Quotes About Leadership

It's essential for a president to show strength from the very beginning, to make it very clear what is acceptable and not acceptable.

Our nettlesome task is to discover how to organize our strength into compelling power.

Are we going to lead the world with strength and in accordance with our values? That's what I intend to do.

Personal and organizational effectiveness is proportionate to the strength of leadership.

This is an election of hope. It is bringing a new trust. These elections will give new strength to the nation.

To be a leader in the Church has always required strength and faith beyond the merely human.

In war, moral factors acount for three quarters of the whole; relative material strength accounts for only one quarter.

I generally think debates within a party should not be treated as a scandal. They should be treated as a sign of strength, to be honest.

I allow myself to honor the man who fought in moments when he had no strength to impose himself, until he managed to impose himself. [Joseph] Ratzinger. Cardinal Ratzinger deserves applause.

We have to create that strength, and sometimes we have to reduce bureaucracy. It just gets in our way.

Strength grows from building other strength, not from trampling on weakness.

Whole part of the world is a mess under [Barack] Obama, with all the strength that you're talking about and all of the power of NATO.

America is stronger than any state probably since the Roman Empire. But we can't do what used to be done with that kind of strength.

I'm a Reagan conservative. Reagan did negotiate with the Soviets. But you have to negotiate from a position of strength.

I feel like a Bull Moose.

An entrepreneur assumes the risk and is dedicated and committed to the success of whatever he or she undertakes.

The stress stops here

It's hard in daily life. It's even harder in management because it's the stress of the moment.

Directors and writers have a lot of stress as well, because they have people they answer to.

On the other hand, I have devoted so much energy to reach the top that I accept the stress of being there.

I think running for president causes more stress.

As a king can wear a crown, a crown can also weary a king.

Your success as a family... our success as a nation... depends not on what happens inside the White House, but on what happens inside your house.

I admire people who are very successful. But if that success has been achieved through too much ruthlessness, then I may admire that person, but I can't respect him.