I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people.

Show me the leader and I will know his men. Show me the men and I will know their leader.

Leadership is an opportunity to serve. It is not a trumpet call to self-importance. J. Donald Walters It is better to lead from behind and to put others in front, especially when you celebrate victory when nice things occur. You take the front line when there is danger. Then people will appreciate your leadership."

The nation will find it very hard to look up to the leaders who are keeping their ears to the ground.

True leadership lies in guiding others to success. In ensuring that everyone is performing at their best, doing the work they are pledged to do and doing it well.

I start with the premise that the function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.

The man who follows a crowd will never be followed by a crowd.

Leadership is unlocking people's potential to become better.

Leadership is a journey not a destination. It is a marathon not a sprint. It is a process not an outcome. quoting John Donahoe

Good leadership consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people.

A good leader takes a little more than his share of the blame, a little less than his share of the credit.

If I advance, follow me! If I retreat, kill me! If I die, avenge me!

Leadership is action, not position.

When you accept a leadership role you take on extra responsibility for your actions toward others.

Ethics must begin at the top of an organization. It is a leadership issue and the chief executive must set the example.

Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.

People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader leads, and the boss drives.

The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.

The speed of the leader determines the rate of the pack.

The measure of a great leader, is their success in bringing everyone around to their opinion twenty years later.

The only safe ship in a storm is leadership.

And the whole world, the whole world that believes in freedom, whether you're talking about personal freedom, economic freedom, religious freedom, they look to the United States for leadership; and you're part of that leadership.

Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you; be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them.

Hindsight is always 20/20 but you can’t have all the information to make a decision in the time of a crisis. The more important thing is to make a good decision.

Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.

Leadership demands that we make tough choices.

Leadership to me means duty, honor, country. It means character, and it means listening from time to time.

People who enjoy meetings should not be in charge of anything.

Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them.

The question Who ought to be boss? is like asking Who ought to be the tenor in the quartet? Obviously, the man who can sing tenor.

Don't find fault, find a remedy.

We are like chameleons, we take our hue and the color of our moral character, from those who are around us.

The leader of genius must have the ability to make different opponents appear as if they belonged to one category.

The key to successful leadership today is influence, not authority.

In my mind, great leaders are those that listen to their people.

Leadership does not depend on being right.

If a window of opportunity appears, don't pull down the shade.

You don't lead by hitting people over the head that's assault, not leadership.

Character matters; leadership descends from character.

He who wishes to be obeyed must know how to command.

Education is the mother of leadership.

Only one man in a thousand is a leader of men the other 999 follow women.

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

Leadership is the wise use of power. Power is the capacity to translate intention into reality and sustain it.

Our chief want in life is somebody who will make us do what we can.

He who is prudent and lies in wait for an enemy who is not, will be victorious.

I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?

What you cannot enforce, do not command.

Leadership is diving for a loose ball, getting the crowd involved, getting other players involved. It's being able to take it as well as dish it out. That's the only way you're going to get respect from the players.

The conduct of President Bush's war of choice has been plagued with incompetent civilian leadership decisions that have cost many lives and rendered the war on and occupation of Iraq a strategic policy disaster for the United States.

Obstacles are things a person sees when he takes his eyes off his goal.

I look for what needs to be done. After all, that's how the universe designs itself.

President Reagan was a leader at a time when the American people most needed leadership. He outlined a vision that captured the imagination of the free world, a vision that toppled the Communist empire and freed countless millions.

The Dalai Lama. He is a very wise man of great inner peace who believes that happiness is the purpose of our lives. Through his teachings and leadership, he continues to make this world a better place in which to live.

There is no necessary connection between the desire to lead and the ability to lead, and even less the ability to lead somewhere that will be to the advantage of the led...

Leadership is the art of giving people a platform for spreading ideas that work.

President Bush has shown great leadership. He has said that the 21st century will not be ruled or dictated by terrorists, dictators, and murderers. He is absolutely right. God bless him for his resolve.

God will never direct us to be prideful, arrogant and unforgiving, immoral or slothful or full of fear. We step into these things because we are insensitive to the leadership of the Holy Spirit within us.

Leadership is a serving relationship that has the effect of facilitating human development.

You learn far more from negative leadership than from positive leadership. Because you learn how not to do it. And, therefore, you learn how to do it.

The right man comes at the right time.

Whether a man is burdened by power or enjoys power; whether he is trapped by responsibility or made free by it; whether he is moved by other people and outer forces or moves them this is of the essence of leadership.

Pull the string, and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all.

Turnaround or growth, it's getting your people focused on the goal that is still the job of leadership.

Leaders of men are later remembered less for the usefulness of what they have achieved than for the sweep of their endeavors.

The speed of the leader is the speed of the gang.

If you think you can do a thing or think you can't do a thing, you're right.

There are only about a half dozen things that make 80% of the difference in any area of our lives.

Outstanding leaders appeal to the hearts of their followers not their minds.

Power lasts ten years; influence not more than a hundred.

We can't drive our SUVs and eat as much as we want and keep our homes on 72 degrees at all times... and then just expect that other countries are going to say OK. That's not leadership. That's not going to happen.

The task of leadership is not to put greatness into humanity, but to elicit it, for the greatness is already there.

A leader is a dealer in hope.

Educationists should build the capacities of the spirit of inquiry, creativity, entrepreneurial and moral leadership among students and become their role model.

If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulder of giants.

Coaches who can outline plays on a black board are a dime a dozen. The ones who win get inside their player and motivate.

A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they dont necessarily want to go but ought to be.

When a customer enters my store, forget me. He is king.

The great leaders have always stage managed their effects.

Keep cool and you will command everyone.

Servant leadership is the foundation and the secret of Sam Walton's ability to achieve team synergy.

The art of leadership... consists in consolidating the attention of the people against a single adversary and taking care that nothing will split up that attention.

This the leadership of the mayor is crucial, because it is to the mayor that people will look to provide the vision, the energy, and the sense of confidence in the rebuilding and the recovery.

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

Management is about arranging and telling. Leadership is about nurturing and enhancing.

An army of deer would be more formidable commanded by a lion, than a an army of lions commanded by a stag.

Millions saw the apple fall, but Newton was the one who asked why.

Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of humility.

You cannot be a leader, and ask other people to follow you, unless you know how to follow, too.

Leadership is intangible, and therefore no weapon ever designed can replace it.

You're only as good as the people you hire.

Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others; it is the only means.

A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.

Real leadership is leaders recognizing that they serve the people that they lead.

Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.

A leader is one who, out of madness or goodness, volunteers to take upon himself the woe of the people. There are few men so foolish, hence the erratic quality of leadership in the world.

Alliances and international organizations should be understood as opportunities for leadership and a means to expand our influence, not as constraints on our power.

In terms of having views and being prepared to express them, yes, I think New Zealand's had a leadership role in a lot of things.

Leadership has a harder job to do than just choose sides. It must bring sides together.

Sport fosters many things that are good; teamwork and leadership.

Every time you have to speak, you are auditioning for leadership.

Blessed is he who has learned to admire but not envy, to follow but not imitate, to praise but not flatter, and to lead but not manipulate.

Leadership is service, not position.

Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.

It is, after all, the responsibility of the expert to operate the familiar and that of the leader to transcend it.

Absolute identity with one's cause is the first and great condition of successful leadership.

This is one of the major problems we have. By the way, it was endorsed by leadership on both sides of the aisle and both ends of the Capitol, by the NRA and also by the gun control groups.

Leaders draw out ones individual greatness

You know, rural Americans are a special people. Their labor puts food on our table and fuel in our gas tanks. Their service in our military sets a powerful example of leadership, honor and sacrifice. Their spirit of community inspires us all.

The first task of a leader is to keep hope alive.

I like to think of confidence as Not knowing 100% about a job role but believing that one can handle whatever is unknown.

All Americans and freedom loving people around the world owe President Reagan our deepest gratitude for his strong, principled leadership that ended the Cold War and brought freedom to millions of people.

If your actions create a legacy that inspires others to dream more learn more do more and become more then you are an excellent leader.

I would not be a Moses to lead you into the Promised Land because if I could lead you into it someone else could lead you out of it.

You must be willing to give up what you are to become what you want to be.

I am more afraid of an army of 100 sheep led by a lion than an army of 100 lions led by a sheep.

Getting in touch with your true self must be your first priority.

The more that social democracy develops, grows, and becomes stronger, the more the enlightened masses of workers will take their own destinies, the leadership of their movement, and the determination of its direction into their own hands.

Belief has the power to change your inner state and your outer world.

Vocational education programs have made a real difference in the lives of countless young people nationwide; they build self confidence and leadership skills by allowing students to utilize their unique gifts and talents.- Conrad Burns

The best leaders are those most interested in surrounding themselves with assistants and associates smarter than they are. They are frank in admitting this and are willing to pay for such talents.

The leader is one who mobilizes others toward a goal shared by leaders and followers... Leaders, followers and goals make up the three equally necessary supports for leadership.

Let him that would move the world, first move himself.

It is a strange trade that of advocacy. Your intellect, your highest heavenly gift is hung up in the shop window like a loaded pistol for sale.

Leadership cannot just go along to get along. Leadership must meet the moral challenge of the day.

Sometimes leadership is planting trees under whose shade you'll never sit. It may not happen fully till after I'm gone. But I know that the steps we're taking are the right steps.

