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Leadership Quotes


"The Prince is the only option to a better living. His arm is reliable and dependable. Get to Him, stay glued and remain on Top!"


"A responsible woman guides, controls (albeit subtly), directs with superior knowledge that is higher than that of her contemporaries!"


"The leadership lost its nerve. Instead of taking the lead in the reform movement... they pulled the plug on it. They tried and are still trying to return the church to the dry ice of the previous century and a half."



"Grace equals ability. God gives us grace to match our call. When we do our own thing, we do it on our own. When we follow His leading, He always supplies the grace and the energy to do what He's calling us to do."


"As we look ahead into the future, leaders will be those who serve others, actively listen, and daily empower."


"You cannot climb up to a true leadership position unless you use the ladder of integrity!"


"Our mail product, Hotmail, is the market leader globally."


"A leader has to 'appear' consistent. That doesn't mean he has to be consistent."


"Make people feel great when they feel small. Make them feel responsible when they feel great."


"I am not the kind of leader who pontificates about what should be done - I don't operate on scenarios, and I am not a prophet."


"True Leaders take an Ordinary Person and turn them into an Extraordinary Performer."



"Free folk don't follow names, or little cloth animals sewn on a tunic," the King-Beyond-the-Wall had told him. "They won't dance for coins, they don't care how your style yourself or what that chain of office means or who your grandsire was. They follow strength. They follow the man."


"There has not yet been a major ground offensive battle... There are, we know, negotiations going on between the opposition forces and the Taliban leadership for surrender."


"An old African leader says about leadership, he says that leadership should never be shared; it should always remain in the hands of the dispossessed people. We will lead the revolution."


"If your vision is bigger than you are, look for partners who are bigger than your vision."


"Getting to the top should be a priority, but being aware of the reason for getting there should be the focus!"


"A man who rightly governs self, may also govern family without the crippling cowardice, crutch of control."


"Divorced from ethics, leadership is reduced to management and politics to mere technique."


"You can lead if you can serve. You can serve when you can love. You can love when you are graced. The truth is that God knows love will be needed in volumes, this is why he made his grace abundant. Leaders are lovers. Misleaders are haters!"


"How was your day? If your answer was "fine," then I don't think you were leading."


"Realistic and unrealistic expectations will be placed on you, demands will be made, fair and unfair judgment will be passed. Your growing leadership intelligence should reflect in your objective response or reaction to these challenges " remember more eyes than you can see are watching you. Know when it is prudent to make a comment, to set the record straight or just not comment. Decide which invitations to accept and which ones to send a representative or to turn down. Continuously reflecting on your mission, beliefs and values will make this process more objective."


"A leader is the one who is pulling the sled hardest."


"I believe "Leadership" is creating the environment for the greatness in people to emerge."


"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!"


"Entrepreneurial Leadership is where your vision, influence and creativity converge; it is where opportunities become limitless and your capabilities boundless."



"If we protect the 'underhand' [those working under us], then the 'boss' will protect us. If we constantly reprimand the 'underhand', then the boss will constantly reprimand us."


"It [is] that courage that Africa most desperately needs."


"To truly motivate others 1) discover what their motives, desires & drivers are 2) genuinely connect with and support them from the heart."


"The world is changed by your example, not by your opinion."


"True leaders do not make choices with reference to the opinion of the majority. They make choices based on the opinion of the truth and the truth can come from either the majority or the minority!"


"We do not need international help to stop corruption, we need strong Louisiana Leadership."


"Men make history and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better."


"If there is not the war, you don't get the great general; if there is not a great occasion, you don't get a great statesman; if Lincoln had lived in a time of peace, no one would have known his name."


"It is the responsibility of leadership to provide opportunity, and the responsibility of individuals to contribute."


"That is what leadership is all about: staking your ground ahead of where opinion is and convincing people, not simply following the popular opinion of the moment."


"The Leader will be a person with the management skills to coordinate the activities of the Team, and to assure that the Team remains faithful to the objectives of the incoming President."


"I think our leadership team is a highly accountable leadership team."


"All of this suggests that while citizens became more comfortable with President Bush after September 11 and thought him to have the requisite leadership skills, they continue to harbor doubts about his priorities, loyalties, interests, and policies."


"This - the leadership of the mayor is crucial, because it is to the mayor that people will look to provide the vision, the energy, and the sense of confidence in the rebuilding and the recovery."


"Leadership is not about the next election, it's about the next generation."


"House Republican leadership have refused to allow a clean minimum wage vote. Close to 15 million Americans will be affected if we did this. Do Republicans really expect a family to live on less than $11,000 a year?"


"Trudeau's contribution was not to build Canada but to destroy it, and I had to come in and save it."


"Young leading cadres have risen up by helicopter. They should really rise step by step."


"Military leaders aren't made. They are born. To be a good leader, you have to have something in your character to cause people to follow you."


"Everyone believed the Senate could not really be led. It used to take so long to rise up through seniority."


"I never could be a partisan leader - a man of one idea."


"Leadership should be born out of the understanding of the needs of those who would be affected by it."


"The very atmosphere of firearms anywhere and everywhere restrains evil interference - they deserve a place of honor with all that's good."


"The cardinal responsibility of leadership is to identify the dominant contradiction at each point of the historical process and to work out a central line to resolve it."
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