Quotes About A Leadership

#1. 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

#2. You have to have a government that does give both money and energy to function in a leadership role modeling giving for the people. Government is supposed to lead by example in many cases.

Maya Soetoro-Ng

#3. IBM has taken a leadership role in this area and is prepared to be a technology partner with companies around the world to take advantage of these new developments.

John Patrick

#4. We're in a leadership position in sports. People look up to the National Football League.

Roger Goodell

#5. Whether you have a leadership title or not, you have the potential to either lead your organization beyond all expectations or inhibit its growth through entropy.

Simon T. Bailey

#6. We know we must address climate change. We may not have sorted out every detail, but we are willing to take a leadership position and embrace open dialogue ... that will get us all to our common goals of protecting our world for future generations,

Alain J. P. Belda

#7. Creating the culture of burnout is opposite to creating a culture of sustainable creativity. This is something that needs to be taught in business schools. This mentality needs to be introduced as a leadership and performance-enhancing tool.

Arianna Huffington

#8. A readership crisis is really a leadership crisis.

Michael Hyatt

#9. In terms of having views and being prepared to express them, yes, I think New Zealand's had a leadership role in a lot of things.

Helen Clark

#10. To be the best next-generation leader you can be, you must enlist the help of others. Self-evaluation is helpful, but evaluation from someone else is essential. You need a leadership coach. Coaching enables a leader to go further faster.

Andy Stanley

#11. Washington doesn't have just a spending problem, or just an entitlement problem, or just a taxing problem. We have a leadership problem. Fix that, and the first three problems are solved.

Mark McKinnon

#12. Sinn Fein has demonstrated the ability to play a leadership role as part of a popular movement towards peace, equality and justice.

Gerry Adams

#13. One of the best essays I've seen in recent years was by a young woman who wrote about how being chosen to choreograph a high school musical forced her to assume a leadership role she wasn't sure she was ready for - but of course she was.

Kate Klise

#14. One of the things my parents taught me, and I'll always be grateful as a gift, is to not ever let anybody else define me; that for me to define myself ... and I think that helped me a lot in assuming a leadership position.

Wilma Mankiller

#15. I am happy for there to be a leadership contest. I think there should be

Gordon Brown

#16. To the degree you experience a love deficit you will also manifest a leadership deficit.

Glenn C. Stewart

#17. We need to be a leadership position about protecting minors on the Internet and, more importantly, giving the parents the tools they need to protect them.

Peter Chernin

#18. Often truly authoritative leadership falls on someone who years earlier dedicated themselves to practice the discipline of seeking first the kingdom of God. Then, as that person matures, God confers a leadership role, and the Spirit of God goes to work throuh him.

J. Oswald Sanders

#19. Self-promotion is a leadership and political skill that is critical to master in order to navigate the realities of the workplace and position you for success.

Bonnie Marcus

#20. If you hold a leadership position but are not equipping the saints for the work of service, then you are not a leader.

Don Cousins

#21. I have spent years as a leadership coach to the very wealthy and have been able to get behind the eyes of some of the world's best, studying the minute details of what makes a person great.

Robin S. Sharma

#22. For me, a male role model would be a man who, despite holding a leadership position, has the courage to say that he wants to reschedule a 7 p.m. meeting for 4 p.m. because he'd really like to be able to put his son to bed.

Kristina Schroder

#23. 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

#24. A leadership development plan has to address these three phases: Identifying emerging leaders Investing in the development of emerging leaders Entrusting responsibility to emerging leaders

Bill Hybels

#25. It's a leadership function. They taught me that at Quantico. The troops have to see you doing the job. They have to know you're there for them. And I have to be sure that it's all real, that I actually am the President.

Tom Clancy

#26. If you are in a leadership position, do not rely on your title to convince people to follow you. Build relationships. Win people over. Do that and you will never be a lonely leader.

John C. Maxwell

#27. On the security front, the United States must continue to play a leadership role. There simply is not another country in the world that commands the respect or has the capabilities that we do, and we must not shrink from our responsibilities.

