Quotes About Leadership

We need safe communities that are free from methamphetamine and a federal commitment to stand next to state leadership and law enforcement in the fight against this epidemic.

True #leadership isn't the bastion of a few who sit at the top ... We all need to step up, take the risk and put our interests second-not always-but when it counts.

Leadership is something you earn, something you're chosen for. You can't come in yelling, 'I'm your leader!' If it happens, it's because the other guys respect you.

Your first and foremost job as a leader is to take charge of your own energy and then help to orchestrate the energy of those around you.

If the leader is filled with high ambition and if he pursues his aims with audacity and strength of will, he will reach them in spite of all obstacles.

The more you openly name your struggles, the less people can use your silence as a back door to blackmail you, to sabotage your leadership, or to subvert relationships within the organization.

Leadership is the ability to get extraordinary achievement from ordinary people.

The man who craves disciples and wants followers is always more or less of a charlatan. The man of genuine worth and insight wants to be himself; and he wants others to be themselves, also.

What was wrong with communism wasn't aberrant leadership, it was communism.

It is time for a new generation of leadership.

And leadership then is about mobilizing and engaging the people with the problem rather than trying to anesthetize them so you can go off and solve it on your own.

Great leaders must have two things: a vision of the world that does not yet exist and the ability to communicate that vision clearly.

Good leaders must know how to reward those who succeed and know when to retrain, move, or fire ineffective staff.

Be a light, not a judge. Be a model, not a critic

Ronald Reagan?wasn't without leadership ability, but he lacked most of the management skills that a President needs. But let me give him his due: he would have made a hell of a king.

We know that leadership is very much related to change. As the pace of change accelerates, there is naturally a greater need for effective leadership.

The presidency is not merely an administrative office...It is pre-eminently a place of moral leadership.

Innovation needs to be nurtured throughout an organization. Management is doing things right, whereas leadership is doing the right things.

Community leadership is the courage, creativity and capacity to inspire participation, development and sustainability for strong communities.

Leadership is about going somewhere. If you and your people don't know where you are going, your leadership doesn't matter.

Girls are twice as likely as boys to avoid leadership roles for fear of being deemed 'bossy' by their peers.

The only valid test of leadership is the ability to lead, and lead vigorously.

A good leader leads from the front. Don't get stuck in the office. Get out, meet people and listen to their stories.

Aviation seems almost a gift from heaven to those Western nations who were already the leaders of their era, strengthening their leadership, their confidence, their dominance over other peoples.