Leadership Quotes

Leadership is an active role 'lead' is a verb. But the leader who tries to do it all is headed for burnout, and in a powerful hurry.

Bill Owens

Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.

Michel de Montaigne

Our power lies in our small daily choices, one after another, to create eternal ripples of a life well lived.

Mollie Marti

I mean, Emily Harris was his wife. And she seemed to resent his leadership, but on the other hand, she felt like a good soldier, that he had to be the leader.

Patty Hearst

A substandard education will always result in a substandard nation.

Aubrey Priest

Who shall set a limit to the influence of a human being?

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The speed of the leader determines the rate of the pack.

Wayne Lukas

Aren't we at the point where the closer we get to chaos, the more concern that there should be about coming to the table and compromising with Democrats? This is not leadership. This is almost like dictatorship.

Debbie Wasserman Schultz

Show me the leader and I will know his men. Show me the men and I will know their leader.

Arthur W. Newcomb

Moreover, as the leadership of the House confirmed last year, the Administration remains opposed to a congressional resolution on the Armenian Genocide due to Turkish objections. This approach sends absolutely the wrong signal to Turkey and to the rest of the world.

Patrick J. Kennedy

Jesus said several times, Come, follow me. His was a program of do what I do, rather than do what I say. His innate brilliance would have permitted him to put on a dazzling display, but that would have left his followers far behind. He walked and worked with those he was to serve. His was not a long-distance leadership. He was not afraid of close friendships; he was not afraid that proximity to him would disappoint his followers. The leaven of true leadership cannot lift others unless we are with and serve those to be led.

Spencer W. Kimball

Coming to the END of MYSELF and all SELF effort...seems to be the very point that God steps in and shows HIMSELF to be more than ENOUGH.

John Paul Warren

Be certain, Catelyn told her son, or go home and take up that wooden sword again. You cannot afford to seem indecisive in front of men like Roose Bolton and Rickard Karstark. Make no mistake, Robb-these are your bannermen, not your friends. You named yourself battle commander. Command.

George R.R. Martin

A noble leader answers not to the trumpet calls of self promotion, but to the hushed whispers of necessity.

Mollie Marti

Every thought which genius and piety throw into the world alters the world.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The fact is, when it comes to economic leadership, the Republicans have nothing to brag about. This isn't what the American people want. They want to see progress that works for them.

Debbie Wasserman Schultz

I urge the Iraqi leadership for sake of its own people... to seize this opportunity and thereby begin to end the isolation and suffering of the Iraqi people.

Kofi Annan

The House has passed several bipartisan bills to ensure all Americans have the opportunity to secure a good job to provide for their families. All of these jobs bills deserve the support of our Senators and a strong show of leadership from the president.

Joe Heck

I think what actually works best is local-level individual targeting of key leadership nodes.

John Abizaid

We need real leadership, Democrat, Republican and independent to stand up and say, we have to live within our means.

Tom Coburn