Confident Leadership Quotes

#1. [T]here's a difference between confident leadership and empty-headed delusion or cheerleading. And this is a difference that many CEOs miss.

Henry Blodget

#2. Walk humbly but walk confidently. People want to follow confident, humble leaders.

Jeff Henderson

#3. Being confident and believing in your own self-worth is necessary to achieving your potential.

Sheryl Sandberg

#4. The more we can embrace failure, the more we will be able to open to it and the more confident and resilient we will become.

Karen Kimsey-House

#5. In the end, leadership comes down to consistency and strong, confident action upon which the team can rely - and this doesn't mean imposing a bunch of rules.

Don Yaeger

#6. A confident leader is like a duck. Above the water, he is calm and poised while below the water, he is driven by a flurry of focused activity.

Todd Stocker

#7. Emperors are not made from cowards; they are made from those who take great risk where there stands to be even greater gain.

A.J. Darkholme

#8. Confident and courageous leaders have no problems pointing out their own weaknesses and ignorance.

Thom S. Rainer

#9. I think directors should be confident in their leadership capabilities. I think directors should be confident in what they want to do.

Philip Seymour Hoffman

#10. Don't do things or act out your posture and gestures to impress people, just be yourself and portray the confident 'you' with that high self-esteem. So relax because you are 'you'. Be sincere, be authentic. That will be impressive enough.

Archibald Marwizi

#11. A Lincolnesque leader is confident enough to be humble - to not feel the need to bluster or dominate, but to be sufficiently sure of one's own judgment and self-worth to really listen and not be threatened by contrary advice.

Evan Thomas

#12. It is not our place to decide who should lead the Iraqi people. If Saddam [Hussein] leaves or has to be forced out of power and a new regime brought in, a new leadership brought in, I am confident it will be some combination of people inside the country and outside the country.

Colin Powell

#13. Experiment participants asked to pick which politician looked more confident in a photograph picked the winner of the race two thirds of the time. This phenomenon held up even when they only glimpsed the photographs for a 10th of a second.

Jonathan Haidt

#14. I am confident, with the leadership and the backing of the American people, President Obama will turn this country around,

John McCain

#15. What is leadership, after all, but the blind choice of one route over another and the confident pretense that the decision was based on reason

Robert Harris

#16. Even if only one guerilla cub survives the prolonged struggle, I am confident that he will raise the flag of Palestine overJerusalem ... Jerusalem is destined to be the eternal capital of our sovereign, independent Palestinian state under the P.L.O. leadership.

Yasser Arafat

#17. You can't gather much if you won't go on risk expedition. Leaders never fear the thorns; they'll still go in for the beautiful roses no matter the number of pricks they'll get.

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