Leadership Quotes

367. 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.

^{Charles Williams}

368. Leadership does matter.

^{Mark Rutte}

369. But the person who scored well on an SAT will not necessarily be the best doctor or the best lawyer or the best businessman. These tests do not measure character, leadership, creativity, perseverance.

^{William Julius Wilson}

370. In any case, decisions on troop levels in the American system of government are not made by any general or set of generals but by the civilian leadership of the war effort.

^{Bill Kristol}

371. Leadership is one of sports’ intangibles. Guys can score, guys can fight, guys can skate faster than anybody else. But not everybody can say, ‘Follow me.’

^{Paul Coffey}

372. I’ve developed a huge regard for Toyota for its environmental awareness, for its immense commitment to research and development in this field, and for its leadership in developing hybrids which others are now following.

^{Maurice Strong}

373. Such highly qualitative leadership is demanded especially in the realm of the fostering of right international relations. Here the demand is simply irresistible.

^{John Mott}

374. I very much believe in values-based leadership and that the values that I believe in and try to govern by are transcendent values.

^{Deval Patrick}

375. Mahatma Gandhi was someone who demonstrated the tremendous power of leadership by example.

^{N. R. Narayana Murthy}

376. Good leadership is to know when to go, and you only succeed as a good leader if you’ve transported someone else in and the company gets stronger. Then you’ve succeeded as leader.

^{Tony Fernandes}

377. The Dalai Lama. He is a very wise man of great inner peace who believes that happiness is the purpose of our lives. Through his teachings and leadership, he continues to make this world a better place in which to live.

^{Sidney Sheldon}

378. For success of any mission, it is necessary to have creative leadership. Creative leadership is vital for government, non-governmental organisations as well as for industries.

^{A. P. J. Abdul Kalam}

379. You have to enable and empower people to make decisions independent of you. As I’ve learned, each person on a team is an extension of your leadership; if they feel empowered by you they will magnify your power to lead.

^{Tom Ridge}

380. Clearly no one knows what leadership has gone undiscovered in women of all races, and in black and other minority men.

^{Gloria Steinem}

381. 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.

^{Barack Obama}

382. Leadership comes in small acts as well as bold strokes.

^{Carly Fiorina}

383. It was a hallmark of Nelson Mandela’s leadership that being open to change made him appear not weaker, but even stronger.

^{Klaus Schwab}

384. Leadership is a mindset that shifts from being a victim to creating results. Any one of us can demonstrate leadership in our work and within our lives.

^{Robin S. Sharma}

385. Jared Kushner is Ivanka Trump husband. Jared was instrumental in being kind of an overlay in kind of bringing Trump’s genius down to the all the different parts of leadership.

^{Brad Parscale}

386. I start with the premise that the function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.

^{Ralph Nader}

387. The legitimacy of the leadership depends on what that country thinks of its leaders.

^{Zbigniew Brzezinski}

388. We needed to go back on the offense and offer clear leadership on Iraq.

^{Condoleezza Rice}

389. Leadership is getting players to believe in you. If you tell a teammate you’re ready to play as tough as you’re able to, you’d better go out there and do it. Players will see right through a phony. And they can tell when you’re not giving it all you’ve got.

^{Larry Bird}

390. I think part of being a good leader is listening skills, and I think a big part of leadership is the ability to delegate.

^{Joe Maddon}

391. I am delighted with the strong vote I have received. My message of positive leadership, patriotism and commitment clearly was resonating with tens of thousands of ordinary Irish people.

^{Michael D. Higgins}

392. Leadership is a matter of having people look at you and gain confidence, seeing how you react. If you’re in control, they’re in control.

^{Tom Landry}

393. And if the imam and the Muslim leadership in that community is so intent on building bridges, then they should voluntarily move the mosque away from ground zero and move it whether it’s uptown or somewhere else, but move it away from that area, the same as the pope directed the Carmelite nuns to move a convent away from Auschwitz.

^{Peter T. King}

394. Leadership is absolutely about inspiring action, but it is also about guarding against mis-action.

^{Simon Sinek}

395. Helping other people develops your leadership skills, and people start to see you as a natural leader.

^{Doug McMillon}

396. One of my beliefs about leadership is it’s not how many followers you have, but how many people you have with different opinions that you can bring together and try to be a good listener.

^{Robert Kraft}

397. At that time, the army leadership said the implementation of this agreement would allow everyone, including the IRA, to take its political objectives forward by peaceful and democraticmeans.

^{Gerry Adams}

398. There are certain skills that business people have that are – that are, in fact, helpful in – when it comes to being in political leadership.

^{Rick Santorum}

399. Just as discipline and freedom are opposing forces that must be balanced, leadership requires finding the equilibrium in the dichotomy of many seemingly contradictory qualities between one extreme and another.

^{Jocko Willink}

400. I’ve always been about the power of a woman – accentuating the positive, deleting the negative, whether you’re talking her body, her voice or her leadership.

^{Donna Karan}

401. You have asked me to lead this nation out of the present wilderness and malaise on to the promised land, and I shall do so; I shall offer a responsive, transparent, and innovative leadership.

^{Mwai Kibaki}

402. You don’t lead by hitting people over the head – that’s assault, not leadership.

^{Dwight D. Eisenhower}

403. Leadership offers an opportunity to make a difference in someone’s life, no matter what the project.

^{Bill Owens}

404. The failure of women to have reached positions of leadership has been due in large part to social and professional discrimination.

^{Rosalyn Sussman Yalow}

405. Leadership is a choice, not a position.

^{Stephen Covey}

406. For women to achieve equal representation in leadership roles, it’s important that they have the backing of men as well as women.

^{Adam Grant}

407. Women are problem solvers, and often we don’t get much credit for that because the typical image of a leader is someone who’s loud, obnoxious, chest-pounding. That’s not my vision of what true leadership is; true leaders are the ones who work with great commitment to get something done.

^{Mazie Hirono}

408. People invest in businesses that they believe have the leadership, mission and team to grow and operate profitably.

^{Robert Kiyosaki}

409. My focus as part of the leadership is to keep talking about the independent voters, independent voters – how do we get the independent voters back?

^{Henry Cuellar}

410. I think leadership is service and there is power in that giving: to help people, to inspire and motivate them to reach their fullest potential.

^{Denise Morrison}

411. Tamil Nadu needs a leader, a leadership. I am coming to fill that vacuum.

^Rajinikanth

412. Power should be reserved for weightlifting and boats, and leadership really involves responsibility.

^{Herb Kelleher}

413. Leadership is a position where you want to create the opportunity to inspire people to walk along beside you, not listen to what you say.

^{Andrew Whitworth}

414. Projecting weakness will not make us safer or discourage attacks against us. We need to show leadership and strength by demonstrating that we will not tolerate violent acts against our people, and we will not leave our citizens or our interests vulnerable to an attack.

^{Tom Rooney}

415. You should govern not by partisanship, but by leadership.

^{Kevin Faulconer}

416. In a world of serious threats to the U.K. and to global stability, where we see violence and conflict pulling people back into poverty, international terrorism, migration crises, children dyingfrom preventable diseases and global environmental concerns on the rise, Britain’s leadership on the world stage is more important than ever.

^{Priti Patel}

417. We all know business financial performance improves when more women are in senior levels of management and leadership.

^{Beth Brooke}

418. There’s a void of leadership in a lot of Washington. I think one of the reasons why there’s so much angst across the country.

^{Rush Limbaugh}

419. We need to make sure we’re creating spaces to create new leaders and new types of leadership.

^{Alicia Garza}