Quotes for Leadership

Once the public loses confidence in a president's leadership at a time of war, once they don't trust him anymore, once his credibility is sharply diminished, how does he get it back?

Robert Dallek

Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help or concluded you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership.

Colin Powell

It is better to lead from behind and to put others in front, especially when you celebrate victory when nice things occur. You take the front line when there is danger. Then people will appreciate your leadership.

Nelson Mandela

I look for what needs to be done. After all, that's how the universe designs itself.

R. Buckminster Fuller

A leader does not deserve the name unless he is willing occasionally to stand alone.

Henry Kissinger

Great companies in the way they work, start with great leaders.

Steve Ballmer

For any movement to gain momentum, it must start with a small action. This action becomes multiplied by the masses, and is made tangible when leadership changes course due to the weight of the movement's voice.

Adam Braun

The way I see it, what is going to come out of the moon activities is a respect for U.S. leadership.

Buzz Aldrin

Why would I be willing to challenge my Republican leadership? Because my allegiance will always be to the Constitution and the American people first and foremost, not to my political party.

Matt Salmon

The American president has a peculiar leadership responsibility to speak out for freedom.

Ted Cruz

There are some members of the House leadership whose only mission in life is to demonize the president.

John Kennedy

Leadership has become a heavy industry. Concern and interest about leadership development is no longer an American phenomenon. It is truly global. Though I will probably be in less demand, I wanted to move on.

Warren Bennis

Republican leadership in Congress let the energy companies write the energy bill that sent prices soaring, and has turned a blind eye to the struggles of working families trying to make ends meet.

Sherrod Brown

In the past, the U.S. has shown its capacity to reinvent its gifts for leadership. During the 1970s, in the aftermath of the Nixon abdication and the Ford and Carter presidencies, the whole nation peered into the abyss, was horrified by what it saw and elected Ronald Reagan as president, which began a national resurgence.

Paul Johnson

I'd like to see where boys and girls end up if they get equal encouragement - I think we might have some differences in how leadership is done.

Sheryl Sandberg

When the Islamic revolution began in 1979 under the leadership of Ayatollah Khomeini, it aroused considerable admiration in the Arab street. It presented a model of organised popular action that deposed one of the region's most tyrannical regimes. The people of the region discerned in this revolution new hope for freedom and change.

Wadah Khanfar

Obstacles are things a person sees when he takes his eyes off his goal.

E. Joseph Cossman

Example is leadership.

Albert Schweitzer

Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.

Steve Jobs

If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.

William James