successes; they weaken me. Bring me your problems; they strengthen me.

If I don't let God deal with my bentness, I will go the way of my bentness. But Jesus can straighten me out.

Leaders make things better and that requires change.

If you be faithful as an influencer, God will allow those you mentored you to become your mentees.

I grew up in a household that revered building businesses. It wasn't thinking about leadership; it was more about building something. To build something, you ultimately have to lead.

Every relationship in your organization will affect you one way or another. Those who do not increase you will inevitably decrease you.

Personnel determines the potential of the team. Vision determines the direction of the team. Work ethic determines the preparation of the team. Leadership determines the success of the team.

We have absolute trust in our employees. In fact, we are partners with them.

At its core, I believe leadership is about instilling confidence in others.

Frank Harris has been received in all the great houses - once.

Going forward seems like retreat.

The best leaders are very often the best listeners. They have an open mind. They are not interested in having their own way but in finding the best way.

The most enthusiastic man in a cause is rarely chosen as the leader.

The success of any change depends, in large measure, on your attitude about that change.