Quotes About Leaders

#1. Good leaders understand that they are stewards. They must find the best people they can, giving them the opportunity to join in the journey developing them, and encouraging them to reach their potential. But they must hold on to people lightly. Those who start with you seldom finish with you.

John C. Maxwell

#2. Leaders don't ever "arrive." If we ever think we're done, we are done!

Mark Millar

#3. It is the job of leaders to eliminate uncertainty.

Colin Powell

#4. The scrupulous and the just, the noble, humane, and devoted natures; the unselfish and the intelligent may begin a movement
but it passes away from them. They are not the leaders of a revolution. They are its victims.

Joseph Conrad

#5. Every new generation of LGBT Americans needs to be inspired by leaders who come out - whether in Congress, the nonprofit sector, the NFL, or corner offices of Fortune 100 companies,

Anthony Romero

#6. Religious people are not entitled to special rights, even if they are elected leaders or in the majority; they are not allowed to force everyone to support their religion.

Ed Buckner

#7. This book is a must for anyone who wants to know how leaders develop their practices within a community context. Bordas has pulled together illuminating examples with great lessons for anyone working to create an equitable and truly diverse society.

Rinku Sen

#8. Great leaders have to know when to divide that line from being selfless to being selfish, and he perfectly chose the time to be selfish and made plays.

Michael Irvin

#9. You can almost see voters nodding their heads at home: The public's faith in politicians and political institutions has been on a steep and dangerous decline for decades, because elected leaders fail to deliver.

Ron Fournier

#10. Leaders are not buffeted about by circumstance. They make what is into what might be, transforming challenging situations by means of courage and insight.

Diane Dreher

#11. Let us all be the leaders we wish we had.

Simon Sinek

#12. The apostles were scattered, and even the leaders of the Church in Jerusalem had neither the power nor the means to impose uniformity.In these circumstances, we must imagine the literature of Christianity as spreading gradually, irregularly, and in a manner which variations inevitable.

Frederic G. Kenyon

#13. Hopefully, Serbia's political leaders will not only recognize the seriousness which we attach to this case but also understand that it is in Serbia's interest to let justice work to sever the ties with the Milosevic past that have held the country back from a Europe where it otherwise belongs.

Tim Bishop

#14. Amtrak is extremely important to the economy of Southern Illinois and I will continue to work with state and local leaders and my colleagues in Congress to secure the necessary funding to maintain full service.

Jerry Costello

#15. Muslim leaders should ask themselves what exactly their relationship is to a political movement that encourages young men to kill and maim on religious grounds.

Ayaan Hirsi Ali

#16. We are naked, but we think we are not; we are wrong, but think we are correct. We are misled but we think we are properly guided. We think we have leaders but in reality we do not. What we have are tyrants.

Nilantha Ilangamuwa

#17. You always say the best leaders figure out how to turn a bad situation to their advantage. When life gives you gators, make Gatorade

Jeff Garvin

#18. You need a strategy to assume leadership, but only the character can sustain leaders as who they really are.

Pearl Zhu

#19. What worries me is that I am not sure any of the Republicans, or any Democrat, is ready to 'go to the mats.' And, ergo, I am concerned that our current leaders are simply incapable of creating a winning war strategy.

Rick Elkin

#20. Business leaders cannot be bystanders.

Howard Schultz

#21. Yes, Jean Monnet was the father of the concept of a United States of Europe and his efforts more than those of any other single man helped change the thinking of European leaders.

Paul Hoffman

#22. It does not matter what country we live in, who our leaders are, or even who we are. Because we are human, we therefore have rights. And because we have rights, governments are bound to protect them.

Hillary Clinton

#23. It is the dictate of history to bring to the fore the kind of leaders who seize the moment, who cohere the wishes and aspirations of the oppressed. Such was Steve Biko, a fitting product of his time; a proud representative of the re-awakening of a people.

