Leadership Quotes

Real leadership is leaders recognizing that they serve the people that they lead.

Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.

The Leadership Training Institute of America trains and equips young men and women to be leaders with high standards of personal morality and integrity.

Leadership - mobilization toward a common goal.

Leadership is, among other things, the ability to inflict pain and get away with it - short-term pain for long-term gain.

Sport fosters many things that are good; teamwork and leadership.

Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.

There would not be enough talent that's educated, developed and ready to take on the next leadership challenge, and it would cap our growth. Now we've put programs in place not to have that happen, but that could be a weakness.

Leadership is unlocking people's potential to become better.

Ninety percent of leadership is the ability to communicate something people want.

Leadership offers an opportunity to make a difference in someone's life, no matter what the project.

Maybe if everybody in leadership was a woman, you might not get into the conflicts in the first place. But if you watch the women who have made it to the top, they haven't exactly been non-aggressive - including me.

Democrats are going to proudly run on the fact that we turned the economy around. It was our policies under President Obama's leadership through the Recovery Act, through investing in the automobile industry.

Such highly qualitative leadership is demanded especially in the realm of the fostering of right international relations. Here the demand is simply irresistible.

Leadership is a privilege to better the lives of others. It is not an opportunity to satisfy personal greed.

Even after such milestones as Kathryn Bigelow winning an Oscar, there still seem to be few women in leadership roles.

The great leaders have always stage-managed their effects.

In the area we're discussing, leadership begins on Madison Avenue, on the desks and in the offices of people who spend hundreds of millions of dollars buying what will get them ratings.

True leadership lies in guiding others to success. In ensuring that everyone is performing at their best, doing the work they are pledged to do and doing it well.

While Mayor Daley surprised me today with his decision to not run for reelection, I have never been surprised by his leadership, dedication and tireless work on behalf of the city and the people of Chicago.

I believe that it is irresponsible, it is basically part of the crisis of leadership in D.C. to not look at Social Security and understand that there has got to be a solution posed. We've got to take a look at it and make sure that we create a solution so our seniors aren't left out in the cold.

Hope and change? We're not doing that anymore. They're doing attack and blame. And so, I just think people are going to see through this. They want real leadership. They want us to get this country on the right track.

Rotary provides training at all levels so that those who have been selected for leadership positions have the opportunity to learn and apply leadership principles to their jobs.

The nicest thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from.

Turnaround or growth, it's getting your people focused on the goal that is still the job of leadership.

Studies have consistently shown that financial hardship is the biggest obstacle to heterosexual marriage, yet the Republican leadership has done precious little to help address the financial hardship faced by American families.

The key to successful leadership today is influence, not authority.

The signs of outstanding leadership appear primarily among the followers. Are the followers reaching their potential? Are they learning? Serving? Do they achieve the required results? Do they change with grace? Manage conflict?

Absolute identity with one's cause is the first and great condition of successful leadership.

I don't agree with all-male leaderships. Men cannot be left to run things on their own. I think it's a thoroughly bad thing to have a men-only leadership.