Top 100 Right Leader Quotes
#1. Bad leaders care about who is right. Good leaders care about what is right
Simon Sinek
#2. In Washington, when you're a leader, you have to put aside partisan politics to do what's right for the people.
George Pataki
#3. The first step for a leader is to be right with yourself. Integrity is the basis of leadership.
Condoleezza Rice
#4. I am a leader. Leaders always get heat. They're always going against the grain. Jimi Hendrix got heat; Bob Marley got heat; Miles Davis got heat. Every great artist got heat. Heat means you're doing something right.
Ziggy Marley
#5. He'd done it again. Screwed up in a social situation and dragged the whole team down with hm. His new team. The ones who were counting on him to be a leader on and off the field. He'd led them, all right, almost into a brawl.
Jami Davenport
#6. Leaders don't rise to the pinnacle of success without developing the right set of attitudes and habits; they make every day a masterpiece.
John C. Maxwell
#7. It's true that if you're a leader but no-one is following you then you're actually not leading; you're just out for a walk. But it's also true that you're not really a leader unless you go for a walk because you know it's right and you're willing to have no-one come with you. Henry
Craig Hamilton
#8. Trying to be a leader, you've got to be really sure of what you're doing and you've got to guide people the right way.
Genndy Tartakovsky
#9. Leaders win through logistics. Vision, sure. Strategy, yes. But when you go to war, you need to have both toilet paper and bullets at the right place at the right time. In other words, you must win through superior logistics.
Tom Peters
#10. Freedom is slavery some poets tell us.
Enslave yourself to the right leader's truth,
Christ's or Karl Marx', and it will set you free.
Robert Frost
#11. Make sure you have the right team members to strengthen your culture instead of people who suck the energy out of it. You can do everything right as a leader and coach, but if you don't have positive mentors and team members in the locker room your culture and team will fall apart.
Jon Gordon
#12. In the ideal state a leader ensures that each man is effective in just the right capacity.
Timur Vermes
#13. People have said I'm the candidate of anger. Well, we have a right to be angry. We lost 3 million jobs. We lost our place as the moral leader of the world.
Howard Dean
#14. To me, it's a structural flaw of the faith that its adherents are forbidden from challenging the leader (and its policies) at all costs. And right behind the current leader is another of the same kind.
Leah Remini
#15. To become a leader you must have a positive mental attitude, which you can achieve with positive self-talk and looking at what is right with people instead of what is wrong with them.
Elaine Meryl Brown
#16. The problem we have right now in Washington is we don't have the face of a leader.
Rob Reiner
#17. Every leader attracts a different type of follower from the left or the right, from the lowest or the highest class. Every leader unwittingly attracts certain stereotypes that fuel their underlying agenda.
Anita B. Sulser PhD
#18. America has a right to be a leader. This leadership should be realized through partnership, not domination.
Mikhail Gorbachev
#19. The manager does things right; the leader does the right thing.
Warren G. Bennis
#20. World is full of followers and leaders, and I think that if one can become both and be both, to follow in order to lead, and to lead in order to follow, then I think you're on the right path.
George Ogilvie
#21. Leadership is about what's right for the organization, not what feels right for the leader.
Liz Weber
#22. The truth hit him. Jason wasn't quite Roman anymore. His time at Camp Half-Blood had changed him. Reyna had recognized that. Apparently, so did the undead legionnaires. If Jason no longer gave off the right sort of vibe, or aura of a Roman leader ...
Rick Riordan
#23. Your most important task as a leader is to teach people how to think and ask the right questions so that the world doesn't go to hell if you take a day off.
Jeffrey Pfeffer
#24. Russia is still the leader in world space exploration. But its position of leader involves great responsibility - we have no right to lag behind. We can and we must move constantly forward.
Valentina Tereshkova
#25. What kind of leader sends congressmen out on a kamikaze mission in an election year and right before a recess? The kind of leader whose followers are diminishing in number.
Jed Babbin
#26. To understand the value of the middle
the golden middle path
you'll have to know your own golden rules.