Nelson Mandela

#24. Whether you like it or not, the course of your (America's) history has made you the leaders of the world. Your country can no longer think provincially.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#25. Too many church leaders have bought into the myth that to clarify the win means establishing attendance goals and raising a lot of money.

Andy Stanley

#26. The recession is over. This phrase has been used twice a year since 1973 by government leaders throughout the West. Its meaning is unclear. See: Depression.

John Ralston Saul

#27. When faced with a challenging or difficult situation, the best leaders most often respond with courage; less mature leaders, or nonleaders often choose another path-a path with less risk, less conflict, and less personal discomfort.

Mark Miller

#28. All long-term social change comes from the successful efforts of one or another struggling organizations to capture the minds of a hard core of future leaders.

Gary North

#29. The Senate was an odd compromise between the founders and the early leaders of the republic who wanted a single house which was based on popular sovereignty representing the people and those founders who wanted two houses, the upper house, the Senate, being the more aristocratic.

George Packer

#30. Remember that our nation's first great leaders were also our first great scholars.

John F. Kennedy

#31. The first society in history whose leaders were neither Attilas nor Witch Doctors, a society led, dominated and created by the Producers, was the United States of America.

Ayn Rand

#32. The way people imagine their political leaders is, like it or not, an important factor in how they decide to vote and, indeed, whether they vote at all.

Robert Webb

#33. Leaders in the body of Christ must be humble and broken from the Lord's hand to be truly useful in His kingdom.

Greg Gordon

#34. If you can't toot your own horn, toot another woman's! It's the best way to elevate women to be leaders.

Geraldine Laybourne

#35. Winning companies win because they have good leaders who nurture the development of other leaders at all levels of the organization.

Noel Tichy

#36. A leader's job is to develop committed followers. Bad leaders destroy their followers' sense of commitment.

Dean Smith

#37. No successful political transition can take place without leaders and movements that demand and press for freedom.

Fareed Zakaria

#38. Leaders don't need a path. They make one.

Tim Fargo

#39. Instead of more violence why isn't there a meeting of religious leaders. It's all got to be dialogue - that's the only way. Get everybody from each religion together and say 'Listen, this can't go on. Why do we have all this hatred?'

Elton John

#40. I don't think about the press or the crowds or the other leaders of the race. The focus is only on myself. As soon as I see the targets, I tune them out.

Magdalena Neuner

#41. It's a good thing Winston Churchill was around before the shallow age of television. He might never have become one of the greatest leaders of all time.

Neil Cavuto

#42. Many council leaders and members will be surprised to discover how much more focused their work will become when they examine it through the lens of saving souls through the mission of the Church.

M. Russell Ballard

#43. Great leaders see money as fuel, not a destination.

Simon Sinek

#44. The leaders of these moments know full well they're never gonna live next to these newly arriving immigrants. They're gonna live in gated communities. They're gonna continue to be rich.

Rush Limbaugh

#45. Today's generation want leaders who excite them and ignite them. They want leaders who are real.

Gabrielle Dolan

#46. Leaders are usually a reflection of the people they lead. How can a leader be moral if his people are immoral?

Awdhesh Singh

#47. When we become leaders, we sometimes think we are now supposed to have the answers. Yes, we may have some answers, but we will be more effective when we engage others and get their opinions.

Kevin Eikenberry

#48. Good followers do not become good leaders.

Laurence J. Peter

#49. The most inspiring leaders are those who ... inspire the rest of us to be our best selves and to match our skills with our passions. They give us confidence to pursue our dreams.

Carmine Gallo

#50. We are drawn to leaders and organizations that are good at communicating what they believe. Their ability to make us feel like we belong, to make us feel special, safe and not alone is part of what gives them the ability to inspire us.

Simon Sinek

#51. Fifteen years ago, while I was temporarily chairing meetings of pro-life leaders, I pleaded with the angry males to say no to interviews, and instead let beautiful pro-life women become the face for the movement.

