Leadership Means Quotes

#1. Real leadership means tackling tough problems ourselves and not leaving them to our children.

Jon Kyl

#2. In the military, I learned that 'leadership' means raising your hand and volunteering for the tough, important assignments.

Tulsi Gabbard

#3. Leadership means setting an example. When you find yourself in a position of leadership, people follow your every move.

Lee Iacocca

#4. Leadership means forming a team and working toward common objectives that are tied to time, metrics, and resources.

Russel Honore

#5. A better model of leadership means more effective leadership and better business results.

Bob Anderson

#6. Good leadership means leading the way, not hectoring other people to do things your way.

Chris Hadfield

#7. Future strong leadership means being willing to stand alone. Often, the times we feel most vulnerable are when we stand alone, before others join us. When we choose to be the first voice echoing above the silence. Standing strong, alone.

Bill Jensen

#8. Leadership does not mean being bossy, always telling others what to do. No, leadership means going ahead, not putting others in the front. Good leaders lead by example, not by decree.

Myles Munroe

#9. Leadership means you see the best in people and coach them to success. Leadership means you are the most positive person you know and an individual dedicated to building relationships.

Robin S. Sharma

#10. Leadership means bringing people together in pursuit of a common cause, developing a plan to achieve it, and staying with it until the goal is achieved.

William J. Clinton

#11. Leadership means firmness, not harshness or bullying; understanding, not weakness; justice, not irresponsible freedom; humaneness, not intolerance; generosity, not selfishness; pride, not egotism.

Omar N. Bradley

#12. True leadership means to receive power from God and use it under God's rule to serve people in God's way.

Leighton Ford

#13. Increasing America's debt weakens us domestically and internationally . Leadership means that 'the buck stops here.' Instead, Washington is shifting the burden of bad choices today onto the backs of our children and grandchildren. America has a debt problem and a failure of leadership.

Barack Obama

#14. leadership means taking personal responsibility for results. Leadership means you get things done. Leadership means you keep your promises.

Robin S. Sharma

#15. The word "conviction" means to expose.

Johnny Hunt

#16. James Gordon Bennett said he aimed to be, "serious in my aims but full of frolic in my means.

Harold Holzer

#17. The total vacuity of world leadership thinking has lead to the practice of claiming to heal the world through politicising unviable theoretical means of finding world peace,what we need is just to cement the differences between people and there will be a piece of peace at every doorstep

Mpho Leteng

#18. The process of gaining power employs means which degrade or brutalize the seeker, who awakes to find that power has been possessed at the cost of virtue or moral purpose lost.

Barbara W. Tuchman

#19. To go from Bitter to BETTER, means you need to turn your I onto an E, by embracing WE.

Tony Dovale

#20. Being responsible sometimes means pissing people off.

Colin Powell

#21. Internalising success means that even if a misfortune takes away all the evidence or traces of success, yet what made you successful, remains. Soon enough, the evidence will return.

Archibald Marwizi

#22. I never get bored talking about themes dealing with ambition, leadership and what it means to be an American. I love that stuff. I just love it. I've loved it ever since I was on 'The West Wing.'

Rob Lowe

#23. When you look at a Congress that has an 84 percent disapproval rating, that means that for the most part, the people of this country, and certainly California, are looking for new leadership.

Elizabeth Emken

#24. Not planning for your time expenditure simply means deliberately intending to fail.

Archibald Marwizi

#25. Beginning to work your plan means movement and action. The success of your movements and actions can only be guaranteed if they are well calculated.

Archibald Marwizi

#26. Strong leadership demands more than the willingness to use force. It means directing the use of the right tools at the right time for the right purpose and the right cause.

John F. Kerry

#27. We need real leadership, Democrat, Republican and independent to stand up and say, we have to live within our means.

Tom Coburn

#28. He uses the nice old words so rich in tradition to be sure I know he means it.

Frank Herbert

#29. A new week means new goals. New goals means new success. No goals mean no success and no success means a wasted week.

Onyi Anyado

#30. Leadership does not mean getting people to do their job. It means getting people to do their best.

Harvey MacKay

#31. There must be a season for everything that measures what success means to you, there must be a deliberately scheduled time slot for the things that are important to you. Wishing is not enough, deliberate plans followed by deliberate actions make it possible.

Archibald Marwizi

#32. Business success depends on good business leadership, and that means hiring and partnering with only the people your business really needs. These are the smart, hardworking people who know your industry as well as, or even better than, you.

Kevin J. Donaldson

#33. Inspirational leadership connects to a highly motivated workforce which, in turn, means inspirational results

Nigel Crouch

#34. Bossy means "given to ordering people around, highhanded, domineering, overly authoritative, dictatorial, abrasive." ... Could it be that girls are called bossy when they're ... well, bossy? Could it be that boys are also called bossy for the same reason?

