Top 1200 Military Leadership Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

We associate leadership with decisiveness. That perception of leadership pushes people to make decisions fairly quickly, lest they be seen as dithering and indecisive.

Leadership is hard to define and good leadership even harder. But if you can get people to follow you to the ends of the earth, you are a great leader.

Leadership means setting an example. When you find yourself in a position of leadership, people follow your every move.

I fully support your efforts to stamp out sexual assault in the United States military and believer that there is nothing in (Military Justice Improvement Act) that is inconsistent with the responsibility or authority of command. Your efforts in this regard have much broader implications that will actually strengthen the 'good order and discipline' of our military, which I believe accounts for much of the resistance that S967 is receiving...Protecting the victims of these abuses and restoring American values to our military culture is long overdue.

As a company grows from 25 to 50 to 100 to 200 to 500 to 1000 people, the characteristics of who is the very best talent in leadership roles will change. It's rarely the case that your leadership team at 1000 people is the same leadership team you had a 25 people.

Leadership is a mindset in action. So don't wait for the title. Leadership isn't something that anyone can give you - you have to earn it and claim it for yourself.

Sexual assault has no place in the military. It is a violation of everything that the US military stands for.

In order to reclaim the joy and passion of leadership, we must walk the valley of the shadow of death and name the cost of leadership.

The United States is a violent military state. It's been involved in military action all over the place.

I went through a period when I did military roles and played basically someone who was unfit for military service.

Leadership is helping yourself and other people achieve goals. The ability to direct your life to get the results you want is leadership.

If the leadership can't win a debate, then we should show true leadership and implement the democratic will of our party.

I'd be all for everybody keeping their sidearms if they're in the military and on a military installation. That's something we need to get back to.

General Atomics, the progenitor of General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, started life in 1955 when a major military contractor, General Dynamics, feared that the military hardware market might dry up. It began exploring peacetime uses of atomic energy, but abandoned the effort when cold-war military spending took off.

The Humvee is an American military icon and will continue to be for decades. It is an essential part of U.S. military operations.

The difference between government and leadership is that leadership has a soul.

I worked at Military Media, an advertising agency for military-base newspapers. Don't ask, I won't tell.

Any time you use military force, you have got to have a clear purpose that military forces can achieve.

A commander in chief with military experience might be able to prod a conservative military into thinking more imaginatively.

Leadership is not a license to do less. Leadership is a responsibility to do more

The military is not a social experiment. The purpose of the military is kill people and break things.

Military guys are rarely as smart as they think they are, and they've never gotten over the fact that civilians run the military.

In Germany, they have great difficulty with anything that smacks of cultism or messianic leadership. You can't talk about leadership in its charismatic forms.

We should never hesitate to use military force, and I will not, as president, in order to keep the American people safe. But we have to use our military wisely. And we did not use our military wisely in Iraq.

ISIS has leadership, just like al Qaeda has leadership. It's important to be able to eliminate the individuals that are leading the organization.

Over time, I have come to this simple definition of leadership: Leadership is getting results in a way that inspires trust.

Nothing matures a military force quicker than actual military operations.

Servant Leadership is the only #leadership that ultimately works.

Leadership is not achieved by an individual. Leadership is bestowed by the group.

Policy makers who have never served in the military continue to use the military to lead social change in this country.

Leadership is an act of submission to God. To be a leader means listening to all kinds of people and situations. Out of that listening, we are hoping to discern the mind of God as best we can. This is the price of leadership - it's an act of sacrifice. So leadership is part and parcel of the work of submission to God.

All leadership is appreciative leadership. It's the capacity to see the best in the world around us, in our colleagues, and in the groups we are trying to lead.

I'm a big fan of the military. I think we've got to preserve our military, no question about it.

I think leadership of any kind requires trust and transparency and voters should demand no less from their political leadership in government.

The leader builds dispersed and diverse leadership - distributing leadership to the outermost edges of the circle to unleash the power of shared responsibility.

The United States is afraid of China; it is not a military threat to anyone and is the least aggressive of all the major military powers.

Leadership is an elusive concept, hard to describe and impossible to prescribe. It is more evident in its absence, so that when leadership is needed, its lack is sorely felt.

Rotary provides training at all levels so that those who have been selected for leadership positions have the opportunity to learn and apply leadership principles to their jobs.

We need a president who will lead with a stronger, more consistent foreign policy. We also need our commander in chief to put more faith in military leadership who have all of the combat experience. It’s bad policy to try to micromanage too much operationally and tactically from a desk in the Oval Office.

Too often when people think of their journey into leadership, they envision a career path. What they should be thinking about is their own leadership development!

I was a military spouse, and I lived on military pay. It is very difficult to do that. But we do that with honor and with gratitude for the chance to serve this country.

The De Bernieres were very military. I broke the military tradition but I was terribly proud of my father being a soldier.

It may affront the military-minded person to suggest a regime that does not maintain any military secrets.

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My advice is: 1. Be judicious in the use of military force. 2. When military force is required, use overwhelming force. 3. Do not micromanage military leaders. 4. Ensure your battle plans will win the conflict and win the peace.

Leadership deals with people and their dynamics, which are continually changing. The challenge of leadership is to create change and facilitate growth.

Things can change if the military can do a paradigm shift and gets out of the shame and coverup cycle and be a leader in our culture. In the 50s, 60s and 70s there were huge race problems in the military even more severe than the culture at large. The military saw it was detrimental and it changed and became a model to society at large.

Leadership exists when people are no longer victims of circumstances but participate in creating new circumstances. Leadership is about creating a domain in which human beings continually deepen their understanding of reality and become more capable of participating in the unfolding of the world. Ultimately, leadership is about creating new realities.

The only difference I ever found between the Democratic leadership and the Republican leadership is that one of them is skinning you from the ankle up and the other, from the ear down.

In the end, leadership is not intellectual or cognitive. Leadership is emotional.

Leadership must be likeable, affable, cordial, and above all emotional. The fashion of authoritarian leadership is gone. Football is about life. You can't be angry all day.

When we look at the majority of the American people, when they believe that their leadership is letting them down, there is only one option out there for us, and that's to change that leadership.

A small country like Israel has compulsory military training. But countries like India, that are so much bigger, have no compulsory military training, so people don't understand how the military functions. They have no knowledge of how it works, no respect for it.

The race for the White House should be about leadership, and leadership requires that one help heal the wounds of Vietnam, not reopen them.

It is not wise, or even possible, to divorce private behavior from public leadership.... By its very nature, true leadership carries with it the burden of being an example.

It isn't personal per se to document what the Republican Party leadership is doing and how they're abrogating actual leadership.

The quarterback position is a role of leadership, and I feel just who I am as a person, I bring different types of leadership to the table.

The only real training for leadership is leadership.

Leadership potential exists in everybody. What I think we have missed is that we have somehow relegated leadership only to a special, talented few people.

The danger of having the military take over intelligence is that the military has a very different perspective on the world.