Leadership Quotes

You have to be burning with an idea, or a problem, or a wrong that you want to right. If you're not ...

It doesn't make sense to hire smart people and then tell them what to to , We hire smart people so t...

Great things in business are never done by one person,They are done by a team of people

If soldiers are punished before they have grown attached to you, they will not prove submissive;and,...

Regard your soldiers as your children, and they will follow you into the deepest valleys; look upon ...

How often does a man ruin his disciples by remaining always with them! When men are once trained, it...

Give up the idea that by ruling over others you can do any good to them. But you can do just as much...

Once you were in the hands of a Grand Vizier, you were dead. Grand Viziers were always scheming mega...

The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and se...

Tis skill, not strength, that governs a ship

Tis skill, not strength, that governs a ship

Tis skill, not strength, that governs a ship

Tis skill, not strength, that governs a ship

Tis skill, not strength, that governs a ship

Tis skill, not strength, that governs a ship

Tis skill, not strength, that governs a ship

Tis skill, not strength, that governs a ship

Your friend Plato holds that commonwealths will only be happy when either philosophers rule or ruler...

The power to lead is the power to mislead, and the power to mislead is the power to destroy.

Some are young people who don't know who they are, what they can be or even want to be. They are afr...

Every act of conscious learning requires the willingness to suffer an injury to one's self-esteem. T...

the condition of leadership adds new degrees of solitariness to the basic solitude of mankind. Every...

Leadership is for those who love the public good and are endowed and trained to administer it.

Ever since I became an executive producer of 30 Rock, people have asked me, 'Is it hard for you, bei...

Don’t waste your energy trying to educate or change opinions; go over, under, through, and opinions ...

There is no seamen in the world who prefers a slow ship to a fast one. The painters painted better, ...

He had to do so many things and make each appear as though it were the only thing he had to do. He h...

He had to grow his own NCOs.

A commander's pride got his soldiers dead.

The assistant commander at any post is supposed to be a ruthless son of a bitch.

One presidential advisor to another: "If the world made sense, we'd all have to find honest work.

Panic is something that good operations officers plan for.

If you're not confused, you're not paying attention.

They accepted my donation, so they're aware they'd better serve my interests or I'll buy some leader...

Since when has leadership been a criterion for sanity? Or vice versa. Hitler was a gifted leader, ev...

The art of leadership is saying no, not yes. It is very easy to say yes.

A more consistent and sustainable relationship with China will be a core goal of my administration. ...

I don’t see myself being special; I just see myself having more responsibilities than the next man. ...

Instead I take the lead, Tobias silent at my side, and though he does not touch me, he steadies me.

No matter how carefully you plan your goals they will never be more than pipe dreams unless you purs...

The exercise of power is determined by thousands of interactions between the world of the powerful a...

From the very first, it has been the educated and intelligent of the Negro people that have led and ...

His supporters will push him to disaster unless his opponents show where the dangers are.

We the people have the strength to bring our country from our weak-kneed stumbling gait in the last ...

Just because you can't act EVERYWHERE doesn't mean you don't act ANYWHERE. – Madeleine Albright

Henry Luce to his Time magazine writers: "Tell the history of our time through the people who make i...

As much as Henry Kissinger wanted to attribute historical movement to impersonal forces, he too conc...

There is something indefinable in an entrepreneur, and I saw that in Steve," he said. " He was inter...

The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind in other men the conviction and the will to carr...

We're here for a reason. I believe a bit of the reason is to throw little torches out to lead people...

No man is educated for statesmanship who cannot see his time from the perspective of the past.

Men who can manage men manage the men who can manage only things.

If all the businesses in town are run like country businesses, You are going to have a country town

To get others to come into our ways of thinking we must go over to theirs and it is necessary to f...

I really believe my greatest service is in the many unwise steps I prevent.

The author points out that novices to total war, and this Hitler and the British press have in commo...

They were following their prime minister, matching their government's mood.

There was, however, a difference between his mood and that of the rest of the cabinet. They felt des...

...The happy Warrior... 'tis he whose law is reason; who depends upon that law as on the best of fri...

...The happy Warrior... is he... whose powers shed round him in the common strife, or mild concerns ...

Probably every subject is interesting if an avenue into it can be found that has humanity and that a...

One of underestimated tasks in nonfiction writing is to impose narrative shape on an unwieldy mass o...

I have never accepted what many people have kindly said namely that I have inspired the nation. It ...

When you come into the presence of a leader of men you know that you have come into the presence of...

You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amp...

Leadership does not always wear the harness of compromise.

The immortality of Thomas Jefferson does not lie in any one of his achievements, or in the series of...

Whatever his weight in pounds and ounces, he always seems bigger because of his bounces.

Presidents don't make new friends. That's why they've got to keep their old ones." Adm. Fitzwallace

The leaders and followers of the Harlem Renaissance were every bit as intent on using Black culture ...

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s dream was a manifestation of hope that humanity might one day get out o...

If people see the Capitol going on, it is a sign we intend the Union shall go on

Democracy is not simply a license to indulge individual whims and proclivities. It is also holding o...

History, too, has a penchant for giving birth to itself over and over again, and those whom it appoi...

In an age when nations and individuals routinely exchange murder for murder, when the healing grace ...

In the days when hyenas of hate suckle the babes of men, and jackals of hypocrisy pimp their mothers...

From her character in the HBO miniseries: "The art of politics is the art of applying the seat of th...

Lincoln on Grant: "He makes things get. Wherever he is, he makes things move.

Abraham Lincoln was asked by an aide about the church service he had attended. Lincoln responded tha...

Be with a leader when he is right, stay with him when he is still right, but, leave him when he is w...

It was due to his tact, to his judgment, to his sympathetic manipulation of human beings that the at...

In my opinion, the state of mind of a community is always directly due to the influence of the man a...

Pass the parcel. That's sometimes all you can do. Take it, feel it, and pass it on. Not for me, not ...

The slave begins by demanding justice and ends by wanting to wear a crown. He must dominate in his t...

Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.

Mr Mandela, who had given his whole life for justice and had never once thought of himself. How unli...

An army of sheep led by a lion is better than an army of lions led by a sheep.

The whole people contracts the habits and tastes of the magistrate.

The only nations which deny the utility of provincial liberties are those which have fewest of them;...

When justice is more certain and more mild, is at the same time more efficacious.

There's got to be more to life than just living," Foyle said to the robot."Then find it for yourself...

If this were a courageous country,it would ask Gloria to lead itsince she is sane and funny and beau...

Be the ocean let the river come to you.

Mindfulness improves your capacity for self-discovery and empowerment.

Effective decision-making can be seen as an optimal link between memory of the past, ground-realitie...

Create gaps between stimulus and reaction and the gap will show you the path.

Leadership grows like tall trees. It needs both toughness and flexibility - toughness for accountabi...

Leadership needs continuous learning from experience. Every time you learn something new, you re-wir...

Great leader knows that under the turmoil of chaos and change, there is a beauty of patterns and des...

Compassionate leaders know their stakeholders and address their concerns, their hopes, dreams and fe...