Top 1200 Great Leadership Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

Most people think of leadership as a position and therefore don't see themselves as leaders.

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!

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.

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

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.

There was a great ensemble in 'The Great Fire,' and it was great not having the same parade of actors.

Everyone's life would be improved if they do could one great magic trick. And tell one great joke, play one tune on the piano, and do one great origami fold.

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.

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

I have always had confidence in our front line F.B.I. personnel as well as the F.B.I. leadership.

That's what leadership is all about: getting somebody to see your vision and believe it's possible.

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.

There are certain skills that business people have that are - that are, in fact, helpful in - when it comes to being in political leadership.

There is no more powerful leadership tool than your own personal example.

China and India will take the global leadership on climate change: they are suffering for it.

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.

Pessimism is a losing strategy. Leadership demands both confidence and optimism in abundance.

Only people of proven character should be placed in positions of spiritual leadership.

The basis of leadership is the capacity of the leader to change the mindset, the framework of the other person.

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.

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 presidency is not merely an administrative office...It is pre-eminently a place of moral leadership.

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.'

Religion is so focused on family. These days, for many people, being gay is also focused on family. The Mormon Church is especially focused on family, and I'd have hoped, therefore, that the Mormon Church would especially have celebrated how all of these people who might have been lonely and suicidal and childless are now able to lead this other life. I would have thought it would be a cause for immense celebration. Instead it has been, obviously, a cause of great concern to the Church and its leadership.

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

The great actresses and actors receive awards for great roles in great films.

The role of leadership is to transform the complex situation into small pieces and prioritize them.

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.

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.

Prime Minister Abe's leadership diplomacy was truly amazing. I don't think I can match that.

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.

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.

True leadership is when you are willing to risk your power and voice so that all of ours can be heard.

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.

I vote my conscience first and my constituents next, regardless of the direction of our leadership.

We have no leadership. They rule by herd. Nobody is in charge. It reminds me of a bunch of cows.

While we need to provide leadership and stability to the world, we should do that through diplomacy.

Leadership transitions require us to move out of our comfort zone.

Real leadership is being the person others will gladly and confidently follow.

It's a huge responsibility to have influence and to steward it in a way that leads to God-honoring leadership.

President Obama, under your leadership, we do need guns to keep us safe.

The essence of leadership is being able to see the iceberg before it hits the Titanic.

The script for 'Drive Angry' is a great read with great characters and great action.

To be great, truly great, you have to be the kind of person who makes the others around you great.

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.

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.

The ability to plan for what has not yet happened, for a future that has only been imagined, is one of the hallmarks of leadership.

I have been chastised by a president, I have antagonized and angered presidents, and I have taken on my own leadership.

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.

But to practice leadership, you need to accept that you are in the business of generating chaos, confusion, and conflict

In the end, North Korea's conduct may change only when its leadership does.

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.

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 .

Deloitte University is really about leadership development. Our people love it!

There will never be great architects or great architecture without great patrons.

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.

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

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.

To me, it's about always trying to make decisions that reflect my leadership and who I am.