Becoming a leader is synonymous with becoming yourself. It is precisely that simple, and it is also that difficult.

Go as far as you can see; when you get there, you'll be able to see farther.

I supported my friend Congressman Shuler over former Speaker Nancy Pelosi during our party's leadership elections in November citing a need for new leadership.

You do not lead by hitting people over the head thats assault not leadership.

Only those who play win. Only those who risk win. History favors risktakers. Forgets the timid. Everything else is commentary.

Leadership appears to be the art of getting others to want to do something you are convinced should be done.

True leadership must be for the benefit of the followers, not the enrichment of the leaders.

Leadership is, among other things, the ability to inflict pain and get away with it short term pain for long-term gain.- George Will

I am proud of the President's leadership. I am proud to support him in saying: Yes, we are going to do what is necessary now when it is less painful and less expensive.

If the leader is filled with high ambition and if he pursues his aims with audacity and strength of will, he will reach them in spite of all obstacles.

The person who renders loyal service in a humble capacity will be chosen for higher responsibilities, just as the biblical servant who multiplied the one pound given him by his master was made ruler over ten cities...

When we think we lead we are most led.

The nicest thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from.

The message of the free world to any potential Palestinian leadership should be a simple one: Embrace democratic reform and we will embrace you.

Every private in the French army carries a Field Marshall wand in his knapsack.

House Republican leadership have refused to allow a clean minimum wage vote. Close to 15 million Americans will be affected if we did this. Do Republicans really expect a family to live on less than $11,000 a year?

We perceive and are affected by changes too subtle to be described.

Get around people who have something of value to share with you. Their impact will continue to have a significant effect on your life long they have departed.

The secret of my success is a two word answer: Know people.

Leadership is about doing what you know is right even when a growing din of voices around you is trying to convince you to accept what you know to be wrong.

When the leadership is right and the time is right, the people can always be counted upon to follow to the end at all costs.

Leaders create an environment which everyone has the opportunity to do work which matches his potential capability and for which an equitable differential reward is provided.

Pity the leader caught between unloving critics and uncritical lovers.

The House Republican leadership has simply run out of ideas.

If it feels good saying it. Its probably not a good thing to say.

It is a characteristic of all movements and crusades that the psychopathic element rises to the top.

The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble.

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

Leadership is something I was born with.

The growth and development of people is the highest calling of leadership.

When we think we lead we most are led.

Bad leadership during the past years has cast on our Party the shadow of great and grave burdens.

Those that rule must hear and be deaf, must see and be blind.

Get the best people and train them well.

The cautious seldom err.

If you command wisely, you'll be obeyed cheerfully.

When a blind man bears the standard, pity those who follow.

Because of the president's leadership, every American will have access to affordable, quality health care.

In our system leadership is by consent, not command. To lead a President must persuade. Personal contacts and experiences help shape his thinking. They can be critical to his persuasiveness and thus to his leadership.

If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.

Popularity is not leadership.

Leadership involves finding a parade and getting in front of it.

In addition to removing our democratically elected government, Israel wants to sow dissent among Palestinians by claiming that there is a serious leadership rivalry among us. I am compelled to dispel this notion definitively.

People in any organization are always attached to the obsolete the things that should have worked but did not the things that once were productive and no longer are.

I believe that in Europe, we have a collective leadership.

We need safe communities that are free from methamphetamine and a federal commitment to stand next to state leadership and law enforcement in the fight against this epidemic.

Do your best to be the lead dog otherwise the view never changes.

This is easy to say with the benefit of hindsight, but I think it once again points out how very important style of leadership, that is the way he does what he does, is to his perception.

A functioning, robust democracy requires a healthy educated, participatory followership, and an educated, morally grounded leadership.

Clarity affords focus.

You who are journalists, writers, citizens, you have the right and duty to say to those you have elected that they must practice mindfulness, calm and deep listening, and loving speech. This is universal thing, taught by all religions.

He that thinketh he leadeth and hath no one following him is only taking a walk.

Together we are better

Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.

Even after such milestones as Kathryn Bigelow winning an Oscar, there still seem to be few women in leadership roles.

Yahoo! is the only company with both scale and leadership in branded and search advertising.

This administration and the leadership in Congress appear to be intent on valuing wealth over work, thereby placing working families at a distinct disadvantage.

Leadership should be born out of the understanding of the needs of those who would be affected by it.

There are no ideas in the Republican Party right now in the Congress. They're the party of no. They desperately need some intellectual leadership. And whatever you think of Newt Gingrich, he can supply intellectual leadership. So I hope he does run.

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.

The amount of good luck coming your way depends on your willingness to act.

The exercise of power is determined by thousands of interactions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, all the more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyone has a small part of himself in both.

World War II had been such a tremendous success story for this country that the political and military leadership began to assume that they would prevail simply because of who they were. We were like the British at the turn of the 19th century.

No amount of study or learning will make a man a leader unless he has the natural qualities of one.

We herd sheep, we drive cattle, we lead people. Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way.

The very exercise of leadership fosters capacity for it.

Delegating work works, provided the one delegating works, too.

My focus as part of the leadership is to keep talking about the independent voters, independent voters how do we get the independent voters back?

The slaves in Rome were incapable of leisure and so their masters gave them entertainment to keep them pacified.

Every silver lining has a cloud.

Our country also hungers for leadership to ensure the long term survival of our Social Security system. With 70 million baby boomers in this country on the verge of retirement, we need to take action to shore up the system.

You have to enable and empower people to make decisions independent of you. As I've learned, each person on a team is an extension of your leadership; if they feel empowered by you they will magnify your power to lead.

The right of commanding is no longer an advantage transmitted by nature; like an inheritance, it is the fruit of labors, the price of courage.

A leader is someone who helps improve the lives of other people or improve the system they live under.

What happened with Hurricane Katrina was the American electorate was forced to look at what lay behind the veneer of chest beating. We all saw the consequences of having terrible government leadership.

We live in a time where government is not a leadership thing, it's more a business that's out there and running riot, so I guess the people have to go out there and say stuff.

Among the blind the one eyed is king.

The truth is the Republican leadership has created a credit card Congress that is recklessly selling out the future of America, our children and our grandchildren, and President Bush is the most fiscally irresponsible President in the history of America.

Yes, America must do the right thing, but to provide moral leadership, America must do it in the right way, too.

I am a man of fixed and unbending principles, the first of which is to be flexible at all times.

Our power lies in our small daily choices one after another to create eternal ripples of a life well lived.

Leadership is not manifested by coercion, even against the resented. Greatness is not manifested by unlimited pragmatism, which places such a high premium on the end justifying any means and any measures.

The best leader is the one who has the sense to surround himself with outstanding people and self restraint not to meddle with how they do their jobs.

Think little goals and expect little achievements. Think big goals and win big success.

The secret to success is good leadership, and good leadership is all about making the lives of your team members or workers better.

The well being of the people is the supreme law.

The ultimate leader is one who is willing to develop people to the point that they eventually surpass him or her in knowledge and ability.

It often happens that I wake up at night and begin to think about a serious problem and decide I must tell the Pope about it. Then I wake up completely and remember that I am the Pope.

When the best leader's work is done the people say, 'We did it ourselves.'

Great Groups need to know that the person at the top will fight like a tiger for them.

Morale is faith in the man at the top.

Dont tell people how to do things tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.

Leadership mobilization toward a common goal.- Gary Wills

Making good decisions is a crucial skill at every level.

All organizations are perfectly designed to get the results they are now getting. If we want different results we must change the way we do things.

The more I have studied Lincoln, the more I have followed his thought processes, the more I am convinced that he understood leadership better than any other American president.

You have no power at all if you do not exercise constant power.

... the most improper job of any man even saints who at any rate were at least unwilling to take it on is bossing other men. Not one in a million is fit for it and least of all those who seek the opportunity.

If the only thing that you are good at is convincing others that you are good then being in biz with you is bad experience.

No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit for doing it.

The penalty of leadership is loneliness.

I've been the co chair of the Non Partisan Women's Caucus and vice chair for several years, taking a leadership role in this women's organization.

If you don't understand that you work for your mislabeled 'subordinates,' then you know nothing of leadership. You know only tyranny.

One of the surest signs of the estimated changes in the consciousness of the American proletariat is to be found in the character of the demands now being put forward by the leadership.

We do not need international help to stop corruption, we need strong Louisiana Leadership.

Clearly you need a new team to go out to bat on your behalf; to fight for your rights and to report back to you personally and to the leadership of the IFP.

Overall, the challenge of leadership is both moral and one of developing the characteristics that make us respected by one another.

There was great leadership in this country at the time of World War II. There was also unrelenting resolve at home, in America's factories and on the farms, in the cities and the country.

Youre a leader. Its your job to keep your passion hot. Do whatever you have to do read whatever you have to read go wherever you have to go to stay fired up. And dont apologize to anybody.nbsp

The true leader is always led.

Leaders of the future will have to be visionary and be able to bring people in real communicators. These are things that women bring to leadership and executive positions, and it's going to be incredibly valuable and incredibly in demand.

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.

I think the greater responsibility, in terms of morality, is where leadership begins.

The House has passed several bipartisan bills to ensure all Americans have the opportunity to secure a good job to provide for their families. All of these jobs bills deserve the support of our Senators and a strong show of leadership from the president.

