Top 100 Leadership Quotes

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The man of genius inspires us with a boundless confidence in our own powers.

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Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.

Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.3

Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.

4

Reality is the leading cause of stress among those in touch with it.

5

I have three precious things which I hold fast and prize. The first is gentleness; the second frugality; the third is humility, which keeps me from putting myself before others. Be gentle and you can be bold; be frugal and you can be liberal; avoid putting yourself before others and you can become a leader among men.

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A prime function of a leader is to keep hope alive.

7

If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform one million realities.

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When you can do the common things of life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world.

9

Ill can he rule the great that cannot reach the small.

10

If you want to manage somebody, manage yourself. Do that well and you'll be ready to stop managing. And start leading.

11

True leadership is found in giving yourself in service to others, not in coaxing or inducing others to serve you.

12

Don't overwork your squad. If you're going to make a mistake, under-work them.

13

When I hear bad news I look at it as another leadership test that will determine how successful Go Daddy will become. So I no longer dread it. Instead, I enjoy the game of finding the very best way to deal with it, and take great satisfaction in having a hand in resolving the issues that come my way.

Leadership embraces activism; it is the outcome of a purposeful ...14

Leadership embraces activism; it is the outcome of a purposeful pursuit of goals.

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While leadership depends on depth of conviction and the power coming therefrom, there must also be the ability to share that conviction with others.

16

Leadership is anytime you seek to influence the thinking, behavior, or development of others.

17

Be the compromise you want to see in the world.

18

Standardized tests are an indicator of the kind of service taxpayers are receiving - and whether schools, educators and policymakers are doing their jobs. In the United States, taxpayers spend almost $600 billion annually on public education, so it's not unreasonable to ask what all that money is producing. In fact, it's irresponsible not to know.

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When man has nothing but his will to assert--even his good-will--it is always bullying. Bolshevism is one sort of bullying, capitalism another: and liberty is a change of chains.

20

Staff has a genius for sitting on its brains and coming up with perfect hindsight.

21

Of all the animals, the boy is the most unmanageable.

22

I am convinced that your Mayor must take the leadership role in education too.

23

You plant the gospel. You don't plant churches.

24

We have to assume now that all mission is cross-cultural.

25

Leaders have to act more quickly today. The pressure comes much faster.

26

Change is easy to propose, hard to implement, and especially hard to sustain.

27

Adolescence is about digging out the iron inside irony.

28

Every learner has special needs.

29

The most important emotion in classrooms is surprise.

30

Leadership is the cigarette that's smoked once the change has been consummated.

31

Only do what only you can do.

32

If a volunteer can help us with an immediate need, we can put them in a place to make their greatest contribution.

33

Leaders fix things that are broken.

34

I think the leadership of a company should encourage the next generation not just to follow, but to overtake.

35

Turnaround or growth, it's getting your people focused on the goal that is still the job of leadership.

36

If you want to build a boat, do not instruct the men to saw wood, stitch the sails, prepare the tools and organize the work, but make them long for setting sail and travel to distant lands.

37

All you can do is all you can do, but all you can do is enough.

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The leader is a person who has the possibility through destiny to know the people, to recognize their capacities, and to bring them to bear on the problem.

39

The fact that we are here today to debate raising America's debt limit is a sign of leadership failure. America has a debt problem and a failure of leadership. Americans deserve better. I, therefore, intend to oppose the effort to increase America's debt.

40

We can't drive our SUVs and eat as much as we want and keep our homes on 72 degrees at all times... and then just expect that other countries are going to say OK. That's not leadership. That's not going to happen.

41

One faction of one party, in one house of Congress, in one branch of government, doesn't get to shut down the entire government just to refight the results of an election.

42

To all those watching tonight from beyond our shores, from parliaments and palaces, to those who are huddled around radios in the forgotten corners of the world, our stories are singular, but our destiny is shared, and a new dawn of American leadership is at hand.

43

But the question is, do we care enough? Do we care enough to keep standing up for the country that we know is possible, even if it's hard, and even if it's politically uncomfortable? Do we care enough to sustain the passion and the pressure to make our communities safer and our country safer? Do we care enough to do everything we can to spare other families the pain that is felt here today?

44

You take those little rascals, talk to them good, pat them on the back, let them think they are good, and they will go out and beat the biguns.

45

The idea of molding men means a lot to me.

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If a man is a quitter, I'd rather find out in practice than in a game. I ask for all a player has so I'll know later what I can expect.

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It's not to give people fish It's not to teach them how to fish It's to build a new and better fishing industry

48

How could any entrepreneur, confronted by such amazing opportunities to help transform the world and to do so with such extraordinary colleagues, be tempted to lose focus? Especially since the work involves such breadth that the boredom of routine or specialization does not exist.

49

The best way to prepare [to be a programmer] is to write programs, and to study great programs that other people have written. In my case, I went to the garbage cans at the Computer Science Center and I fished out listings of their operating systems.

50

Leaders need to provide strategy and direction and to give employees tools that enable them to gather information and insight from around the world. Leaders shouldn't try to make every decision.

51

A significant number of pages and sentences that the administration wants to keep in a classified status have already been released publicly, some of it by public statements of the leadership of the CIA and the FBI.

52

I think it is important for people who are given leadership roles to assume that role immediately.

53

A great start to the perfect day - a world-class workout at the gym... It's hard to feel miserable after a great workout.

