Leader Quotes

The first duty of a leader is to make himself be loved without courting love. To be loved without 'playing up' to anyone - even to himself.

Stories are the single most powerful tool in a leader's toolkit.

A leader who doesn't hesitate before he sends his nation into battle is not fit to be a leader.

But when you get into a situation where you can acquire a proven leader, a proven quality player, an unselfish player, a guy who taken a team to the Super Bowl, I think you do it.

First of all, I can't forget my first responsibility - which is to be the Leader of the Opposition and that's to provide an alternative government.

The manager asks how and when; the leader asks what and why.

A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.

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.

A true leader has to have a genuine open-door policy so that his people are not afraid to approach him for any reason.

Japan is already a leader in energy efficiency, and it has a wealth of innovative technologies. We must put this expertise to use creating a model for growth and sustainability that we can share with the world.

The leader has to be practical and a realist, yet must talk the language of the visionary and the idealist.

A person, who no matter how desperate the situation, gives others hope, is a true leader.

The one thing I have learned as a CEO is that leadership at various levels is vastly different. When I was leading a function or a business, there were certain demands and requirements to be a leader. As you move up the organization, the requirements for leading that organization don't grow vertically; they grow exponentially.

Obama likes to quote great men but will never be a great man himself. I can't stand it when our leader goes around apologizing for who we are.

Cause I was such a novice and thank God that Sarah was as seasoned as she was because she was really a great leader in that regard in the sense that she would communicate really well with the crew.

On March 11, 1985, Mikhail Gorbachev became leader of the Soviet Union, and within a few weeks the full-scale reformation he attempted to carry out both inside his country and in its cold war relations with the West, particularly the United States, began to unfold.

I like Hilary Clinton. I think she's - she's a fantastic leader.

Becoming a leader is synonymous with becoming yourself. It is precisely that simple, and it is also that difficult.

The leader who exercises power with honor will work from the inside out, starting with himself.

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.

Democrats' attack on the Republican majority leader is nothing but a coordinated agenda to stop an effective leader from accomplishing the people's business.

Now, I'm back to my old ways: Needing to be the leader, needing to score.

The real leader has no need to lead - he is content to point the way.

Anyway, so here I was caught between Johnson on the one side, who was my leader, I was his whip, and here was my dear friend, personal friend, Kennedy, and they're going to go into my state and ruin it. What am I going to do?

Virginia is the absolute leader in homeland security and defense and information technology.

There's no leader of this band, and there never will be. That's the key. You can't control how the public perceives you-people see rock'n'roll bands as the guitar player and the singer.

Fortunately, in President Obama, the child of an African and an American, we finally have a leader who is uniquely positioned to bridge the great reparations divide.

From warriors ravens grew red And with their leader a host attacked.

I'm not a natural leader. I'm too intellectual; I'm too abstract; I think too much.

The U.S. used to be perceived as the moral leader of the world, and we have absolutely lost that.