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Leadership Quotes
"Among my activities was membership in the Boy Scouts; I rose each year through the ranks, eventually achieving the rank of Eagle Scout and undertaking leadership roles in the organization."
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"The Irish Republican Army has kept every commitment made by its leadership."
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"Always render more and better service than is expected of you, no matter what your task may be."
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"Let them obey that know not how to rule."
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"If you don't understand that you work for your mislabeled 'subordinates,' then you know nothing of leadership. You know only tyranny."
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"We should be therefore supporting a larger Europe, and in so doing we should strive to expand the zone of peace and prosperity in the world which is the necessary foundation for a stable international system in which our leadership could be fruitfully exercised."
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"The world is moved along, not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of tiny pushes of each honest worker."
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"The very atmosphere of firearms anywhere and everywhere restrains evil interference - they deserve a place of honor with all that's good."
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"One simple way to keep organizations from becoming cancerous might be to rotate all jobs on a regular, frequent and mandatory basis, including the leadership positions."
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"Well, if Democratic members in the House elect Nancy Pelosi as their leader, it's almost as if they just didn't get the message from the voters this election. I mean, the voters outright rejected the agenda that she's been about. And here they're going to put her back in charge."
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"And yet many of us do it without families," Nynaeve said. "Without love, without passion beyond our own particular interests. So even while we try to guide the world, we separate ourselves from it.We risk arrogance, Egwene. We always assume we know best, but risk making ourselves unable to fathom the people we claim to serve."
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"Half a world away nations that once lived under oppression and tyranny are now budding democracies due in large part to America 's leadership and the sacrifices of our military."
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"I want to organize so that women see ourselves as people who are entitled to power, entitled to leadership."
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"San Francisco has long been a leader in the arts, nurturing generations of painters, sculptors, poets, novelists, playwrights, film-makers, and performing artists and innovators of every kind."
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"The school made it very clear that women were entitled to positions of authority. That sense of entitlement allowed us to feel that we have a natural place in leadership in the world. That gave me a mental and emotional confidence."
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"When failure imprisons you for not doing what you should have done, you have no option than to bail yourself on the promise of trying again! Try again!"
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"Leadership has a harder job to do than just choose sides. It must bring sides together."
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"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."
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"Such manifestations I account as representing the creative leadership of the new forces of thought and appreciation which attend changes in technological pattern and therefore of the pattern of human relationships in society."
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"Alliances and international organizations should be understood as opportunities for leadership and a means to expand our influence, not as constraints on our power."
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"The world will lose its treasures if everyone depends on someone to think for him/her! The world will lose its pleasures if everyone depends on someone to make him/her happy!"
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"No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit for doing it."
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"I hesitated, too, because for better or worse, I have been one of the principal architects of New Labour and I have worked closely with Tony Blair and the team for nearly 20 years."
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"The path to the CEO's office should not be through the CFO's office, and it should not be through the marketing department. It needs to be through engineering and design."
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"I'm not a tech guy. I'm looking at the technology with the eyes of my customers, normal people's eyes."
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"When you lead the wise, walk behind them. When you lead the virtuous, walk beside them. When you lead the imprudent, walk in front of them."
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"We needed to go back on the offense and offer clear leadership on Iraq."
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"The great leaders are like the best conductors - they reach beyond the notes to reach the magic in the players."
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"Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far."
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"Penn State has also continued to be a leader in Pennsylvania's largest industry: Agriculture."
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"You asked about important factors in management. I think the answer is quite simple " the most important factor is motivation."
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"I played a lot of leaders, autocratic sorts; perhaps it was my Canadian accent."
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"I am convinced that the best service a retired general can perform is to turn in his tongue along with his suit and to mothball his opinions."
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"I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life."
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"Always be the light. Do not wait for others to take responsibility."
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"I am sometimes a fox and sometimes a lion. The whole secret of government lies in knowing when to be the one or the other."
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"Initiative is doing the right things without being told."
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"The truth is the Republican leadership has created a credit card Congress that is recklessly selling out the future of America, our children and our grandchildren, and President Bush is the most fiscally irresponsible President in the history of America."
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"The longer we go without strong leadership from the Administration and until we see significant progress in the day-to-day lives of the Iraqi people, the more difficult it will become to sustain the support of the American people and Congress for the current course."
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"When love beckons to you, follow him,Though his ways are hard and steep.And when his wings enfold you yield to him,Though the sword hidden among his pinions may wound you.And when he speaks to you believe in him,Though his voice may shatter your dreams as the north wind lays waste the garden."
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"The people who are doing the work are the moving force behind the Macintosh. My job is to create a space for them, to clear out the rest of the organization and keep it at bay."
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"What we heard today was not fiscal leadership from our Commander-in-Chief, what we heard today was a political broadside from our Campaigner-in-Chief."
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"Your vision at a leadership level needs to be more global and selfless, it needs to go beyond you. Reflect and project your dream for a perfect world, even if you can only make it a great world."
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"Great leaders die empty. They live to offload everything they put in them! Don't die with your books in your mind unpublished!"
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"If your vision is bigger than you are, look for partners who are bigger than your vision."
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"Lead with your heart. The rest will follow."
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"You can always count on Americans to do the right thing - after they've tried everything else."
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"It's unfair to see managers buying brand new cars for themselves when the salaries of their workers still remain unpaid! Good leaders are not selfish thinkers!"
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