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Leadership Quotes


"You have to make the right choice in order to have the right to change the world... Take hold of this chance right away!"


"I never had a policy; I have just tried to do my very best each and every day."


"If you command wisely, you'll be obeyed cheerfully."


"Don't be retarded, excellence is "status quo discarded". Look ahead and don't see the little things you do now as the final products to ever stand out of your personal actions!"


"If the regulars are to be put together, I believe they would prefer me to the other Cavalry Commanders."


"Great people don't only know what to say, they also know how to say it."


"God is gathering a small number of chosen people who will live at the edge of one time shifting to another time. These are the people who will make history."


"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."


"When dark situations arise, it is opportunity for you to reveal the leader in you. Rise and deal with them."


"The major factor that makes a great leader to fail emerge from the decision of people who surround him/her."


"You are a leader until you are dictated by your own words."


"During the whole campaign, from June 27 to July 31, there has been no shirking or hesitation, to tiring on the part of a single man so far as I have seen; the brigade commanders reported none."



"All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership."


"For a leader, courage, love, and passion for service are the virtues of life."


"21st century leaders use their brain cells more than their muscle tissues!"


"As far as it's ideal that you get helped by people, it doesn't mean they are compelled to make your dreams come true without your own efforts."


"In our system leadership is by consent, not command. To lead a President must persuade. Personal contacts and experiences help shape his thinking. They can be critical to his persuasiveness and thus to his leadership."


"There would not be enough talent that's educated, developed and ready to take on the next leadership challenge, and it would cap our growth. Now we've put programs in place not to have that happen, but that could be a weakness."


"Naturally, everyone is expected to enter the future only once, but by the transport medium of dreams, great people enjoy the future twice! They pay a visit into the future by dreaming, and they relocate to settle in it by their purposeful actions!"


"Leaders fail when they begin to fall in love with negative mindsets of other people!"


"Aspire higher to attain excellence in whatever you do. But be careful when you reach the peak, where the only way is the way downwards. Maintain your standard!"


"Environment has its own ways of limiting us tightly. But leaders have their own ways of escaping those limitations narrowly."


"You can cease to be influenced by people who tease you... Just neglect their helps and elevate your steps... You can do it!"


"France has more need of me than I have need of France."


"You are never too old or too young to be a leader."


"The time it takes to fall from the top of a mountain to the floor it shorter than what it takes to climb from the floor to the top. Only leaders with character can maintain their trusts."


"The main “food” God has given to strengthen us is the Bible, the Word of God."


"A leader is one who, out of madness or goodness, volunteers to take upon himself the woe of the people. There are few men so foolish, hence the erratic quality of leadership in the world."


"It's getting better and better. You know, guys are feeling more comfortable and they are not afraid to speak up and be a leader. I mean, our team, we have 25 players, we have about 25 leaders, too. So whatever someone says, people listen."


"A self-leader looks around for problems, and then thinks deep to device solutions to them."


"The herd seek out the great, not for their sake but for their influence; and the great welcome them out of vanity or need."


"Everything known and referred to as "impossible" is often what has not been attempted before. It will always have a change of name once it's attempted!"


"Leaders are lovers of change. Without change, growth is static. To lead, you have to appreciate change; else change will depreciate you!"


"The real character of leaders does not show in fair weathers. When the sun of life begins to go hot, you will see for yourself some leaders are already melting off!"


"Although the evidence at this trial shows that Charles Manson was the leader of the conspiracy to commit these murders, there is no evidence that he actually personally killed any of the seven victims in this case."


"The most improper job of any man, even saints (who at any rate were at least unwilling to take it on), is bossing other men. Not one in a million is fit for it, and least of all those who seek the opportunity."


"Humanity needs heroic leadership from those who see all life as precious."


"Your anger towards ungodliness, towards injustice and the likes, will create a hunger in you to fulfill a particular purpose meant for you."


"A journey to make real impact that changes lives, give meaning to life and living, and turns vision of the masses into realities demands a true focus, an utmost zeal and robustness and an unfailing tenacity to do whatever necessary within the powers and reach of a true leader, and with all needed dexterity, wit and wisdom, to make real impact have a meaning and give real liberation to the masses!"


"When you explain to people what you're trying to do, as opposed to just making demands or delegating tasks, you can build instant trust, even if it's just for that short time you're on the phone."


"Instead of a Dark Lord, you would have a queen, not dark but beautiful and terrible as the dawn! Tempestuous as the sea, and stronger than the foundations of the earth! All shall love me and despair!"


"Speak well to people; tell them the truth today! If you meet them another day, tell them the same truth! That shows how you can maintain the real character you poses!"


"Have a peculiar passion, audacity and boldness that see farther and further into the outer space."


"I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power."


"You may gain a position, but that does not mean you've gained leadership. You may lose position, but that does not mean you've lost leadership! When you gain true character, you can leadership and when you lose it, you cease to be a leader!"


"Pay attention to the things that are critical to your happiness and the happiness of others."


"Pride, anger and hatred are fruits from the same garden that poison the world when ripe. A leader cultivates no such fruits."


"To become a better you, look nowhere else for another alarm to blow before you wake up. Get up and rise up."


"I'm sad to report that in the past few years, ever since uncertainty became our insistent 21st century companion, leadership has taken a great leap backwards to the familiar territory of command and control."
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