Top 1200 Great Leadership Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

The world is starving for American leadership. But America has an anti-war president.

It is new design by architects versus world revolution by political leadership.

I've been so fortunate in life to have worked for such great organizations, with great owners and general managers and all the great players, along with the support of my family.

Constant, gentle pressure is my preferred technique for leadership, guidance, and coaching.

Divorced from ethics, leadership is reduced to management and politics to mere technique.

You can start with a great director and great actors and have a great script - and it still just doesn't work. It's kind of a mystery how that happens.

Own the leadership style that makes you you. If you are an empathetic leader by nature, embrace that.

If we only have great companies, we will merely have a prosperous society, not a great one. Economic growth and power are the means, not the definition, of a great nation.

At IBM, if we kept our same leadership for 36 years, we'd be bankrupt.

A new leadership. A choice. A chance. Don't cry about what you don't have. Use what you got.

Leadership shows judgment, wisdom, personal appeal and proven competence.

I still hold myself and my marriage up very high. I look upon it with great pride, great honor and great memories. I have no regrets.

I forgot to shake hands and be friendly. It was an important lesson about leadership.

We have to trust the voices of the community to be in leadership and know what we need for our communities.

I don't care tuppence whether I'm forced into a leadership position or not. I'd much sooner not.

... the truth is that when your people don't tell you what you need to know, it's a failure of leadership.

Mahatma Gandhi was someone who demonstrated the tremendous power of leadership by example.

One of the tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency.

The central activity of leadership is teaching - first by example, second by precept.

We needed to have a great set decorator, a great D.P., a great costume designer, everybody. Without all these people, we would have made a shitty movie.

Leadership consists of picking good men and helping them do their best.

Women in leadership cannot cry without raising a storm of commentary.

Carrying a movie is both a great privilege, it's a great opportunity, but it can be a great pressure, and sometimes that can make people behave very oddly.

As corny as it sounds, I'm often pinching myself going, 'What great opportunities and great parts and great people that I've gotten to work with.'

All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning. Great works are often born on a street corner or in a restaurant's revolving door.

I haven't got ambitions. Actually, I'm determined not to die until I get very old. I want to be a great-great-great-grandmother.

We can demonstrate to the world that the U.K. remains a beacon for opportunity, fairness, and democratic leadership.

I'm standing up for the U.S. But it's hard when Russians don't have any respect for the current leadership.

We cannot escape our destiny, nor should we try to do so. The leadership of the free world was thrust upon us two centuries ago in that little hall of Philadelphia. In the days following World War II, when the economic strength and power of America was all that stood between the world and the return to the dark ages, Pope Pius XII said, 'The American people have a great genius for splendid and unselfish actions. Into the hands of America God has placed the destinies of an afflicted mankind.' We are indeed, and we are today, the last best hope of man on earth.

Sometimes leadership is planting trees under whose shade you'll never sit.

Whether it's a church or politics or a corporation or a college or anywhere, leadership matters.

Character is more important than any other leadership trait.

A lot of characters I've played have a certain amount of strength, pride, and leadership.

Humanity needs heroic leadership from those who see all life as precious.

The people of Alabama desire leadership that is willing to get things done.

Leadership Is Performance. You Have To Be Conscious Of Your Behavior, Because Everyone Else Is.

The Irish Republican Army has kept every commitment made by its leadership.

I am deeply concerned about the leadership of the national Democratic Party.

Two elements of successful leadership: a willingness to be wrong and an eagerness to admit it.

The imperative need of this nation at all times is the leadership of Uncommon Men or Women.

Leadership is defined as authentic transformative energy that adds value to others

The first step for a leader is to be right with yourself. Integrity is the basis of leadership.

Leadership is for those who love the public good and are endowed and trained to administer it.

I got to work for some great administrators at great institutions, and I had an opportunity to coach great players. Iowa is no different.

Being successful doesn’t necessarily make you great. What makes you great is when you reach back and help somebody else become great.

We don't have a great war in our generation, or a great depression, but we do, we have a great war of the spirit. We have a great revolution against the culture. The great depression is our lives. We have a spiritual depression.

Leadership is anytime you seek to influence the thinking, behavior, or development of others.

Paralysis of leadership is due in part to the unseen grip of the special interests.

Leadership is the catalytic gift that energizes, directs, and empowers all the other gifts.

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?"

Building followership and inspiration around female leadership is quite difficult to do.

Sustainable leadership does no harm to and actively improves the surrounding environment.

The greatest challenge of Leadership maintaining personal conviction in a globalized world.

The problem of leadership is inevitably: Who will play God?" Muad'Dib

Leadership is inspiring extraordinary people to step up and serve their country.

That's the great paradox of living on this earth, that in the midst of great pain you can have great joy as well. If we didn't have those things we'd just be numb.

Wembley is a ground with great history. It's hosted games and players of great prestige. It's always important playing on great stages like this.

The power for authentic leadership is found not in external arrangements, but in the human heart.

We needed to go back on the offense and offer clear leadership on Iraq.

Having the ability to relate to people is such an important part of management and leadership.