leadership
Quotations
Quotations on the topic of ‘leadership’ from all listed authors (click on the ‘click to view listing’ links to view each quote in full).
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“We shouldn’t be debating whether to deal with the current code by allowing it to be extended or not. We should have a president who shows leadership and comes to Congress and says: ‘You know what? We need to reform this whole tax code.’” -Rob Portman
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“We have a country to turn around. This week you will nominate the most experienced executive to seek the presidency in 60 years in Mitt Romney. He has no illusions about what makes America great, and he doesn’t confuse the presidency with celebrity, or loftiness with leadership.” -Artur Davis
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“Many citizens see all the leadership of these large institutions together in a conspiracy against them rather than in any adversary relationship with each other.” -Robert Teeter
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“In this nation, leadership is dollars.” -Norman Lear
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“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
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“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
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“So I think that our foreign policy, the president’s strong and principled leadership when it comes to the war against terror and foreign policy is going to be an asset.” -Ed Gillespie
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“And if the imam and the Muslim leadership in that community is so intent on building bridges, then they should voluntarily move the mosque away from ground zero and move it whether it’s uptown or somewhere else, but move it away from that area, the same as the pope directed the Carmelite nuns to move…
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“Democrats have no agenda, no plan for the future, and no sense of leadership.” -Jeff Miller
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“We have treated our most serious adversaries, such as Iran and North Korea, in the most juvenile manner – by giving them the silent treatment. In so doing, we have weakened, not strengthened, our bargaining position and our leadership.” -Theodore C. Sorensen
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“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
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“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
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“President Ford was a devoted, decent man of impeccable integrity who put service to his country before his own self interest. He helped heal our nation during a time of crisis, provided steady leadership and restored people’s faith in the presidency and in government.” -Mark Udall
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“Under the leadership of this President, the state of the union is not strong. We are being pulled apart rather than pulling together. Our democracy is suffering from the choices being made, and yet we are offered the same tired excuses and unrealistic analyses.” -Jose Serrano
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“I believe it is time for new leadership that is able to leave the ’70s behind.” -Kim Campbell
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“The problem is, is that President Bush and the Republican leadership in the Congress have resisted attempts to increase dramatically our fuel economy standards over the last five years.” -Ed Markey
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“The leadership lost its nerve. Instead of taking the lead in the reform movement… they pulled the plug on it. They tried and are still trying to return the church to the dry ice of the previous century and a half.” -Andrew Greeley
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“President Reagan was a leader at a time when the American people most needed leadership. He outlined a vision that captured the imagination of the free world, a vision that toppled the Communist empire and freed countless millions.” -Dennis Hastert
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“Every time you have to speak, you are auditioning for leadership.” -James Humes
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“An old African leader says about leadership, he says that leadership should never be shared it should always remain in the hands of the dispossessed people. We will lead the revolution.” -H. Rap Brown
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“Leadership should be born out of the understanding of the needs of those who would be affected by it.” -Marian Anderson
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“I think what actually works best is local-level individual targeting of key leadership nodes.” -John Abizaid
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“As for leadership, I am the kind who leads reluctantly and more by example than anything else. Someone had to be on the incorporation papers as president.” -Keith Henson
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“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.”…
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“We should see the leadership from the White House setting dates certain for certain goals of achieving greater alliance on alternative and renewable energy sources, but we are not.” -Ron Kind
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“Not everybody is created equal, and it’s important for companies to identify those high potentials and treat them differently, accelerate their development and pay them more. That process is so incredibly important to developing first-class leadership in a company.” -Anne M. Mulcahy
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“You cannot transpose the U.S. system on Turkey, and the Turkish system on France etc. You have to understand the people and their culture. That’s leadership.” -Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa
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“Bipartisanship isn’t an option anymore it is a requirement. The American people have divided responsibility for leadership right down the middle.” -Tom Daschle
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“All of this suggests that while citizens became more comfortable with President Bush after September 11 and thought him to have the requisite leadership skills, they continue to harbor doubts about his priorities, loyalties, interests, and policies.” -Thomas E. Mann
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“And I’d say one of the great lessons I’ve learned over the past couple of decades, from a management perspective, is that really when you come down to it, it really is all about people and all about leadership.” -Steve Case
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“Such manifestations I account as representing the creative leadership of the new forces of thought and appreciation which attend changes in technological pattern and therefore of the pattern of human relationships in society.” -John Grierson
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“I think most Americans understand that we went through a period in which American leadership was judged quite critically internationally.” -Susan Rice