Dan Quayle

#28. A leadership team is a small group of people who are collectively responsible for achieving a common objective for their organization.

Patrick Lencioni

#29. No one knows who they are more than someone who changes their identity (before I became a farmer, I was a leadership coach).

M.C. Humphreys

#30. Sharon was a strong and charismatic leader who steered the politics toward the right and extremism. Now it is clear that Israel needs a leadership that proceeds strongly toward peace, or else the extremist right will hijack the situation.

Hanan Ashrawi

#31. No institution can possibly survive if it needs geniuses or supermen to manage it. It must be organized in such a way as to be able to get along under a leadership composed of average human beings.

Peter Drucker

#32. I ended Affirmative Action by executive order and replaced it with a leadership model that created more opportunities for African-American and Hispanic students.

Jeb Bush

#33. Whether you like it or not, you will leave a leadership legacy.

Ken Blanchard

#34. Greenhouse gas emissions and global warming are among humanity's most pressing concerns. Societal expectations on climate change are real, and our industry is expected to take a leadership role.

Ali Al-Naimi

#35. I realize that as the quarterback, you have to assume some sort of leadership role because you have to talk in the huddle on every play, and you're essentially giving out orders to the team. But in my mind, I have to prove myself on the field before I can start asserting a leadership role.

Andrew Luck

#36. progressive social change cannot be made without a leadership ready to take risks.

Jane F. McAlevey

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

George W. Bush

#38. Ethics must begin at the top of an organization. It is a leadership issue and the chief executive must set the example.

Edward F. Hennessey

#39. We live in more pragmatic times than when we originally recorded those songs. But many of the dreamers of the '60s have been elected to governmental office or taken on a leadership role in their communities. They are now in the position to make a difference.

Paul Stookey

#40. From a leadership perspective, the liking has to be qualified and be able to garner respect.

Pearl Zhu

#41. 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

#42. There's no one on this earth taken less seriously in a leadership context than a young woman - everything is against you.

Abigail Disney

#43. No greater place to be than in a leadership position to lead young minds to prosperity

Darrius Garrett

#44. I have a different vision of leadership. A leadership is someone who brings people together.

George W. Bush

#45. From average to great is a leadership journey; it takes vision, passion, confidence, problem-solving skills, and teamwork to match up.

Pearl Zhu

#46. I do not yet know of a man who became a leader as a result of having undergone a leadership course.

Lee Kuan Yew

#47. Decision-making is a skill. Wisdom is a leadership trait.

Mark Miller

#48. I think the way to understand Teach for America is as a leadership development program.

Wendy Kopp

#49. 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

#50. Each year I host a leadership summit in my district, and my biggest advice to young people is get experience. Get your foot in the door.

Aaron Schock

#51. When you're in a leadership role, you can never please all of the people all of the time. There's also a lot of responsibility that goes along with it that others may not realize.

Joyce Meyer

#52. If we are to remain mission focused, as we must be if we are to be relevant in an uncertain age, the abandoning those things that do not further the mission is a leadership imperative.

Frances Hesselbein

#53. It's very important in a leadership role not to place your ego at the foreground and not to judge everything in relationship to how your ego is fed.

Ruth J. Simmons

#54. When you accept a leadership role, you take on extra responsibility for your actions toward others.

Kelley Armstrong

#55. Nobody in a leadership level in American politics is trying to inspire the American people. Everybody needs to be goosed. The vast majority of people are not self-starters.

Rush Limbaugh

#56. No one in the history of the world had ever conceived of the idea that there could be a rebellion against a leader that would end not in a new leader but in a new kind of leadership altogether - a leadership that was accountable to those whom it led.

Eric Metaxas

#57. I've been the co-chair of the Non-Partisan Women's Caucus and vice-chair for several years, taking a leadership role in this women's organization.

Gwen Moore

#58. I like to take chances on people, and whenever possible, promote from within - it sends a great message to everyone in the company when someone demonstrates a passion for the job and leadership skills at every step along the way and is rewarded with a leadership role.

