Leadership Quotes

The best leaders are well-rounded, able to draw on whatever skills suits the particular situation at...

Leadership is not a voice crying in the wilderness, aloof and apart. It requires an ability to comma...

Finally, the president added, 'The American people are idealists, but they also want their leaders t...

Personally, I like it much better when someone else does the decision making. That way you have legi...

I've never understood one thing: Why do all these megalomaniac dictators, secret societies, mad scie...

It's beneficial to have a reputation for honesty, if only so that one can lie at crucial moments.

The mark of a great man is one who knows when to set aside the important things in order to accompli...

To be given loyalty is to be infused like a gemstone, to be granted the frightful license to destroy...

...Regardless, I still do not believe that your duty is to do as the people wish. Your duty is to le...

...A man can only stumble for so long before he either falls or stands up straight.

A man can only lead when others accept him as their leader, and he has only as much authority as his...

A leader did not slump. A leader was in control. Even when he least felt like he controlled anything...

Another great example of the power of vulnerability -- this time in a corporation -- is the leadersh...

If you want to make a difference, the next time you see someone being cruel to another human being, ...

The happiest people in the world are those who feel absolutely terrific about themselves, and this i...

Think continally about what you want, not about the things you fear.

Going back to the moon is not visionary in restoring space leadership for America. Like its Apollo p...

Globalisation means many other countries are asserting themselves and trying to take over leadership...

Absolutely the United States should lead in space, for the survival of the United States. It's inspi...

I am not sure that the best way to make a boy love the English poets might not be forbid him to read...

If the leader is filled with high ambition and if he pursues his aims with audacity and strength of ...

He has the power to render us happy or unhappy, to make our service light or burdensome, a pleasure ...

The present representative of the Dedlocks is an excellent master. He supposes all his dependents to...

She led me to believe we will going fast because her thoughts were going fast.

It was not because I had a strong sense of the virtue of industry, but because Joe had a strong sens...

The miserable man was a man of that confined stolidity of mind that he could not discuss my prospect...

He couldn't be a doctor, or he would have a quieter and more persuasive manner.

Sudden shifts and changes are no bad preparation for political life.

A true leader always keeps an element of surprise up his sleeve which others cannot grasp but which...

Every man of action has a strong dose of egotism pride hardness and cunning. But all those things ...

Leadership consists of picking good men and helping them do their best.

Dr. Sun Yat-sen, Father of the Republic, made it his great aim in his revolutionary leadership to se...

If I were not African, I wonder whether it would be clear to me that Africa is a place where the peo...

Leadership is the day to day communications about the real issues.

Staffers tend to mimic their bosses, to take their key from them.

He was making the inevitable pivot from critic to manager.

He was experienced enough to spot the downside of doing the right thing.

The author defines professionalism as exemplified by his subjects in their mutual unwillingness to t...

It's not about you. It's about them.

Winston Churchill - fifty per cent genius fifty per cent bloody fool.

Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you hav...

You don't know what you can get away with until you try.

Leadership is the art of accomplishing more than the science of management says is possible.

The day the soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you stopped leading them. They have...

Being responsible sometimes means pissing people off.

There are hundreds of political prisoners right now in America’s jails who were so taken by Malcolm ...

If you delegate tasks, you create followers, if you delegate authority , you create leaders

If you want your ministry to have ‘it’, more important than anything else we’ve discussed, you must ...

It is better to have a lion at the head of an army of sheep than a sheep at the head of an army of ...

Just as he was slowly bringing order to his own internal life, he would also bring order to his lang...

Half a century ago, the amazing courage of Rosa Parks, the visionary leadership of Martin Luther Kin...

Real leaders are people who “help us overcome the limitations of our own individual laziness and sel...

There is a darkness in you. In all of us, probably. Beasts we keep chained. Ordinary men have to kee...

Enlightened leadership is spiritual if we understand spirituality not as some kind of religious dogm...

Every cult of personality that emphasizes the distinguished qualities, virtues, and talents of anoth...

The desire we so often hear expressed today for “episcopal figures,” “priestly men,” “authoritative ...

Christianity enhanced the notion of political and social accountability by providing a new model: th...

If your actions create a legacy that inspires others to dream more, learn more, do more and become m...

The history of the failure of war can almost be summed up in two words: too late.

My attitude is never to be satisfied, never enough, never.

Leadership consists of nothing but taking responsibility for everything that goes wrong and giving y...

Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do i...

Statesmanship is developed in the hard knocks of general experience, private and public.

You do not lead by hitting people over the head -- that's assault, not leadership.

Always try to associate yourself with and learn as much as you can from those who know more than you...

Genius moves to creation, not to destruction. Only a very few have combined both.

The Labor party under my leadership is working to bring the Israeli people together from all nationa...

My generation took on political equality. I believe young people, who have graduated into a poor eco...

Good leaders inspire people to have confidence in their leader. Great leaders inspire people to have...

To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart.

Even under false accusation those who are in the right can afford to be calm and considerate. God is...

There is a science to managing high tech businesses, and it needs to be respected. One of them is th...

The organization of supplies, the command of men, anything in any way constructive requires more tha...

I would not be a Moses to lead you into the Promised Land, because if I could lead you into it, some...

It is far better to win a battle through skilled leadership and wise decisions than violence and blo...

But oh, the perils of leadership in a species so anxious to be told what to do. How little they knew...

I must rule with eye and claw — as the hawk among lesser birds. - Duke Leto Atreides

Any man who retreats into a cave which has only one opening deserves to die.

Give as few orders as possible," his father had told him once long ago. "Once you've given orders on...

Greatness is a transitory experience. It is never consistent. It depends in part on the myth-making ...

Delay is as dangerous as the wrong answer.

My son will wear the title well, the Duke thought, and realized with a sudden chill that this was an...

There are proven ways to win the loyalty of tough, strong, ferocious men: play on the certain knowle...

It doesn't follow that the riots mean permanent hostility toward him.

He uses the nice old words so rich in tradition to be sure I know he means it.

You have a nicety of awareness of the difference between a blade's edge and its tip.

A ruler must learn to persuade and not to compel... he must lay the best coffee hearth to attract th...

He was the subject of a little respectful ribbing. But he was, of course, the captain, which meant h...

If you help them (the crew) create good memories, they'll forget all the bad stuff

Galvanized people can do careless things. It is in the extreme and emotion-laden moments that distan...

A president must know what it is he does not know, and he should remain calm in pursuit of it, but t...

The reality is that the American people have no desire for an empire. This is not to say that they d...

A century is about events. A decade is about people.

Presidents and other politicians manage the appearance of things, largely by manipulating the air an...

Long-term solutions are more attractive and cause much less controversy than short-term solutions, w...

The worst president is closer by nature to the best then either is to anyone who has not gone throug...

While you and I are allowed the luxury of our pain, president isn't. A president must take into acco...

Their job as leader was not to solve the problem – the president really has little control over the ...

Man wants to be the king o’ the rabbits, he best wear a pair o’ floppy ears.

I'll be long gone before some smart person ever figures out what happened inside this Oval Office."(...