Top 1200 Great Leader Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

When you become a leader, you lose the right to think about yourself.

America needs leader that work for them, not partisan gain.

Being a leader is one thing I've never felt comfortable with. It's not my nature.

A leader should be a visionary and have more foresight than an employee.

A leader must inspire or his team will expire.

I don't pick the leader of another party. Likud picked Netanyahu.

When I see things, I speak my mind. But I'm a quiet leader, if anything.

People point fingers at the leader. That happens in every sport.

I am as great as the thoughts I conceive. I am as great as the Universe I perceive. I am as great as the love of my heart. I am as great as the God in my Soul.

Jamaica's a country of great dichotomy. On the one hand you have a tourist industry with great beaches and resorts, but on the other you have such great poverty and the violence that goes along with that.

All great scientists have, in a certain sense, been great artists; the man with no imagination may collect facts, but he cannot make great discoveries.

A pair of skinny jeans and a tattoo does not make you a leader.

My great-great-great-grandfather or something, I think his father came before him; but, in the 1840s, he was a circuit-riding Baptist preacher.

When you coach and teach leadership, most people think about them. It's like you're the leader and how do you influence them. Clearly, leaders do take their followers, their flock, their enterprise, their business - whatever - hopefully to a better place. But I think the foundation of what makes really great leaders is they lead themselves, and they're conscious about knowing themselves and coaching and leading themselves in a very profound way. The simplest of us talk to ourselves. The question is, "Do we really lead ourselves?"

I'd rather go with someone who wasn't a great speaker, but was a great chef, rather than someone who was a great performer, but maybe not a great cook.

People won't give their best unless their leader challenges them to do so.

Be a great capitalist. Be a great socialist. Be a great whatever you want to be, but do it with style, clarity and precision. That is the hallmark of those who seek higher knowledge and truth.

I think every woman has this point in her life where she's like, 'I have a great job, great outfits and great friends, but something's missing.'

Great people are not affected by each puff of wind that blows ill. Like great ships, they sail serenely on, in a calm sea or a great tempest.

My role is just be a leader on the court, be a team player, and that's what I am.

In China, you have to have a strong leader for a business to get anything done.

Have a great, great marriage. Have a great time together. You know something? You'll disagree sometimes, and you'll find out how stupid it is, and then you'll be OK. You will.

I've been a leader practically my whole life. I don't know what it is to follow.

A leader puts himself last then he sticks out.

I don't believe that being an inspiring leader is a goal that you can aspire to. It is a by-product.

The true leader must submerge himself in the fountain of the people.

We as Iraqis have suffered enormously as a result of al-Qaeda and its leader.

Without courage, it doesn't matter how good the leader's intentions are.

To be a leader, you have to travel through the entire length and breadth of the country.

My great-great-great-grandmother walked as a slave from Virginia to Eatonton, Georgia... It is in memory of this walk that I chose to keep and to embrace my "maiden" name, Walker.

The leader's role is to define reality, then give hope

A leader is someone who puts their people in position to be successful all the time

When my daughter was younger we showed her all the great musicals. And the great dramas and great comedies, and the one that she took to the most was Some Like It Hot.

The man who always takes and never gives is not a leader. He is a parasite.

A leader moves ahead but not so fast that the others can't keep up.

Great loves were almost always great tragedies. Perhaps it was because love was never truly great until the element of sacrifice entered into it.

Preparedness and punctuality are two of the most important qualities of a leader.

Inequality may linger in the world of material things, but great music, great literature, great art and the wonders of science are, and should be, open to all.

I hadn't realized until this week that in [Moses'] youth he killed a man, an Egyptian, and buried him under some sandI used to worry that I wasn't enough like Jesus, but yesterday I remembered who was my king; a man who, when God addressed him and told him to lead the people out of Egypt, said, 'But I'm not a good talker! Couldn't you ask my brother instead?' So it should not be so hard to come at this life with a bit of honesty. I don't need to be great like the leader of the Christian people. I can be a bumbling, murderous coward like the King of the Jews.

There could be great thrillers or great dramas or great comedies made in that world but everyone's afraid of it. So you have to do them as these crazy little independent movies.

The great leaders of business, industry and finance, and the great artists, poets, musicians and writers all became great because they developed the power of self-motivation .

The Internet is just it's great in a lot of ways and it has its disadvantages. But one of the great advantages is the ubiquity - virtually anyone can be discovered and things catch like fire when they're great.

Tom [Cruise] is a great producer himself. He's got great sense of story. It's always great to have the perspective of the person who's playing the character in your film.

The most important thing you do as a leader is to hire the right people.

There goes my people. I must follow them, for I am their leader.

If you are a real leader, every single thing is your fault.

A leader knows who is outside of the system and needs special help.

I've got a great family, great career, great friends, and a lot of passions, which make my life interesting and fulfilling every day.

It is natural to admire and revere really great men. They hallow the nation to which they belong, and lift up not only all who live in their time, but those who live after them. Their great example becomes the common heritage of their race; and their great deeds and great thoughts are the most glorious legacies of mankind.

A leader is a person you will follow to a place you wouldn't go by yourself.

The trickle-down experiment that began in the Reagan years failed America's middle class. Sure, the rich are doing great. Giant corporations are doing great. Lobbyists are doing great. But we need an economy where everyone else who works hard gets a shot at doing great!

Ossie Davis was a man with great integrity, great honor and someone who I feel has done us all a great service just by being on the Earth.

Whenever you're the leader in any industry, you get more headlines.

As the leader, part of the job is to be visible and willing to communicate with everyone

When I ask myself what are the great things we got from the Renaissance, it's the great art, the great music, the science insights of Leonardo da Vinci. Two hundred years from now, when you ask what are the great things that came from this era, I think it's going to be an understanding of the universe around us.

There has to be some certainty about who the leader is before the summer break.

I think that Hassan Nasrallah is the best leader in the Muslim world.

I'm working harder than ever now, and I'm putting on my pants the same as I always have. I just get up every day and try to do a little better than the day before, and that is to run a great restaurant with great food, great wine, and great service. That's my philosophy.

We're in a war with ISIS and we need a leader who understands exactly what that means.

There have been in this century only one great man and one great thing: Napoleon and liberty. For want of the great man, let us have the great thing.