Religious Leader Petra Cecilia Maria Hermans
The Religion Of The Blue Circle
November 10, 2016
Petra Hermans
#27. If you let it, the Masters will play you instead of you playing it. Augusta National can pamper you right off the bottom of the leader board. Pampered before and after your round, but mentally and emotionally pulverized during them - that's the formula.
Joe Inman
#28. The job of the leader is to get the big ideas right.
David Petraeus
#29. The key is selecting the right people to join the team, those with the right skills and values, those who embrace our purpose.
Ken Jennings
#30. Bill Clinton has been a true leader of the western world. He has been a friend and a counsel to me and other leaders right around the world.
Tony Blair
#31. Should we have a leader or should we think for ourselves? Obviously the latter in principle. But-sometimes there lies a gulf between what is theoretically right and that which is practical.
Philip K. Dick
#32. It is equally important that we now secure the right deal for Britain - and the next leader must have the skill and credibility to put together the right team to renegotiate our exit from and future relationship with Europe and explain the final terms to the British people.
Nicky Morgan
#33. If you are the leader, you don't have the right to say things like "Ugh, didn't eat this week I was so busy." "Haven't slept." I look sideways at those signs of bravado, which are intended to make one feel that the person is working so hard. I don't think that way.
Scott Raab
#34. If you have a vision and there is no job title for it yet. That's a vision right there!
Janna Cachola
#35. A successful person finds the right place for himself. But a successful leader finds the right place for others.
By John Maxwell
John C. Maxwell
#36. John Kerry says that foreign leaders want him to be president, but that he can't name the foreign leaders. That's all right, President Bush can't name them either.
David Letterman
#37. Leaders should be able to Stand Alone, Take the Heat, Bear the Pain, Tell the Truth, and Do What's Right
Max De Pree
#38. 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
#39. Kindness is weak when you use it in a self-serving manner. Self-serving kindness is thin - people can see right through it when a kind leader has an agenda.
Travis Bradberry
#40. I don't like the idea of 'I've played nine years, I've made some All-Star teams, I make the most money. I've got to be a leader.' That doesn't make you a leader. Treating people the right way is more important.
Matt Holliday
#41. The best thing you can give as a leader is a reason to trust. People want to trust. They're hungry for it. But they're selective. They'll only give it to a motivator, a communicator, a teacher, a real person. Someone who in good times and bad always does the right thing.
Jeffrey R. Immelt
#42. If man chooses oblivion, he can go right on leaving his fate to his political leaders. If he chooses Utopia, he must initiate an enormous education program - immediately, if not sooner.
R. Buckminster Fuller
#43. Everyone carries a bucket of water and a bucket of gas in life. A leader has learned to throw the right one at the right time.
Orrin Woodward
#44. Inside any important philanthropy meeting, you witness heads of state meeting with investment managers and corporate leaders. All are searching for answers with their right hand to problems that others in the room have created with their left.
Peter Buffett
#45. Michael Gove is the right leader for the country.
Dominic Raab
#46. Abbott is a good man to fix up messes and make new policy work ... If he gets it right - and Howard will back him with big bucks - Abbott could clean-up his image and restore his appeal as a future leader.
Margo Kingston
#47. A good leader sets the right goals, gets things moving, and helps us to discover that we already know what to do.
Donella Meadows
#48. Point me in the right direction, and shut the fuck up. I'm the one calling the shots now. Fall in line or fall down a fucking well.
Robert Kirkman
#49. Kim Jong Un shaved his eyebrows and got his hair sticking right up. How would you like the leader of your country looking like Lady Gaga? Even Dennis Rodman told him he looks weird.
David Letterman
#50. We want accountability. We just buried a president [President Gerald Ford] who did not hold another president [President Nixon] accountable for war crimes and that's why we're in Iraq right now. Our leaders who get us into these messes are the ones who need to be held accountable.
Cindy Sheehan
#51. A leader gets people to do things they wouldn't do in their right minds. A manager tells him he spent too much money doing it.
