Leadership Quotes

526. Most Christian leadership is exercised by people who do not know how to develop healthy, intimate relationships and have opted for power and control instead. Many Christian empire-builders have been people unable to give and receive love.

^{Henri Nouwen}

527. In a very real way, ownership is the essence of leadership. When you are ‘ridiculously in charge,’ then you own whatever happens in a company, school, et cetera.

^{Henry Cloud}

528. I think I can bring tremendous leadership.

^{Jared Goff}

529. Bad leadership during the past years has cast on our Party the shadow of great and grave burdens.

^{Janos Kadar}

530. We never used to blink at taking a leadership role in the world. And we understood leadership often required something other than drones and bombs. We accepted global leadership not just for humanitarian reasons, but also because it was in our own best interest. We knew we couldn’t isolate ourselves from trouble. There was no place to hide.

^{Robert Reich}

531. I don’t agree with all-male leaderships. Men cannot be left to run things on their own. I think it’s a thoroughly bad thing to have a men-only leadership.

^{Harriet Harman}

532. There are no more excuses for leaving women out of the inner circles of power. Qualified women are everywhere. Women are ready for leadership; they just need to be identified and asked.

^{Madeleine M. Kunin}

533. I liked the military life. They teach you self-sufficiency early on. I always say that I learned most of what I know about leadership in the Marine Corps. Certain basic principles stay with you – sometimes consciously, mostly unconsciously.

^{Raymond Kelly}

534. Libertarians believe that any government interference is bad. Anyone with a brain knows that climate change needs governmental leadership, and they can smell this is bad news for their philosophy. Their ideology is so strongly held that, remarkably, it’s overcoming the facts.

^{Jeremy Grantham}

535. China is the largest and most ancient of Asiatic countries, but it is not for us boastfully to talk of her right to a position of ‘leadership’ among those countries.

^{Chiang Kai-shek}

536. In the past, the U.S. has shown its capacity to reinvent its gifts for leadership. During the 1970s, in the aftermath of the Nixon abdication and the Ford and Carter presidencies, the whole nation peered into the abyss, was horrified by what it saw and elected Ronald Reagan as president, which began a national resurgence.

^{Paul Johnson}

537. Leadership is a matter of how to be – not how to do it.

^{Frances Hesselbein}

538. Leadership and management are not synonymous.

^{Travis Bradberry}

539. If you don’t have the necessary inner balance, leadership can demolish you. Today, if you are a CEO by the time you are 35, you must have ulcers. By 45, you must have diabetes. By 55, you must have had a bypass. People say they have had three bypasses, as if it is a qualification.

^{Jaggi Vasudev}

540. No organization should be allowed near disaster unless they are willing to cooperate with some level of established leadership.

^{Irwin Redlener}

541. We need real leadership, Democrat, Republican and independent to stand up and say, we have to live within our means.

^{Tom Coburn}

542. In the area we’re discussing, leadership begins on Madison Avenue, on the desks and in the offices of people who spend hundreds of millions of dollars buying what will get them ratings.

^{Norman Lear}

543. I love everything about football. You can learn so much from it, from leadership qualities to discipline. This sport involves every kind of emotion.

^{Julie Ertz}

544. What happened with Hurricane Katrina was the American electorate was forced to look at what lay behind the veneer of chest-beating. We all saw the consequences of having terrible government leadership.

^{Susan Faludi}

545. Women in leadership cannot cry without raising a storm of commentary.

^{Madeleine M. Kunin}

546. We need leadership that can elevate religion and morality to their position of paramount importance and thus eliminate growing selfishness, immorality and materialism.

^{George W. Romney}

547. The art of leadership is not to spend your time measuring, evaluating. It’s all about selecting the person. And if you believe you selected the right person, then you give that person the freedom, the authority, the delegation to innovate and to lead with some very simple measure.

^{Pierre Nanterme}

548. The most significant barrier to female leadership is the actual lack of females in leadership. The best advice I can give to women is to go out and start something, ideally their own businesses. If you can’t see a path for leadership within your own company, go blaze a trail of your own.

^{Safra A. Catz}

549. Shouldn’t Democrats insist that Sen. Durbin step down as their whip, the number two man in their leadership?

^{Bill Kristol}

550. 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}

551. I think our leadership team is a highly accountable leadership team.

^{Steve Ballmer}

552. Actually, I don’t ever think there will be a men-only team of leadership in the Labour party again. People would look at it and say, ‘What? Are there no women in the party to be part of the leadership? Do men want to do it all themselves?’ It just won’t happen again.

