Leadership Quotes

Leadership to me means duty, honor, country. It means character, and it means listening from time to time.

People who enjoy meetings should not be in charge of anything.

I want to organize so that women see ourselves as people who are entitled to power, entitled to leadership.

Why - because as a oil and gas small business owner - I know if someone is not doing their job, they should not get paid. Again leadership by example.

I think it is quite dangerous for an organisation to think they can predict where they are going to need leadership. It needs to be something that people are willing to assume if it feels relevant, given the context of any situation.

One of the things about leadership is that you've got to show up. And if you want to be president of the United States you've got to make a case to the American people that Barack Obama needs to be dismissed from his position.

Party domination and State leadership are concepts incompatible with one another.

Good enough never is.

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.

Leadership can not be measured in a poll or even in the result of an election. It can only be truly seen with the benefit of time. From the perspective of 20 years, not 20 days.

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.

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.

Good management is the art of making problems so interesting and their solutions so constructive that everyone wants to get to work and deal with them.

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.