William Peter Grasso
#52. We have come to discover what we suspect is a new political mindset emerging among a younger generation of political leaders socialized on Internet communications. Their politics are less about right versus left and more about centralized and authoritarian versus distributed and collaborative.
Jeremy Rifkin
#53. Jesus is not a religious leader; He is a Savior. You can enjoy His extravagant love even right after you fall into your extravagant sin.
Carlos A. Rodriguez
#54. If I'm going to be a leader then I have to go places that other people are afraid to go to. That's what makes a leader. To be not afraid to step out and go over the frontline. To stare darkness right in the face.
R. Kelly
#55. I know that the right kind of political leader for the Labour Party is a desiccated calculating machine.
Aneurin Bevan
#56. The leader's prayer written by Pauline H. Peters: God, when I am wrong, make me willing to change. When I am right, make me easy to live with. So strengthen me that the power of my example will far exceed the authority of my rank.
John C. Maxwell
#57. PEOPLE WOULD RATHER FOLLOW A LEADER WHO IS ALWAYS REAL VERSUS A LEADER WHO IS ALWAYS RIGHT. DON'T TRY TO BE A PERFECT LEADER, JUST WORK ON BEING AN AUTHENTIC ONE.
Brad Lomenick
#58. It's an ancient idea that the leader of a democracy should not be the cleverest but the most average. That's an arguable point, but the world has decided otherwise - except in America, where it still divides the country right down the middle.
Martin Amis
#59. The leader continually passes on the vision to those who come around, knowing that dreams, if presented right, are contagious.
John C. Maxwell
#60. Be with a leader when he is right, stay with him when he is still right, but, leave him when he is wrong.
Abraham Lincoln
#61. Leadership will either lead you into a ditch or lead you into purpose. We need our leaders, especially those who are teaching our young people, to have the right message.
Myles Munroe
#62. I came to believe that a leader isn't good because they're right; they're good because they're willing to learn and to trust.
Stanley A. McChrystal
#63. The final secret is that there is no secret. Devote yourself to your leader. Work hard. Be grateful. Act boldly. Some may deride such suggestions as commonplace, and they'd be right: They are common. But to see them successfully enacted in this world is rare indeed.
Toyotomi Hideyoshi
#64. We would very much like to see Iran take a position as a responsible leader that doesn't intimidate or threaten or scare its neighbors and others. But the choice is really up to Iran and we're going to keep working to try to come out with the right decision.
Hillary Clinton
#65. Sometimes doing the right thing was hard ... and potentially messy. But a good leader always did the right thing.
Shannon Hale
#66. To keep the wrong leader in the wrong place prevents the right leader from being in the right place.
Aubrey Malphurs
#67. I pray to be a good servant to God, a father, a husband, a son, a friend, a brother, an uncle, a good neighbor, a good leader to those who look up to me, a good follower to those who are serving God and doing the right thing.
Mark Wahlberg
#68. Having the right attitude is fundamental to being an effective leader.
Jim George
#69. I won't say I've never felt in Alex Salmond's shadow, but latterly, when Alex was leader, I didn't. It's more about my awareness of the fact I became First Minister during a parliamentary term. That means you're First Minister, but you haven't been elected in your own right as First Minister.
Nicola Sturgeon
#70. Depending on the skill and will of the individual, the right leadership style may be coaching, motivating, or directing rather than delegating. A leader has to pick the right style of leadership for each employee, and it is not one-size-fits-all,
Thomas Lee
#71. When you get right down to it, one of the most important tasks of a leader is to eliminate his people's excuse for failure.
Robert Townsend
#73. A leader on the pitch is someone who can turn a game in the right direction, he isn't someone who has a go at his colleagues after the match for everything they did wrong.
Michael Ballack
#74. She was leader of this little crew and she'd go first. Always. When she took on new members, she gave them one chance to get that right. If the words, but you're a woman. Let me take point, were ever spoken, that person was history.
Laken Cane
#75. [George W. Bush] has balls. And he's a leader. Unfortunately his balls and leadership are in the service of shitty ideas. We need his balls on someone who thinks right.