Richard Branson

#59. I understand the NBA and the role I play on my team. I know that I have to play a leadership role and do whatever I have to do to win.

Carmelo Anthony

#60. We're trying to take a leadership role in solving the nation's health-care crisis. We want everybody in this country to have health insurance.

Steven Burd

#61. In a leadership role in Iraq and in running my own business, what I've learned is if you don't listen, you're going to strike out. You're going to fail miserably. The people you work with have got to know you're engaged and you're listening.

Brad Wenstrup

#62. A leadership culture is one where everyone thinks like an owner, a CEO or a managing director. It's one where everyone is entrepreneurial and proactive.

Robin S. Sharma

#63. We are working essentially to build a leadership force of folks who will, during their first two years of teaching, actually put their kids on a different trajectory - not just survive as a new teacher, but actually help close the achievement gap for their kids.

Wendy Kopp

#64. A leadership disposition guides you to take the path of most resistance and turn it into the path of least resistance.

Dov Seidman

#65. The problem is that we don't have a "missional" problem or a leadership problem in the Western church. We have a discipleship problem.

Mike Breen

#66. In the long run, we need to build a leadership force of people. We have a whole strategy around not only providing folks with the foundational experience during their two years with us, but also then accelerating their leadership in ways that is strategic for the broader education reform movement.

Wendy Kopp

#67. I'd like to believe that achieving a leadership position is all about competency, capability and ambition, so I try not to distinguish between the sexes when it comes to giving career advice.

Heather Bresch

#68. As noble as our intentions might be as we assume a leadership role, we are always one errant, unthinking action or careless word away from getting outside the boundaries of good judgment or even the moral absolutes that must frame all decisions.

Tim Irwin

#69. By choosing to innovate instead of compete, Apple successfully captured a leadership share of a very competitive market.

Josh Kaufman

#70. No matter how egalitarian a group might start out, someone always wound up taking a leadership role.

James S.A. Corey

#71. In Britain, you do your job. When you do an American TV show, there is a sense of being one with the crew, and there is a leadership element, which was a learning curve for me because it is very different culturally. In Britain, you just do it, leave and say, 'Thanks.'

Theo James

#72. People want to see other people who have 'non-negotiables,' things for which they're willing to say, 'This is it' we take our stand right here.' That's a leadership quality which people respect.

John Ashcroft

#73. Buoyant leadership is not a management technique, it's a leadership principle based on the belief that leading isn't presiding, it's taking people on a journey, and on any hero's journey there will be a setback.

Kevin Allen

#74. I try to work hard. I try to set a good example. I don't look at it as though I've got to be a leader. I just try to behave the way I think I should behave. If that results in a leadership role, great.

Matt Holliday

#75. As a leader, you have to not only do the right thing, but be perceived to be doing the right thing. A consequence of seeking a leadership position is being put under intense public scrutiny, being held to high standards, and enhancing a reputation that is constantly under threat.

Jeffrey Sonnenfeld

#76. The difference between a leadership and a command company can be very great indeed, because in a hierarchical situation, people who have concerns about reactions against themselves would simply not put forward negative information.

Marvin Bower

#77. I am most proud about the science I've done with my own two hands because I have always thought that even if your life path takes you into a leadership position outside the area you were known for, your legitimacy remains in that first field.

Gustav Nossal

#78. I don't care tuppence whether I'm forced into a leadership position or not. I'd much sooner not.

E.P. Thompson

#79. It's not as if our party has a leadership campaign underway.

Peter MacKay

#80. We live in a time where government is not a leadership thing, it's more a business that's out there and running riot, so I guess the people have to go out there and say stuff.

Yahoo Serious

#81. 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

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

Madeleine M. Kunin

#83. 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

#84. 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

#85. 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

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

David Gergen

#87. 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

#88. 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

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

Debasish Mridha

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

J.R.R. Tolkien

#91. 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

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

Ayn Rand

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

Grace Murray Hopper

#94. 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

#95. 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

#96. 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

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

Fela Durotoye

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

Evan Meekins

#99. 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

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

Tanveer Naseer