Leadership Quotes

Leadership that exploits and sacrifices young people on the altar of its goals is nothing more than raw, demonic power. Genuine leadership is found in ceaseless efforts to foster young people, to pave the way forward for them.
– Daisaku Ikeda
Leadership must be likeable, affable, cordial, and above all emotional. The fashion of authoritarian leadership is gone. Football is about life. You can't be angry all day.
– Vicente del Bosque
Leadership must be established from the top down.
– Sam Nunn
Leadership is working with goals and vision management is working with objectives.
– Russel Honore
Leadership means forming a team and working toward common objectives that are tied to time, metrics, and resources.
– Russel Honore
Leadership is the key to 99 percent of all successful efforts.
– Erskine Bowles
Leadership is simply the ability of an individual to coalesce the efforts of other individuals toward achieving common goals. It boils down to looking after your people and ensuring that, from top to bottom, everyone feels part of the team.
– Frederick Smith
Leadership is something I was born with.
– Carmelo Anthony
Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.
– Warren G. Bennis
Leadership is hard to define and good leadership even harder. But if you can get people to follow you to the ends of the earth, you are a great leader.
– Indra Nooyi
Leadership is influence.
– John C. Maxwell
Leadership is getting players to believe in you. If you tell a teammate you're ready to play as tough as you're able to, you'd better go out there and do it. Players will see right through a phony. And they can tell when you're not giving it all you've got.
– Larry Bird
Leadership is an ever-evolving position.
– Mike Krzyzewski
Leadership is diving for a loose ball, getting the crowd involved, getting other players involved. It's being able to take it as well as dish it out. That's the only way you're going to get respect from the players.
– Larry Bird
Leadership in today's world requires far more than a large stock of gunboats and a hard fist at the conference table.
– Hubert H. Humphrey
Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy.
– Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf
Leadership is about being a servant first.
– Allen West
Leadership has a harder job to do than just choose sides. It must bring sides together.
– Jesse Jackson
Leadership has become a heavy industry. Concern and interest about leadership development is no longer an American phenomenon. It is truly global. Though I will probably be in less demand, I wanted to move on.
– Warren Bennis
Leadership in telecommunications is also essential, since we are now in the age of e-commerce.
– Michael Oxley
Leadership does not depend on being right.
– Ivan Illich
Leadership cannot just go along to get along. Leadership must meet the moral challenge of the day.
– Jesse Jackson
Leadership comes in small acts as well as bold strokes.
– Carly Fiorina
Leadership demands that we make tough choices.
– Alan Autry
Leadership can't be fabricated. If it is fabricated and rehearsed, you can't fool the guys in the locker room. So when you talk about leadership, it comes with performance. Leadership comes with consistency.
– Junior Seau
Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.
– John F. Kennedy
Leadership appears to be the art of getting others to want to do something you are convinced should be done.
– Vance Packard
Leadership can not be measured in a poll or even in the result of an election. It can only be truly seen with the benefit of time. From the perspective of 20 years, not 20 days.
– Marco Rubio
Leadership - leadership is about taking responsibility, not making excuses.
– Mitt Romney
Leaders must encourage their organizations to dance to forms of music yet to be heard.
– Warren G. Bennis
Leaders of the future will have to be visionary and be able to bring people in - real communicators. These are things that women bring to leadership and executive positions, and it's going to be incredibly valuable and incredibly in demand.
– Anita Borg
Labor, under their current leadership, want to be the Downtown Abbey party when it comes to educational opportunity. They think working class children should stick to the station in life they were born into - they should be happy to be recognized for being good with their hands and not presume to get above themselves.
– Michael Gove
Jamal Crawford reminds me the most of myself, the way he goes to the basket. But they need leadership.
– Earl Monroe
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
It's really necessary for the United States to continue to give strong leadership to the Middle East peace process, supported by European countries at the same time.
– William Hague
It's not as if our party has a leadership campaign underway.
– Peter MacKay
It's not a matter of if economies around the world becoming low-carbon, but when and how: through struggle and strife or through advancement and progressive leadership. Larry Elliot described it today as the 'Green New Deal.' It's a leadership we in Britain can provide, and from which our economy can benefit.
– Lucy Powell
It's a different era. Our job now is to show leadership and vision and to help the next generation of artists.
