Leadership Roles Quotes

#1. Those occupying leadership roles who completely lack integrity are what we call 'Blind shepherds'. They are not really 'bad' leaders, because they are not leaders at all: they are misleaders.

John Adair

#2. Women in leadership roles can help restore balance and wholeness to our communities.

Wilma Mankiller

#3. Cool is the emotional straightjacket. It makes us less available for connection which makes us less equipped for leadership roles.

Brene Brown

#4. I have led the way for moving women from traditional roles to strategic positions and inspired girls and women throughout Africa to seek leadership positions.

Dalia Grybauskaite

#5. I thought ( ... ) the proverbial glass ceiling had been cracked ( ... ) and I believed that it was just a matter of time until my generation took our fair share of the leadership roles.

Sheryl Sandberg

#6. Too many companies believe people are interchangeable. Truly gifted people never are. They have unique talents. Such people cannot be forced into roles they are not suited for, nor should they be. Effective leaders allow great people to do the work they were born to do.

Warren G. Bennis

#7. There is a sense of call to take leadership roles. You're serving people and submitting to God as best you can.

Richard Foster

#8. The prime role of a leader is to offer an example of courage and sacrifice.

Regis Debray

#9. [That] speaks to one of the most important roles of a leader; to boil down an organization's many priorities into a simple plan, so that employees can remember it, internalize it, and act on it.

Adam Bryant

#10. Leadership is a series of behaviors rather than a role for heroes.

Margaret J. Wheatley

#11. Conditions for all women will improve when there are more women in leadership roles giving strong and powerful voice to their needs and concerns.

Sheryl Sandberg

#12. My role is to make sure we're moving in the right direction, getting points, rebounds, steals, assists and providing leadership.

Kobe Bryant

#13. A leader cannot avoid being hated. This hatred is directly proportional to his influence and power. A person who does not wish to be hated should avoid leadership roles.

Awdhesh Singh

#14. One of the problems in the biotech world is the lack of women in leadership roles, and I'd like to see that change by walking the walk.

Jennifer Doudna

#15. Even after such milestones as Kathryn Bigelow winning an Oscar, there still seem to be few women in leadership roles.

Julia Stiles

#16. The United States has renewed our leadership in the Asia-Pacific, prime Minister Abe is leading Japan to a new role on the world stage.

Shinzo Abe

#17. When girls see women in leadership roles speaking out for what they believe in, they see it is possible for them, too. Instead of a faraway dream, their aspirations become real, concrete and achievable. Womanhood starts to look more inviting.

Tabby Biddle

#18. Leadership in its best sense has never been about the pre-determined role cast on some to lead others.

James Gobbo

#19. Women need to be in key operational roles where they run businesses in the organization. Sometimes when organizations focus on leadership diversity, they're mostly in areas like HR or non-operating line functions.

Gracia Martore

#20. This is the ultimate chicken and the egg situation. The chicken: Women will tear down the external barriers once we achieve leadership roles ... The egg: We need to eliminate the external barriers to get women into those roles in the first place. Both sides are right.

Sheryl Sandberg

#21. [M]y administration is committed to a leadership role on the issue of climate change.

George W. Bush

#22. God has buried your leadership roles in your gifting. To take the lead, you got to unzip the gift bag. It's your responsible to make it happen!

Israelmore Ayivor

#23. If more women are in leadership roles, we'll stop assuming they shouldn't be.

Sheryl Sandberg

#24. I didn't set out to become a leader, so I always come back to my first lesson - just do it. If you're the first one out there actively doing something to solve a problem then you'll naturally fall into a leadership role.

Ellen Sandell

#25. I am defining leadership in terms of the role, not the position.

Edgar Schein

#26. I didn't have to step up into a leadership role, ... I just had to be there and help out where I could. But this year I had to be more of the man.

Landon Donovan

#27. God uses prisons to train people for future roles of leadership or martyrdom.

Charles Colson

#28. Those of us who have been privileged to receive education, skills, and experiences and even power must be role models for the next generation of leadership.

Wangari Maathai

#29. It's the American leadership that has not played the role it should be playing and that leaders in other countries have been playing.

Jeffrey Sachs

#30. I think it is important for people who are given leadership roles to assume that role immediately.

Bob Iger

#31. Friends describe me as someone who likes to sing and dance along the edge of the roof. I try to encourage young women to be willing to take risks, to stand up for the things they believe in, and to step up and accept the challenge of serving in leadership roles.

Wilma Mankiller

#32. As a country and as a world, we are not comfortable with women in leadership roles. We call little girls bossy.

Sheryl Sandberg

#33. I got put into leadership roles very early in life from fifth grade, sixth grade. I always ended up being the quarterback or the leader of the sports teams, and it's kind of benefiting me now.

Tony Dungy

#34. Clearly i Bible times, women were used in ministry leadership roles, and still are today.

Debora Hooper

#35. When the phonies are expelled from their leadership roles and the Republican Party backs a moderate gubernatorial candidate acceptable to the rank and file with proper financing and the intestinal fortitude to fight the good fight, the rank and file will rejoin the fold.

Carl Paladino

#36. I believe that the time has come for women to take more active roles in all domains of human society, in an age in which education and the capacities of the mind, not physical strength, define leadership. This could help create a more equitable and compassionate society.

Dalai Lama

#37. Among my activities was membership in the Boy Scouts; I rose each year through the ranks, eventually achieving the rank of Eagle Scout and undertaking leadership roles in the organization.

Frederick Reines

#38. Anyone who is in Christ is strategically positioned to win the most coveted award in this business called life. He doesn't want you playing itty-bitty roles. He wants bright lights in your dressing room, and the spotlight trained on you as you take the center stage.

Yay Padua-Olmedo

#39. My mom was the first African-American woman to graduate from the University of Chicago Law School, in 1946. She had leadership roles in the law, in government and the corporate world. She was a great role model in that she felt anything was possible.

John W. Rogers Jr.