Leader Quotes

As the leader of twelve apostles, even Jesus had more executive experience than Obama.

When the best leader's work is done the people say, 'We did it ourselves.'

A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don't necessarily want to go, but ought to be.

Netanyahu is pressured easily, gets into a panic, and loses his senses... to run a country like Israel a leader needs to have reason and judgment and nerves of steel, two traits he does not have.

This business is always changing. If you're going to be a leader, you've got to take chances.

The man who lets a leader prescribe his course is a wreck being towed to the scrap heap.

I was told to challenge every spiritual teacher, every world leader to utter the one sentence that no religion, no political party, and no nation on the face of the earth will dare utter: 'Ours is not a better way, ours is merely another way.

A leader who loses his connection to his people soon loses the ability to lead them.

As a civil rights leader, Mrs. King's vision of racial peace and nonviolent social change was a fortifying staple in advancing the civil rights movement.

In the simplest terms, a leader is one who knows where she wants and gets up and goes.

I think whether you're having setbacks or not, the role of a leader is to always display a winning attitude.

Russia is still the leader in world space exploration. But its position of leader involves great responsibility - we have no right to lag behind. We can and we must move constantly forward.

I've been a very effective leader in the gay rights movement, though at times I've been controversial.

America wants solutions. America wants a leader. No more tabloid politics.

Barack Obama and Jimmy Hoffa are like Tweedledum and Tweedledee, Lady Gaga and hype, the 'Jersey Shore' cast and hairspray: inseparable. The president can no more disown the Teamsters Union's leader than he can disown his own id.

If an individual wants to be a leader and isn't controversial, that means he never stood for anything.

You're not a leader if you haven't been elected.

It is, after all, the responsibility of the expert to operate the familiar and that of the leader to transcend it.

Penn State is a leader in food science.

There are many qualities that make a great leader. But having strong beliefs, being able to stick with them through popular and unpopular times, is the most important characteristic of a great leader.

Lyndon Johnson, as majority leader of the United States Senate, he made the Senate work.

The rest of the world cares about how we conduct our affairs because they then take that lead. We're the only leader in the world today. Some are wishing us well, others think that we're down and are not going to get back up again, but they are all watching with great interest to see how we conduct our business over the next couple of years.

The words spoken by the leader of the free world can expand the frontiers of freedom or shrink them. When Ronald Reagan called on Gorbachev to "tear down this wall," a surge of confidence rose that would ultimately breach the bounds of the evil empire.

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.

Criticizing Fox News has nothing to do with criticizing the press. Fox News is not a news organization. It is the de facto leader of the GOP, and it is long past time that it is treated as such by the media, elected officials and the public.

I never thought in terms of being a leader. I thought very simply in terms of helping people.

This is a time when the United States should be standing tall. There is no other leader in the world today. We shouldn't be approaching conflicts as a team sport. We either get in an we lead and we do a good job, or you don't get in at all.

People have said I'm the candidate of anger. Well, we have a right to be angry. We lost 3 million jobs. We lost our place as the moral leader of the world.

Ted Turner is still a leader. And he sets a great example. His ability financially has been reduced, but his influence and his example still is an important asset to the whole environmental movement.

When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty, and there is nothing more to fear from them, then he is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader.