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Quotes About Leadership

The statesman shears the sheep the politician skins them.
~ Austin O'Malley
If nominated I will not accept if elected I will not serve.
~ William Tecumseh Sherman
I love my dad. It's fair to say that I probably would not have thought of politics had I not seen my mom and dad involved in politics.
~ Mitt Romney
In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in failure.
~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge
From politics to parenting, Christians have something to say.
~ Monica Johnson
Space has always been confusing to politics.
~ P. J. O'Rourke
The most reliable way to predict the future is to create it.
~ Abraham Lincoln
A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week.
~ George S. Patton
To be the man, you gotta beat the man!
~ Ric Flair
On every team, there is a core group that sets the tone for everyone else. If the tone is positive, you have half the battle won. If it is negative, you are beaten before you ever walk on the field.
~ Chuck Noll
Nice guys finish first. If you don't know that, then you don't know where the finish line is.
~ Garry Shandling
If not you, who? If not now, when?
~ Hillel the Elder
He who reigns within himself and rules passions, desires, and fears is more than a king.
~ John Milton
Change comes more from managing the journey than from announcing the destination
~ William Bridges
There are no traffic jams along the extra mile.
~ Roger Staubach
The Prophet Muhammad (s) said: "It is better for a leader to make a mistake in forgiving than to make a mistake in punishing."
~ Muhammad ibn Isa at-Tirmidhi
Uncertainty will always be part of the taking charge process.
~ Harold Geneen
Great leadership usually starts with a willing heart, a positive attitude, and a desire to make a difference.
~ Mac Anderson
You learn far more from negative leadership than from positive leadership. Because you learn how not to do it. And, therefore, you learn how to do it.
~ Norman Schwarzkopf
One must change one's tactics every ten years if one wishes to maintain one's superiority.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs.
~ Andrew Carnegie
I influence people, hopefully on the positive side.
~ Isaac Hayes
To be successful, you must act big, think big and talk big.
~ Aristotle Onassis
The only prerequisites to leadership are that you remain positive, calm, and open-minded.
~ Alexis Hunter