Quotes About Leadership

What is there to say? Risk taking is painful. Either you are willing to bear the pain yourself or you try to pass it on to others. Anyone who is in a risk taking business but cannot face the consequences is no good.

The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep.

Pioneering is never done in front of cheerleaders urging on a roaring grandstand of popular approval.

If leadership requires a fired-up sense of purpose and imagination, it also demands a profound connection to the society to be led. Like it or not, this is our culture, and we should embrace and celebrate it, even while we strive to refine and shape it.

If leadership requires a fired-up sense of purpose and imagination, it also demands a profound connection to the society to be led.

To those of you who received honours, awards and distinctions, I say well done. And to the C students, I say you, too, can be president of the United States.

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

Look, when you're the president, there's all kinds of things said about us. I mean, it's just the nature of the job.

Use power to help people. For we are given power not to advance our own purposes nor to make a great show in the world, nor a name. There is but one just use of power and it is to serve people.

Do I think faith will be an important part of being a good president? Yes, I do.

The wisest use of American strength is to advance freedom.

The true history of my administration will be written 50 years from now, and you and I will not be around to see it.

I'm the decider, and I decide what is best.

Americans are rising to the tasks of history, and they expect the same of us.

There are some who feel like—that if they attack us—that we may decide to leave prematurely…. My answer is, bring 'em on.

I know it's going to be the private sector that leads this country out of the current economic times we're in. You can spend your money better than the government can spend your money.

We know that dictators are quick to choose aggression, while free nations strive to resolve differences in peace.

You know what's interesting about Washington It's the kind of place where second-guessing has become second nature.

They misunderestimated me.

If this were a dictatorship it would be a heck of a lot easier... as long as I'm the dictator. Hehehe.

My job is a decision-making job, and as a result, I make a lot of decisions.

I don't care what the polls say. I don't. I'm doing what I think what's wrong.

I'll be long gone before some smart person ever figures out what happened inside this Oval Office." (Washington DC, 12 May, 2008)

Ladies and Gentlemen, we got him! (said after capture of Saddam)