Leaders Quotes

• The secret lives of politicians are always shady. People need to accept the fact that their leaders aren't perfect. No one is.

  

  Evan Rachel Wood
  • Accept
  • Politicians
  • Secret Life

• I think all of us could insist on preserving the truth and preserving the peace. We could insist that political candidates tell the truth about controversial issues. And secondly, we should be sure to encourage our political leaders, after they're elected, to preserve the peace.

  

  Jimmy Carter
  • Truth
  • Peace
  • Candidates

• Great communication, Character, Competitive drive, Consistency, Compassion, Confidence - skills successful leaders share.

  

  Avery Johnson
  • Communication
  • Leaders
  • Skills

• When we make these decisions that we're going to commit ourselves to making a difference in the life of one person every single day, what happens is we actually build a whole generation of citizen leaders.

  

  Eric Greitens
  • Difference
  • Decisions
  • Citizen

• But right now, we are seeing hundreds of leaders coming together. Many of them are people nobody had ever heard of. This organic organization will outlive any one charismatic figure.

  

  Eliseo Medina
  • Organization
  • Leaders
  • Charismatic

• In all that we do in the Church, we need to provide the way, as leaders, for parents and children to have time together as families.

  

  Boyd K. Packer
  • Children
  • Parents
  • Church

• If civilization is in danger today... it will do so with the enthusiastic assistance of credulous people. They seem to me more dangerous than the most brazen leaders, because everything is done with their cooperation.

  

  Anatoly Kuznetsov
  • Danger
  • Civilization
  • Leaders

• And it falls to a true leader to see to it that his or her people have an inspiring vision to pursue.

  

  Bill Byrd
  • Inspiring
  • Leaders
  • Falls

• Good leaders don’t wait for official permission to try out a new idea. In any organization, if you go looking for permission, you will inevitably find the one person who thinks his job is to say “No!” It’s easier to get forgiveness than permission.

  

  Hal Moore
  • Idea
  • Forgiveness
  • Permission

• The ONLY thing leaders have in common is the shared decision to lead.

  

  Seth Godin
  • Decision
  • Common
  • Lead

• Contrary to what the politicians and religious leaders would like us to believe, the world won't be made safer by creating barriers between people.

  

  Michael Palin
  • People
  • Believe
  • Religious

• America is a country of entrepreneurship and great business leaders.

  

  Nicky Oppenheimer
  • America
  • Leaders
  • Entrepreneurship

• Modalism was the view that evidently was held by a majority of Christians at the beginning of the third century—including the most prominent Christian leaders in the church, the bishops of the church of Rome (i.e., the early “popes”).

  

  Bart Ehrman
  • Church
  • Christians
  • Modalism

• Great obstacles make great leaders.

  

  Billy Diamond
  • Obstacles
  • Leaders

• I know that we shall meet problems along the way, but I'd far rather see for myself what's going on in the world outside, than rely on newspapers, television, politicians and religious leaders to tell me what I should be thinking.

  

  Michael Palin
  • Religious
  • Problems
  • Politicians

• Unless the people can choose their leaders and rulers, and can revoke their choice at intervals long enough to test their measuresby results, the government will be a tyranny exercised in the interests of whatever classes or castes or mobs or cliques have this choice.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • People
  • Rules
  • Leaders

• Nonsense prevails, modesty fails Grace and virtue turn into stupidity While the calendar fades almost all barricades to a pale compromise And our leaders have feasts on the backsides of beasts They still think they're the gods of antiquity If something you missed didn't even exist It was just an ideal is it such a surprise?

  

  Elvis Costello
  • Grace
  • Surprise
  • Exist

• Personally, I'd like to see more of our leaders take a technocratic approach to solving our biggest problems.

  

  Bill Gates
  • Problems
  • Leaders
  • Technocratic approach

• Great leaders are pragmatists who can deal with difficult realities but still have the optimism and courage to act.

  

  Nitin Nohria
  • Courage
  • Act
  • Realities

• To harness the power of television for the education of our nation's children, everyone must get involved - television programmers, government leaders, teachers, and above all, parents.

  

  Edwin Newman
  • Children
  • Education
  • Television

• One of the things that I've found in everything that I've done: People want leaders to create a sense of direction and to lead and to act.

  

  Eric Greitens
  • People
  • Found
  • Direction

• Leaders create an environment in which everyone has the opportunity to do work which matches his potential capability and for which an equitable differential reward is provided.

  

  Elliott Jaques
  • Opportunity
  • Environment
  • Reward

• Great leaders don't rush to blame. They instinctively look for solutions.

  

  Nina Easton
  • Blame
  • Leaders
  • Solutions

• For the most part our leaders are merely following out in front; they do but marshal us the way that we are going.

  

  Bergen Evans
  • Leaders
  • Following
  • Marshal

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