Truth is the foundation of our global leadership, but our credibility has been shattered, and we are left increasingly isolated and vulnerable in a hostile world.

The quality of a leader is reflected in the standards they set for themselves.

We have treated our most serious adversaries, such as Iran and North Korea, in the most juvenile manner by giving them the silent treatment. In so doing, we have weakened, not strengthened, our bargaining position and our leadership.

If there is such a thing as good leadership, it is to give a good example. I have to do so for all the Ikea employees.

Doing is a quantum leap from imagining.

Blessed are the people whose leaders can look destiny in the eye without flinching but also without attempting to play God.

It is the responsibility of leadership to provide opportunity, and the responsibility of individuals to contribute.

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

Leaders learn by leading, and they learn best by leading in the face of obstacles. As weather shapes mountains, problems shape leaders.

The humblest individual exerts some influence, either for good or evil, upon others.

Ninety percent of leadership is the ability to communicate something people want.

A good leader needs to have a compass in his head and a bar of steel in his heart.

Such highly qualitative leadership is demanded especially in the realm of the fostering of right international relations. Here the demand is simply irresistible.

In the end, it is important to remember that we cannot become what we need to be by remaining what we are.

Public sentiment is everything, with it nothing can fail, without it nothing can succeed.

In this nation, leadership is dollars.

But 85 percent of the mosques have extremist leadership in this country. Most Muslims, the overwhelming majority of Muslims, are loyal Americans.

In working with UNICEF our corporate partners have demonstrated time and again that their financial resources, leadership and expertise can bring about real and lasting benefits for the world's children.

A noble leader answers not to the trumpet calls of self promotion but to the hushed whispers of necessity.

I don't know what leadership is. You can't touch it. You can't feel it. It's not tangible. But I do know this: you recognize it when you see it.

I think that all areas of the budget have to be scrubbed. Clearly the entitlement issues have to be reformed and that's an issue that's going to require I think some strong bipartisan cooperation and leadership.

Leadership has become a heavy industry. Concern and interest about leadership development is no longer an American phenomenon. It is truly global. Though I will probably be in less demand, I wanted to move on.

Search others for their virtue, and yourself for your vices.

The important thing is that we recognize our President's leadership, that he is not saying: I am going to walk away from this. He is saying: I am going to do the right thing.

Leaders rely on their intuition because intuition combined with experience is a powerful combination.

To lead people walk behind them.

Leadership is an active role; 'lead' is a verb. But the leader who tries to do it all is headed for burnout, and in a powerful hurry.

If people are not making mistakes they are not trying new things. If they are making the same mistake twice they are not learning new things

Dr. King's leadership reaffirmed the promise of our democracy: that everyday people, working together, have the power to change our government and our institutions for the better.

The lead dog gets the best view. The rest of the dogs view is butt ugly. Of course, the lead dog is also the first to fall into the ravine.

We need leadership, and we need it now.

One of the things about leadership is that you've got to show up. And if you want to be president of the United States you've got to make a case to the American people that Barack Obama needs to be dismissed from his position.

The Chinese leadership hoped that the world would soon forget the Tiananmen Square massacre. Our job in Congress is to ensure that we never forget those who lost their lives in Tiananmen Square that day or the pro democracy cause for which they fought.

I'm not a natural leader. I'm too intellectual; I'm too abstract; I think too much.

Leadership is not about titles positions or flowcharts. It is about one life influencing another.

Leaders are readers.

No man has ever risen to the real stature of spiritual manhood until he has found that it is finer to serve somebody else than it is to serve himself.

Count your blessings discount youre loses

Most people associate command and control leadership with the military.

As we go forward, those who lead will be the ones taking advantage of the creativity and productivity gains available by focusing on the human, collaborative dimension, while laggards will suffer in the face of unrelenting change.

We should see the leadership from the White House setting dates certain for certain goals of achieving greater alliance on alternative and renewable energy sources, but we are not.

The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.

Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.

I look forward to working with our leadership team to advance the causes of smaller government, lower taxes, eliminating terrorism, and providing affordable health care, among other issues.

He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.

Dont waste your energy trying to educate or change opinions go over under through and opinions will change organically when youre the boss. Or they wont. Who cares Do your thing and dont care if they like it.

It is the Vague and Elusive. Meet it and you will not see its head. Follow it and you will not see its back.

An order that can be misunderstood will be misunderstood.

I feel fantastically excited that we have a leader who fought for the leadership without compromising his quite challenging view that the party has to change.

Certainly a leader needs a clear vision of the organization and where it is going, but a vision is of little value unless it is shared in a way so as to generate enthusiasm and commitment. Leadership and communication are inseparable.

We cannot all be masters.

Leadership is the key to 99 percent of all successful efforts.

It would be difficult to exaggerate the degree to which we are influenced by those we influence.

If America wants to retain its position as a global power, its president must listen to the people and show strong leadership at this turning point in human history.

It's a different era. Our job now is to show leadership and vision and to help the next generation of artists.

Bipartisanship isn't an option anymore; it is a requirement. The American people have divided responsibility for leadership right down the middle.

Leaders must encourage their organizations to dance to forms of music yet to be heard.

My attitude is never to be satisfied, never enough, never.

Those who sleep with dogs gets up with fleas.

I think Mr. Clarke had a tendency to interfere too much with the activities of the CIA, and our leadership at the senior level let him interfere too much. So criticism from him I kind of wear as a badge of honor.

I mean, Emily Harris was his wife. And she seemed to resent his leadership, but on the other hand, she felt like a good soldier, that he had to be the leader.

It is time for a new generation of leadership, to cope with new problems and new opportunities. For there is a new world to be won.

There's a void of leadership in a lot of Washington. I think one of the reasons why there's so much angst across the country.

Shouldn't Democrats insist that Sen. Durbin step down as their whip, the number two man in their leadership?

We are reformers in the spring and summer, but in autumn we stand by the old. Reformers in the morning, and conservers at night.

Each day you are leading by example. Whether you realize it or not or whether its positive or negative you are influencing those around you.

The leadership lost its nerve. Instead of taking the lead in the reform movement... they pulled the plug on it. They tried and are still trying to return the church to the dry ice of the previous century and a half.

It simply cannot be disputed that for decades the Palestinian leadership was more interested in there not being a Jewish state than in there being a Palestinian state.

I recognize we will pay more attention when we have different leadership.

The leader can never close the gap between himself and the group. If he does, he is no longer what he must be. He must walk a tightrope between the consent he must win and the control he must exert.

And I'd say one of the great lessons I've learned over the past couple of decades, from a management perspective, is that really when you come down to it, it really is all about people and all about leadership.

I conceive a knowledge of books is the basis upon which other knowledge is to be built.

The first thing a great person does, is make us realize the insignificance of circumstance.

People will sit up and take notice of you if you will sit up and take notice of what makes them sit up and take notice.

Republican leadership in Congress let the energy companies write the energy bill that sent prices soaring, and has turned a blind eye to the struggles of working families trying to make ends meet.

Some men must follow, and some command, though all are made of clay.

And this administration and this House leadership have said, quote unquote, they will stop at nothing to pass this health care bill. And now they've gotten rid of me and it will pass. You connect the dots.- Eric Massa

While Mayor Daley surprised me today with his decision to not run for reelection, I have never been surprised by his leadership, dedication and tireless work on behalf of the city and the people of Chicago.

Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out.

Victim fall in love with excuses

As long as the opposition believes the world will stand with Ukraine's democrat reformers, they will have the leverage and the courage to establish a legitimate republic under the leadership of Viktor Yushchenko.

Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help or concluded you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership.

There has not yet been a major ground offensive battle... There are, we know, negotiations going on between the opposition forces and the Taliban leadership for surrender.

A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better.

I think our leadership team is a highly accountable leadership team.

Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.

Big shots are little shots who kept shooting.

I think we need the feminine qualities of leadership, which include attention to aesthetics and the environment, nurturing, affection, intuition and the qualities that make people feel safe and cared for.

The public sector certainly includes the Department of Labor. Those are jobs that are available. They are open and they are good paying jobs. The government as a whole has been actually retrenching under President Clinton's leadership.

The highest of distinctions is service to others.

Under the leadership of President Bush and Vice President Cheney, the United States has given up the moral high ground that we used to occupy as an international leader.

A substandard education will always result in a substandard nation.

Focusing on others will give you more inuence and power than focusing on yourself.

At the same time, as social beings, we are moved in the relations with our fellow beings by such feelings as sympathy, pride, hate, need for power, pity, and so on.

A community is like the ones who govern it.

Why because as a oil and gas small business owner - I know if someone is not doing their job, they should not get paid. Again leadership by example.- Jeff Landry

To succeed, one must be creative and persistent.

I want to see a player on the football field. I want to see what kind of teammate they are, what kind of leadership qualities they have. I want to see how aggressive they are, how much fun they have playing the game.

In one short sentence it is captaincy that counts

Roosevelt was the one who had the vision to change our policy from isolationism to world leadership. That was a terrific revolution. Our country's never been the same since.

Leadership doesnt occur in a vacuum it manifests in a context. These contexts are as dynamic as the personalities stakes culture and information available.

I believe that we as the leader of the Free World must provide important leadership on the ethical parameters, the ethical constraints that this research requires.

Leadership is a matter of having people look at you and gain confidence, seeing how you react. If you're in control, they're in control.

