Leader Quotes

It's good to have a leader, otherwise we argue too much.

You cannot be a leader, and ask other people to follow you, unless you know how to follow, too.

The Leader of the Opposition's constitutional obligation - the obligation to Parliament - it's the reason we did the merger! - is to make sure Canadians have an alternative for government.

The manager has his eye on the bottom line; the leader has his eye on the horizon.

Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.

They should regard me as what I am. I am a spiritual leader and teacher.

I have never tried to fiddle my role as leader of the city of Sheffield, as an MP or as a minister.

The fountain of youth with the youthful young musician is one meaning, and the fountain of youth with the youthful energy of the leader is another meaning.

The grass roots are energized because the absolutely highest priority in the country in November is to defeat Barack Obama. I have spoken with literally thousands and thousands of tea-party activists - I have yet to meet a single tea-party leader that is not going to vote for Mitt Romney.

The job of a leader, the job of a governor, the job of a president, is to get the people in the room and bang enough heads together and rub enough arms and cajole enough to have them put the country and the state's greater interest ahead of their own personal partisan interest. That's what we did in New Jersey and that's the model for America.

The leader is one who mobilizes others toward a goal shared by leaders and followers... Leaders, followers and goals make up the three equally necessary supports for leadership.

I want to be just a pure spiritual leader.

The secret of a leader lies in the tests he has faced over the whole course of his life and the habit of action he develops in meeting those tests.

I definitely did look up to John. We all looked up to John. He was older and he was very much the leader; he was the quickest wit and the smartest.

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.

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.