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“So I think democracy, in the long-term, in our countries will survive if it comes to be associated with leadership, will not survive if democracy plus media brings to us more and more followship rather than leadership.” -Mario Monti
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“The more consistent a father can be or a mentor can be in the person’s life and teach them principles of real solid manhood, character, integrity and leadership, the more consistent you can be in the person’s life and teach them those things at a younger age, and then the better off they’ll be.” -Allan…
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“If people want to compete for leadership of a religious group, they can compete in piety. A chilling thought. Or funny.” -Mary Douglas
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“The message of the free world to any potential Palestinian leadership should be a simple one: Embrace democratic reform and we will embrace you.” -Natan Sharansky
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“There was great leadership in this country at the time of World War II. There was also unrelenting resolve at home, in America’s factories and on the farms, in the cities and the country.” -Bob Feller
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“The things journalists should pay attention to are the issues the political leadership agrees on, rather than to their supposed antagonisms.” -Michael Pollan
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“Clearly you need a new team to go out to bat on your behalf to fight for your rights and to report back to you personally and to the leadership of the IFP.” -Mangosuthu Buthelezi
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“Sometimes leadership is planting trees under whose shade you’ll never sit. It may not happen fully till after I’m gone. But I know that the steps we’re taking are the right steps.” -Jennifer M. Granholm
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“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
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“What nourishes us at home and in school is what inspires us. When we get awareness and learn about the great potential that we all human beings have, we are able to discover our leadership.” -Vicente Fox
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“Half a world away nations that once lived under oppression and tyranny are now budding democracies due in large part to America ‘s leadership and the sacrifices of our military.” -Bob Riley
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“There was no imminent threat. This was made up in Texas, announced in January to the Republican leadership that war was going to take place and was going to be good politically. This whole thing was a fraud.” -Edward Kennedy
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“Doing nothing while the middle class is hurting. That’s not leadership. Loose regulations and lax enforcement. That’s not leadership. That’s abandoning our middle class.” -Kamala Harris
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“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
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“We’re in a leadership position in sports. People look up to the National Football League.” -Roger Goodell
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“And the whole world, the whole world that believes in freedom, whether you’re talking about personal freedom, economic freedom, religious freedom, they look to the United States for leadership and you’re part of that leadership.” -Don Nickles
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“Sinn Fein has demonstrated the ability to play a leadership role as part of a popular movement towards peace, equality and justice.” -Gerry Adams
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“All Americans and freedom-loving people around the world owe President Reagan our deepest gratitude for his strong, principled leadership that ended the Cold War and brought freedom to millions of people.” -Jim Ramstad
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“Real leadership is leaders recognizing that they serve the people that they lead.” -Pete Hoekstra
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“China and India will take the global leadership on climate change: they are suffering for it.” -Malcolm Turnbull
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“President Obama chose politics over leadership. ‘Hope’ and ‘Change’ have become bait-and-switch.” -Lindsey Graham
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“If you can provide the funding and you get the leadership, you’ll have a competitive team.” -T. Boone Pickens
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“I urge the Iraqi leadership for sake of its own people… to seize this opportunity and thereby begin to end the isolation and suffering of the Iraqi people.” -Kofi Annan
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“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
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“Being a CEO still means sitting across the table from big institutional investors and showing your leadership and having them believe in you.” -Christie Hefner
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“We in the press, by our power, can actually undermine leadership.” -Christiane Amanpour
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“The very essence of leadership is that you have to have vision. You can’t blow an uncertain trumpet.” -Theodore Hesburgh
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“I wish I had played team sports. I think every kid should. Teamwork builds character – teaches people about leadership and cooperation.” -Mo Rocca
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“As a vibrant force in civil society, women continue to press for their rights, equal participation in decision-making, and the upholding of the principles of the revolution by the highest levels of leadership in Egypt.” -Michelle Bachelet
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“To meet the expectations of the majority of our people, and to open up new vistas of economic opportunity so that the aspirations of Nigerians can stand a fair chance of being fulfilled in a lifetime, there must be a truly committed leadership in a democratic Nigeria.” -Ibrahim Babangida
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“We’ve been sitting at the compromise table for a long time. We’re just waiting for that cold chair to be warmed up by the Republican leadership. They still have time to do the right thing and be responsible. They just seem to be moving further and further away from it.” -Debbie Wasserman Schultz
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“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
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“I recognize we will pay more attention when we have different leadership.” -Octavia Butler
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“Education is the mother of leadership.” -Wendell Willkie
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“By providing outstanding economic leadership, this country can wage its attack successfully – and can thereby build the foundations of a peaceful world.” -James Forrestal
