Leadership Quotes

The atmosphere at my school was very competitive. Young girls were competing with each other every day for status, for leadership, for the affection of the teachers. I hated it.

Zhang Ziyi

Yes, America must do the right thing, but to provide moral leadership, America must do it in the right way, too.

David Cameron

Surround yourself with great people; delegate authority; get out of the way

Ronald Reagan

There is nothing that saps one's confidence as the knowing how to do a thing

Mark Twain

Black leadership has to recognize that principles more than speech, character more than a claim, is greater in advancing the cause of our liberation than what has transpired thus far.

Louis Farrakhan

I have a different vision of leadership. A leadership is someone who brings people together.

George W. Bush

Leadership is an ever-evolving position.

Mike Krzyzewski

If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up people to collect wood and don’t assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

It is better to lead from behind and to put others in front, especially when you celebrate victory when nice things occur. You take the front line when there is danger. Then people will appreciate your leadership.

Nelson Mandela

Comrade Deng Xiaoping - along with other party elders - gave the party leadership their firm and full support to put down the political disturbance using forceful measures.

Li Peng

People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader works in the open, and the boss in covert. The leader leads, and the boss drives.

Theodore Roosevelt

I am proud of the President's leadership. I am proud to support him in saying: Yes, we are going to do what is necessary now when it is less painful and less expensive.

Kay Bailey Hutchison

The world of the 90s and beyond will belong to managers or those who make the numbers dance, as we used to say, or those who are conversant with all the business jargon we used to sound smart. The world will belong to passionate, driven leaders -- people who not only have an enormous amount of energy but who can energize those whom they lead.

John Welch

Leadership has a harder job to do than just choose sides. It must bring sides together.

Jesse Jackson

The test of leadership for David Cameron was actually to bring the British Conservative Party back in to the mainstream.

David Miliband

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?

Henry Cuellar

If you think you can do a thing or think you can't do a thing, you're right.

Henry Ford

I forgot to shake hands and be friendly. It was an important lesson about leadership.

Lee Iacocca

Leadership is an opportunity to serve. It is not a trumpet call to self-importance.

J. Donald Walters

An old African leader says about leadership, he says that leadership should never be shared it should always remain in the hands of the dispossessed people. We will lead the revolution.

H. Rap Brown