Leadership Quotes

420. The leader is one who mobilizes others toward a goal shared by leaders and followers… Leaders, followers and goals make up the three equally necessary supports for leadership.

^{Garry Wills}

421. Just for me, my leadership revolves around serving people. It’s the way I thought would be effective for my personality.

^{Monty Williams}

422. We need Big Ideas, as we are in a time of small people, and as Kennedy showed with Apollo, doing something grand in space is the biggest. At a time of huge national doubt and fear of losing our leadership as a nation to others, it focused us, gave us something positive and inspired a generation.

^{Rick Tumlinson}

423. Talent? Overrated. Leadership? Underrated.

^{Colin Cowherd}

424. I’ve made some films for the military that are teaching things like cultural awareness and leadership issues, that sort of stuff. And try to, in essence, look at what training they’re doing and say, ‘This is how you can improve the training from a humanistic point of view.’

^{Carl Weathers}

425. Leadership flows from inner character and integrity of ambition, which inspires others to lend themselves to your organization’s mission.

^{Frances Hesselbein}

426. I think leadership is just something that comes really natural to me.

^{Carson Wentz}

427. Great entrepreneurial DNA is comprised of leadership, technological vision, frugality, and the desire to succeed.

^{Steve Blank}

428. Beginning under the Roman Empire, intellectual leadership in the West had been provided by Christianity. In the middle ages, who invented the first universities – in Paris, Oxford, Cambridge? The church.

^{Nancy Pearcey}

429. Leadership and punching above your weight doesn’t necessarily always have to mean gunboat diplomacy and bombing other countries into the stone age. It can actually mean leading by example, and helping other countries.

^{Clive Lewis}

430. We’re trained to see the world in terms of charismatic organizations and charismatic people. That’s who we look to for leadership and change, for transformation. We’re awaiting the next J.F.K., the next Martin Luther King, the next Gandhi, the next Nelson Mandela.

^{Paul Hawken}

431. The best thing you can do is learn from those mistakes so that you continue to get better. That’s the management style or leadership style I believe in, which is push people to their limit such that they can become better than they thought they could be. That certainly has helped me.

^{Lisa Su}

432. The Irish Republican Army has kept every commitment made by its leadership.

^{Gerry Adams}

433. I vividly remember a conversation I had many years ago in 1974, which marked a turning point in my leadership journey. I was sitting at a Holiday Inn with my friend, Kurt Campmeyer, when he asked me if I had a personal growth plan. I didn’t. In fact, I didn’t even know you were supposed to have one.

^{John C. Maxwell}

434. Leadership has become a heavy industry. Concern and interest about leadership development is no longer an American phenomenon. It is truly global. Though I will probably be in less demand, I wanted to move on.

^{Warren Bennis}

435. The main tenet of design thinking is empathy for the people you’re trying to design for. Leadership is exactly the same thing – building empathy for the people that you’re entrusted to help.

^{David M. Kelley}

436. I don’t care tuppence whether I’m forced into a leadership position or not. I’d much sooner not.

^{E. P. Thompson}

437. Most leadership strategies are doomed to failure from the outset. As people have been noting for years, the majority of strategic initiatives that are driven from the top are marginally ^{effective – at best.}

^{Peter Senge}

438. Washington’s answer to a self-inflicted financial crisis reminded Americans why they so deeply distrust the political class. The ‘fiscal cliff’ process was secretive and sloppy, and the nation’s so-called leadership lacked the political courage to address our root problems: joblessness and debt.

^{Ron Fournier}

439. The captain at international level has to be someone who is one of the first names on the team sheet, someone who has the respect of the other players and someone who has good leadership qualities.

^{Jamie Carragher}

440. Leadership is hard to train on.

^{Ben Horowitz}

441. True leadership knows not to go to extremes but knows how to confront and appreciate challenges.

^{Lubna Olayan}

442. Leadership is… to make sure you never limit the idea or opportunity.

^{Kevin Plank}

443. I really do believe in succession building and giving people experience for future leadership.

^{Lois Frankel}

444. You can never stop and as older people, we have to learn how to take leadership from the youth and I guess I would say that this is what I’m attempting to do right now.

^{Angela Davis}

445. Black leadership has to recognize that principles more than speech, character more than a claim, is greater in advancing the cause of our liberation than what has transpired thus far.

^{Louis Farrakhan}

446. If you don’t understand that you work for your mislabeled ‘subordinates’, then you know nothing of leadership. You know only tyranny.

^{Dee Hock}

447. When President Obama was in the Senate, when he was a U.S. senator, he voted against raising the debt ceiling. And he said it was a lack of leadership that had brought us to this point.