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“It is the responsibility of leadership to provide opportunity, and the responsibility of individuals to contribute.” -William Pollard
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“I had the closest thing I have ever had to an out-of-body experience lying in bed one morning. I turned on the ‘Today’ programme and item four on the news was: ‘The shadow chancellor has ruled himself out of the leadership.’ I lay there thinking that’s interesting, then I realised it was me.” -George Osborne
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“The test of leadership for David Cameron was actually to bring the British Conservative Party back in to the mainstream.” -David Miliband
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“Clearly no one knows what leadership has gone undiscovered in women of all races, and in black and other minority men.” -Gloria Steinem
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“I’ve developed a huge regard for Toyota for its environmental awareness, for its immense commitment to research and development in this field, and for its leadership in developing hybrids which others are now following.” -Maurice Strong
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“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
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“There are no ideas in the Republican Party right now in the Congress. They’re the party of no. They desperately need some intellectual leadership. And whatever you think of Newt Gingrich, he can supply intellectual leadership. So I hope he does run.” -Howard Dean
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“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
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“One simple way to keep organizations from becoming cancerous might be to rotate all jobs on a regular, frequent and mandatory basis, including the leadership positions.” -Robert Shea
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“Market leadership can translate directly to higher revenue, higher profitability, greater capital velocity, and correspondingly stronger returns on invested capital.” -Jeff Bezos
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“France, after the month of May, will share trust with the current leadership of the United States which, on many subjects, has tended to take useful positions in our view.” -Francois Hollande
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“The person who takes the oath of office in the next four months will shape not just the next four years, but the next forty years of our nation. In these next four years, we need proven leadership, proven judgment and proven values. America needs four more years of President Barack Obama.” -Rahm Emanuel
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“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
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“Leadership involves finding a parade and getting in front of it.” -John Naisbitt
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“Let us build a 21st-century rural economy of cutting-edge companies and technologies that lead us to energy and food security. Such an investment will revitalize rural America, re-establish our moral leadership on climate security and eliminate our addiction to foreign oil.” -Tom Vilsack
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“If there is such a thing as good leadership, it is to give a good example. I have to do so for all the Ikea employees.” -Ingvar Kamprad
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“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
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“The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born-that there is a genetic factor to leadership. This myth asserts that people simply either have certain charismatic qualities or not. That’s nonsense in fact, the opposite is true. Leaders are made rather than born.” -Warren G. Bennis
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“If anybody ran a business like that they would be out of business quickly, and Barack Obama’s leadership is driving this business, the United States of America, toward a fiscal cliff.” -Chris Christie
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“If America wants to retain its position as a global power, its president must listen to the people and show strong leadership at this turning point in human history.” -David Suzuki
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“Leadership is, among other things, the ability to inflict pain and get away with it – short-term pain for long-term gain.” -George Will
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“It’s a tremendous responsibility to be direct descendants of the prophet Muhammad. This family has had the burden of leadership on its shoulders for 1,400 years. I’m not going to drop the ball on my shift.” -King Abdullah II
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“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
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“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
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“It simply cannot be disputed that for decades the Palestinian leadership was more interested in there not being a Jewish state than in there being a Palestinian state.” -Alan Dershowitz
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“Leadership is an ever-evolving position.” -Mike Krzyzewski
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“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
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“Leadership is about being a servant first.” -Allen West
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“The Dalai Lama. He is a very wise man of great inner peace who believes that happiness is the purpose of our lives. Through his teachings and leadership, he continues to make this world a better place in which to live.” -Sidney Sheldon
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“But the fact is that the vast majority of Republicans support the Sinn Fein leadership.” -Martin McGuinness
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“Where there is an absence of international political leadership, civil society should step in to fill the gap, providing the energy and vision needed to move the world in a new and better direction.” -Daisaku Ikeda
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“The role of leadership is to transform the complex situation into small pieces and prioritize them.” -Carlos Ghosn
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“Moreover, as the leadership of the House confirmed last year, the Administration remains opposed to a congressional resolution on the Armenian Genocide due to Turkish objections. This approach sends absolutely the wrong signal to Turkey and to the rest of the world.” -Patrick J. Kennedy
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“Leadership cannot just go along to get along. Leadership must meet the moral challenge of the day.” -Jesse Jackson
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“Most people associate command and control leadership with the military.” -Margaret J. Wheatley