54

The most important thing about leadership is your character and the values that guide your life.

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Dare to go forward. Courage is the mark of greatness in leadership

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I realised early on that there were two groups of people in the world: those who made the decisions and those who had the decisions made for them. I wanted to be one of the decision-makers.

57

We finally got Nebraska where we want them...off the schedule.

58

Leadership is demonstrated at the moment of need. You learn to be a leader by acting, by doing

59

A serious athlete to me is one who is committed to excellence at any level, at any age, in any endeavor and in either sex. This commitment begins with a dream and a sense of talent and skill and determination to make that dream come true.

60

Disappointment and adversity can be catalysts for greatness. There's something particularly exciting about being the hunter, as opposed to the hunted. And that can make for powerful energy.

61

These observations tie in directly with the whole question of organizing. Why do we have leaders? We put some people out in the fields and all of a sudden they hit, they click. Everyone's happy with them and they begin to move mountains. With other people there are problems and heartaches. They just don't go. When we look and see what's happening, almost invariably the differences are along the lines of willingness to sacrifice and work long hours.

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Men are of no importance. What counts is who commands.

63

Our democracy poses problems and these problems must and shall be solved by courageous leadership.

64

Being captive to quarterly earnings isn't consistent with long-term value creation. This pressure and the short term focus of equity markets make it difficult for a public company to invest for long-term success, and tend to force company leaders to sacrifice long-term results to protect current earnings.

65

Fortunately, God made all varieties of people with a wide variety of interests and abilities. He has called people of every race and color who have been hurt by life in every manner imaginable. Even the scars of past abuse and injury can be the means of bringing healing to another. What wonderful opportunities to make disciples!

66

The Divine Thing that made itself the foundation of the Church does not seem, to judge by his comments on the religious leadership of his day, to have hoped much from officers of a church.

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People learn to lead because they care about something.

68

A low morality will not sustain leadership long, its influence quickly vanishes, it cannot produce its own succession.

69

He is a leader among leaders.

70

It's such a rarity to have women in senior powerful positions. We can name them all. Fact is, women can handle power and handle it well. That's something I'd like a lot more women to understand.

71

As a world leader, America must be prepared to confront any challenge.

72

Being responsible sometimes means pissing people off.

73

Leading in a complex world means recognizing the simple things you can do to make things better.

74

One's action ought to come out of an achieved stillness: not to be a mere rushing on.

75

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.

76

Every age fraught with discord and danger seems to spawn a leader meant only for that age, a political giant whose absence, in retrospect, seems inconceivable when the history of that age is written.

77

If you understand the independent worker, the self-employed professional, the freelancer, the e-lancer, the temp, you understand how work and business in the U.S. operate today.

78

Human beings are natural mimickers. The more youre conscious of the other sides posture, mannerisms, and word choices - and the more you subtly reflect those back - the more accurate youll be at taking their perspective.

79

We associate leadership with decisiveness. That perception of leadership pushes people to make decisions fairly quickly, lest they be seen as dithering and indecisive.

80

There is a direct correlation between the books you read and the success you achieve.

81

When you depend on another's perceptions to match your expectations, you're setting yourself up for disappointment.

82

You can help determine your team's enthusiasm for the change by focusing on the entrance of potential while you are working through the exit of the past.

83

A real leader spends his time fixing the problem instead of finding who to blame.

84

The mayor of Sochi is now saying that there are no gay people in Sochi. So the only thing that is flaming over there now is the Olympic torch.

85

The way I would measure leadership is this: of the people that are working with me, how many wake up in the morning thinking that the company is theirs?

86

True leadership strengthens the followers. It is a process of teaching, setting an example, and empowering others. If you seek to lead, your ability will ultimately be measured in the successes of those around you.

87

The most important word in the vocabulary of advertising is TEST. If you pretest your product with consumers, and pretest your advertising, you will do well in the marketplace.

88

We do not need international help to stop corruption, we need strong Louisiana Leadership.

89

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 TV show requires serious diplomacy.

90

If you don't understand that you work for your mislabeled 'subordinates,' then you know nothing of leadership. You know only tyranny.

91

If it takes a lot of words to say what you have in mind, give it more thought.

92

It's hard to sin if you're preoccupied with Jesus.

93

God has administered to us of the present age, a bitter draught and a harsh physician, on account of our abounding infirmities.

94

I don't know any other way to lead but by example.

95

If you are not criticized, you may not be doing much.

96

Sometimes I'll trust my gut more than my head. Logical information might lead me in one direction and my feelings in another. Whereas I would have followed my head ten years ago, now I'm as likely or more likely to go with my gut feeling. It's ironic - you'd think the opposite would be true as you move to the top but it's not.

97

The difference between good and great is just a little extra effort.

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In order to be a leader a man must have followers. And to have followers, a man must have their confidence. Hence, the supreme quality for a leader is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it is on a section gang, a football field, in an army, or in an office. If a man's associates find him guilty of being phony, if they find that he lacks forthright integrity, he will fail. His teachings and actions must square with each other. The first great need, therefore, is integrity and high purpose.

99

The sentiments in Hawaii about Washington's failure of leadership are no different than the rest of the country.

100

If Ralph Nader runs, President Bush is going to be re-elected, and if Ralph Nader doesn't run, President Bush is going to be re-elected. We're going to run on the president's strong and principled leadership and his positive agenda for a second term.

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