Emotion Leadership Quotes

#1. Pique or policy. We would never know.

Roger Kahn

#2. Emotions are enmeshed in the neural networks of reason.

Antonio Damasio

#3. It is one thing to rouse the passion of a people, and quite another to lead them.

Ron Suskind

#4. Emotions are a critical source of information for learning.

Joseph E. Ledoux

#5. The author points out that novices to total war, and this Hitler and the British press have in common, overreact to daily events and lose sight of overall strategy.

William Manchester

#6. The most important emotion in classrooms is surprise.

Andy Hargreaves

#7. No less a bold and pugnacious figure than Winston Churchill broke down and was unable to finish his remarks at the sendoff of the British Expeditionary Force into the maelstrom of World War I in Europe.

Barbara W. Tuchman

#8. Leaders tap into the emotions of their people by getting excited themselves

Brian Tracy

#9. The feelings of politicians are rarely transparent.

John Ferling

#10. Every great movement needs an agitator. Every leader of spiritual ideals need a John the Baptist.

William Allen White

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

Frank Herbert

#12. Presidents and other politicians manage the appearance of things, largely by manipulating the air and hope.

George Friedman

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

Alexis De Tocqueville

#14. If we do not touch the heart, we will soon weary the ear.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#15. What distinguished him in a moment of crisis was his self-command.

T. J. Stiles

#16. In politics, Bugs Bunny always beats Daffy Duck. Daffy's always going berserk, jumping up and down, yelling. Bugs's got that sly smile, like he always knows what's up, like nothing can ruffle him.

Jeff Greenfield

#17. John Hay indicates that dealing with people directly as a holder of political office "requires a stronger heart and a more obedient nervous system than I possess.

John Taliaferro

#18. Jackson lead as he lived, sometimes with his heart, sometimes with his mind, sometimes with both.

Jon Meacham