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“The democratic idealist is prone to make light of the whole question of standards and leadership because of his unbounded faith in the plain people.” -Irving Babbitt
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“Washington’s answer to a self-inflicted financial crisis reminded Americans why they so deeply distrust the political class. The ‘fiscal cliff’ process was secretive and sloppy, and the nation’s so-called leadership lacked the political courage to address our root problems: joblessness and debt.” -Ron Fournier
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“Leadership comes in small acts as well as bold strokes.” -Carly Fiorina
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“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
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“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
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“The more that social democracy develops, grows, and becomes stronger, the more the enlightened masses of workers will take their own destinies, the leadership of their movement, and the determination of its direction into their own hands.” -Rosa Luxemburg
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“I am endlessly fascinated that playing football is considered a training ground for leadership, but raising children isn’t. Hey, it made me a better leader: you have to take a lot of people’s needs into account you have to look down the road. Trying to negotiate getting a couple of kids to watch the same…
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“My observation is that women are merely waiting for their husbands to assume leadership.” -James Dobson
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“The cardinal responsibility of leadership is to identify the dominant contradiction at each point of the historical process and to work out a central line to resolve it.” -Mao Zedong
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“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
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“Leadership is intangible, and therefore no weapon ever designed can replace it.” -Omar N. Bradley
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“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
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“Overall, the challenge of leadership is both moral and one of developing the characteristics that make us respected by one another.” -Louis Farrakhan
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“Yes, America must do the right thing, but to provide moral leadership, America must do it in the right way, too.” -David Cameron
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“Ever since Israel has been a nation the United States has provided the leadership. Every president down to the ages has done this in a fairly balanced way, including George Bush senior, Gerald Ford, and others including myself and Bill Clinton.” -Jimmy Carter
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“The task of leadership is not to put greatness into humanity, but to elicit it, for the greatness is already there.” -John Buchan
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“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
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“Maybe if everybody in leadership was a woman, you might not get into the conflicts in the first place. But if you watch the women who have made it to the top, they haven’t exactly been non-aggressive – including me.” -Madeleine Albright
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“There are many elements to a campaign. Leadership is number one. Everything else is number two.” -Bertolt Brecht
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“Leadership does not depend on being right.” -Ivan Illich
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“I emphasize self-esteem, self-confidence, and dignity, not as an ideal, but as a real test of community organization. Without leadership development, community organizations do not have staying power.” -Paul Wellstone
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“Many corporate leaders and employees have the right intentions, but it can be overwhelming when you consider how everything is affected from leadership styles, to organizational structure, to employee engagement, to customer service an marketplace.” -Simon Mainwaring
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“The one thing that the President can do is to establish a real energy independence plan. We have all the recources we need right here in this country to establish energy independence if we had the leadership.” -Herman Cain
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“The trouble with the Labour Party leadership and the trade union leadership, they’re quite willing to applaud millions on the streets of the Philippines or in Eastern Europe, without understanding the need to also produce millions of people on the streets of Britain.” -Arthur Scargill
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“To my mind the election was stolen by George Bush and we have been suffering ever since under this man’s leadership.” -Jessica Lange
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“Nixon was an awful president in many ways, including in some of his foreign-policy choices. But he left no doubt that foreign policy and America’s leadership in the world outside its borders was of paramount importance to him.” -John Podhoretz
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“We are watching industries crumble, Wall Street firms disappear, unemployment spike, and unprecedented government intervention. And our designated opinion leaders want to know: Is Obama up this week? Is he down? And is his leadership style more like Bill Clinton’s, or Abraham Lincoln’s?” -Thomas Frank
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“The signs of outstanding leadership appear primarily among the followers. Are the followers reaching their potential? Are they learning? Serving? Do they achieve the required results? Do they change with grace? Manage conflict?” -Max de Pree
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“The only safe ship in a storm is leadership.” -Faye Wattleton
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“Hope and change? We’re not doing that anymore. They’re doing attack and blame. And so, I just think people are going to see through this. They want real leadership. They want us to get this country on the right track.” -Paul Ryan
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“There’s a void of leadership in a lot of Washington. I think one of the reasons why there’s so much angst across the country.” -Rush Limbaugh
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“Presidential leadership needn’t always cost money. Look for low- and no-cost options. They can be surprisingly effective.” -Donald Rumsfeld
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“My philosophy of leadership is to surround myself with good people who have ability, judgment and knowledge, but above all, a passion for service.” -Sonny Perdue
