Quotes About A Leadership

#1. Who aspires to remain leader must keep in advance of his column. His fear must not play traitor to his occasions. The instant he falls into line with his followers, a bolder spirit may throw himself at the head of the movement initiated, and in that moment his leadership is gone.

Christian Nestell Bovee

#2. Women in leadership cannot cry without raising a storm of commentary.

Madeleine M. Kunin

#3. The recent death of Gene McCarthy reminded me of a lesson I spent a long, long time unlearning, so now I have to re-learn it. It's about political courage and heroes, and when a country is desperate for leadership. There are times when regular politics will not do, and this is one of those times.

Molly Ivins

#4. A knowledgeable manager can lend to the success of an organization "almost" as much as a poorly trained manager can damage it.

Mark W. Boyer

#5. Is it or is it not a matter of importance that a young man starts out in life with an ability to shut his jaw hard and say "I will," or "I will not," and mean it?

John William Heisman

#6. Leadership is a journey. Each one of us has to take our own path, and get there our own way.

David Gergen

#7. The lack of women among the twelve disciples isn't prescriptive or a precedent for exclusion of women any more than the choice of twelve Jewish men excludes Gentile men from leadership.

Sarah Bessey

#8. Charter laws do something really important. They give educators the freedom and flexibility that they need to attain results. But we also have to invest a lot in the leadership pipeline to take advantage of that freedom and flexibility.

Wendy Kopp

#9. If you think like a leader, act like a leader, inspire like a leader then you are a leader.

Debasish Mridha

#10. He did not falter, as long as there was a path that led toward his goal.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#11. Preseason football is hard to evaluate. It's never going to be clean for the quarterbacks. You have to overcome the ugly plays and be productive. It's a component of leadership that is necessary. The guys that make it in the league survive that.

Mike McCarthy

#12. Professional intellectuals are the voice of a culture and are, therefore, its leaders, its integrators and its bodyguards.

Ayn Rand

#13. Leadership is a two-way street, loyalty up and loyalty down.
(CBS 60 Minutes interview, March 6, 1983)

Grace Murray Hopper

#14. The knowledge of the Spirit is the true secret of creativity, leadership and happiness. It is spiritual intelligence that makes an ordinary person a genius. When a genius loses his spiritual intelligence, he becomes quite ordinary.

Awdhesh Singh

#15. A President must call on many persons
some to man the ramparts and to watch the far away, distant posts; others to lead us in science, medicine, education and social progress here at home.

Lyndon B. Johnson

#16. We must recognize that as the dominant power in the world we have a special responsibility. In addition to protecting our national interests, we must take the leadership in protecting the common interests of humanity.

George Soros

#17. Every barren land is a VISION waiting for a VISIONARY

Fela Durotoye

#18. A true leader must be able to command with an iron fist, not just a humble heart.

Evan Meekins

#19. Really, people are not a school of fish. Finding the leaders of the future is a question of recognizing those people who give leadership in a crisis.

Grace Lee Boggs

#20. The truth to succeeding at leadership is recognizing that it's a never-ending journey of discovery and learning.

Tanveer Naseer

#21. I may be a businessman in that I set up and run companies for profit, but when I try to plan ahead and dream up new products and new companies, I'm an idealist.

Richard Branson

#22. Whoever is under a man's power is under his protection, too.

David J. Schwartz

#23. I am my own woman ... and was, long before I became Prime Minister. Attending to my family's needs only made me stronger as a leader because if you know how to run a home and ensure each person's particular need is met, it's the best leadership training you can have.

Kamla Persad-Bissessar

#24. Sometimes we exist long enough to lead the next generation; other times, only to plant a seed and let its resonations of our time here on Earth ripple into new waves.

A.J. Darkholme

#25. I believe that in order to be a good leader you must understand the value of praising people to success.

Mary Kay Ash

#26. One man has enthusiasm for 30 minutes, another for 30 days, but it is the man who has it for 30 years who makes a success of his life.

Edward Burgess Butler

#27. Give us a world where half our homes are run by men, and half our institutions are run by women. I'm pretty sure that would be a better world.

Sheryl Sandberg

#28. Leading fools is like leading no one.
Following a fool is like following no one.
The wise make the best leaders and followers.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#29. You can lead with or without a title. If you wait until you get a title, you may wait forever.

Mark Miller

#30. A duplicitous country with a duplicitous leadership is going to give us more duplicity. And that duplicity is going lead us off an abyss. That's going to happen.

Matt Shea

#31. Man wants to be the king o' the rabbits, he best wear a pair o' floppy ears.

