Leader Quotes

The true test of a leader is whether his followers will adhere to his cause from their own volition, enduring the most arduous hardships without being forced to do so, and remaining steadfast in the moments of greatest peril.

If you can get a teen leader in each sector of a student population, you can pull people in. Everybody wants to get involved, but most are too afraid. When they see a person they think is cool leading it, they're first to join.

Franklin Roosevelt was a great leader. He saw how to use the levers of power to affect change.

Anyway, I've never been captain in 16 years in the NHL. But that didn't stop me being a leader in my own way.

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.

My role in society, or any artist's or poet's role, is to try and express what we all feel. Not to tell people how to feel. Not as a preacher, not as a leader, but as a reflection of us all.

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

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.

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.'

People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader leads, and the boss drives.

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.

The Secret Service is a strange group. They don't really have a leader. It's not set up like a military. Each one is supposed to be able to act like a leader when something comes up.

With the coming of radio as a mass medium, suddenly the world changed. It became about, 'Can this leader project emotional connection through the way he speaks on the radio?' And the anxiety about whether he could do that, we've inherited.

As the U.S. trade deficit, and the portion of that deficit attributed to China, continue to grow, our own economy is at risk of losing its reputation as a leader in world trade.