Quotes for Leadership

Leadership that exploits and sacrifices young people on the altar of its goals is nothing more than raw, demonic power. Genuine leadership is found in ceaseless efforts to foster young people, to pave the way forward for them.

Daisaku Ikeda

If more women are in leadership roles, we'll stop assuming they shouldn't be.

Sheryl Sandberg

I am delighted with the strong vote I have received. My message of positive leadership, patriotism and commitment clearly was resonating with tens of thousands of ordinary Irish people.

Michael D. Higgins

To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Leadership is doing what is right when no one is watching.

George Van Valkenburg

Make your team feel respected, empowered and genuinely excited about the company’s mission.

Tim Westergen

Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Leadership does not always wear the harness of compromise.

Woodrow Wilson

I am more afraid of an army of one hundred sheep led by a lion than an army of one hundred lions led by a sheep.

Charles Maurice

I think that my leadership style is to get people to fear staying in place, to fear not changing.

Louis V. Gerstner, Jr.

Year after year, President Bush has broken his campaign promises on college aid. And year after year, the Republican leadership in Congress has let him do it.

Sherrod Brown

The way I would measure leadership is this: of the people that are working with me, how many wake up in the morning thinking that the company is theirs?

David M. Kelley

Absolute identity with one's cause is the first and great condition of successful leadership.

Woodrow Wilson

Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Leadership is working with goals and vision; management is working with objectives.

Russel Honore

Never take your eye off the ball. Always remember that you and everyone on the team is the servant of the cause - in our case, girls' education and young women's leadership in Africa.

Ann Cotton

It is with obedience to your call that I take up the burden of government leadership for the final time.

Kamisese Mara

The art of leadership is saying no, not yes. It is very easy to say yes.

Tony Blair

And I'd say one of the great lessons I've learned over the past couple of decades, from a management perspective, is that really when you come down to it, it really is all about people and all about leadership.

Steve Case

The next thing is: we can make IBM even better. We brought IBM back but we're gunning for leadership.

Louis V. Gerstner, Jr.