top of page
.png){kind=small}
Leadership Quotes
"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."
14
"We have guided missiles and misguided men."
14
"Managers don't have as much leverage as they used to have. We can't really be the boss."
14
"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."
14
"I think it is quite dangerous for an organisation to think they can predict where they are going to need leadership. It needs to be something that people are willing to assume if it feels relevant, given the context of any situation."
14
"We need leadership. We don't need a doubling down on the failed politics of the past."
14
"It is only as we develop others that we permanently succeed."
14
"But the question is to find and rear leaders that are really one with the masses. This can only be accomplished by the masses, the political parties and the Trade Unions, by means of the most severe struggle, also inwardly."
14
"I think there should be collaboration, but under my thumb."
14
"As for leadership, I am the kind who leads reluctantly and more by example than anything else. Someone had to be on the incorporation papers as president."
14
"In his years in Washington, Senator Kerry has been one vote of a hundred in the United States Senate - and fortunately on matters of national security he was very often in the minority."
14
"The intelligence investigation under the leadership of Senator Church, which I know has helped cause this investigation by you, points out that the agencies did not disclose certain facts to us and that certain plots were going on."
14
"Polling is merely an instrument for gauging public opinion. When a president or any other leader pays attention to poll results, he is, in effect, paying attention to the views of the people. Any other interpretation is nonsense."
14
"The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers."
14
"For many members of Congress, the time for choosing is near - do what the party leadership demands, or do what the people have asked you to do. If my colleagues don't mind some advice from a newcomer, I'd suggest going with the will of the people."
14
"In any case, decisions on troop levels in the American system of government are not made by any general or set of generals but by the civilian leadership of the war effort."
14
"In the area we're discussing, leadership begins on Madison Avenue, on the desks and in the offices of people who spend hundreds of millions of dollars buying what will get them ratings."
14
"By providing outstanding economic leadership, this country can wage its attack successfully - and can thereby build the foundations of a peaceful world."
14
"Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes."
14
"Our leaders continue to say that we're making strong headway against this problem. And I think we are not."
14
"I believe that the capacity that any organisation needs is for leadership to appear anywhere it is needed, when it is needed."
14
"A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better."
14
"Leadership requires the courage to make decisions that will benefit the next generation."
14
"Many people feel so pressured by the expectations of others that it causes them to be frustrated, miserable and confused about what they should do. But there is a way to live a simple, joy-filled, peaceful life, and the key is learning how to be led by the Holy Spirit, not the traditions or expectations of man."
14
"Leadership comes in small acts as well as bold strokes."
14
"The Chinese leadership hoped that the world would soon forget the Tiananmen Square massacre. Our job in Congress is to ensure that we never forget those who lost their lives in Tiananmen Square that day or the pro-democracy cause for which they fought."
14
"Where much is expected from an individual, he may rise to the level of events and make the dream come true."
14
"Great minds are to make others great. Their superiority is to be used, not to break the multitude to intellectual vassalage, not to establish over them a spiritual tyranny, but to rouse them from lethargy, and to aid them to judge for themselves."
14
"We must lay to, if you please, and keep a bright lookout. It's trying on a man, I know. It would be pleasanter to come to blows. But there's no help for it till we know our men. Lay to, and whistle for a wind, that's my view."
14
"Without courage, it doesn't matter how good the leader's intentions are."
14
"The best of all leaders is the one who helps people so that eventually they don't need him."
14
"I know that we shall meet problems along the way, but I'd far rather see for myself what's going on in the world outside, than rely on newspapers, television, politicians and religious leaders to tell me what I should be thinking."
14
"If I am to choose between "sleeping" and "being part of a leadership that pursues irrelevant agenda", I will choose "sleeping". Chasing of irrelevant agenda by a leadership sect is what made Nelson Mandela to call it "Long Walk to Freedom!"
14
"Leadership comes at a cost.It's called servant leadership."
14
"Leadership is getting players to believe in you. If you tell a teammate you're ready to play as tough as you're able to, you'd better go out there and do it. Players will see right through a phony. And they can tell when you're not giving it all you've got."
14
"No matter how tiny you look, you can lead huge men if you have what the huge men don't have."
14
"Governors were once minors. Presidents were once residents."
14
"Each group and each youngster is different. As a leader or coach, you get to know what they need."
14
"World War II had been such a tremendous success story for this country that the political and military leadership began to assume that they would prevail simply because of who they were. We were like the British at the turn of the 19th century."
14
"Bad leadership during the past years has cast on our Party the shadow of great and grave burdens."
14
"I am not saying that during the Second World War Germany did not, under the leadership of the National Socialist government, commit crimes."
14
"Service is the overflow which pours from a life filled with love and devotion."
14
"Thinking well to be wise: planning well, wiser: doing well wisest and best of all."
14
"Ask yourself - Can you manage projects and meetings effectively? Do you have requisite knowledge of the business financial numbers? Can you manage conflict and change within dynamic environments? Do you have what it takes to respond to the demands of a global village? How deep is your leadership substance?"
14
"Having a leading man who is actually prettier than you are is quite upsetting."
14
bottom of page