Quotes about leaders
leadership determination jobs
Leadership is understanding people and involving them to help you do a job. That takes all of the good characteristics, like integrity, dedication of purpose, selflessness, knowledge, skill, implacability, as well as determination not to accept failure. Arleigh Burke
leadership army skills
It often happens that less depends upon the valor of an army than the skill of the leader. Aristophanes
leadership war reality
Power tends to corrupt. But the power in Washington resides in Congress, if it wants to use it. It can do anything-it can stop the Vietnam War. It can make its will felt, if it can ever get its act together to do anything. Antonin Scalia
leadership great-leader ill
Ill can he rule the great that cannot reach the small. Edmund Spenser
leadership mean men
The men of England,- the men, I mean, of light and leading in England. Edmund Burke
leadership real differences
The great difference between the real leader and the pretender is that the one sees into the future, while the other regards only the present; the one lives by the day, and acts upon expediency; the other acts on enduring principles and for the immortality. Edmund Burke
leadership business quality
The most important quality in a leader is that of being acknowledged as such. All leaders whose fitness is questioned are clearly lacking in force. Andre Maurois
leadership people important
The three most important ways to lead people are:... by example... by example... by example. Albert Schweitzer
leadership two hypocrisy
There are two kinds of stones, as everyone knows, one of which rolls. Amelia Earhart
leadership iraq years
The President's speech suggested to me that were we to follow his leadership, we will be in Iraq not for months, but for years. I also hope I am wrong on this. Daniel Inouye
leadership people decision
We associate leadership with decisiveness. That perception of leadership pushes people to make decisions fairly quickly, lest they be seen as dithering and indecisive. Daniel Kahneman
leadership responsibility equality
Democracy and equality try to denythe mystic recognition of difference and innate priority, the joy of obedience and the sacred responsibility of authority. D. H. Lawrence
leadership bullying men
When man has nothing but his will to assert--even his good-will--it is always bullying. Bolshevism is one sort of bullying, capitalism another: and liberty is a change of chains. D. H. Lawrence
leadership women men
No man is a man unless to his woman he is a pioneer. D. H. Lawrence
leadership pride dark
While the white man keeps the impetus of his own proud, onward march, the dark races will yield and serve, perforce. But let the white man once have a misgiving about his own leadership, and the dark races will at once attack him, to pull him down into the old gulfs. D. H. Lawrence
leadership rushing action
One's action ought to come out of an achieved stillness: not to be a mere rushing on. D. H. Lawrence
leadership army sheep
It is better to have a lion at the head of an army of sheep, than a sheep at the head of an army of lions. Daniel Defoe
leadership president united-states
No easy problems ever come to the President of the United States. If they are easy to solve, someone else has solved them. Dwight D. Eisenhower
leadership peace military
Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin. Dwight D. Eisenhower
leadership nature fun
Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil and you're a thousand miles from the corn field. Dwight D. Eisenhower
leadership jobs war
The most terrible job in warfare is to be a second lieutenant leading a platoon when you are on the battlefield. Dwight D. Eisenhower
leadership motivation military
An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows. Dwight D. Eisenhower
leadership art business
Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it. Dwight D. Eisenhower
leadership integrity quality
The supreme quality of leadership is integrity. Dwight D. Eisenhower
leadership money real
To give real service you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money, and that is sincerity and integrity. Douglas Adams
leadership people opinion
That is what leadership is all about: staking your ground ahead of where opinion is and convincing people, not simply following the popular opinion of the moment. Doris Kearns Goodwin
leadership moving thinking
Sometimes I'll trust my gut more than my head. Logical information might lead me in one direction and my feelings in another. Whereas I would have followed my head ten years ago, now I'm as likely or more likely to go with my gut feeling. It's ironic - you'd think the opposite would be true as you move to the top but it's not. Donna Shalala
leadership thinking way
The politicians think that I have not included enough of them; the nonpoliticians think that I have gone back to the old ways; and the mass public groups think I have forgotten them. Corazon Aquino
leadership jobs engagement
It is the job of leaders to eliminate uncertainty. Colin Powell
leadership essence
Trust is the essence of Leadership. Colin Powell
leadership moving fire
Good leaders must know how to reward those who succeed and know when to retrain, move, or fire ineffective staff. Colin Powell
leadership military army
The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. Colin Powell
leadership mind details
Never neglect details. When everyone's mind is dulled or distracted the leader must be doubly vigilant. Colin Powell