If people want to compete for leadership of a religious group, they can compete in piety. A chilling thought. Or funny.

An old African leader says about leadership, he says that leadership should never be shared; it should always remain in the hands of the dispossessed people. We will lead the revolution.

That perfect bliss and sole felicity, the sweet fruition of an earthly crown.

We need the kind of leadership exemplified by President Kennedy to just do it! But we must do it as good stewards, aggressively exerting control over the moon. We can best do this by going there.

A man always has two reasons for doing anything: a good reason and the real reason.

Party domination and State leadership are concepts incompatible with one another.

People who don't take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year. People who do take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year.

As for leadership, I am the kind who leads reluctantly and more by example than anything else. Someone had to be on the incorporation papers as president.

We must recognize that as the dominant power in the world we have a special responsibility. In addition to protecting our national interests, we must take the leadership in protecting the common interests of humanity.

Justice is the first virtue of those who command, and stops the complaints of those who obey.

Many citizens see all the leadership of these large institutions together in a conspiracy against them rather than in any adversary relationship with each other.

At an unprecedented time with the worst attack ever on our soil, our President displayed extraordinary determination, leadership and resolve when history was thrust upon him and the United States.

The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.

Leadership must be established from the top down.

Military school was great and especially great for leadership and then I spent two years in Vietnam.

There are many elements to a campaign. Leadership is number one. Everything else is number two.

Some are born leaders some achieve leadership and some have leadership thrust upon them. Which of these are you or would you rather not bother

You can never stop and as older people, we have to learn how to take leadership from the youth and I guess I would say that this is what I'm attempting to do right now.

It's not as if our party has a leadership campaign underway.

Best way to learn a new skill is jump right into it. Education is great, yet we learn more from experience!

Leadership is the other side of the coin of loneliness, and he who is a leader must always act alone. And acting alone, accept everything alone.

If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.

People want guidance not rhetoric. They need to know what the plan of action is and how it will be implemented. They want to be given responsibility to help solve the problem and authority to act on it.

And a leader has to command confidence and consent.

For many members of Congress, the time for choosing is near do what the party leadership demands, or do what the people have asked you to do. If my colleagues don't mind some advice from a newcomer, I'd suggest going with the will of the people.- Scott Brown

Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy.

How we think shows through in how we act. Attitudes are mirrors of the mind. They reflect thinking.

Clearly no one knows what leadership has gone undiscovered in women of all races, and in black and other minority men.

Ronald Reagan has held the two most demeaning jobs in the country; President of the United States and radio broadcaster for the Chicago Cubs.

Leadership is all about inspiring people, showing them the way, and leading by example.

Never do that by proxy which you can do yourself.

Perhaps in His wisdom the Almighty is trying to show us that a leader may chart the way, may point out the road to lasting peace, but that many leaders and many peoples must do the building.

I refuse to live life with unsettled differences.

Leadership cannot really be taught. It can only be learned.

The person who lives with cripples will soon learn to limp.

If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.

The fact is, when it comes to economic leadership, the Republicans have nothing to brag about. This isn't what the American people want. They want to see progress that works for them.

Through leadership of the fight against French colonialism, Ho Chi Minh had made a name for himself in the international political arena.

The minute a person whose word means a great deal to others dare to take the open hearted and courageous way, many others follow.- Marian Anderson

Successful leaders have the courage to take action where others hesitate.

By providing outstanding economic leadership, this country can wage its attack successfully and can thereby build the foundations of a peaceful world.- James Forrestal

I believe that the will of the people is resolved by a strong leadership. Even in a democratic society, events depend on a strong leadership with a strong power of persuasion, and not on the opinion of the masses.

Leadership in telecommunications is also essential, since we are now in the age of e commerce.- Michael Oxley

The great leaders have always stage managed their effects.

It is a great pity when the one who should be the head figure is a mere figure head.

The best efforts of a fine person is felt after we have left their presence.

I cannot give you a formula for success but I can give you the formula for failure which is try to please everybody.

In any case, decisions on troop levels in the American system of government are not made by any general or set of generals but by the civilian leadership of the war effort.

Leadership on the other hand is about creating change you believe in.

There is great force hidden in a gentle command.

There's a very big gulf between the black civil rights leadership in America and the black middle class in America. The black middle class are conservative. Many of those minorities can be persuaded to be members of the Republican Party.

I am not saying that during the Second World War Germany did not, under the leadership of the National Socialist government, commit crimes.

This week you will nominate the most experienced executive to seek the presidency in 60 years in Mitt Romney. He has no illusions about what makes America great, and he doesn't confuse the presidency with celebrity, or loftiness with leadership.

Hamas, also elected to governmental leadership in Palestine, includes the jihadists, people who have declared war on the United States of America and its ally, Israel.

Efficiency tends to deal with Things. Effectiveness tends to deal with People. We manage things, we lead people

Sheep are always looking for a new shepherd when the terrain gets rocky.

Always try to associate yourself with and learn as much as you can from those who know more than you do who do better than you who see more clearly than you.

Life isn't easy, and leadership is harder still.

Leadership is being the first egg in the omelet.

I think leadership is service and there is power in that giving: to help people, to inspire and motivate them to reach their fullest potential.

In the great mass of our people there are plenty individuals of intelligence from among whom leadership can be recruited.

The test of leadership is not to put greatness into humanity, but to elicit it, for the greatness is already there.

He that entereth not by the door into the sheepfold, but climbeth up some other way, the same is a thief and a robber. But he that entereth in by the door is the shepherd of the sheep.

Affirmation without discipline is the beginning of delusion.

A leader is a dealer in hope.

To be a philosopher just reverse everything you have ever been told...and have a sense of humor doing it.

One secret of leadership is that the mind of a leader never turns off. Leaders even when they are sightseers or spectators, are active; not passive observers.

I am convinced that your Mayor must take the leadership role in education too.

God uses imperfect people for impossible tasks

What you cannot enforce, do not command.

Being a CEO still means sitting across the table from big institutional investors and showing your leadership and having them believe in you.

A crown, golden in show is but a wreath of thorns.

The Divine Thing that made itself the foundation of the Church does not seem, to judge by his comments on the religious leadership of his day, to have hoped much from officers of a church.

We in the press, by our power, can actually undermine leadership.

A great leader never sets himself above his followers except in carrying responsibilities.

Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

Those who can command themselves command others.

What I've really learned over time is that optimism is a very, very important part of leadership.

The weaknesses of the many make the leader possible.

The union is much more than me, and when you think the union is you and it's not about who you represent, I think you've sort of lost your morals and focus and the purpose of your leadership.

In simplest terms, a leader is one who knows where he wants to go, and gets up, and goes.

You dont know what you can get away with until you try.

You have to think anyway, so why not think big?

The more you become aware of and respond to the needs of others the richer your own life becomes.

Be not angry that you cannot make another what you wish them to be; since you cannot make yourself what you wish to be.

Politics is a matter of leading other people. Admittedly not where they want to go but where they ought to go.

Socrates had a student named Plato, Plato had a student named Aristotle, and Aristotle had a student named Alexander the Great.

Most important, leaders can conceive and articulate goals that lift people out of their petty preoccupations and unite them in pursuit of objectives worthy of their best efforts.

At that time, the army leadership said the implementation of this agreement would allow everyone, including the IRA, to take its political objectives forward by peaceful and democratic means.

Leadership is one of the things that cannot be delegated.

I always believe that ultimately, if people are paying attention, then we get good government and good leadership. And when we get lazy, as a democracy and civically start taking shortcuts, then it results in bad government and politics.

The Christian leader of the future is called to be completely irrelevant and to stand in this world with nothing to offer but his or her own vulnerable self.

The world cannot be governed without juggling.

The real leader has no need to lead he is content to point the way.

What a mother sings to the cradle goes all the way down to the coffin.

Most people live with pleasant illusions but leaders must deal with hard realities.

It is the capacity to develop and improve their skills that distinguishes leaders from followers.

A tyrant is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader.

The person who has no enemies has no followers.

The secret of leadership is simple Do what you believe in. Paint a picture of the future. Go there.People will follow.

Unfortunately, the Republican leadership in the House right now seems to have been strangled by the tea party.

If you get too far in front of your troops, you start looking like the enemy.

Real leadership means tackling tough problems ourselves and not leaving them to our children.

Denmark needs change, Denmark needs to move on and Denmark needs my leadership.

Market leadership can translate directly to higher revenue, higher profitability, greater capital velocity, and correspondingly stronger returns on invested capital.

People will not change their minds but they will make new decisions based upon new information.

Such manifestations I account as representing the creative leadership of the new forces of thought and appreciation which attend changes in technological pattern and therefore of the pattern of human relationships in society.

Tell a person they are brave and you help them become so.

Anyone contemplating world war is certifiably insane, no matter how calm they seem.

Diplomacy is the delicate weapon of the civilized warrior. Hun A. T.

He who influences the thought of his times influences the times that follow.

Coaching is nothing more than eliminating mistakes before you get fired.

Humility is a great quality of leadership which derives respect and not just fear or hatred.

You dont feel like a winner and then do you do like a winner and then feel.

No great manager or leader ever fell from heaven its learned not inherited.

There are three secrets to managing. The first secret is have patience. The second is be patient. And the third most important secret is patience.