George R R Martin

#32. If your endeavors result in success of the company in a continuity of at
least a few years, you are a successful manager. If other companies follow
your business approach, you are certainly an important manager with
leader characteristics.

Eraldo Banovac

#33. I do have the strength. Leadership, leadership is not about attacking people and disparaging people. Leadership is about creating a serious strategy to deal with the threat of our time.

Jeb Bush

#34. Hope is optimism plus a belief there is a path out of your adversity.

Santiago "Jimmy" Mellado

#35. School boards can be a steppingstone to higher forms of political leadership.

Wendy Kopp

#36. We're looking forward to a great season at the University of California - if we find a way to put cleats on their sandals.

Ronald Reagan

#37. There is the authority of position and the authority of knowledge - 'Authority flows from the one who knows.' But sharing in hardship confers upon a leader something quite rare - moral authority.

John Adair

#38. As a woman, my style defines my leadership. It's a gentler, more compassionate approach. I consult, I listen and I compromise where it's in the best interest of the citizens.

Kamla Persad-Bissessar

#39. The Internet is disrupting every media industry ... people can complain about that, but complaining is not a strategy. And Amazon is not happening to book selling, the future is happening to book selling.

Jeff Bezos

#40. I've been a Democrat, I've been a Republican, and I eventually became an independent because I don't believe either party has a monopoly on good ideas or strong leadership.

Michael Bloomberg

#41. Sometimes, as in a game of chess, we must strategically regress so that we might progress toward our ultimate objective.

Crystal Woods

#42. Spiritual authority is the direct result of God doing a greater work in the deeper areas of a leader's life.

Gary Rohrmayer

#43. Without organization and leadership toward a realistic goal, there is no chance of realizing more than a small percentage of your potential.

John Wooden

#44. Openness fundamentally affects a lot of the core institutions in society - the media, the economy, how people relate to the government and just their leadership.

Mark Zuckerberg

#45. Big-picture, hands-off leadership isn't likely to work in a change situation, because the hardest part of change - the paralyzing part - is precisely in the details.

Chip Heath

#46. Successful charitable fund-raising has much in common with managing a business: It requires leadership, persistence, and creativity.

David Rockefeller

#47. The mind is a storehouse with great capacity, but is often filled with dubious knowledge and meaningless trivialities. In truth, much of this - though at times interesting and entertaining - is of insignificant value.

Stevenson Willis

#48. You can provide the conditions for the motivation of others and the leadership to help them find a way but they must have the intrinsic spark, the desire, to move, to overcome the inertia of the status quo and change things.

Graham Speechley

#49. Only in winter can you tell which trees are truly green. Only when the winds of adversity blow can you tell whether an individual or a country has steadfastness.

John F. Kennedy

#50. The question is, do you have deliberate plans for your life? Do you have intentions with you time? God planned that there should be a time for everything and for every season, meaning you can plan for everything and every season in your life! You may ask, 'Is that possible?" I say, "It's up to you!

Archibald Marwizi

#51. If [President Obama] does not go on the offensive against ISIS ... they are coming here. This is just not about Baghdad, this is just not about Syria, this is about our homeland. And if we get attacked because he has no strategy to protect us, then he will have committed a blunder for the ages.

Lindsey Graham

#52. The first step for a leader is to be right with yourself. Integrity is the basis of leadership.

Condoleezza Rice

#53. In order to be happy, human beings must feel they are continuing to grow. Clearly, we must adopt the concept of continuous improvement as a daily principle.

Tony Robbins

#54. There is a difference between people who are educated and people who are smart.

Mike Huckabee

#55. What does it matter who is ruler of a realm that no longer exists?

Krishna Udayasankar

#56. The Board must set a tone for digital leadership.

Pearl Zhu

#57. Without a terrific leader, you're not going to have a Great Group. But it is also true that you're not going to have a great leader without a Great Group.

Warren G. Bennis

#58. 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

#59. Christ can come back at any time so the one thing you want to have in your life is a focused prayer time.

Francis Chan

#60. One thing we've talked a lot about, even in the first leadership meeting, was, what's the purpose of our leadership team? The framework we came up with is the notion that our purpose is to bring clarity, alignment and intensity.

Satya Nadella

#61. A true leader inspires by being among the people,
not above them.

Lynda Cheldelin Fell

#62. A leader is a person who must take special responsibility for what's going on inside of himself or herself ... lest the act of leadership create more harm than good.

Parker J. Palmer

#63. Integrity must become a personal goal of a growing majority in America if we want to be a major world influence.

Herman L Glaess

#64. You can't run a government from one single person. What instead matters is that leadership be about gathering around extraordinary individuals and getting the best out of them.