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“The biggest difference is in the leadership. It was better for us. We had more coaches and mentors to help us. A lot of the younger players today suffer from a lack of direction.” -Isaiah Thomas
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“The key to successful leadership today is influence, not authority.” -Ken Blanchard
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“Charlatanism of some degree is indispensable to effective leadership.” -Eric Hoffer
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“Absolute identity with one’s cause is the first and great condition of successful leadership.” -Woodrow Wilson
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“Honor bespeaks worth. Confidence begets trust. Service brings satisfaction. Cooperation proves the quality of leadership.” -James Cash Penney
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“Military school was great and especially great for leadership and then I spent two years in Vietnam.” -Robert Kiyosaki
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“Well football teams are perhaps easier to control than political parties, I’m sure the Prime Minister would agree with me, but yeah I think every team needs discipline and a sense of self-belief and that’s important, that’s what leadership’s all about.” -Iain Duncan Smith
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“Humility is a great quality of leadership which derives respect and not just fear or hatred.” -Yousef Munayyer
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“A leader is one who, out of madness or goodness, volunteers to take upon himself the woe of the people. There are few men so foolish, hence the erratic quality of leadership in the world.” -John Updike
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“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
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“If you don’t understand that you work for your mislabeled ‘subordinates,’ then you know nothing of leadership. You know only tyranny.” -Dee Hock
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“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
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“One of the tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency.” -Arnold H. Glasow
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“Leadership is getting someone to do what they don’t want to do, to achieve what they want to achieve.” -Tom Landry
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“All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership.” -John Kenneth Galbraith
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“We live in a society obsessed with public opinion. But leadership has never been about popularity.” -Marco Rubio
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“I start with the premise that the function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.” -Ralph Nader
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“The secret to success is good leadership, and good leadership is all about making the lives of your team members or workers better.” -Tony Dungy
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“Leadership consists not in degrees of technique but in traits of character it requires moral rather than athletic or intellectual effort, and it imposes on both leader and follower alike the burdens of self-restraint.” -Lewis H. Lapham
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“I speak directly to the people, and I know that the people of California want to have better leadership. They want to have great leadership. They want to have somebody that will represent them. And it doesn’t matter if you’re a Democrat or a Republican, young or old.” -Arnold Schwarzenegger
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“This assumption of Negro leadership in the ghetto, then, must not be confined to matters of religion, education, and social uplift it must deal with such fundamental forces in life as make these things possible.” -Carter G. Woodson
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“I forgot to shake hands and be friendly. It was an important lesson about leadership.” -Lee Iacocca
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“To have long term success as a coach or in any position of leadership, you have to be obsessed in some way.” -Pat Riley
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“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
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“You don’t lead by hitting people over the head – that’s assault, not leadership.” -Dwight D. Eisenhower
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“Central to America’s rise to global leadership is our Judeo-Christian tradition with the vision of the goodness and possibilities of every human life.” -Mitt Romney
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“Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.” -Stephen Covey
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“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
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“The growth and development of people is the highest calling of leadership.” -Harvey S. Firestone
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“Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy.” -Norman Schwarzkopf
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“Men make history and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better.” -Harry S. Truman
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“Leadership is the other side of the coin of loneliness, and he who is a leader must always act alone. And acting alone, accept everything alone.” -Ferdinand Marcos
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“God will never direct us to be prideful, arrogant and unforgiving, immoral or slothful or full of fear. We step into these things because we are insensitive to the leadership of the Holy Spirit within us.” -Charles Stanley
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“I have a different vision of leadership. A leadership is someone who brings people together.” -George W. Bush
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“A functioning, robust democracy requires a healthy educated, participatory followership, and an educated, morally grounded leadership.” -Chinua Achebe
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“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
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“Leadership is an opportunity to serve. It is not a trumpet call to self-importance.” -J. Donald Walters
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“A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better.” -Jim Rohn
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“Strong convictions precede great actions.” -James Freeman Clarke
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“To succeed, one must be creative and persistent.” -John H. Johnson
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“Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.” -Henry J. Kaiser
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“You have to have your heart in the business and the business in your heart.” -An Wang
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“You have no power at all if you do not exercise constant power.” -Major Owens
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