Quotes About Leadership

Being a great leader requires several attributes. Leadership includes both rewarding and difficult attributes. You must possess the strength to make tough decisions that may isolate you for a period. And yet, have empathy and understanding of others. You must be able to listen to alternatives regarding your decisions and seriously consider them. If you practice from both a standpoint of strength and compassion, people may not always agree with your decisions, but they will respect you.

Leaders typically don't follow the crowd, that is unless they're trying to escape a burning building.

The best captains endure the most turbulence and greatest storms.

Everybody is following somebody. Everybody has faith in something and somebody. We are all believers.

As an added benefit, having a student stand up and address the room will quickly bring all other distracted chit-chat to an end, since people rarely want to be rude to their peers.

It's not just our high-mindedness or altruism that keeps us off "the scent," nor is it that our public is not interested in "higher" things (they are). Some basic unwillingness to see things as they are and then attempt to take corrective action is missing in our present make-up. We are neither good diagnosticians nor good leaders. Rather, caterers and men of fashion. More interested in curtain walls than how to accommodate the car.

We shouldn't be debating whether to deal with the current code by allowing it to be extended or not. We should have a president who shows leadership and comes to Congress and says: 'You know what? We need to reform this whole tax code.'

Um exército de ovelhas liderado por um leão derrotaria um exército de leões liderado por uma ovelha". Hooyah.

Passion makes others feel like they are working not for someone but, rather, with others—and working for something bigger than the individuals involved.

Last, you've got to do more leading and less managing. Be a visible and motivating presence.

Ask others the same questions you ask of yourself: "Am I a good leader? Am I trustworthy? Am I inspiring?

People who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.

And who died and made you boss?" But I knew a lost cause when I saw it and was already pulling my hair back with nimble fingers. Niko slapped a shoulder holster against my chest. "No one. Like all truly great dictators, I seized that power myself. Now finish up. We leave in five minutes.

President Kennedy's eloquence was designed to make men think; President Johnson's hammer blows are designed to make men act.

Hospitality has always been a potent political weapon. Moses used it like a master. Coupled with his overpowering personality, a buffet often did as much for a proposal as a bribe.

Abraham Lincoln struck off the chains of black Americans, but it was Lyndon Johnson who led them into voting booths, closed democracy's sacred curtain behind them, placed their hands upon the lever that gave them a hold on their own destiny, made them, at last and forever, a true part of American political life.

And he worked himself, worked himself. He had made up his mind to be President, and he was demonic in his drive.

A handshake, as delivered by Lyndon Johnson, could be as effective as a hug.

When you come into the presence of a leader of men, you know you have come into the presence of fire; that it is best not incautiously to touch that man; that there is something that makes it dangerous to cross him. —WOODROW WILSON

Bob Moses had learned what was needed to make dreams become realities. He had learned the lesson of power. And now he grabbed for power with both hands. To free his hands for the grab, he shook impatiently from them the last crumbs of the principles with which he had entered public service and for which, during his years of idealism, he had fought só hard.

Sitting Bull on the plains of the Yellowstone and his pursuit of Geronimo

Opportunity. In 1988 Bill Pattis joined Charles Z. Wick, Director of the U.S. Information Agency, and participated in the first U.S.-U.S.S.R. Bilateral Information Talks in Moscow, involving leaders from American media and Soviet counterparts. As a result of this work, he was named Chairman of the American Delegation for print media in follow-up talks with the Soviets in February 1990 in Washington, DC, and

Robert A. Carter

Presiding over the "genuine blanket