^{Cathy McMorris Rodgers}

448. An important part of leadership is being able to hold two things in your mind at once: Dealing with the reality, whatever it may be, and focus on hope for the future. Any leader helping an organization through challenges needs to be able to do both.

^{Alan Mulally}

449. I think for me, or for anyone who plays the quarterback position, it’s almost an unspoken word when you think about leadership. Some guys can be a leader and be a running back or a lineman, or wide receiver, strong safety, or linebacker. But when you speak of quarterbacks, it’s automatically a default that you’re supposed to be a leader.

^{Cam Newton}

450. Each year I host a leadership summit in my district, and my biggest advice to young people is get experience. Get your foot in the door.

^{Aaron Schock}

451. I urge the Iraqi leadership for sake of its own people… to seize this opportunity and thereby begin to end the isolation and suffering of the Iraqi people.

^{Kofi Annan}

452. I am not in favour of quotas. Just put the best person into the job. It is not about gender; it is about experience, leadership and vision.

^{Angela Ahrendts}

453. Our democracy poses problems and these problems must and shall be solved by courageous leadership.

^{Charles Edison}

454. Going back to the moon is not visionary in restoring space leadership for America. Like its Apollo predecessor, it will prove to be a dead end littered with broken spacecraft, broken dreams and broken policies.

^{Buzz Aldrin}

455. Too often, advances in civil rights or women’s rights are undermined by wrong-headed legislation or weak-kneed political leadership.

^{Mike Quigley}

456. One secret of leadership is that the mind of a leader never turns off. Leaders even when they are sightseers or spectators, are active; not passive observers.

^{James Humes}

457. One of the topics I’m most passionate about is servant leadership – the greatest leaders recognize that they’re here to serve, not to be served.

^{Ken Blanchard}

458. We need leadership, and we need it now.

^{Byron Dorgan}

459. One of the best paradoxes of leadership is a leader’s need to be both stubborn and open-minded. A leader must insist on sticking to the vision and stay on course to the destination. But he must be open-minded during the process.

^{Simon Sinek}

460. We also can’t try to take over and rebuild every country that falls into crisis. That’s not leadership; that’s a recipe for quagmire, spilling American blood and treasure that ultimately weakens us. It’s the lesson of Vietnam, of Iraq – and we should have learned it by now.

^{Barack Obama}

461. I’ve always voted Republican because America is exactly that, a republic. You can’t expect much leadership with a Democrat behind the desk their not even close to dual efficient.

^{Audrey Meadows}

462. I think you need to be intentional at times about your leadership – where you’re eating lunch, who you’re interacting with, making guys feel like you’re interested in what they’re doing. If it’s authentic, then it’s going to be an easy conversation and easy hangout time.

^{Aaron Rodgers}

463. One of the things you look for is leadership, and it comes in different forms. There’s vocal leaders, there’s quiet leaders, there’s leaders that lead by example.

^{Barry Trotz}

464. Xerox’s innovative technology and service offerings – delivered through an expanding distribution system with a lean and flexible business model – continue to solidify our market leadership, driving consistently strong earnings performance.

^{Anne M. Mulcahy}

465. True urgent leadership doesn’t drain people. It does the opposite. It energizes them. It makes them feel excited.

^{John P. Kotter}

466. With King Abdullah’s leadership and his people’s trust he can keep the kingdom stable and secure in all its affairs.

^{Sultan bin Abdul-Aziz Al Saud}

467. The church wasn’t an organization in the first century. They weren’t writing checks or buying property. The church has matured and developed over the years. But for some reason, the last thing to change is the structure of leadership.

^{Andy Stanley}

468. I would say that one of the things that encouraged me so much when I became elected to the leadership was the letters I received from fathers of daughters, saying that, ‘My daughter cannow do many more things because of what you did.’

^{Nancy Pelosi}

469. Woodrow Wilson called for leaders who, by boldly interpreting the nation’s conscience, could lift a people out of their everyday selves. That people can be lifted into their better selves is the secret of transforming leadership.

^{James MacGregor Burns}

470. Some people feel, you make your case, if they listen to you, fine, if they don’t, that’s it. That’s not what leadership is. Leadership is trying to continue to make a case.

^{Anthony Fauci}

471. While Mayor Daley surprised me today with his decision to not run for reelection, I have never been surprised by his leadership, dedication and tireless work on behalf of the city and thepeople of Chicago.

^{Rahm Emanuel}

472. We’re trying to take a leadership role in solving the nation’s health-care crisis. We want everybody in this country to have health insurance.

^{Steven Burd}

473. Public office is supposed to be a public trust. This is a clear sign of the rampant corruption at the highest levels of the Republican leadership.

^{Bob Etheridge}