Top 15 Exceptional Leadership Quotes
#1. Courage is the enforcing virtue, the one that makes possible all the other virtues common
to exceptional leaders: honesty, integrity, confidence, compassion and humility
John McCain
#2. Human history began as an act of disobedience, and it is not unlikely that it will be terminated by an act of obedience. At this point in history the capacity to doubt, to criticize and to disobey may be all that stands between a future for mankind and the end of civilization.
Erich Fromm
#3. People stop trying when there's no benefit for being exceptional and no consequence for being mediocre.
Frank Sonnenberg
#4. The Montgomery bus boycott would have happened without King, but King's oratory helped to ensure that the boycott came one of those exceptional local movements for justice that would send ripples of inspiration to oppressed people everywhere.
Troy Jackson
#6. The important thing is that we maintain plausible deniability.
Richard M. Nixon
#7. You become like that, what you admire most. By admiring excellence and practicing, it can boost you to become excellent.
Mark LaMoure
#8. Do we follow the road life's placed before us?
Or do we dare step up and forge an exceptional path.
A path fraught with struggle and sacrifice,
Yet one whose outcome places us in destiny's arms.
Christopher Babson
#9. Anyone can show exceptional leadership ability in easy times. When all's going to plan, anyone can be inspirational/excellent/innovative and strong. The real question is how do you show up when everything's falling apart?
Robin S. Sharma
#11. No one ever said you've got to prepare to be hated. You've got to prepare for the yelling and the anger. You have got to prepare how to survive being the guilty one, even in innocence.
Tiffany McDaniel
#12. But surely the idea that one might slip away unseen and take up another life is nearly universal. Is there anything more fundamentally human than the desire to live in another world, as someone other than our own earthbound selves?
Jennifer Finney Boylan
#13. Don't be good, be great. Strive to be exceptional. Picture yourself making a great play. Don't let anyone stop you.
Dan Hampton
#14. Jessica Parker. You posses an exceptional gift of leadership. We honor your unwavering determination and your steadfast loyalty. You are a champion of justice and a true visionary guardian of the world.
Kay Cassidy