Quotes About Leadership

It is men who make a city, not walls or ships.

Public life is regarded as the crown of a career, and to young men it is the worthiest ambition. Politics is still the greatest and the most honorable adventure.

Dare to walk the path that others have feared to travel, and a leader shall then be born.

The director is a bit analogous to the conductor of a symphony orchestra. It's a collaborative adventure.

Don't rely on others to show you the way. Carry your own map.

Angela Merkel can't travel to any European country without being protected by hundreds of police. That is not brotherhood.

I wanted to be a King who would found a New World, not in some misty country far across the seas, but right here, right now, at home.

They who set an example make a highway. Others follow the example, because it is easier to travel on a highway than over untrodden grounds.

In 30 years of travel and training leaders -164 nations - I've never met anyone who didn't need massive doses of love.

We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are

The trouble with all these other countries is they're all being run by foreigners.

Military action without politics is like a tree without a root.

You can shake a dozen glove men out of a tree, but the bat separates the men from the boys.

Wherever you turn your eye—except in science—an Oxford man is at the top of the tree.

Trees die from the top". No one should ever become a strategist unless he or she is willing to have his or her character serve as a model for subordinates

Do not be very upright in your dealings for you would see by going to the forest that straight trees are cut down while crooked ones are left standing.

A statesman who shakes the fruit trees of his neighbors - to dislodge the worms.

"Top" management is supposed to be a tree full of owls-hooting when management heads into the wrong part of the forest. I'm still unpersuaded they even know where the forest is.

Great people plant trees they'll never sit under.

That's what I love about being mayor. Even if the problem is getting the cat out of the tree - from that to the biggest problem, you're in charge. No ambiguity. Leaders lead.

change starts at the bottom. I think we're disempowered by the idea that it starts at the top, when really change is like a tree. It does start at the bottom.

To get fruits from the tree branches, shake them with hands; to get fruits from men, shake them with clever ideas!

The leader of a company needs to have a decision tree in his head - if this happens, we go this way, but if it winds up like that, then we go this other way.

An honest public servant can't become rich in politics. He can only attain greatness and satisfaction by service.