All of this suggests that while citizens became more comfortable with President Bush after September 11 and thought him to have the requisite leadership skills, they continue to harbor doubts about his priorities, loyalties, interests, and policies.

The influence of individual character extends from generation to generation.

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

Without action a vision is just a piece of paper. In education we have lots of paper.

The more varied the environments in which you exercise your leadership gift the stronger that gift will become. You will become a far more effective leader.

The essence of community its heart and soul is the nonmonetary exchange of value things we do and share because we care for others and for the good of the place.

May hundred die but not a honest and truthful leader.

Managers maintain an efficient status quo while leaders attack the status quo to create something new.

An educator will teach the students. An Educarer will reach the students.

Leadership is the challenge to be something more than average.

It is absolutely necessary... for me to have persons that can think for me as well as execute orders.

What is important for a leader is that which makes him a leader. It is the needs of his people.

Without the vision of a goal a man cannot manage his own life much less the lives of others.

While once it was the rank and file that cheered with all the partisan passions at their heights, today it is the party leaders who are cheering themselves; and all by themselves. The mob that is their audience is in one vast universal trance, thinking about something else.

Its not about you. Its about them.

I dont see myself being special I just see myself having more responsibilities than the next man. People look to me to do things for them to have answers.

I believe that the capacity that any organisation needs is for leadership to appear anywhere it is needed, when it is needed.

Faith moves mountains love transforms hearts.

Leaders grasp nettles.

The things journalists should pay attention to are the issues the political leadership agrees on, rather than to their supposed antagonisms.

Germany must be a country which generates political ideas and leadership, which is capable of compromise, which is sovereign and yet knows that it needs its partners on both sides of the Atlantic.

Small thinking and big dreams is an oxymoron

If you lead a country like Britain, a strong country, a country which has taken a lead in world affairs in good times and in bad, a country that is always reliable, then you have to have a touch of iron about you.

Every ruler is harsh whose laws is new.

The key to successful leadership is influence not authority.

The influential man is the successful man, whether he be rich or poor.

I have a different vision of leadership. A leadership is someone who brings people together.

Leadership is an ever evolving position.

High expectations are the key to everything.

The power to lead is the power to mislead and the power to mislead is the power to destroy.

It's really necessary for the United States to continue to give strong leadership to the Middle East peace process, supported by European countries at the same time.

I don't agree with all male leaderships. Men cannot be left to run things on their own. I think it's a thoroughly bad thing to have a men only leadership.

He's a novice, but he's had these he's experienced in leadership in tight circumstances. He started - he dropped the first bomb, led the first air strike into North Vietnam.- James Stockdale

Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.

Most people dont care whos in charge as long as someone is.

The fact is five months ago this was an issue that people weren't really talking that much about. Because of the president's leadership, because he's brought it to people's attention, it's now a top issue.

Be a great student of life so you can be an outstanding teacher of living.

Ever since Israel has been a nation the United States has provided the leadership. Every president down to the ages has done this in a fairly balanced way, including George Bush senior, Gerald Ford, and others including myself and Bill Clinton.

I made a commitment... both to myself and to some supporters to carefully consider a run for the Liberal leadership for the Liberal Party of Canada.

Half a world away nations that once lived under oppression and tyranny are now budding democracies due in large part to America 's leadership and the sacrifices of our military.

It is past time for Republican leadership to answer for record deficits and reckless spending, both in Iraq and in the U.S. It's time for a plan to bring our troops home.

A good coach will make his players see what they can be rather than what they are.

The secret of my influence has always been that it remained secret.

Leadership consists not in degrees of technique but in traits of character; it requires moral rather than athletic or intellectual effort, and it imposes on both leader and follower alike the burdens of self restraint.

Your first and foremost job as a leader is to take charge of your own energy and then help to orchestrate the energy of those around you.

Be your self at your personal best

I have learned that the harder you fallthe higher you bounce

No affection and a great brain, these are the people to command the world.

See that no one puts a stumbling block, or an occasion to fall in his brothers way.

The Christian leader cannot simply be persons who have well informed opinions about the burning issues of our time.

The biggest difference is in the leadership. It was better for us. We had more coaches and mentors to help us. A lot of the younger players today suffer from a lack of direction.

Great teams do not hold back with one another. They are unafraid to air their dirty laundry. They admit their mistakes their weaknesses and their concerns without fear of reprisal.

Al Qaeda is not the organization now that it was before. It is under stress organizationally. Its leadership spends more time trying to figure out how to keep from getting caught than they do trying to launch operations.

You can tell the size of a person by the way he treats people who cannot help him.

The next thing is: we can make IBM even better. We brought IBM back but we're gunning for leadership.

A leader has been defined as one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.

My observation is that women are merely waiting for their husbands to assume leadership.

Presidential leadership needn't always cost money. Look for low and no cost options. They can be surprisingly effective.

Leadership is like the old galley ships. 100s are rowing, but only one (the captain) knows where they are going

The greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things. He is the one that gets the people to do the greatest things.

The first job of a leaderat work or at homeis to inspire trust. Its to bring out the best in people by entrusting them with meaningful stewardships and to create an environment in which hightrust interaction inspires creativity and possibility.

There are only two kinds of coaches those who have been fired, and those who will be fired.

I think it is important to ask ourselves as citizens, not as Democrats attacking the administration, but as citizens, whether a world power can really provide global leadership on the basis of fear and anxiety?

Men are lead by trifles.

Leadership that exploits and sacrifices young people on the altar of its goals is nothing more than raw, demonic power. Genuine leadership is found in ceaseless efforts to foster young people, to pave the way forward for them.

On being in a position of leadership Even if its your dog youve got authority over somebody. Start treating him better.

A general never shows despair. He instills confidence in his troops. He leads them forward even into the mouth of death.

Democrats have no agenda, no plan for the future, and no sense of leadership.

The failure of women to have reached positions of leadership has been due in large part to social and professional discrimination.

If a guy is intimidated by a woman in leadership, he has real problems with his own concepts of masculinity. That's a harsh statement, but I believe it to be true.

To function efficiently any group of people or employees must have faith in their leader. Capt. Blighret.

Through the inspiration of Vaclav's words, the courage of his dissidence and the integrity of his leadership, Czechoslovakia successfully transitioned from an authoritarian state to a free democracy at the heart of Europe.

The art of leadership is saying no not yes. It is very easy to say yes.

Give as few orders as possible his father had told him once long ago. Once youve given orders on a subject you must always give orders on that subject.

A weak King must be what other Kings have been a strong King is himself and from then on the meaning of the name of King is changed.

In fair weather prepare for foul.

If you seek honor and respect you will not find it for a leader is powerless to elevate himself. It is only when you serve others without regard for self will honor respect and lasting success be found.

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

Leadership is familiar but not well understood.

And if the blind lead the blind both shall fall into the ditch.

But the ability to articulate what you are doing, to be clear about it, and to stick to it is, I think, the essence of political leadership.

Always remember Son the best boss is the one who bosses the least. Whether its cattle or horses or men the least government is the best government.

My leadership will end the Obama era and begin a new era of American prosperity.

One thing I never want to be accused of is not working.

But the person who scored well on an SAT will not necessarily be the best doctor or the best lawyer or the best businessman. These tests do not measure character, leadership, creativity, perseverance.

There are no office hours for leaders.

Author points out in Woodrow Wilson the flipside of the positive we might call big picture vision. He observes that as college president Wilson resorted to the language of a national crusade when he met resistance in a local academic issue.

Great companies in the way they work, start with great leaders.

What little Jack does not learn, big John will never.

Central to America's rise to global leadership is our Judeo Christian tradition with the vision of the goodness and possibilities of every human life.

Jesus did not command us to develop leaders. He commanded us to make disciples. The world develops leaders the Church disciples them. The two are not the same.

The ruler attains wholeness in the correct governance of the people.

When employees feel that they have been heard, it puts their mind to rest, it makes them more productive and most of all, it makes them respect their leaders.

Its not just picking the right friends. It is being the right friend.

I also know that there have been many times in our history when the proximity of an election has induced exactly the kind of leadership and consensus building that produce progress in our democracy.

Being a leader is making the people you love hate you a little more each day.

Film making is like fighting a war with leadership at the front.

We had a military and political leadership at that period which was genuinely deluded.

I think directors should be confident in their leadership capabilities. I think directors should be confident in what they want to do.

True greatness true leadership is achieved not by reducing men to ones service but in giving oneself in selfless service to them.

What we heard today was not fiscal leadership from our Commander in Chief, what we heard today was a political broadside from our Campaigner in Chief.

You cannot expect your team to rise above your example.

Taking charge of your own learning is a part of taking charge of your life which is the sine qua non in becoming an integrated person.

We shouldn't be debating whether to deal with the current code by allowing it to be extended or not. We should have a president who shows leadership and comes to Congress and says: 'You know what? We need to reform this whole tax code.'

Recognizing and accepting both the responsibilities and the opportunities leadership offers you is a signicant step in your development as a leader.

People ask the difference between a leader and a loss.... The leader works in the open and the boss in covert. The leader leads and the boss drives.

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.

Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren't used to an environment where excellence is expected.

Strategy is not really a solo sport even if youre the CEO.

The Leadership Training Institute of America is a cultural think tank providing training and opportunity in leadership development and cultural dynamics.

It is the responsibility of intellectuals to speak the truth and expose lies.

