Leadership Quotes
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Leadership is more likely to be assumed by the aggressive than by the able, and those who scramble to the top are more often motivated by their own inner torments.
Bergen Evans
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I pledge to the people of Alabama to continue the same level of leadership as Jeff Sessions in consistently fighting to protect and advance the conservative values we all care about.
Luther Strange
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His peaceful resistance shook the foundations of an empire, exposed the emptiness of a repressive ideology, and proved that moral leadership is more powerful than any weapon.
Barack Obama
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Leadership is found in the action to defeat that which would defeat you… You are made by the struggles you choose.
C. T. Vivian
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I think that my leadership style is to get people to fear staying in place, to fear not changing.
Louis V. Gerstner, Jr.
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There's a very big gulf between the black civil rights leadership in America and the black middle class in America. The black middle class are conservative. Many of those minorities can be persuaded to be members of the Republican Party.
Pete du Pont
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When you cannot make up your mind which of two evenly balanced courses of action you should take choose the bolder.
William Slim
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I also know that there have been many times in our history when the proximity of an election has induced exactly the kind of leadership and consensus-building that produce progress in our democracy.
Joe Lieberman
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Leadership is not a position or a title, it is action and example.
Cory Booker
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I think the greater responsibility, in terms of morality, is where leadership begins.
Norman Lear
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If we're going to become the kind of company we talk about in terms of business acumen, we have to have a pipeline of really great business leadership coming through.
David Lee Murphy
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Good political leadership for me involves getting the big decisions right - however difficult, however controversial, however potentially divisive - and then being able to take people with you.
Charles Kennedy
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This is our opportunity to change the leadership of the White House.
Charles Bass
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Enduring setbacks while maintaining the ability to show others the way to go forward is a true test of leadership.
Nitin Nohria
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Leadership is particularly necessary to ensure ready acceptance of the unfamiliar and that which is contrary to tradition.
Cyril Falls
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Strength, the American way, is not manifested by threats of criminal prosecution or police state methods. Leadership is not manifested by coercion, even against the resented. Greatness is not manifested by unlimited pragmatism, which places such a high premium on the end justifying any means and any methods.
Margaret Chase Smith
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I think leadership is something you earn, more through actions than words.
Ander Crenshaw
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Leadership is hard. It's a skill. It's a technique.
Jocko Willink
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The very exercise of leadership fosters capacity for it.
Cyril Falls
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Leadership is building a bridge that connects the vision with the purpose, in order to empower those who are around us.
David Walker
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I've made enough jokes about Iran's leadership that I'm sure if I showed up that I would get a nice escort - to the main prison - and then I could do a show there.
Maz Jobrani
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I think that in any group activity - whether it be business, sports, or family - there has to be leadership or it won't be successful.
John Wooden
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All leadership is appreciative leadership. It's the capacity to see the best in the world around us, in our colleagues, and in the groups we are trying to lead.
David Cooperrider
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In Germany, they have great difficulty with anything that smacks of cultism or messianic leadership. You can't talk about leadership in its charismatic forms.
David Whyte