Outstanding Leadership Quotes

#1. We do not have a crisis at Freddie Mac, and particularly Fannie Mae, under the outstanding leadership of Frank Raines.

Maxine Waters

#2. The signs of outstanding leadership appear primarily among the followers. Are the followers reaching their potential? Are they learning? Serving? Do they achieve the required results? Do they change with grace? Manage conflict?

Max De Pree

#3. The monk solved his immediate problem by giving a little whimper and fainting.

Terry Pratchett

#4. Limitless Leadership is the secret ingredient that helps common people, create high performance teams, that achieve outstanding and uncommon results.

Tony Dovale

#5. When other people are grieving, the newspaperman turns efficient.

Stieg Larsson

#6. Cicadas, buckling and unbuckling their stomach muscles, yield the sound of someone sharpening scissors. Fall field crickets, the thermometer hounds, add high-pitched tinkling chirps to the jazz, and their call quickens with warm weather, slows again with cool.

Diane Ackerman

#7. Every family's its own trip to China.

Barbara Kingsolver

#8. Leadership rests not only on outstanding ability. It also rests on commitment, loyalty and pride. It rests on followers who are ready to accept guidance. Leadership is the ability to direct people and - more important - to have those people accept that direction.

Vince Lombardi

#9. The typical mentality among the leadership of "less work for more money" is far too prevalent. Outstanding efforts by individual employees are frowned upon, because they give "management" a reason to expect better results without an increase in compensation.

Glenn Beck

#10. I'm going to be here until I'm cured?"
"Life is not cured, Mr. Gilner. Life is managed".

Ned Vizzini

#11. If you plant yourself in one place and let your roots grow deep, there is no limit to what God can do.

Mark Batterson

#12. Authentic leadership is at the root of cultures of great innovation, engagement, outstanding client experiences, and growth.

Henna Inam

#13. I read to my kid, but I can't stand reading.

Adam Sandler

#14. Miss Hale might love another - was indifferent and contemptuous to him - but he would yet do her faithful acts of service of which she should never know.

Elizabeth Gaskell

#15. You become like that, what you admire most. By admiring excellence and practicing, it can boost you to become excellent.

Mark LaMoure

#16. Viewed as a drama, the war is somewhat disappointing.

D.W. Griffith

#17. It's like having my very own pet Legolas.

Allison Pang

#18. Transformational politics requires us to challenge the way people think about issues, opening their minds to better possibilities.

Eric Schneiderman

#19. By providing outstanding economic leadership, this country can wage its attack successfully - and can thereby build the foundations of a peaceful world.

James Forrestal

#20. Earn your leadership every day.

Michael Jordan

#21. They asked you the name of the god you worshipped and you replied, "Myself.

Amber Sparks

#22. If you're a writer, you want to get your soul out there, where people can look at it.

Jeremy Larner

#23. Outstanding leaders go out of their way to boost the self-esteem of their personnel. If people believe in themselves, it's amazing what they can accomplish.

Sam Walton

#24. Philosophers have argued without a trend toward order; time would lack meaning. The future would be indistinguishable from the past. Sequences of events would be just so many random scenes from a thousand novels. History would be indistinct, like the mist slowly gathered by treetops in evening.

Alan Lightman