Quotes for Leadership

To lead people walk behind them.

Lao Tzu

China is the largest and most ancient of Asiatic countries, but it is not for us boastfully to talk of her right to a position of 'leadership' among those countries.

Chiang Kai-shek

Leadership is a mindset that shifts from being a victim to creating results. Any one of us can demonstrate leadership in our work and within our lives.

Robin S. Sharma

Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.

Theodore Roosevelt

Sitting at a candidate rally is similar to sitting in a ballyard. Both give you the opportunity to assess the technical metrics and reflect on the intangibles - what baseball calls 'make up' and politics calls 'character' - the leadership, talent and maturity to add value to a venture.

Christine Pelosi

I want to use my position of leadership to help move along at a faster pace what I believe and know the Obama administration wants to do around the urgency of climate change.

Kamala Harris

To do great things is difficult; but to command great things is more difficult.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Leaders don’t force people to follow, they invite them on a journey.

Charles S. Lauer

Leadership cannot just go along to get along. Leadership must meet the moral challenge of the day.

Jesse Jackson

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

Jesse Jackson

The only safe ship in a storm is leadership.

Faye Wattleton

There are good leaders who actively guide and bad leaders who actively misguide. Hence, leadership is about persuasion, presentation and people skills.

Shiv Khera

Practice self-awareness, self-evaluation, and self-improvement. If we are aware that our manners - language, behavior, and actions - are measured against our values and principles, we are able to more easily embody the philosophy, leadership is a matter of how to be, not how to do.

Frances Hesselbein

I knew I could not maintain that leadership in open struggle against Moscow influence. Only two Communist leaders in history ever succeeded in doing this - Tito and Mao Tse-tung.

Earl Browder

People buy into the leader before they buy into the vision.

John C. Maxwell

Leadership is hard to train on.

Ben Horowitz

A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

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

I'm a pragmatist. I think, as a woman, you have to be more careful. You have to be more communal, you have to say yes to more things than men, you have to worry about things that men don't have to worry about. But once we get enough women into leadership, we can break stereotypes down. If you lead, you get to decide.

Sheryl Sandberg

You have to think anyway, so why not think big?

Donald Trump