Leadership Quotes

The influence of individual character extends from generation to generation.

Iain Macleod

Sport fosters many things that are good teamwork and leadership.

Daley Thompson

If you get too far in front of your troops, you start looking like the enemy.

Anon.

When people go to work, they don

Lee J. Colan, Passionate Perform

The world is starving for original and decisive leadership.

Bryant McGill

Leadership must be likeable, affable, cordial, and above all emotional. The fashion of authoritarian leadership is gone. Football is about life. You can't be angry all day.

Vicente del Bosque

Divorced from ethics, leadership is reduced to management and politics to mere technique.

James MacGregor Burns

Sudden shifts and changes are no bad preparation for political life.

Charles Dickens

In fact, the converse is true: At a time when the United States has been called on for a level of moral leadership, vision and inspiration not seen since World War II, we cannot afford to dissemble about crimes against humanity.

Adam Schiff

Most of the ladies and gentlemen who mourn the passing of the nation's leaders wouldn't know a leader if they saw one. If they had the bad luck to come across a leader, they would find out that he might demand something from them, and this impertinence would put an abrupt and indignant end to their wish for his return.

Lewis H. Lapham

The successful man doesn't use others, other people use the successful man, for above all the success is of service.

Mark Caine

Blessed are the people whose leaders can look destiny in the eye without flinching but also without attempting to play God.

Henry Kissinger

There is no necessary connection between the desire to lead and the ability to lead, and even less the ability to lead somewhere that will be to the advantage of the led...

Bergen Evans

It is comforting to believe that leaders who do terrible things are, in fact, mad. That way, all we have to do is make sure we don't put psychotics in high places and we've got the problem solved.

Thomas Wolfe

Only one man in a thousand is a leader of men--the other 999 follow women.

Groucho Marx

People more than ever since I can remember are concerned about being out of step and out of line with their political party and won't cross over. There is nobody, man or woman, who wants to be left out, and people are fearful of that. People are fearful of their leadership as well.

Gary Ackerman

He who influences the thought of his times influences the times that follow.

Elbert Hubbard

The trouble with the Labour Party leadership and the trade union leadership, they're quite willing to applaud millions on the streets of the Philippines or in Eastern Europe, without understanding the need to also produce millions of people on the streets of Britain.

Arthur Scargill

It is a great pity when the one who should be the head figure is a mere figure head.

C. H. (Charles Haddon) Spurgeon

All of this suggests that while citizens became more comfortable with President Bush after September 11 and thought him to have the requisite leadership skills, they continue to harbor doubts about his priorities, loyalties, interests, and policies.

Thomas E. Mann