What you always do before you make a decision is consult. The best public policy is made when you are listening to people who are going to be impacted. Then, once policy is determined, you call on them to help you sell it.

A man can only lead when others accept him as their leader and he has only as much authority as his subjects give to him. All of the brilliant ideas in the world cannot save your kingdom if no one will listen to them.

There is an irresistible demand to strengthen the leadership of the constructive forces of the world at the present momentous time. This is true because of stupendous, almost unbelievable changes which have taken place in recent years on every continent.

I think a major act of leadership right now, call it a radical act, is to create the places and processes so people can actually learn together, using our experiences.

You have a life make a success of it.

Efficiency is doing the thing right. Effectiveness is doing the right thing.

Communication is the real work of leadership.

The atmosphere at my school was very competitive. Young girls were competing with each other every day for status, for leadership, for the affection of the teachers. I hated it.

fire is cathing and if we burn then you burn with us. katniss everdeen, mockingjay

If you cant swallow your pride you cant lead. Even the highest mountain had animals that step on it.

The very essence of leadership is that you have to have vision. You can't blow an uncertain trumpet.

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.

You did what your heart told you to do Brain complimented. It is what leaders not followers do.

Our business in life is not to get ahead of others, but to get ahead of ourselves.

The secret of a leader lies in the tests he has faced over the whole course of his life and the habit of action he develops in meeting those tests.

Leverage is the ability to apply positive pressure on yourself to follow through on your decisions even when it hurts.

A lord may love the men that he commands but he cannot be a friend to them. One day he may need to sit in judgement on them or send them forth to die.

To my mind the election was stolen by George Bush and we have been suffering ever since under this man's leadership.

Women are not just waiting to be filled up with resourcestheyre waiting to put their resources on the table to be able to lead towards a different world

Average leaders raise the bar on themselves good leaders raise the bar for others great leaders inspire others to raise their own bar.

It's a tremendous responsibility to be direct descendants of the prophet Muhammad. This family has had the burden of leadership on its shoulders for 1,400 years. I'm not going to drop the ball on my shift.

No one would have doubted his ability to reign had he never been emperor.

Democrats are going to proudly run on the fact that we turned the economy around. It was our policies under President Obama's leadership through the Recovery Act, through investing in the automobile industry.

But the fact is that the vast majority of Republicans support the Sinn Fein leadership.

On Lee as commander He had a cheerful dignity and could praise them his men without seeming to court their favor.

You are good. But it is not enough just to be good. You must be good for something. You must contribute good to the world. The world must be a better place for your presence. And the good that is in you must be spread to others....

I have learnt from the politics of my great country Nigeria that there is nothing wrong with the heads of states but there is something wrong with the state of the heads.

Remember that mentor leadership is all about serving. Jesus said For even the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve others and to give his life as a ransom for many Mark 1045.

In a battle between nbsptwo ideas the best one doesnt necessarily win. No the idea that wins is the one with the most fearless heretic behind it.

Real leaders are people who help us overcome the limitations of our own individual laziness and selfishness and weakness and fear and get us to do better harder things than we can get ourselves to do on our own.

Leaders know that the fruit of life is out on a limb.

But I think Steve's main contribution besides just the pure leadership is his passion for excellence. He's a perfectionist. Good enough isn't good enough. And also his creative spirit. You know he really, really wants to do something great.

Engage the enemy more closely.

Leadership in today's world requires far more than a large stock of gunboats and a hard fist at the conference table.

Now, if we look at the way in which the labor movement itself has evolved over the last couple of decades, we see increasing numbers of black people who are in the leadership of the labor movement and this is true today.

Leadership is a combination of strategy and character. If you must be without one, be without the strategy.

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

The world is full of stupid people. Thats why we have rules. But with enough intelligence a person can be above the rules. She can make rules.

America would be a better place if leaders would do more long term thinking.

Leadership, leadership is about taking responsibility, not making excuses.

A good leader is a person who takes a little more than his share of the blame and a little less than his share of the credit.

They accepted my donation so theyre aware theyd better serve my interests or Ill buy some leadership that will.

Wise leaders generally have wise counselors because it takes a wise person themselves to distinguish them.

Define excellence vividly quantitatively. Paint a picture for your most talented employees of what excellence looks like. Keep everyone pushing and pushing toward the righthand edge of the bell curve.

One mark of a good officer he remembered was the ability to make quick decisions. If they happen to be right so much the better

Great leaders understand human behavior rather than the cybernetics of any function.

If you want to be comfortable take an easy job. If you aspire to leadership, take off your coat.

Wise leaders understand that the single greatest determinant of whether followers will ever own a vision deeply is the extent to which whose followers believe the leader will own it.

Asking questions will get you the performance you are after far more than dictating demands.

You cannot transpose the U.S. system on Turkey, and the Turkish system on France etc. You have to understand the people and their culture. That's leadership.

Actions, not words, are the ultimate results of leadership.

The first key to leadership is selfcontrol.

Winning requires reaching inside of yourself for that extra gear to accelerate challenges.

Whatever ought to be, can be.

A leader may symbolize and express what is best in his people, like Pericles, or what is worst, like Hitler, but he cannot successfully express what is only in his heart and not in theirs.

Through reallife stories Kristin Kaufman illustrates the core idea of being present in the moment and opening oneself up to new ideas in order to become an authentic leader in life.

Winners see the dream and develop plans while the rest see the obstacles and develop justifications.

I think what actually works best is local level individual targeting of key leadership nodes.

Not all readers are leaders but all leaders are readers.

Getting results through people is a skill that cannot be learned in the classroom.

Control your own Destiny or somebody else will

A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.

I think it is quite dangerous for an organisation to think they can predict where they are going to need leadership. It needs to be something that people are willing to assume if it feels relevant, given the context of any situation.

Surround yourself with great people delegate authority get out of the way

No institution can possibly survive if it needs geniuses or supermen to manage it. It must be organized in such a way as to be able to get along under a leadership composed of average human beings.

We need someone with proven conservative leadership experience, not entitlement, to be able to represent us and lead us.

A good hitting instructor is able to mold his teaching to the individual. If a guy stands on his head, you perfect that.

A person who cannot handle setbacks will never handle victories either.

Nigera is what it is because its leaders are not what they should be.

One of the fundamental aspects of leadership I realized more and more is the ability to instill confidence in others when you yourself are feeling insecure

... we shoved out many hopes and fears into their hands believing those hands were strong because they had firm handshakes. They failed us always. There was no way they could not fail us they were human and so were we.

Our democracy poses problems and these problems must and shall be solved by courageous leadership.

The business world reaches out for and rewards leaders who can relegate and delegate.

This Congress is simply not doing its job under Republican leadership.

So I think democracy, in the long term, in our countries will survive if it comes to be associated with leadership, will not survive if democracy plus media brings to us more and more followship rather than leadership.

I never saw myself as an individual who had any particular leadership powers.

I'm sad to report that in the past few years, ever since uncertainty became our insistent 21st century companion, leadership has taken a great leap backwards to the familiar territory of command and control.

Preparing our city to achieve its destiny will require strong leadership.

If you are not extreme then people will take shortcuts because they dont fear you.

We need to be a leadership position about protecting minors on the Internet and, more importantly, giving the parents the tools they need to protect them.

The manager asks how and when; the leader asks what and why.

Freedom flourishes upon the bedrock of ethics and integrity.

There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things.

Research has shown that the perceived style of leadership is by far the most important thing to most voters in evaluating officeholders and candidates.

A leader should demonstrate his thoughts and opinions through his actions not through his words.

Leadership is the activity of influencing people to cooperate towards some goal which they come to find desirable and which motivates them over the long haul.

Any man who has ever led an army an expedition or a group of Boy Scouts has sadism in his bones.

Year after year, President Bush has broken his campaign promises on college aid. And year after year, the Republican leadership in Congress has let him do it.

So if you see no one like you no one who agrees dont worry. There are actually hundreds of people like you and theyre waiting for a leader. That person is you.

Who succeeds in forming and leading a Great Group He or she is almost always a pragmatic dreamer. They are people who get things done but they are people with immortal longings. Often they are scientifically minded people with poetry in their souls.

In the area we're discussing, leadership begins on Madison Avenue, on the desks and in the offices of people who spend hundreds of millions of dollars buying what will get them ratings.

There was no imminent threat. This was made up in Texas, announced in January to the Republican leadership that war was going to take place and was going to be good politically. This whole thing was a fraud.

The best leaders... almost without exception and at every level, are master users of stories and symbols.

I want to see an elephant hunt down a man for the sole purpose of collecting his teeth while a chorus of typewriters sings songs that praises the bananas for their wisdom leadership and their high levels of potassium.

When your values are clear to you, making decisions becomes easier.

If you have fear of those that command you, spare those that obey you.

Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren't used to an environment where excellence is expected.

Produce great men, the rest follows.

In our society a man is known by the company he owns.

There is a difference between being a leader and being a boss. Both are based on authority. A boss demands blind obedience a leader earns his authority through understanding and trust.

Leaders lead when they take positions when they connect with their tribes and when they help the tribe connect to itself.

In leadership writ large, mutually agreed upon purposes help people achieve consensus, assume responsibility, work for the common good, and build community.

We shall all respect the principle of each other and do nothing that would be regarded as an act oppression to any portion of the people

So I think that our foreign policy, the president's strong and principled leadership when it comes to the war against terror and foreign policy is going to be an asset.