– Karen Kain
It takes leadership to improve safety. And I started off the movement in my time, but the person who has done more over the past 20 to 30 years and who has led it is Professor Sid Watkins.
– Jackie Stewart
It is with obedience to your call that I take up the burden of government leadership for the final time.
– Kamisese Mara
It is sad that the Republican leadership is not as interested as they say they are in protecting the institution of marriage as they are in waging a campaign to divide and distract the American people from the real issues that need to be addressed.
– Kendrick Meek
It is past time for Republican leadership to answer for record deficits and reckless spending, both in Iraq and in the U.S. It's time for a plan to bring our troops home.
– Sherrod Brown
It is better to lead from behind and to put others in front, especially when you celebrate victory when nice things occur. You take the front line when there is danger. Then people will appreciate your leadership.
– Nelson Mandela
Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.
– Steve Jobs
In working with UNICEF our corporate partners have demonstrated time and again that their financial resources, leadership and expertise can bring about real and lasting benefits for the world's children.
– Carol Bellamy
In this nation, leadership is dollars.
– Norman Lear
In the military, I learned that 'leadership' means raising your hand and volunteering for the tough, important assignments.
– Tulsi Gabbard
In the area we're discussing, leadership begins on Madison Avenue, on the desks and in the offices of people who spend hundreds of millions of dollars buying what will get them ratings.
– Norman Lear
In terms of the principles of politics, I think I understand well. Thailand needs someone who has leadership, who has the management skills to help the country.
– Yingluck Shinawatra
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
In some countries we have had the right to vote for less than 100 years, so the entry of women into political leadership has caused a tsunami.
– Iveta Radicova
In order to cultivate a set of leaders with legitimacy in the eyes of the citizenry, it is necessary that the path to leadership be visibly open to talented and qualified individuals of every race and ethnicity.
– Sandra Day O'Connor
In fact, the converse is true: At a time when the United States has been called on for a level of moral leadership, vision and inspiration not seen since World War II, we cannot afford to dissemble about crimes against humanity.
– Adam Schiff
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
In any case, decisions on troop levels in the American system of government are not made by any general or set of generals but by the civilian leadership of the war effort.
– Bill Kristol
In addition to removing our democratically elected government, Israel wants to sow dissent among Palestinians by claiming that there is a serious leadership rivalry among us. I am compelled to dispel this notion definitively.
– Ismail Haniyeh
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.
– John Quincy Adams
If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.
– William James
If you can provide the funding and you get the leadership, you'll have a competitive team.
– T. Boone Pickens
If we are to negotiate the coming years safely, we may need a new kind of leadership. To put it more precisely, we need the rediscovery of an ancient kind of leadership that has rarely been given the prominence it deserves. I mean the leader as teacher.
– Jonathan Sacks
If people want to get into leadership through corrupt practices, through corrupt means, I think that's detestable we have to take action.
– Jakaya Kikwete
If a guy is intimidated by a woman in leadership, he has real problems with his own concepts of masculinity. That's a harsh statement, but I believe it to be true.
– Tony Campolo
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
I'm not up on the Internet, but I hear that is a democratic possibility. People can connect with each other. I think people are ready for something, but there is no leadership to offer it to them. People are ready to say, 'Yes, we are part of a world.'
– Studs Terkel
I wish I had played team sports. I think every kid should. Teamwork builds character - teaches people about leadership and cooperation.
– Mo Rocca
I want to use my position of leadership to help move along at a faster pace what I believe and know the Obama administration wants to do around the urgency of climate change.
– Kamala Harris
I want to see a player on the football field. I want to see what kind of teammate they are, what kind of leadership qualities they have. I want to see how aggressive they are, how much fun they have playing the game.
– Roy Clark
I want to deploy the leadership to meet the challenges that face us and to restore America's greatness.
– Paul Tsongas
I want American Dream growth - lots of new businesses, well-paying jobs, and American leadership in new industries, like clean energy and biotechnology.
– William J. Clinton
I took a gamble to exercise leadership without losing my feminine nature.
– Michelle Bachelet
I think what actually works best is local-level individual targeting of key leadership nodes.
– John Abizaid
I think we need the feminine qualities of leadership, which include attention to aesthetics and the environment, nurturing, affection, intuition and the qualities that make people feel safe and cared for.
