Quotes About Leadership

The exercise of true leadership is inversely proportional to the exercise of power.

Many years from now, what would you like people to line up and thank you for?

You did what your heart told you to do,' Brain complimented. 'It is what leaders, not followers, do.

The leader is one who mobilizes others toward a goal shared by leaders and followers. ... Leaders, followers and goals make up the three equally necessary supports for leadership.

Vivacity, leadership, must be had, and we are not allowed to be nice in choosing. We must fetch the pump with dirty water, if clean cannot be had.

Are you responsibly optimistic? Pessimism and leadership do not mix. Leaders are positively visionary.

Flexibility in a time of great change is a vital quality of leadership.

Get the winners into the game.

The essence of leadership is the capacity to build and develop the self-esteem of the workers.

The three C's of leadership are Consideration,Caring,and Courtesy.Be polite to everyone.

But it's still a coach's game. Make no mistake. You start at the top. If you don't have a good one at the top, you don't have a cut dog's chance.

Surround yourself with people smarter than you.

The #1 reasons are unsuccessful is their inability to lead themselves.

It often happens that less depends upon the valor of an army than the skill of the leader.

Today, the world looks to America for leadership. And America looks to its Corps of Marines.

Volunteer activities can foster enormous leadership skills. The nonprofit professional volunteer world is a laboratory for self - realization.

The future is taking shape now in our own beliefs and in the courage of our leaders. Ideas and leadership - not natural or social "forces" - are the prime movers in human affairs.

Those who try to lead the people can only do so by following the mob.

My focus as part of the leadership is to keep talking about the independent voters, independent voters - how do we get the independent voters back?

What's emerging is a new synthesis of science, spirituality and leadership as different facets of a single way of being.

The idea that the UN system could provide real leadership on the great development challenges will strain credulity in some quarters.

Real leadership means tackling tough problems ourselves and not leaving them to our children.

If you can raise up leaders, you will always have followers, but if you can't raise up leaders, you will only have followers.

Leadership is not a right-it is a responsibility.