Whose leadership, whose judgment, whose values do you want in the White House when that crisis lands like a thud on the Oval Office desk?

Whoever is providing leadership needs to be as fresh and thoughtful and reflective as possible to make the very best fight.

It is with obedience to your call that I take up the burden of government leadership for the final time.

Every leader needs to look back once in a while to make sure he has followers. Source Unknown Effective leaders are known by the questions they ask rather than the statements they make.

Having a hearing is educational. Having a hearing with television cameras is useful. Having a hearing with two rows of television cameras is Heaven.

How was your day If your answer was fine then I dont think you were leading.

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

All poets adore explosions, thunderstorms, tornadoes, conflagrations, ruins, scenes of spectacular carnage. The poetic imagination is therefore not at all a desirable quality in a chief of state.

Go to the people. Live with them. Learn from them. Love them. Startwith what they know. Build with what they have. But with the bestleaders when the work is done the task accomplished the people willsay We have done this ourselves.

To know how to distinguish the agitation arising from covetousness from the agitation arising from principles to fight the one and aid the other in this lies the genius and the power of great revolutionary leaders.

Great leaders always remember they are part of their team, not apart from it.

Beside every great leader invariably stands a great assistant.

Ignorance combined with arrogance, are the perfect ingredients to make a leadership cocktail of the greatest incompetence.

There are two types of leader, those who lead to benefit themselves, and those who lead to benefit others.

When a leader looks after their team, their team will look after their leader.

Leadership is 20% building the strategy, and 80% building the relationships to help deliver the strategy.

Transformational leaders inspire others through their behaviours and values, not through loud words.

“A symbol of excellence, a badge of courage, a mark of distinction in the fight for freedom.” On the Green Berets April 11, 1962

I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people.

Show me the leader and I will know his men. Show me the men and I will know their leader.

Leadership is an opportunity to serve. It is not a trumpet call to self-importance. J. Donald Walters It is better to lead from behind and to put others in front, especially when you celebrate victory when nice things occur. You take the front line when there is danger. Then people will appreciate your leadership."

The nation will find it very hard to look up to the leaders who are keeping their ears to the ground.

True leadership lies in guiding others to success. In ensuring that everyone is performing at their best, doing the work they are pledged to do and doing it well.

I start with the premise that the function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.

The man who follows a crowd will never be followed by a crowd.

Leadership is unlocking people's potential to become better.

Leadership is a journey not a destination. It is a marathon not a sprint. It is a process not an outcome. quoting John Donahoe

Good leadership consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people.

A good leader takes a little more than his share of the blame, a little less than his share of the credit.

If I advance, follow me! If I retreat, kill me! If I die, avenge me!

Leadership is action, not position.

When you accept a leadership role you take on extra responsibility for your actions toward others.

Ethics must begin at the top of an organization. It is a leadership issue and the chief executive must set the example.

Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.

People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader leads, and the boss drives.

The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.

The speed of the leader determines the rate of the pack.

The measure of a great leader, is their success in bringing everyone around to their opinion twenty years later.

The only safe ship in a storm is leadership.

And the whole world, the whole world that believes in freedom, whether you're talking about personal freedom, economic freedom, religious freedom, they look to the United States for leadership; and you're part of that leadership.

Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you; be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them.

Hindsight is always 20/20 but you can’t have all the information to make a decision in the time of a crisis. The more important thing is to make a good decision.

Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.

Leadership demands that we make tough choices.

Leadership to me means duty, honor, country. It means character, and it means listening from time to time.

People who enjoy meetings should not be in charge of anything.

Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them.

The question Who ought to be boss? is like asking Who ought to be the tenor in the quartet? Obviously, the man who can sing tenor.

Don't find fault, find a remedy.

We are like chameleons, we take our hue and the color of our moral character, from those who are around us.

The leader of genius must have the ability to make different opponents appear as if they belonged to one category.

The key to successful leadership today is influence, not authority.

In my mind, great leaders are those that listen to their people.

Leadership does not depend on being right.

If a window of opportunity appears, don't pull down the shade.

You don't lead by hitting people over the head that's assault, not leadership.

Character matters; leadership descends from character.

He who wishes to be obeyed must know how to command.

Education is the mother of leadership.

Only one man in a thousand is a leader of men the other 999 follow women.

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

Leadership is the wise use of power. Power is the capacity to translate intention into reality and sustain it.

Our chief want in life is somebody who will make us do what we can.

He who is prudent and lies in wait for an enemy who is not, will be victorious.

I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?

What you cannot enforce, do not command.

Leadership is diving for a loose ball, getting the crowd involved, getting other players involved. It's being able to take it as well as dish it out. That's the only way you're going to get respect from the players.

The conduct of President Bush's war of choice has been plagued with incompetent civilian leadership decisions that have cost many lives and rendered the war on and occupation of Iraq a strategic policy disaster for the United States.

Obstacles are things a person sees when he takes his eyes off his goal.

I look for what needs to be done. After all, that's how the universe designs itself.

President Reagan was a leader at a time when the American people most needed leadership. He outlined a vision that captured the imagination of the free world, a vision that toppled the Communist empire and freed countless millions.

The Dalai Lama. He is a very wise man of great inner peace who believes that happiness is the purpose of our lives. Through his teachings and leadership, he continues to make this world a better place in which to live.

There is no necessary connection between the desire to lead and the ability to lead, and even less the ability to lead somewhere that will be to the advantage of the led...

Leadership is the art of giving people a platform for spreading ideas that work.

President Bush has shown great leadership. He has said that the 21st century will not be ruled or dictated by terrorists, dictators, and murderers. He is absolutely right. God bless him for his resolve.

God will never direct us to be prideful, arrogant and unforgiving, immoral or slothful or full of fear. We step into these things because we are insensitive to the leadership of the Holy Spirit within us.

Leadership is a serving relationship that has the effect of facilitating human development.

You learn far more from negative leadership than from positive leadership. Because you learn how not to do it. And, therefore, you learn how to do it.

The right man comes at the right time.

Whether a man is burdened by power or enjoys power; whether he is trapped by responsibility or made free by it; whether he is moved by other people and outer forces or moves them this is of the essence of leadership.

Pull the string, and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all.

Turnaround or growth, it's getting your people focused on the goal that is still the job of leadership.

Leaders of men are later remembered less for the usefulness of what they have achieved than for the sweep of their endeavors.

The speed of the leader is the speed of the gang.

If you think you can do a thing or think you can't do a thing, you're right.

There are only about a half dozen things that make 80% of the difference in any area of our lives.

Outstanding leaders appeal to the hearts of their followers not their minds.

Power lasts ten years; influence not more than a hundred.

We can't drive our SUVs and eat as much as we want and keep our homes on 72 degrees at all times... and then just expect that other countries are going to say OK. That's not leadership. That's not going to happen.

The task of leadership is not to put greatness into humanity, but to elicit it, for the greatness is already there.

A leader is a dealer in hope.

Educationists should build the capacities of the spirit of inquiry, creativity, entrepreneurial and moral leadership among students and become their role model.

If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulder of giants.

Coaches who can outline plays on a black board are a dime a dozen. The ones who win get inside their player and motivate.

A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they dont necessarily want to go but ought to be.

When a customer enters my store, forget me. He is king.

The great leaders have always stage managed their effects.

Keep cool and you will command everyone.

Servant leadership is the foundation and the secret of Sam Walton's ability to achieve team synergy.

The art of leadership... consists in consolidating the attention of the people against a single adversary and taking care that nothing will split up that attention.

This the leadership of the mayor is crucial, because it is to the mayor that people will look to provide the vision, the energy, and the sense of confidence in the rebuilding and the recovery.

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

Management is about arranging and telling. Leadership is about nurturing and enhancing.

An army of deer would be more formidable commanded by a lion, than a an army of lions commanded by a stag.

Millions saw the apple fall, but Newton was the one who asked why.

Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of humility.

You cannot be a leader, and ask other people to follow you, unless you know how to follow, too.

Leadership is intangible, and therefore no weapon ever designed can replace it.

You're only as good as the people you hire.

Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others; it is the only means.

A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.

Real leadership is leaders recognizing that they serve the people that they lead.

Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.

A leader is one who, out of madness or goodness, volunteers to take upon himself the woe of the people. There are few men so foolish, hence the erratic quality of leadership in the world.

Alliances and international organizations should be understood as opportunities for leadership and a means to expand our influence, not as constraints on our power.

The challenge of leadership is to be strong, but not rude; be kind, but not weak; be bold, but not bully; be thoughtful, but not lazy; be humble, but not timid; be proud, but not arrogant; have humor, but without folly.

In terms of having views and being prepared to express them, yes, I think New Zealand's had a leadership role in a lot of things.

Leadership has a harder job to do than just choose sides. It must bring sides together.

Sport fosters many things that are good; teamwork and leadership.

Every time you have to speak, you are auditioning for leadership.

Blessed is he who has learned to admire but not envy, to follow but not imitate, to praise but not flatter, and to lead but not manipulate.

Leadership is service, not position.

Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.

It is, after all, the responsibility of the expert to operate the familiar and that of the leader to transcend it.

Absolute identity with one's cause is the first and great condition of successful leadership.

