Quotes About Leadership

I've often heard blowhard leaders boast, "My outfit is so good, it could function well without me." Hmm, then why do they need you?

No good idea succeeds simply because it is a good idea. Good ideas must have champions—people willing to believe in them, push for them, fight for them, gain adherents and other champions, and press until they succeed.

So instead of talking about theoretical ways of ending the war and violence, I say that we have to get rid of the individual asholes in each office and situation.

A more damned crew hell never vomited," the Virginia Company president later said of them.

Daniel studied her face. Have you ever thanked God for giving you the advantages he has? Advantages? All those things I've already mentioned. Your tall and strong, loyal and brave, kind and loving. You stand out in a crowd and your a leader. He wouldn't trust those qualities with just anyone. He must love you a great deal.

Princess Lurelia.

Don't one of you fire until you see the whites of their eyes.N.B. A lesser-known version of this quotation was supposedly said by Frederick the Great at Prague in 1757 By push of bayonets, no firing till you see the whites of their eyes.

Many have added to the world, but only a few have truly revolutionised it.

Many have tried and all have failed; this world will never be ruled by one.

Take advice only from those you hope to be like.

The world needs its hero and that's exactly what Jesse will be.

Think not of those around you for as you do so, your rival takes away your lead.

We needed to go back on the offense and offer clear leadership on Iraq.

I talked about the need for American leadership, I talked about the importance of the United States to a more peaceful world, a world that has been quite turbulent in recent years, and needs a strong American anchor.

After all, when the world looks to America, they look to us because we are the most successful political and economic experiment in human history.

As James Madison put it in Federalist No. 40, "The choice must always be made, if not one of the lesser evil, at least of the GREATER, not the PERFECT good." And in the last of the Federalist Papers, he said, "I never expect to see a perfect work from imperfect man.

The first step for a leader is to be right with yourself. Integrity is the basis of leadership.

it's good to have female or minority role models. But the important thing is to have mentors who care about you, and they come in all colors.

John Lewis Gaddis had come to visit shortly before the election and over lunch said something that resonated with me. "Never forget how really dependent the world is on America. And they know it.

Power is nothing unless you can turn it into influence.

When a country is well governed, poverty and a mean condition are things to be ashamed of. When a country is ill governed, riches and honor are things to be ashamed of.

Do not worry about holding high position; worry rather about playing your proper role.

He who rules by moral force is like the pole-star, which remains in its place while all the lesser stars do homage to it.

To put the world right in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must first put the family in order; to put the family in order, we must first cultivate our personal life; we must first set our hearts right.