Leadership Quotes

We need moral leadership and courage in our world.

[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.

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.

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

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

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

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

There are no working hours for leaders.

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

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

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 is character in action.

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

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.

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."

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.

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.

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.

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

The House Republican leadership has simply run out of ideas.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

The world is starving for American leadership. But America has an anti-war president.

Our province needs united leadership and shared purpose in tackling the challenges we face.

In leadership we teach we teach;Don't send your ducks to eagle school because it wont help.Ducks finishes eagle school,sees his first rabbit, makes him a friend.

The crowd will follow a leader who marches twenty paces ahead of them, but if he is a thousand paces ahead of them, they will neither see nor follow him.

When a man assumes leadership, he forfeits the right to mercy.

Ben Carson actually lost a tooth. Which explains why he said that under his leadership, Americans would be entitled to 'life, liberty, and the purthuit of happineth.'

The really great athletes make their news on the field, not off the field.

An additional concern of leadership is the caution that some members of the nation's stem- cell research community have raised about state investments in this new area of scientific research.

In 1999, the NRA leadership in Washington, pretty much the same people intact, were for (expanded background checks.)

It is only in misery that we recognize the hand of God leading good men to good.

The man who occupies the first place seldom plays the principal part.

Leadership is the behavior each of us exerts when we take responsibility for our actions and their consequences.

Leaders are people we as followers want to regard with awe as the fullest flowering of our own possibilities.

It is so important for young girls to be fit. I think sports is the key to success, because the challenges you face in sports prepare you for the rest of your life.

Leadership embraces activism; it is the outcome of a purposeful pursuit of goals.

Jeb Bush is my friend. I think he'd make a great president. I've nudged him for some time.

The problem of leadership is inevitably: Who will play God?" Muad'Dib

You don't become an effective leader by default.

Have the humility to learn from those around you.

A leader, you see, is one of the things that distinguishes a mob from a people.

When you are full of pride on the inside, it makes you stiff, stubborn, and creates strife with others.

Self-centered leaders manipulate when they move people for personal benefit. Mature leaders motivate by moving people for mutual benefit.

Personal and organizational effectiveness is proportionate to the strength of leadership.