^{Harriet Harman}

553. I’m sad to report that in the past few years, ever since uncertainty became our insistent 21st century companion, leadership has taken a great leap backwards to the familiar territory of command and control.

^{Margaret J. Wheatley}

554. Success in the revolution and construction depends on how a party, the General Staff of the revolution, is built and on how its leadership role is enhanced.

^{Kim Jong-un}

555. This – the leadership of the mayor is crucial, because it is to the mayor that people will look to provide the vision, the energy, and the sense of confidence in the rebuilding and the recovery.

^{Marc Morial}

556. My observation is that women are merely waiting for their husbands to assume leadership.

^{James Dobson}

557. I think leadership is knowing what you want to achieve and then purposefully and sensibly taking steps to achieve it, remembering always that you have got to bring people with you if you are seeking to be a successful political leader.

^{Tony Abbott}

558. I recognize we will pay more attention when we have different leadership.

^{Octavia E. Butler}

559. Leadership cannot be taught. Either you’re a leader by the time you’re 12 years old, or you never will be.

^{Jon Taffer}

560. You were born to lead as mothers and fathers, because nowhere is righteous leadership more crucial than in the family.

^{Sheri L. Dew}

561. Absolute identity with one’s cause is the first and great condition of successful leadership.

^{Woodrow Wilson}

562. A philanthropic venture requires all the energy, knowledge and money from its founder that a company requires from the leadership team.

^{Romesh Wadhwani}

563. Real leadership means tackling tough problems ourselves and not leaving them to our children.

^{Jon Kyl}

564. I don’t want to put off negative vibes to my teammates. That’s kind of my leadership mentality.

^{Taysom Hill}

565. Leadership experts and the public alike extol the virtues of transformational leaders – those who set out bold objectives and take risks to change the world. We tend to downplay ‘transactional’ leaders, whose goals are more modest, as mere managers.

^{Joseph Nye}

566. I wanted to be a veterinarian and go to school in Boston. It didn’t quite work out that way, and I ended up joining the Navy as a suggestion of my big brother. It was really awesome – and I didn’t realize it at the time, -but provided a lot of leadership and followership teamwork opportunities.

^{Sunita Williams}

567. I work tirelessly advocating for gun violence prevention and promoting common-sense gun laws that could spare other parents the pain of having their child taken by senseless gun violence – laws the NRA’s leadership has fought against relentlessly.

^{Lucy McBath}

568. I took a gamble to exercise leadership without losing my feminine nature.

^{Michelle Bachelet}

569. I have always believed women have so many natural leadership qualities. They just need opportunities and access.

^{Aja Brown}

570. From a parent’s right to know what their children are doing, to protecting citizens across the country from the growing threat of gang violence, the House Democrat leadership is simply out to lunch.

^{Virginia Foxx}

571. Having served in the Nixon Administration, I am well aware of how the political leadership of an administration can try to politicize the civil service, including law enforcement.

^{Frank Wolf}

572. I am very bullish on India because of its people, its culture, and the leadership. I love the culture and warmth of people.

^{Tim Cook}

573. Because of the president’s leadership, every American will have access to affordable, quality health care.

^{Rahm Emanuel}

574. I want to deploy the leadership to meet the challenges that face us and to restore America’s greatness.

^{Paul Tsongas}

575. One thing my dad’s always told me about leadership is when all hell’s breaking loose, everyone’s looking at you to see how you’re handling it. If you’re frantic and out of control, they’regoing to be frantic and out of control. If you’re calm, cool and collected and doing the right things, they’ll follow you.

^{Ron Rivera}

576. The Leadership Training Institute of America trains and equips young men and women to be leaders with high standards of personal morality and integrity.

^{Michael C. Burgess}

577. It is time for new leadership, new direction, and new results in Washington, D.C., and that is why I am running for United States Senate.

^{Ron Crumpton}

578. As representatives, we are accountable first not to our party, not to our leadership, not to the chief executive, but just to our constituents.

^{Sara Gideon}

579. Ray Lewis, I’ve grown up watching Ray Lewis. Just watching his intensity, his passion for the game, his love for the game, his work ethic. Everything in a linebacker that you want to be is in Ray Lewis, from leadership qualities, all that.

^{Manti Te’o}

580. Research has shown that the perceived style of leadership is by far the most important thing to most voters in evaluating officeholders and candidates.

^{Robert Teeter}