Quotes for Leadership

A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd.

Max Lucado

If a window of opportunity appears, don't pull down the shade.

Tom Peters

No wind serves him who addresses his voyage to no certain port.

Michel de Montaigne

The great leaders have always stage-managed their effects.

Charles de Gaulle

True leadership isn't about having an idea. It's about having an idea and recruiting other people to execute on this vision.

Leila Janah

For good or ill, I'm a person of leadership. I do my best. I don't dodge responsibility.

Gerry Adams

We can't drive our SUVs and eat as much as we want and keep our homes on 72 degrees at all times... and then just expect that other countries are going to say OK. That's not leadership. That's not going to happen.

Barack Obama

I talked about the need for American leadership, I talked about the importance of the United States to a more peaceful world, a world that has been quite turbulent in recent years, and needs a strong American anchor.

Condoleezza Rice

I think leadership is not something you learn; it's something you discover.

Myles Munroe

Presidential leadership needn't always cost money. Look for low- and no-cost options. They can be surprisingly effective.

Donald Rumsfeld

We also can't try to take over and rebuild every country that falls into crisis. That's not leadership; that's a recipe for quagmire, spilling American blood and treasure that ultimately weakens us. It's the lesson of Vietnam, of Iraq - and we should have learned it by now.

Barack Obama

From the very first, it has been the educated and intelligent of the Negro people that have led and elevated the mass, and the sole obstacles that nullified and retarded their efforts were slavery and race prejudice; for what is slavery but the legalized survival of the unfit and the nullification of the work of natural internal leadership?

W. E. B. Du Bois

Leadership doesn't mean you remain silent on the most important political issue of our time because you're worried about reelection.

Nancy Mace

Music is all about leadership and there ain't really a lot of leaders.

Young Jeezy

To become a good coach, it is important to be equipped with tactics and strategy. But first of all, you need to have strong leadership.

Park Ji-sung

If a guy is intimidated by a woman in leadership, he has real problems with his own concepts of masculinity. That's a harsh statement, but I believe it to be true.

Tony Campolo

Leadership is, among other things, the ability to inflict pain and get away with it - short-term pain for long-term gain.

George Will

I got put into leadership roles very early in life from fifth grade, sixth grade. I always ended up being the quarterback or the leader of the sports teams, and it's kind of benefiting me now.

Tony Dungy

In terms of having views and being prepared to express them, yes, I think New Zealand's had a leadership role in a lot of things.

Helen Clark

The book is actually called 'A Mentor Leader, a Different Way to Lead.' It really talks about my experience in the way I tried lead our football team, things that I learned from, basically, the coaches that I played for and my parents about leadership. And it is a little bit different, counter to maybe what society says about great leaders.

Tony Dungy