Quotes About Leadership

When you tell your truth, you are coming from a real place, so you are automatically a leader.

[On Napoleon:] The Emperor is too grand for anybody to tell him the truth, everybody who surrounds him flatters him all day long.

Always tell the truth, and take an interest in serving the people around you as much as possible.

Followers who tell the truth, and leaders who listen to it, are an unbeatable combination.

Ric placed his elbows on his desk and rested his chin in the palms of his hand. "So, let me sum up - we've got one vote for total annihilation and one vote for forcing them to join the hockey team. Am I correct?" "Yes," both females replied.

If you're competitor-focused, you have to wait until there is a competitor doing something. Being customer-focused allows you to be more pioneering."1 - JEFF BEZOS, CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER, AMAZON

You were born to lead as mothers and fathers because nowhere is righteous leadership more crucial than in the family. You were born to lead as priesthood and auxiliary leaders, as heads of communities, companies, and even nations. You were born to lead as men and women willing 'to stand as witnesses of God at all times and in all things, and in all places' because that's what a true leader does.

As leaders have sought revelation, the guidance received over the past few years is to strengthen the sacrament meeting, honor the Sabbath day, and encourage and assist parents and individuals to make their homes a source of spiritual strength and increased faith—a place of joy and happiness.

Do you think there is any chance the Lord would have inspired his prophets to prophesy about us, only to then take a chance on the outcome of the latter days by sending men and women he couldn't count on? There is no chance - zero chance - He would have done that.

After explainging that the Relief Society is one of the oldest and largest women's organizations in the world, he said: "People wonder what we do for our women. I will tell you what we do; we get out of their way and look with wonder at what they are accomplishing.

Year after year, President Bush has broken his campaign promises on college aid. And year after year, the Republican leadership in Congress has let him do it.

It is past time for Republican leadership to answer for record deficits and reckless spending, both in Iraq and in the U.S. It's time for a plan to bring our troops home.

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.

Neither Presidents Kennedy and Johnson in Vietnam nor President Bush in Iraq had heeded the words of the nineteenth-century Prussian general Carl von Clausewitz, who wrote that, in war, a nation should "never take the first step without considering what may be the last.

To New York voters, Lehman's courage and honesty shone through. Herbert Lehman, the labor official George Meany wrote, "was the ideal public servant … He had none of the average politician's guile, the average diplomat's evasiveness, the average banker's greed, or the average statesman's aloofness." For Herbert Lehman, life was always about public service.

He had lost touch with citizens of his state, a common illness that afflicts many an elected official.

When you meet someone who is truly great, he makes you believe you can be great, too.

A woman wasn't supposed to have a career. Today I'm convinced that there will be a woman President in my lifetime.

You overestimate the courage of those in power. They are often more interested in holding on to that power than in doing anything worthwhile with it.

The success of my rule does not rely on my ability to recite obscure Latin verse.

And that is why You do not trifle with the Master of the Domain.

I am a queen upon this board, Charlotte had once told Lord Ingram, and I do not play to lose.

But don't forget, sir"—she reached through the bars and took hold of his hands, her own hands steady, her gaze clear and calm—"that I am a queen upon this board—and I do not play to lose.

Angry men with pointy things sent to secure a foreign city are pretty much alike anywhere. That's what I've heard. So far nothing's convinced me different.