Marvin Olasky

#52. Creative leaders inherently know when rules need to be challenged, and they can see when a more flexible approach should be taken.

John C. Maxwell

#53. it occurred to me that the modern spiritual leaders of my tradition were always somber, self-important men, thickly coated in others' idea of who they were supposed to be.

Roland Merullo

#54. Why did mainstream America come to accept marriage equality? Gay leaders had made a convincing case that gay families were like straight families and should have the same rights. The American spirit of fair play had been invoked.

Edmund White

#55. Guerrilla leaders win wars by being paranoid and ruthless. Once they take power, they are expected to abandon those qualities and embrace opposite ones: tolerance, compromise and humility. Almost none manages to do so.

Stephen Kinzer

#56. Breaking an old business model is always going to require leaders to follow their instinct. There will always be persuasive reasons not to take a risk. But if you only do what worked in the past, you will wake up one day and find that you've been passed by.

Clayton Christensen

#57. Men have always shown a dim knowledge of their better potentialities by paying homage to those purest leaders who taught the simplest and most inclusive rules for an undivided mankind.

Erik Erikson

#58. Most black leaders, whether left, right or center, from Frederick Douglas and Martin Delaney on in the middle of the 19th century have not even wondered about the merits of the capitalist system.

Henry Louis Gates

#59. Transformation al leaders pick the right people, match them to the right jobs, achieve mutual clarity on the desired results, and then they get out of the way and leave the individual with maximum freedom to perform.

Brian Tracy

#60. There is no immigration policy in the US that is permitting what's happening. What's happening here is happening outside the law, that our leaders do not wish to enforce or acknowledge. And the same thing happened in the UK.

Rush Limbaugh

#61. With leadership succession, families tend to focus on picking the next CEO. Families really need multiple leaders at all levels in their families and family businesses.

Andrew Keyt

#62. POVERTY, n. A file provided for the teeth of the rats of reform. Its victims are distinguished by possession of all the virtues and by their faith in leaders seeking to conduct them into a prosperity where they believe these to be unknown.

Ambrose Bierce

#63. If you dig deep and keep peeling the onion, artists and freelance writers are the leaders in society - the people who start to get new ideas out.

Allan Savory

#64. Powerful dictatorships that make their leaders powerful need to stage wars to get ordinary people to march in lockstep like mindless Nazi robots. That is the road to Greatness.

Michael A. Ledeen

#65. Philosophers are all caught up in their philosophies. That's their house of cards. Religious leaders are caught up in their religious movements to the point where they forget about freedom. Everybody's got their drama going.

Frederick Lenz

#66. The lack of free, child-directed play time for our kids today will have dire consequences for these future leaders, making them less prepared to solve complex challenges and problems.

Darell Hammond

#67. Great leaders are comfortable with conflict....not because we enjoy it, but because we are eager to get beyond it.

Lana Krumwiede

#68. The Nuremberg trials of Nazi leaders, in open court before an international tribunal, had a profound long-term effect in bringing Germans back to democracy and humanity.

Anthony Lewis

#69. The wisest among us - the genuine leaders - smile in the face of adversity.

Robin Sharma

#70. The number of business leaders who asked me to lower their taxes can be counted on one hand.

Jack Markell

#71. Loving leaders allow for individuality in style and expression.

Glenn C. Stewart

#72. We need the help of other member countries and leaders who, like us, want to see a change in Europe's direction. That's also my logic when I tell voters that electing me president will not only shape France's future, but also initiate change across all of Europe.

Francois Hollande

#73. Leaders who set out to give are more productive than leaders who seek to get.

Seth Godin

#74. Too many leaders fancy themselves on being philosophers, but not enough pride themselves on decisive action.

Noel DeJesus

#75. Leaders, whatever the size of their organizations, are those willing to put the interests of other people before their own.

