Leadership Quotes

In accordance with the prevailing conceptions in the U.S., there is no infringement on democracy if ...

All that technical expertise isn't worth a damn if you don't get the best out of people, though. . ....

We are very quiet there, but it is the quiet of a storm centre. .

At an unprecedented time with the worst attack ever on our soil, our President displayed extraordina...

I would follow such beauty, said something inside Ender. I would see as those eyes see.

You accomplish exactly as much as the people who serve you decide you'll accomplish, and nothing mor...

Political judgment is the ability to hear the distant hoofbeats of the horse of history.

The newly-minted captain is told to let nothing stop him but to do nothing that would risk his ship ...

His (Lenin's)humanitarianism was a very abstract passion. It embraced humanity in general but he see...

Fear cannot be banished, but it can be calm and without panic; it can be mitigated by reason and eva...

If you shoot at a king you must kill him.

The key to every man is his thought. Sturdy and defying though he look, he has a helm which he obeys...

Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.

They stood there, King of the Hill, Top of the Heap, Ruler of All They Surveyed, Unimpeachable Monar...

The first thing that has to be recognized is that one cannot train someone to be passionate--it's ei...

A thing can be fine on paper but utterly crummy in the field.

He had learned that close-held secrets could often be cracked by going all the way to the top and th...

I cannot trust a man to control others who cannot control himself.

Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.

...as we proceed to higher and higher levels of expertise, and as the stakes get higher and higher, ...

He hadn’t asked to become a leader, but did that absolve him of responsibility? People needed him. T...

Most businesses think that product is the most important thing, but without great leadership, missio...

Alas! in the clothes of the greatest potentate, what is there but a man?

Pique or policy. We would never know.

Radio was theater of the mind.

I discovered that night (in his college's student politics) that an audience has a feel to it, and, ...

I was not a great communicator, but I communicated great things.

The greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things. He is the one that gets...

I would like to be known as a person who is concerned about freedom and equality and justice and pro...

Because “we human beings are imaginative by nature, we cannot choose to live by the routine of the a...

Leading means running fast enough to keep ahead of your people

Outstanding leaders go out of their way to boost the self-esteem of their personnel. If people belie...

No true individual has existed yet, able to live, able to die. Only diseased, tragic, or dismal and ...

And a young prince must be prudent like that,giving freely while his father livesso that afterwards,...

In a battle between  two ideas, the best one doesn't necessarily win. No, the idea that wins is the ...

Leadership is the art of giving people a platform for spreading ideas that work.

The secret of leadership is simple: Do what you believe in. Paint a picture of the future. Go there....

Leaders lead when they take positions, when they connect with their tribes, and when they help the t...

Leadership, on the other hand, is about creating change you believe in.

How was your day? If your answer was "fine," then I don't think you were leading.

Statecraft and kingship were not for the faint of heart

On Lee as commander: "He had a cheerful dignity and could praise them (his men) without seeming to c...

A visitor asked Lincoln what good news he could take home from an audience with the august executive...

Men who find themselves late are never sure. They are all the things the civics books tell us the go...

In spite of his Cold War credentials, Kennedy still believed in the power of words.

They loved the sound of their own voices. No decision would be reached anytime soon.

He had been around politicians for a long time, and he was prepared for some outburst.

Jonathan had been around Washington long enough to know that no offer was exactly what it seemed.

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.