Leadership Quotes

Dr. King's leadership reaffirmed the promise of our democracy: that everyday people, working together, have the power to change our government and our institutions for the better.

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

Republican leadership in Congress let the energy companies write the energy bill that sent prices soaring, and has turned a blind eye to the struggles of working families trying to make ends meet.

If a window of opportunity appears, don't pull down the shade.

The democratic idealist is prone to make light of the whole question of standards and leadership because of his unbounded faith in the plain people.

When a man assumes leadership, he forfeits the right to mercy.

Now, if we look at the way in which the labor movement itself has evolved over the last couple of decades, we see increasing numbers of black people who are in the leadership of the labor movement and this is true today.

President Bush offers the American people an optimistic vision and a clear choice in November. The President has provided steady leadership in remarkably changing times. He knows exactly where he wants to lead this country, and he has complete confidence in the American people.

No matter how carefully you plan your goals they will never be more than pipe dreams unless you pursue them with gusto.

Yes, America must do the right thing, but to provide moral leadership, America must do it in the right way, too.

They said it was impossible to touch the third rail of politics, to take on public-sector unions and to reform a pension and health benefits system that was headed to bankruptcy. But with bipartisan leadership, we saved taxpayers $132 billion dollars over 30 years and saved retirees their pensions. We did it.

I think what actually works best is local-level individual targeting of key leadership nodes.

With King Abdullah's leadership and his people's trust he can keep the kingdom stable and secure in all its affairs.

You can never stop and as older people, we have to learn how to take leadership from the youth and I guess I would say that this is what I'm attempting to do right now.

The school made it very clear that women were entitled to positions of authority. That sense of entitlement allowed us to feel that we have a natural place in leadership in the world. That gave me a mental and emotional confidence.

But the person who scored well on an SAT will not necessarily be the best doctor or the best lawyer or the best businessman. These tests do not measure character, leadership, creativity, perseverance.

Leadership is about doing what you know is right - even when a growing din of voices around you is trying to convince you to accept what you know to be wrong.

Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.

The problem is, is that President Bush and the Republican leadership in the Congress have resisted attempts to increase dramatically our fuel economy standards over the last five years.

I emphasize self-esteem, self-confidence, and dignity, not as an ideal, but as a real test of community organization. Without leadership development, community organizations do not have staying power.

Leadership in today's world requires far more than a large stock of gunboats and a hard fist at the conference table.

I think leadership is service and there is power in that giving: to help people, to inspire and motivate them to reach their fullest potential.

Ever since Israel has been a nation the United States has provided the leadership. Every president down to the ages has done this in a fairly balanced way, including George Bush senior, Gerald Ford, and others including myself and Bill Clinton.

The Divine Thing that made itself the foundation of the Church does not seem, to judge by his comments on the religious leadership of his day, to have hoped much from officers of a church.

Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.

It's a different era. Our job now is to show leadership and vision and to help the next generation of artists.

Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes.

Being a CEO still means sitting across the table from big institutional investors and showing your leadership and having them believe in you.

The business manager was doing fine back in his office while they were out on the line, hungry. And, so they started to see a lot of that and there was, that maybe the leadership had its own cause. More so than the miners, you know, it was like a power struggle.

Now, do I think there has to be shared sacrifice among other nations in the world who want a stable and secure world? Absolutely, there has to be. But I don't think that America can ever abdicate its leadership role in the world because of who we are and where we've come from. We are the symbol for the world for freedom and liberty.