Bill Maher
#76. As a leader, you have to take responsibility for your own failures as well as successes. That's the only way you'll learn.
If you keep learning, you'll improve.
If you improve, your leadership will get better.
And in time, you will earn the right to lead on the level you deserve.
John C. Maxwell
#77. There was a lot to be said for the job of assistant section leader - when you come right to it, it's a lot easier to die than it is to use your head.
Robert A. Heinlein
#78. And when a leader embraces their responsibility to care for people instead of caring for numbers, then people will follow, solve problems and see to it that that leader's vision comes to life the right way, a stable way and not the expedient way.
Simon Sinek
#79. A leader's purpose is to provide knowledge and generate trust through kindness. This will provide a foundation that allows others to make choices, right or wrong, and grow in a positive manner from the experience.
Farshad Asl
#80. For the political leader the religious doctrines and institutions of his people must always remain inviolable; or else has no right to be in politics, but should become a reformer, if he has what it takes!
Adolf Hitler
#81. A leader or mentor gives credit to others when things go right, and accepts the blame when things go wrong.
Bill Courtney
#82. Get the right people. Then no matter what all else you might do wrong after that, the people will save you. That's what management is all about.
Tom DeMarco
#83. There is nothing more basic to our democracy than the right to participate in electing our political leaders.
Mark Shields
#84. Being a leader, it's the art of trying to find the balance, the right times with each individual and what they need at that moment. It requires looking outward as opposed to looking inside.
Kobe Bryant
#85. Successful leaders have learned that no failure is final, whether his own failure or someone else's. No one is perfect, and we cannot be right all the time. Failures and even feelings of inadequacy can provoke humility and serve to remind a leader who is really in charge.
J. Oswald Sanders
#86. I failed the test. He's right. It wasn't justice. Justice is dispassionate; it is fair. I am the leader. I passed the sentence. I should have done it. Instead, I gave license to vengeance and vendetta. The cancer will not be cut away; I made it worse.
Pierce Brown
#87. A leader has the right to be beaten, but never the right to be surprised.
Napoleon Bonaparte
#88. She was a natural leader. This was where she needed to be. Letting her go had been the right choice, even if the decision still burned in my gut.
Mary E. Pearson
#89. If your a leader, do everything you can to grow yourself and create the right environment for others to grow.
John C. Maxwell
#90. The most important thing you do as a leader is to hire the right people.
David Cottrell
#91. People who believe in themselves and in a cause greater than themselves can achieve great things-as long as they have a well-intentioned leader to point them in the right direction.
John Baldoni
#92. I'm never gonna change the skin, right? I'm very proud of what it implies and what it has meant to me ... but then again, in Congress, I hope to make my mark as a colleague and as a leader.
Xavier Becerra
#93. You have to be a political leader, willing to lose an election if you want to do what's right.
Scott Pelley
#94. A leader, once convinced that a particular course of action is the right one, must ... be undaunted when the going gets tough.
Ronald Reagan
#95. The challenge for the IT leader is to set the right priority, manage the limited budget and resource, to "Do more with innovation.
Pearl Zhu
#96. Trying to get the right person in the right job can take a lot of time and energy. Let's face it. Isn't it easier for a leader to just put people where it is most convenient and get on with the work? Once again, this is an area where leaders' desire for action works against them.
John C. Maxwell
#97. One of the most influential women of the 20th century? Well, that may be overdoing it. When one thinks of really influential women, my mind turns to Margaret Thatcher, Golda Meir, ... some of the true political leaders in their own right.
William A. Rusher
#98. Sometimes being a leader isn't about winning. Sometimes it's about doing what's right, instead of what's powerful.
James Patterson
#99. The culture war is between the winners and those who think they're losers who want to become winners. The losers think the only way they can become winners is by banding together all the losers and them empowering a leader of the losers to make things right for them.
Rush Limbaugh
#100. As a leader you must be sincerely committed to what's right rather than who's right.
John Wooden
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