– Deepak Chopra
I think we need leadership that helps us remember that part of what we are about is caring about more than the person right next to us, but the folks across the way.
– Anna Deavere Smith
I think the greater responsibility, in terms of morality, is where leadership begins.
– Norman Lear
I think that my leadership style is to get people to fear staying in place, to fear not changing.
– Lou Gerstner
I think that if Republicans are given the reins of leadership in the House or Senate or both, we will have to govern in a way - at least put forward solutions whether or not the president goes along with them or not, that deal with these long-term challenges.
– John Thune
I think that all areas of the budget have to be scrubbed. Clearly the entitlement issues have to be reformed and that's an issue that's going to require I think some strong bipartisan cooperation and leadership.
– John Thune
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
I think our leadership team is a highly accountable leadership team.
– Steve Ballmer
I think one of the keys to leadership is recognizing that everybody has gifts and talents. A good leader will learn how to harness those gifts toward the same goal.
– Benjamin Carson
I think national issues play into gubernatorial races less than, obviously, in Senate and Congressional races. Much less. They tend to be more decided by personality, leadership qualities and by state or local issues. They still have some effect, no question about it, but not as much as Senate and Congressional races.
– Edward G. Rendell
I think Mr. Clarke had a tendency to interfere too much with the activities of the CIA, and our leadership at the senior level let him interfere too much. So criticism from him I kind of wear as a badge of honor.
– Michael Scheuer
I think most Americans understand that we went through a period in which American leadership was judged quite critically internationally.
– Susan Rice
I think leadership is service and there is power in that giving: to help people, to inspire and motivate them to reach their fullest potential.
– Denise Morrison
I think it is quite dangerous for an organisation to think they can predict where they are going to need leadership. It needs to be something that people are willing to assume if it feels relevant, given the context of any situation.
– Margaret J. Wheatley
I think it is important for people who are given leadership roles to assume that role immediately.
– Bob Iger
I think directors should be confident in their leadership capabilities. I think directors should be confident in what they want to do.
– Philip Seymour Hoffman
I think Chinese leadership is trying to tell the world they have another set of logic or reasoning or values which are different from yours. Of course, I don't think they believe that. It's just an argument that's made when you can't confront the truth and facts. They really want to maintain power.
– Ai Weiwei
I think a major act of leadership right now, call it a radical act, is to create the places and processes so people can actually learn together, using our experiences.
– Margaret J. Wheatley
I talked about the need for American leadership, I talked about the importance of the United States to a more peaceful world, a world that has been quite turbulent in recent years, and needs a strong American anchor.
– Condoleezza Rice
I supported my friend Congressman Shuler over former Speaker Nancy Pelosi during our party's leadership elections in November citing a need for new leadership.
– Joe Donnelly
I recognize we will pay more attention when we have different leadership.
– Octavia Butler
I never saw myself as an individual who had any particular leadership powers.
– Angela Davis
I mean, Emily Harris was his wife. And she seemed to resent his leadership, but on the other hand, she felt like a good soldier, that he had to be the leader.
– Patty Hearst
I made a commitment... both to myself and to some supporters to carefully consider a run for the Liberal leadership for the Liberal Party of Canada.
– Dalton McGuinty
I know of no single formula for success. But over the years I have observed that some attributes of leadership are universal and are often about finding ways of encouraging people to combine their efforts, their talents, their insights, their enthusiasm and their inspiration to work together.
– Queen Elizabeth II
I knew I could not maintain that leadership in open struggle against Moscow influence. Only two Communist leaders in history ever succeeded in doing this - Tito and Mao Tse-tung.
– Earl Browder
I have spent a lifetime watching kids make mistakes because they were not trained or well led or properly motivated to do well. I never faulted the kids rather, I saw opportunity to train, to motivate, to improve leadership - not to punish the individual.
– Eric Shinseki
I have run a general election campaign pregnant and ran Ed Miliband's leadership campaign commuting to London with a new baby so I already have my system set up.
– Lucy Powell
I have never been afraid to stand up to the leadership on issues where we disagree. If you chose to keep Cambridge Labour, then I can continue to press the Government for the things that matter to you, in a way that members of the opposition are unable to.
– Anne Campbell