Leadership Quotes
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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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Leadership is experiential... it's really a trained art.
Arun Sarin
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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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He's a novice, but he's had these - he's experienced in leadership in tight circumstances. He started - he dropped the first bomb, led the first air strike into North Vietnam.
James Stockdale
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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
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Americans don't want leadership. They want alchemy.
Michael Kinsley
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You need to be strategic about how you define your leadership journey and where that takes you.
Denise Morrison
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It is a cruel irony of history that he left at the moment he was most needed, the very moment he was expected to provide leadership in helping to settle the future status of Kosovo.
Javier Solana
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Party domination and State leadership are concepts incompatible with one another.
Franz von Papen
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To me, it's about always trying to make decisions that reflect my leadership and who I am.
Andrew Whitworth
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Leaders think and talk about the solutions. Followers think and talk about the problems.
Brian Tracy
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To me, leadership is helping people do their best. If you define leadership that way, I don't think it's overrated.
Debra L. Reed
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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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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
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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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I think the way to maximize not just your leadership but your ability to influence your team is whatever you can do that helps the team perform at a really high level.
Andrew Whitworth
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Because management deals mostly with the status quo and leadership deals mostly with change, in the next century we are going to have to try to become much more skilled at creating leaders.
John P. Kotter
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The intelligence investigation under the leadership of Senator Church, which I know has helped cause this investigation by you, points out that the agencies did not disclose certain facts to us and that certain plots were going on.
John Sherman Cooper
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The key to successful leadership today is influence, not authority.
Ken Blanchard
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History has proven that when the people of Israel unite under a serious and responsible leadership, we know how to overcome all challenges and overcome all obstacles.
Ehud Olmert
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I believe, the [Gunnar] Myrdal study had been made, and if we hadn't had anything else to raise questions, this in itself would have been something to provoke thought in the direction of the value of accommodating leadership.
Ella Baker
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Leadership is creating a state of mind in others. The difference between being a leader and manager, all due respect to managers, is that leaders have to create states of mind. But a leader, first of all, has to have a clear state of mind, which is usually her own vision, which energizes her, motivates others, and then creates that state of mind in others.
Barbara Mikulski
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Comrade Deng Xiaoping - along with other party elders - gave the party leadership their firm and full support to put down the political disturbance using forceful measures.
Li Peng