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Famous Leadership Quotes

It doesn't take a majority to make a rebellion; it takes only a few determined leaders and a sound cause.

I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people.

Mohandas Gandhi

The leader has to be practical and a realist, yet must talk the language of the visionary and the idealist.

Leadership to me means duty, honor, country. It means character, and it means listening from time to time.

Americans... still believe in an America where anything's possible - they just don't think their leaders do.

We can't allow the world's worst leaders to blackmail, threaten, hold freedom-loving nations hostage with the world's worst weapons.

People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader leads, and the boss drives.

Theodore Roosevelt

Time is neutral and does not change things. With courage and initiative, leaders change things.

Jesse Jackson

Leadership Quotes by Women

I want to organize so that women see ourselves as people who are entitled to power, entitled to leadership.

Patricia Ireland

When I created Buffy, I wanted to create a female icon, but I also wanted to be very careful to surround her with men that not only have no problem with the idea of a female leader, but were in fact engaged and even attracted to the idea.

Joss Whedon

Leaders of the future will have to be visionary and be able to bring people in - real communicators. These are things that women bring to leadership and executive positions, and it's going to be incredibly valuable and incredibly in demand.

Anita Borg

It is very hard to be a female leader. While it is assumed that any man, no matter how tough, has a soft side... and female leader is assumed to be one-dimensional.

Billie Jean King

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 Burgess

So many other countries have had female leaders, in fact the U.S. ranks 61st in female representation in government and I think it is startling and sign of a change that needs to be made.

Geena Davis

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

We still think of a powerful man as a born leader and a powerful woman as an anomaly.

Margaret Atwood

Leadership Quotes for Work

People have said I'm the candidate of anger. Well, we have a right to be angry. We lost 3 million jobs. We lost our place as the moral leader of the world.

Howard Dean

A skilled Transition Team leader will set the general goals for a Transition, and then confer on the other team leaders working with him the power to implement those goals.

Richard V. Allen

We will continue to count on your unwavering support and commitment to working with leaders of our continent in bringing about the desired renaissance of Africa.

Thabo Mbeki

One simple way to keep organizations from becoming cancerous might be to rotate all jobs on a regular, frequent and mandatory basis, including the leadership positions.

Robert Shea

I look forward to working with our leadership team to advance the causes of smaller government, lower taxes, eliminating terrorism, and providing affordable health care, among other issues.

Howard Coble

Republican leadership in Congress let the energy companies write the energy bill that sent prices soaring, and has turned a blind eye to the struggles of working families trying to make ends meet.

Sherrod Brown

Now, if we look at the way in which the labor movement itself has evolved over the last couple of decades, we see increasing numbers of black people who are in the leadership of the labor movement and this is true today.

Angela Davis

For me, this is a familiar image - people in the organization ready and willing to do good work, wanting to contribute their ideas, ready to take responsibility, and leaders holding them back, insisting that they wait for decisions or instructions.

Margaret J. Wheatley

More Leadership Quotes

I have a different vision of leadership. A leadership is someone who brings people together.

Clearly, every company needs a leader. That's an important part of being the CEO of the company.

Sanjay Kumar

We need leadership. We don't need a doubling down on the failed politics of the past.

Paul Ryan

This country was the moral leader of the world until George Bush became president.

Howard Dean

A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.

Harry S. Truman

If an individual wants to be a leader and isn't controversial, that means he never stood for anything.

Richard M. Nixon

Leaders are responsible not for running public opinion polls but for the consequences of their actions.

Henry A. Kissinger

The man who lets a leader prescribe his course is a wreck being towed to the scrap heap.

Never neglect details. When everyone's mind is dulled or distracted the leader must be doubly vigilant.

Franklin Roosevelt was a great leader. He saw how to use the levers of power to affect change.

Pete du Pont

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

Bill Owens

Civil rights leaders are involved in helping poor people. That's what I've been doing all my life.

Andrew Young

If there is no certain reality, the idea of following a leader must be scrutinized.

Marguerite Young

It is, after all, the responsibility of the expert to operate the familiar and that of the leader to transcend it.

Henry A. Kissinger

The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on.

Walter Lippmann

Those who cannot think or take responsibility for themselves need, and clamor for, a leader.

Hermann Hesse

You don't lead by hitting people over the head - that's assault, not leadership.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

I wish we had more visible Christian and Catholic leaders who talked about love.

No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit for doing it.

Andrew Carnegie

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

Charles Edison

A true leader has to have a genuine open-door policy so that his people are not afraid to approach him for any reason.

Harold S. Geneen

A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

As the leader of twelve apostles, even Jesus had more executive experience than Obama.

Ann Coulter

Leadership in today's world requires far more than a large stock of gunboats and a hard fist at the conference table.

Hubert H. Humphrey

A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better.

The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.

Henry A. Kissinger

Don't necessarily avoid sharp edges. Occasionally they are necessary to leadership.

Donald Rumsfeld

I'm glad I'm not Brezhnev. Being the Russian leader in the Kremlin. You never know if someone's tape recording what you say.

Richard M. Nixon

We are an age without leaders. We stopped having leaders at the end of the 20th century.

Oriana Fallaci

When leaders take back power, when they act as heroes and saviors, they end up exhausted, overwhelmed, and deeply stressed.

Margaret J. Wheatley

There are many elements to a campaign. Leadership is number one. Everything else is number two.

Bertolt Brecht

I believe that the capacity that any organisation needs is for leadership to appear anywhere it is needed, when it is needed.

Margaret J. Wheatley

I would say my theme has always been paradise lost, always the lost cause, the lost leader, the lost utopia.

Marguerite Young

Choosing one's leaders is an affirmation that the person making the choice has inherent worth.

Linda Chavez

Charlatanism of some degree is indispensable to effective leadership.

Unfortunately, the Republican leadership in the House right now seems to have been strangled by the tea party.

Debbie Wasserman Schultz

A leader or a man of action in a crisis almost always acts subconsciously and then thinks of the reasons for his action.

Jawaharlal Nehru

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

Paul Tsongas

As the leaders and decision-makers of this great state, it is our responsibility to strive for perfection.

Roy Barnes

One leader, one people, signifies one master and millions of slaves.

Elected leaders who forget how they got there won't the next time.

Malcolm Forbes

Democrat leaders are not only out of the American mainstream, but are also out of the Democratic mainstream.

Virginia Foxx

The chief qualification of a mass leader has become unending infallibility; he can never admit an error.

Hannah Arendt

Good leaders make people feel that they're at the very heart of things, not at the periphery.

Warren G. Bennis

Leaders should lead as far as they can and then vanish. Their ashes should not choke the fire they have lit.

H. G. Wells

I think the greater responsibility, in terms of morality, is where leadership begins.

Norman Lear

Robespierre, however, was not the type of leader finally destined to emerge from the Revolution.

Irving Babbitt

A true leader always keeps an element of surprise up his sleeve, which others cannot grasp but which keeps his public excited and breathless.

Charles de Gaulle

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