Leadership Quotes
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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 Granholm
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The United States is doing our part by increasing the number of refugees we resettle and I want again to commend Angela [Merkel], and more importantly, the German people for the extraordinary leadership and compassion that you have shown in the face of what I know is a very difficult challenge.
Barack Obama
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Obviously, the real test of these regulations will be their implementation, ... It is absolutely critical that the Air Force leadership ensure that these regulations are well understood and strictly enforced, especially at the Air Force Academy.
Lois Capps
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Uncertainty is a permanent part of the leadership landscape. It never goes away.
Andy Stanley
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Our decentralized, localized leadership structure has really allowed for Black Lives Matter structures in their own communities to take on the state and take on some of the most egregious acts against black people.
Patrisse Cullors
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Leadership is understanding people and involving them to help you do a job. That takes all of the good characteristics, like integrity, dedication of purpose, selflessness, knowledge, skill, implacability, as well as determination not to accept failure.
Arleigh Burke
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So that the one road for which we now need God's leadership most of all is a road God, in His own nature, has never walked. But suppose God became a man... He could surrender His will, suffer and die, because He was a man.
C. S. Lewis
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I'm all for ambition and stretch goals. I set them for myself. But leadership isn't the same as cheerleading. Believing in something is a necessary but absolutely insufficient condition for making it come true.
Margaret Heffernan
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The function of combat is not merely to perpetrate violence, but to perpetrate violence on command, instantaneously and reflexively. The function of the service academies is to prepare men for leadership positions where they may someday exercise that command.
Jim Webb
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We stand with women by fighting for economic security, protecting access to health care and supporting women's leadership across the country
Barack Obama
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Uncertainty is not an indication of poor leadership; it underscores the need for leadership.
Andy Stanley
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I admire Modi's leadership and his ideology.
Akkineni Nagarjuna
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Leadership is experiential... it's really a trained art.
Arun Sarin
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I applaud the work of Clean Power Lake County in their leadership to call for Lake County to build a just transition from coal to clean energy, and I'm proud their work will be highlighted on the national stage for TV viewers around the country.
Brad Schneider
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The test of leadership is not to put greatness into humanity, but to elicit it, for the greatness is already there.
James Buchanan
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The first step in changing a culture, I believe, starts with the senior leadership team - and with the CEO.
Denise Morrison
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I believe that the capacity that any organisation needs is for leadership to appear anywhere it is needed, when it is needed.
Meg Wheatley
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Americans don't want leadership. They want alchemy.
Michael Kinsley
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Engineers have shown to embody a tremendous amount of leadership skills through the collaborative educational environment.
Dinesh Paliwal
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When a highly successful leader retires after a long career, it is very unlikely that his successor will be of comparable caliber. Anyone of similar ability and drive would have gone somewhere else, instead of waiting in the wings for years for a chance to show his own leadership.
Thomas Sowell
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Own the leadership style that makes you you. If you are an empathetic leader by nature, embrace that.
Rana el Kaliouby
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Leadership is not about being in charge. Leadership is about taking care of those in your charge.
Simon Sinek
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When I look at Franklin Roosevelt's leadership, I think the most important quality he had during the Depression and the war was this absolute confidence in himself, in his country, really in the American people. He was able to exude that confidence and almost project it.
Doris Kearns Goodwin
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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