Matt Walsh

#35. Leading a big company means never allowing a company to take itself too seriously.

Jack Welch

#36. What's important about poetry in the context of leadership is that most of the time, power has to do with dominance. But poetry is never about dominance. Poetry is powerful but it cannot even aspire to dominate anyone. It means making a connection. That's what it means.

June Jordan

#37. Simple is clever. Complicated just means you haven't been clever enough to reduce 'it' to its essence.

Phil Dourado

#38. Leadership to me means duty, honor, country. It means character, and it means listening from time to time.

George W. Bush

#39. By all means be submissive in the bedroom (if you are that way inclined), but don't be submissive to life. Being life's bitch is no fun at all. Life may play up in many ways, but it's up to you to take control, take charge and put life in its place.

Miya Yamanouchi

#40. In the end," Callum said, his voice soft, gentle, "it all comes back to you. You protect them [your pack], you love them, you live for them, and someday, you die. That's what it means, Bryn-girl, to be what we are [to be Alpha]. It's lonely. It's impossible. It's all-consuming." It is what it is.

Jennifer Lynn Barnes

#41. Success means leaving everything behind and standing persistently towards our aims with great determination.

Rajasaraswathii

#42. If people want to get into leadership through corrupt practices, through corrupt means, I think that's detestable; we have to take action.

Jakaya Kikwete

#43. Those renowned generals [Alexander and Caesar] received more faithful service, and performed greater actions by means of the love their soldiers bore them, than they could possibly have done, if instead of being beloved and respected they had been hated and feared by those they commanded.

Benjamin Franklin

#44. We have to go to war against the people who enable the gun violence, the people who stop us from keeping guns out of the hands of mentally unstable people, of felons, and that means the NRA leadership.

Jerrold Nadler

#45. Integrity, by its definition, means adhering consistently to a strong, reliable code of ethics, whatever that code is.

Scott K. Edinger

#46. Leadership must be based on goodwill. Goodwill does not mean posturing and, least of all, pandering to the mob. It means obvious and wholehearted commitment to helping followers.

James Stockdale

#47. Brilliant strategy is the best route to desirable ends with available means.

Max McKeown

#48. Leading means running fast enough to keep ahead of your people.

S.M. Stirling

#49. To understand what makes you future strong, and what being strong means, is to understand how and why you make choices.

Bill Jensen

#50. Being a CEO still means sitting across the table from big institutional investors and showing your leadership and having them believe in you.

Christie Hefner

#51. Everyone is a business person. You must be in the business of managing your time. Managing your time means managing your life. Good time managers are good life managers, and vice versa.

Archibald Marwizi

#52. ... The political leader must constantly appraise and reappraise the means through which 'he can hope to do justice to the responsibility that power imposes upon him' while at the same time pursuing political values with conviction.

Nicholas Gane

#53. Making a true decision means committing to achieving a result, and then cutting yourself off from any other possibility.

Tony Robbins

#54. Humaneness and justice are the means by which to govern properly. When government is carried out properly, people feel close to the leadership and think little of dying for it.

Du Mu

#55. Leadership is like third grade: it means repeating the significant things.

Max De Pree

#56. Leveraging your personal strengths means you will also need to become clearer about those strengths. It is easier to build on what you are already good at than start from your weaker areas. Take time to list down your strengths and reflect on them.

Archibald Marwizi

#57. That's the bittersweet joy of ministry. We see people healed, and then we watch them move on in victory. Sometimes, it means saying goodbye. We must learn to celebrate as our fledgling birds spread their wings and fly into freedom, even if that flight pattern takes them far away from us.

Katherine J. Walden

#58. Leadership is not a raw gift given to a group of people. It is the product of any type of gift everyone one has. It therefore means, any kind of gift is a leadership gift!

Israelmore Ayivor

#59. When I give a minister an order, I leave it to him to find the means to carry it out.

Napoleon Bonaparte

#60. Integrity is the source of new solutions and innovations; courage is a means of halting progress down a wrong road.

Scott K. Edinger

#61. People who let events and circumstances dictate their lives are living reactively. That means that they don't act on life, they only react to it.

Stedman Graham

#62. The tragedy of life is not found in failure but complacency. Not in you doing too much, but doing too little. Not in you living above your means, but below your capacity. It's not failure but aiming too low, that is life's greatest tragedy.

Benjamin E. Mays

#63. When we win on an issue we call it leadership. When we lose, we call it politics. Practicing politics simply means increasing your options for effective results.

John Eldred

#64. Spiritual leadership is knowing where God wants people to be and taking the initiative to get them there by God's means in reliance on God's power.

John Piper

#65. You don't learn how to say 'hey, I have a problem,' but you also don't learn how to hear it. There's a total breakdown of how females talk to one another. It's very disconcerting for leadership because it means you don't talk to each other; you talk about each other.

