Top 46 Leadership Charisma Quotes
#1. When you put together deep knowledge about a subject that intensely matters to you, charisma happens. You gain courage to share your passion, and when you do that, folks follow.
Jerry Porras
#3. Effective leadership is about earning respect, and it's also about personality and charisma
Alan Sugar
#6. I have the charisma of the chipmunk. I never have thought I was smart. I thought the people I dealt with were dumb.
Hyman George Rickover
#7. I can see that spark coming back when he talks about the future.
H.W. Brands
#8. While JFK had made the sale on a political level, he had not yet completed it on an emotional one.
David Pietrusza
#9. Even in a hostile press conference with hostile questions there was drama, and he could benefit from the drama and the hostility. He mastered the greatest art of television, appearing to be spontaneous without in fact being spontaneous.
David Halberstam
#10. The ideal politician is an ordinary representative of his class with extraordinary abilities.
Rick Perlstein
#11. Jefferson was the rare leader who stood out from the crowd without intimidating it.
Jon Meacham
#12. He knows that in leadership cleverness is not as important as content, that charisma and dash are not as vital as character and doctrine.
Neal A. Maxwell
#13. He couldn't be a doctor, or he would have a quieter and more persuasive manner.
Charles Dickens
#14. If soldiers are punished before they have grown attached to you, they will not prove submissive;
and, unless submissive, then will be practically useless. If, when the soldiers have become attached
to you, punishments are not enforced, they will still be unless.
Sun Tzu
#16. Charisma can be as much a liability as an asset, as the strength of your leadership personality can deter people from bringing you the brutal facts.
James C. Collins
#17. His was a quiet but persistent charisma.
H.W. Brands
#18. Over time, is it easier or harder to sustain your influence within your organization? With charisma alone, influence becomes increasingly more difficult to sustain. With character, as time passes, influence builds and requires less work to sustain.
John C. Maxwell
#19. He was always acting, always enveloping himself in artificiality, perhaps to conceal the volcano within.
Barbara W. Tuchman
#20. The charismatic portrait of the modern leadership looks nothing like Fidel Castro. It is a faceless portrait that epitomizes the toughness of Ronald Reagan, Nelson Mandela's charisma, and the most compassionate heart of Mother Theresa.
Anthony Obi Ogbo
#21. Because their example is powerful, they're somewhat responsible for the weaklings who copy them.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#22. Much of the outward business of kingship came naturally.
Dan Jones
#23. On a potential husband, All I ask is someone with a little imagination, but they are hard to find.
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
#24. The basis of intimidation as I practiced it was mystery. I wanted the hitter to know nothing about me.
Bob Gibson
#25. Read The Charisma Factor - How to Develop Your Natural Leadership Ability by Robert J. Richardson and S. Katharine Thayer. It is a superb book for any aspiring leader, or a current one, who seeks to advance to the next level. 195.
Robin S. Sharma
#27. You have to imprint your own style. People like authentic personalities.
Dexter Hawk
#28. The few individuals who are capable of spontaneous and joyous effort stand out. These are the select men, the nobles, the only ones who are active and not merely reactive, for whom life is a perpetual striving, an incessant course of training.
Ortega Y Gasset, Jose
#29. He was the rarest of things, a Republican with sex appeal.
David Halberstam
#31. Disequilibrium is often instigated by the will to power, a sleepless drive in the human personality to control others, to force them to do what one wants, or not to do what one opposes.
Ron Suskind
#33. Leadership is a word people use to reconcile any kind of charisma that was impossible to otherwise explain.
Chuck Klosterman
#34. Great romantics are granted lots of slack.
Pat Conroy
#36. Charisma often flows from total self-confidence.
Peter Heather
#37. Teddy Roosevelt "had relished "every hour" of every day as president. Indeed, (he was) fearing the "dull thud" he would experience upon returning to private life.
Doris Kearns Goodwin
#38. Leadership is not about personality, possessions, or charisma, but all about who you are as a person. I used to believe that leadership was about style but now I know that leadership is about substance, namely character.
James Hunter
#40. They (the media) found little quality of depth to him, that when she said on the platform with that which he said to them in private. The qualities of introspection and reflectiveness that they particularly treasured were missing.
David Halberstam
#41. There are a very few consistent, common threads among the most successful NFL quarterbacks. Most of them are intangibles, which you can't measure with a physical test. You need leadership ability, competitiveness, drive, and will. You need focus, poise, and charisma.
Drew Brees
#42. Seward would inspire a cow with statesmanship if she understood our language.
Henry Adams
#43. When an actor reaches down into his emotional well and pulls up a deeply personal response, the audience can sense something special is going on. They may not know exactly what they're seeing, but they recognize it as authentic.
Martin Sheen
#44. Leadership is not about having the charisma or speaking inspirational words, but about leading with example.
Zainab Salbi
#45. Charisma on stage is not necessarily evidence of the Holy Spirit.
Andy Stanley
#46. Inspiring leadership communication is not about great oratory or great charisma; rather it is about getting others to believe in themselves and believe in your cause, and then achieve more than they thought was possible.
Kevin Murray
