Quotes About Leadership

If leadership is about anything, it's about leading. Not leading people back to where they already are, because they don't need that. They're already there.

The yearning for strong leadership is more about strength of purpose - clarity of vision - than about merely 'getting tough'.

No easy problems ever come to the President of the United States. If they are easy to solve, someone else has solved them.

I made a commitment... both to myself and to some supporters to carefully consider a run for the Liberal leadership for the Liberal Party of Canada.

Fresno is an All America city and deserves real, honest, strong leadership and I pledge to the people of Fresno to be that kind of leader.

The inevitable end of multiple chiefs is that they fade and disappear for lack of unity.

The world cannot be governed without juggling.

I am confident, with the leadership and the backing of the American people, President Obama will turn this country around.

Leadership has less to do with position than it does with disposition.

In any case, decisions on troop levels in the American system of government are not made by any general or set of generals but by the civilian leadership of the war effort.

Whether you are a business leader or political leader, you need people around you who are prepared to tell the truth.

Democrats' attack on the Republican majority leader is nothing but a coordinated agenda to stop an effective leader from accomplishing the people's business.

Leadership is neither a rank nor a title. It is a choice. The choice to provide care and protection for those for whom we are responsible.

It's such a rarity to have women in senior powerful positions. We can name them all. Fact is, women can handle power and handle it well. That's something I'd like a lot more women to understand.

Leaders inspire. They aren't assigned leadership. They command it.

I don't yell at people, I don't mistreat people. I don't talk down to people, so no one else in this building, in this vicinity, has the right to do it.

Leaders are problem solvers by talent and temperament, and by choice.

In every growing church you will find leadership that is not afraid to believe God.

Tony Blair has turned his back on the principles he claimed he believed in before he stood shoulder-to-shoulder with George W. Bush. He was an entirely different kind of leader.

If you want to do a few small things right, do them yourself. If you want to do great things and make a big impact, learn to delegate.

It is absolutely necessary... for me to have persons that can think for me, as well as execute orders.

Leadership is a choice. It is not a rank.

Without courage, it doesn't matter how good the leader's intentions are.

Not every President is a great speaker. Not every President is a great thinker. But in the modern era, every single President is a master of one thing: eye contact.