Rachel Simmons

#66. Sometimes command means letting those under you do their jobs

Kirsten Beyer

#67. Management means, in the last analysis, the substitution of thought for brawn and muscle, of knowledge for folkways and superstition, and of cooperation for force. It means the substitution of responsibility for obedience to rank, and of authority of performance for the authority of rank.

Peter Drucker

#68. I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people.

Mahatma Gandhi

#69. African leaders should not turn the continent into a giant collector of donations and loans from wealthy nations - they must find other plausible means to help established their economic security so as to minimize poverty. This incoherent blunder on the mainland must be scrutinized.

Duop Chak Wuol

#70. We need to pay as much attention to the MEANS, as to the END! This is the biggest principle of SUCCESS..The END is so enticing, that we lose sight of the details altogether..Success lies in the DETAILS!

Abha Maryada Banerjee

#71. The word "influence" means the power to change or affect someone.

Johnny Hunt

#72. To be an objective leader means aligning your models with the needs of the organization. There is no question anymore that collaboration, seeking out diverse perspectives and developing new ways to look at challenges and opportunities, is a key leadership competency.

Elizabeth Thornton

#73. Leadership excellence means that you must be accepted as a leader, not forcing yourself upon those you lead. Outside of formal authority, it takes trust for people to accept your leadership. Proven consistent leadership choices and results will earn you invaluable points of trust.

Archibald Marwizi

#74. Part-time effort means part-tim results.

Tony Curl

#75. At that time, the army leadership said the implementation of this agreement would allow everyone, including the IRA, to take its political objectives forward by peaceful and democratic means.

Gerry Adams

#76. Leadership doesn't mean giving marching orders that others must follow blindly. Rather, it means causing others to want to follow. Successful leadership is personal.

Pat Heim

#77. Leading in a complex world means recognizing the simple things you can do to make things better.

Condoleezza Rice

#78. Capacity building originally meant helping people to help themselves. Now it means required training to deliver imposed policies.

Andy Hargreaves

#79. Remain aware of your weak points; not knowing or choosing to ignore them, means creating dangerous 'blind-spots' in the path to your success.

Archibald Marwizi

#80. Alliances and international organizations should be understood as opportunities for leadership and a means to expand our influence, not as constraints on our power.

Chuck Hagel

#81. Be a follower. Be a leader. Learn what it means to be both. Don't follow a follower. Follow your heart. Be careful of frauds. They are all around us.

Sadiqua Hamdan

#82. He (Newt Gingrich as a freshman congressman) was both passionate about his goals and coldly analytical in his means.

Thomas E. Mann

#83. I will either use people around me as a means to facilitate my journey at their expense, or I will use myself to enhance someone else's journey at my expense. The former is a journey that never begins, and the latter is a journey that never ends.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#84. I am an 'expert' on life!
Does it mean I 'know' it all?
No, it means quite the opposite..
For, I do not know, so I have to 'live' it all..
That makes an 'expert'!

Abha Maryada Banerjee

#85. Consider your will to be the vision of your influence on earth after you cease to be a part of it. Crafting a lasting legacy means you start planning and making it possible now.

Archibald Marwizi

#86. Success must be personalised, contextualized and internalized. Success means something different to each one of us. We each have a unique and peculiar mission in life.

Archibald Marwizi

#87. You need to have the means to impose yourself

Bangambiki Habyarimana

#88. I think more to the point, these pivotal times means something other than a politician. I understand the economy. I understand the world. I have a lot of foreign policy experience. I understand bureaucracies. I understand technology, and I understand leadership.

Carly Fiorina

#89. Stop, think and use your brain! Don't' rush through life. Take time to reflect as you define what success means to you. Always remember you are one of a kind!

Archibald Marwizi

#90. While personal maturity may mean being able to see beyond yourself, leadership maturity means considering others before yourself.

John C. Maxwell

#91. Personalising success means defining it in line with your defined mission and beliefs. This will help ignite a passion for the dream as well as develop underlying values and attitudes.

Archibald Marwizi

#92. Entrepreneurialism, to me, means being able to fail. And I believe that kind of leadership is not necessary only in business, but it's necessary for running countries, too. You've got to be able to believe in something strongly enough that you want to do it even if there's a risk of failure.

Bernard L. Schwartz

#93. Leadership is a process that involves setting a PURPOSE AND DIRECTION which inspires people to combine and work towards willingly; paying attention to the MEANS, PACE AND QUALITY OF PROGRESS towards the aim; and upholding GROUP UNITY and INDIVIDUAL EFFECTIVENESS throughout.

James Scouller

#94. I wrote Beyond The Label to open up the aperture through which we look at the world. I want us to reconsider what it means to be a woman, a mentor, a wife, a mother.

Maureen Chiquet

#95. To be accountable means that we are willing to be responsible to another person for our behavior and it implies a level of submission to another's opinions and viewpoints.

Wayde Goodall