Justin Trudeau

#65. Leadership is a journey, not a destination. It is a marathon, not a sprint. It is a process, not an outcome. (quoting John Donahoe)

Bill George

#66. Take the job or the project that scares you a little. It's the one with the most to teach you.

Anne Sweeney

#67. Your vision at a leadership level needs to be more global and selfless, it needs to go beyond you. Reflect and project your dream for a perfect world, even if you can only make it a great world.

Archibald Marwizi

#68. The man who can follow a leader most efficiently, is usually the man who develops into leadership most rapidly. An intelligent follower has many advantages, among them the opportunity to acquire knowledge from his leader. The

Napoleon Hill

#69. The best way to solve a problem? Try explaining it to somebody outside your field.

Jonah Lehrer

#70. Expression is the truth, impression is a lie.

Krishna Sagar

#71. The difference between an "Atypical CIO" and a "Stereotypical CIO" is not about the physical identity but at the mindset level.

Pearl Zhu

#72. But me thought it lessened my esteem of a king, that he should not be able to command the rain.

Samuel Pepys

#73. Positive energy is unleashed when leaders give themselves permission to connect and express themselves from the core of who they are. When leaders practice authenticity, creativity, engagement, confidence, and a sense of inner resourcefulness emerge.

Henna Inam

#74. It was a great game if you don't care who won. I cared.

Lou Holtz

#75. What happens when a leader misses his steps on the ladder is what happens when a train misses the rail. Be on track.

Israelmore Ayivor

#76. You can tell the size of a person by the way he treats people who cannot help him.

Orrin Woodward

#77. Leadership is about being a servant first.

Allen West

#78. One man and a dozen fools would govern better than one man alone.

Ben Chifley

#79. A person's disposition should serve as a narrative of their lives not the pigmentation of their skin.

Henry Johnson Jr

#80. The key to leadership remains influence. What kind of a leader are you and how do you deliberately model your leadership to achieve desired impact on those you influence or you seek to influence?

Archibald Marwizi

#81. Leading a missional church is not for the faint of heart. It takes courage to push yourself beyond your comfort zone and to lead the church beyond it personal limits.

Gary Rohrmayer

#82. A cowardly leader is the most dangerous of men.

Stephen King

#83. His constant references to the ancient world have the effect of giving ordinary soldiers a sense of their lives.

Andrew Roberts

#84. In a world full of lions and tigers entertaining the masses, have you ever seen a wolf performing in a circus?

Akilnathan Logeswaran

#85. A Consciously Conscious Revolutionary Workplace mindset, is People Firsts, to ensure that it's not a prostitute of our children's future.

Tony Dovale

#86. Even though he lived on the beach in college, he didn't have a tan. Now that's a serious player!

Bill Fitch

#87. It is a queer thing. In a time of great need, when powerful leadership is demanded, the people - confused and excited - hear only the strident voices of the audacious, and refuse to listen to the voice of wisdom which, being wise, is temperate.

Lloyd C. Douglas

#88. When a leader buys his own excuses, he also, unfortunately, sells them to his team.

Orrin Woodward

#89. I think President Obama could have handled politics and policies differently. But he has been decisive, strong, and consistent - important qualities in a president. Mitt Romney is indeed an Etch A Sketch, the antithesis of leadership.

Eliot Spitzer

#90. If you think that running your economy into the ground and having to send troops in in order to prop up your only ally is leadership, then we've got a different definition of leadership.

Barack Obama

#91. Humility is a great quality of leadership which derives respect and not just fear or hatred.

Yousef Munayyer

#92. Music is all about leadership and there ain't really a lot of leaders.

Young Jeezy

#93. I think our leadership team is a highly accountable leadership team.

Steve Ballmer

#94. Competition and rivalry between the members of a group are the antithesis of the cooperation and team play needed in an effective management group. This is why team building is an empty abstraction for a group whose leader controls with power.

Thomas Gordon

#95. Leadership is fragile. It is more a matter of mind and heart than resources, and it seemed that we no longer had the heart for those things that demanded discipline, commitment, and risk.

Gene Kranz

#96. Before we ask where the leaders are, we should look in a mirror and ask the person we see "Why are you not leading"?

Carlos Wallace

#97. You may be good. You may even be better than everyone esle. But without a coach you will never be as good as you could be.

Andy Stanley

#98. Chris wracked his brain for the right solution.
Leadership.
Strength.
Loyalty-
A show of loyalty.

Ellen Connor

#99. For thousands of years art was seen as a source of responsible moral and ethical leadership. Today, taking that stance is almost seen as comic.

Jack Beal

#100. In a human development sense, our understanding of leadership has essentially "grown up" and moved past personal ego and a self-centered view of things.

Linda Fisher Thornton