Leadership Quotes

Leadership involves the heavy burden of responsibility, and the fear of getting it wrong can paralyze a leader.

Leadership deals with people and their dynamics, which are continually changing. The challenge of leadership is to create change and facilitate growth.

Our days are like identical suitcases. Even though they are all the same size, some people are able to pack more into them then others. The reason? They know what to pack.

It takes a lot of people to create a success. That's why I say that few leaders are successful unless a lot of people want them to be.

Multi-tasking is keeping me from whole-hearted worship.

Sometimes we shrink from leadership because our pride makes us afraid of failure. That's not humility.

I don't want to lose the awe we get to help another human being.

In my experience, followers always ask leaders 3 questions: 1) Do you care 4 me? 2) Can you help me? 3) Can I trust you?

The enemy just hates our prayers.

Some people say I would love to take a selfie with Moses. Do you understand the gap between Moses and God?

People who add value to others do so intentionally. I say that because to add value, leaders must give of themselves, and that rarely occurs by accident.

We have to learn how to control our minds. We have to learn self-control.

My role is to make sure we're moving in the right direction, getting points, rebounds, steals, assists and providing leadership.

This could all end at any moment...Therefore, be self-controlled.

One of the things about leadership is that you cannot be a moderate, balanced, thoughtful, careful articulator of policy. You've got to be on the lunatic fringe.

As President, I am determined to offer leadership to overcome our current economic problems. My goal is for jobs for all who want to work and economic opportunity for all who want to achieve.

Obama doesn't believe in American leadership and the net result is we have a caliphate the size of Indiana.

Everybody who aspires to high positions of leadership in their state and in their country should be willing to take unscreened, unrehearsed questions from the people who pay their salary.

Senior members of the security establishment have not been entirely cooperative - let's put it that way - with the operations and still maintain contacts with FDLR leadership.

It stems from my Australianisms and belief that everyone is a fundamental cog in the wheel.

This women's moment to embrace the power-to for good in life and leadership.

This is women's moment to shift the tectonic plates of power on both the personal life and the leadership levels.

The House Republican leadership has simply run out of ideas.

I am happy for there to be a leadership contest. I think there should be.

At Texas A&M you learn first to follow, then to develop and practice your leadership skills, and finally you become someone others want to follow.

Leadership always contains far more down cycles than ups. Lincoln, Jefferson, Washington, Wilson, and both Roosevelts experienced setbacks that would have discouraged (the) less resilient.

My books arose from my own experience, when I sought guidance in practical leadership in my career. In sum, I strive to write the kind of book that I would find valuable in my own life.

Any gathering of people requires leadership to cohere, to achieve its potential contribution. What is not needed is a "boss" of yore, directing everyone else's efforts toward "the one best way."

Theodore Roosevelt is a natural choice for leadership education. Along with many other observers, I believe he was among the greatest of leaders to serve as president.

If leadership is, fundamentally, about serving others, then any one person should be able to move between being a "leader" and a "follower."

Leadership is character in action.

You can't feel the need to be liked in public life, because if you do you will compromise the principles that are so important to the public having confidence in your ethics and integrity.

Leadership in its best sense has never been about the pre-determined role cast on some to lead others.

The essentials of leadership are all about the use of one's talent in the interests of society.

There are no working hours for leaders.

Leadership is about three-fourths show-the-way and about one-fourth follow-up.

The companies that are successful, they start out to make meaning, not to make money.

When I finally got a management position, I found out how hard it is to lead and manage people.

If you start out to solely make money, you will attract the wrong kind of employees.

That's the first rule of command; be consistent! You can be sadistic, you can be lazy, you can be stupid, but if you're consistent the crew will still let you sit in when they play dominoes.

[The church's] job is to provide permanent solace and spiritual leadership to the people as a whole, whatever their government at the moment, so long as it stays within the bounds of moral decency.

We need moral leadership and courage in our world.

Leading a big company means never allowing a company to take itself too seriously.

With leadership the question at the beginning of the day is, 'how far can we take this...how big can we grow it...and how fast can we get there?'

Trying to get people to face reality and see the world the way it really is is an absolutely critical aspect of leadership, in my view.

Approach every meeting with a purposeful, high-energy, ready-to-make-a-contribution attitude, and watch how fast leadership’s perception of you follows your behavior.

I was involved in a number of efforts to take out Al Qaida leadership when I was secretary of state, including, of course, taking out [Usama] bin Laden.

American leadership is essential.

It really is a choice between division or unity, between an economy that works for everyone or one that is stacked for those at the top, between strong, steady leadership or a loose cannon.

I would also do everything possible to take out their leadership.