Simon Sinek

#76. But just as exposure research would suggest, the brief presentations interspersed between other communications - and the delays between them - caused leaders to warm up to Medina's ideas.

Adam M. Grant

#77. Ineffective leaders often act on the advice and counsel of the last person they talked to.

Warren G. Bennis

#78. Too many so-called leaders of the movement have been made into celebrities and their revolutionary fervor destroyed by mass media. They become Hollywood objects and lose identification with the real issues. The task is to transform society; only the people can do that

Huey Newton

#79. Marines and soldiers don't issue themselves orders; they don't send themselves overseas. United States citizens elect the leaders who send us overseas.

Phil Klay

#80. It is time to stop talking so much about what kind of leaders we want, to give less lip service to what Washington or Wall Street or Hollywood should do, and to act a lot more like citizens who actually deserve freedom.

Oliver DeMille

#81. A similar move is underway in the British Parliament. Earlier this month, more than 30 religious leaders and scholars wrote Secretary of State John Kerry asking for a meeting to discuss what's happening to Christians and other minorities. Nina Shea organized the effort.

Tom Gjelten

#82. Thus China did not regard foreign investment as only bringing money into the country: instead China's leaders saw "investment" as bringing in new technologies, management systems and markets.

Anonymous

#83. The fastest way to change the feedback culture in an organization is for the leaders to become better receivers.

Sheila Heen

#84. Missional leaders understand the power of connecting relationally in their community through personal networking.

Gary Rohrmayer

#85. Oh, sure, we have another world war coming, and another great depression, but where are the leaders this time?

Kurt Vonnegut

#86. We must infuse our lives with art. Our national leaders must be informed that we want them to use our taxes to support street theatre in order to oppose street gangs. We should have a well-supported regional theatre in order to oppose regionalism and.

Maya Angelou

#87. The roots of the word 'anarchy' are 'an archos,' 'no leaders,' which is not really about the kind of chaos that most people imagine when the word 'anarchy' is mentioned. I think that anarchy is, to the contrary, about taking personal responsibility for yourself.

Alan Moore

#88. Prayerless leaders are like ship captains without compasses; they can make their best guess at which direction to go, but they have no assurance they are heading the right way. Prayer keeps leaders focused on the one absolutely consistent factor in life - God.

Henry Blackaby

#89. The most successful leaders in the Internet Century will be the ones who understand how to create and quickly grow platforms.

Eric Schmidt

#90. Leaders are visionaries with a poorly developed sense of fear and no concept of the odds against them.

Robert Jarvik

#91. Some Iraqi troops aren't willing to fight for their government. But many Shiites appear willing to fight for their religious leaders.

Richard Engel

#92. I think there is value in having practising scientists as leaders of research institutions.

Thomas R. Cech

#93. He who cannot serve cannot lead. It is by being a servant that you recognize that followers also have needs. True leaders are service oriented!

Israelmore Ayivor

#94. I often say that leadership is deeply personal and inherently collective. That's a paradox that effective leaders have to embrace.

Peter Senge

#95. Don't follow leaders, watch your parkin' meters.

Bob Dylan

#96. After the events of last week, I'm appalled at the standard Australia seems to be willing to accept in regards to its own behaviour and the behaviour of our leaders. Accuse me of playing the gender card all you like, but I will not walk past it any more. You might consider joining me.

Clementine Ford

#97. [In Moscow] we got through to [Soviet leaders] Brezhnev and Kosygin on the telephone. I think it was because nobody had ever tried to call them at home before.

Ross Perot

#98. Groups that rose from poverty to prosperity seldom did so by having their own racial or ethnic leaders to follow.

Thomas Sowell

#99. The Catholic Church - it's so difficult because I don't want say anything offensive but it makes me very angry that religious leaders from this faith have tried to respond negatively to sexual education and to the promotion of condom use

Emma Thompson

#100. Effective leaders are made, not born. They learn from trial and error, and from experience.

Colin Powell