This is one of the major problems we have. By the way, it was endorsed by leadership on both sides of the aisle and both ends of the Capitol, by the NRA and also by the gun control groups.

Leaders draw out ones individual greatness

You know, rural Americans are a special people. Their labor puts food on our table and fuel in our gas tanks. Their service in our military sets a powerful example of leadership, honor and sacrifice. Their spirit of community inspires us all.

The first task of a leader is to keep hope alive.

I like to think of confidence as Not knowing 100% about a job role but believing that one can handle whatever is unknown.

All Americans and freedom loving people around the world owe President Reagan our deepest gratitude for his strong, principled leadership that ended the Cold War and brought freedom to millions of people.

If your actions create a legacy that inspires others to dream more learn more do more and become more then you are an excellent leader.

I would not be a Moses to lead you into the Promised Land because if I could lead you into it someone else could lead you out of it.

You must be willing to give up what you are to become what you want to be.

I am more afraid of an army of 100 sheep led by a lion than an army of 100 lions led by a sheep.

Getting in touch with your true self must be your first priority.

The more that social democracy develops, grows, and becomes stronger, the more the enlightened masses of workers will take their own destinies, the leadership of their movement, and the determination of its direction into their own hands.

Belief has the power to change your inner state and your outer world.

Vocational education programs have made a real difference in the lives of countless young people nationwide; they build self confidence and leadership skills by allowing students to utilize their unique gifts and talents.- Conrad Burns

The best leaders are those most interested in surrounding themselves with assistants and associates smarter than they are. They are frank in admitting this and are willing to pay for such talents.

The leader is one who mobilizes others toward a goal shared by leaders and followers... Leaders, followers and goals make up the three equally necessary supports for leadership.

Let him that would move the world, first move himself.

It is a strange trade that of advocacy. Your intellect, your highest heavenly gift is hung up in the shop window like a loaded pistol for sale.

Leadership cannot just go along to get along. Leadership must meet the moral challenge of the day.

Sometimes leadership is planting trees under whose shade you'll never sit. It may not happen fully till after I'm gone. But I know that the steps we're taking are the right steps.

Becoming a leader is synonymous with becoming yourself. It is precisely that simple, and it is also that difficult.

Go as far as you can see; when you get there, you'll be able to see farther.

I supported my friend Congressman Shuler over former Speaker Nancy Pelosi during our party's leadership elections in November citing a need for new leadership.

You do not lead by hitting people over the head thats assault not leadership.

Only those who play win. Only those who risk win. History favors risktakers. Forgets the timid. Everything else is commentary.

Leadership appears to be the art of getting others to want to do something you are convinced should be done.

True leadership must be for the benefit of the followers, not the enrichment of the leaders.

Leadership is, among other things, the ability to inflict pain and get away with it short term pain for long-term gain.- George Will

I am proud of the President's leadership. I am proud to support him in saying: Yes, we are going to do what is necessary now when it is less painful and less expensive.

If the leader is filled with high ambition and if he pursues his aims with audacity and strength of will, he will reach them in spite of all obstacles.

The person who renders loyal service in a humble capacity will be chosen for higher responsibilities, just as the biblical servant who multiplied the one pound given him by his master was made ruler over ten cities...

When we think we lead we are most led.

The nicest thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from.

The message of the free world to any potential Palestinian leadership should be a simple one: Embrace democratic reform and we will embrace you.

Every private in the French army carries a Field Marshall wand in his knapsack.

House Republican leadership have refused to allow a clean minimum wage vote. Close to 15 million Americans will be affected if we did this. Do Republicans really expect a family to live on less than $11,000 a year?

We perceive and are affected by changes too subtle to be described.

Get around people who have something of value to share with you. Their impact will continue to have a significant effect on your life long they have departed.

The secret of my success is a two word answer: Know people.

Leadership is about doing what you know is right even when a growing din of voices around you is trying to convince you to accept what you know to be wrong.

When the leadership is right and the time is right, the people can always be counted upon to follow to the end at all costs.

Leaders create an environment which everyone has the opportunity to do work which matches his potential capability and for which an equitable differential reward is provided.

Pity the leader caught between unloving critics and uncritical lovers.

The House Republican leadership has simply run out of ideas.

If it feels good saying it. Its probably not a good thing to say.

It is a characteristic of all movements and crusades that the psychopathic element rises to the top.

The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble.

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

Leadership is something I was born with.

The growth and development of people is the highest calling of leadership.

When we think we lead we most are led.

Bad leadership during the past years has cast on our Party the shadow of great and grave burdens.

Those that rule must hear and be deaf, must see and be blind.

Get the best people and train them well.

The cautious seldom err.

If you command wisely, you'll be obeyed cheerfully.

When a blind man bears the standard, pity those who follow.

Because of the president's leadership, every American will have access to affordable, quality health care.

In our system leadership is by consent, not command. To lead a President must persuade. Personal contacts and experiences help shape his thinking. They can be critical to his persuasiveness and thus to his leadership.

If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.

Popularity is not leadership.

Leadership involves finding a parade and getting in front of it.

In addition to removing our democratically elected government, Israel wants to sow dissent among Palestinians by claiming that there is a serious leadership rivalry among us. I am compelled to dispel this notion definitively.

People in any organization are always attached to the obsolete the things that should have worked but did not the things that once were productive and no longer are.

I believe that in Europe, we have a collective leadership.

We need safe communities that are free from methamphetamine and a federal commitment to stand next to state leadership and law enforcement in the fight against this epidemic.

Do your best to be the lead dog otherwise the view never changes.

This is easy to say with the benefit of hindsight, but I think it once again points out how very important style of leadership, that is the way he does what he does, is to his perception.

A functioning, robust democracy requires a healthy educated, participatory followership, and an educated, morally grounded leadership.

Clarity affords focus.

You who are journalists, writers, citizens, you have the right and duty to say to those you have elected that they must practice mindfulness, calm and deep listening, and loving speech. This is universal thing, taught by all religions.

He that thinketh he leadeth and hath no one following him is only taking a walk.

Together we are better

Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.

Even after such milestones as Kathryn Bigelow winning an Oscar, there still seem to be few women in leadership roles.

Yahoo! is the only company with both scale and leadership in branded and search advertising.

This administration and the leadership in Congress appear to be intent on valuing wealth over work, thereby placing working families at a distinct disadvantage.

Leadership should be born out of the understanding of the needs of those who would be affected by it.

There are no ideas in the Republican Party right now in the Congress. They're the party of no. They desperately need some intellectual leadership. And whatever you think of Newt Gingrich, he can supply intellectual leadership. So I hope he does run.

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.

The amount of good luck coming your way depends on your willingness to act.

The exercise of power is determined by thousands of interactions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, all the more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyone has a small part of himself in both.

World War II had been such a tremendous success story for this country that the political and military leadership began to assume that they would prevail simply because of who they were. We were like the British at the turn of the 19th century.

No amount of study or learning will make a man a leader unless he has the natural qualities of one.

We herd sheep, we drive cattle, we lead people. Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way.

The very exercise of leadership fosters capacity for it.

Delegating work works, provided the one delegating works, too.

My focus as part of the leadership is to keep talking about the independent voters, independent voters how do we get the independent voters back?

The slaves in Rome were incapable of leisure and so their masters gave them entertainment to keep them pacified.

Every silver lining has a cloud.

Our country also hungers for leadership to ensure the long term survival of our Social Security system. With 70 million baby boomers in this country on the verge of retirement, we need to take action to shore up the system.

You have to enable and empower people to make decisions independent of you. As I've learned, each person on a team is an extension of your leadership; if they feel empowered by you they will magnify your power to lead.

The right of commanding is no longer an advantage transmitted by nature; like an inheritance, it is the fruit of labors, the price of courage.

A leader is someone who helps improve the lives of other people or improve the system they live under.

What happened with Hurricane Katrina was the American electorate was forced to look at what lay behind the veneer of chest beating. We all saw the consequences of having terrible government leadership.

We live in a time where government is not a leadership thing, it's more a business that's out there and running riot, so I guess the people have to go out there and say stuff.

Among the blind the one eyed is king.

The truth is the Republican leadership has created a credit card Congress that is recklessly selling out the future of America, our children and our grandchildren, and President Bush is the most fiscally irresponsible President in the history of America.

Yes, America must do the right thing, but to provide moral leadership, America must do it in the right way, too.

I am a man of fixed and unbending principles, the first of which is to be flexible at all times.

Our power lies in our small daily choices one after another to create eternal ripples of a life well lived.

Leadership is not manifested by coercion, even against the resented. Greatness is not manifested by unlimited pragmatism, which places such a high premium on the end justifying any means and any measures.

The best leader is the one who has the sense to surround himself with outstanding people and self restraint not to meddle with how they do their jobs.

Think little goals and expect little achievements. Think big goals and win big success.

The secret to success is good leadership, and good leadership is all about making the lives of your team members or workers better.

The well being of the people is the supreme law.

The ultimate leader is one who is willing to develop people to the point that they eventually surpass him or her in knowledge and ability.

It often happens that I wake up at night and begin to think about a serious problem and decide I must tell the Pope about it. Then I wake up completely and remember that I am the Pope.

When the best leader's work is done the people say, 'We did it ourselves.'

Great Groups need to know that the person at the top will fight like a tiger for them.

Morale is faith in the man at the top.

Dont tell people how to do things tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.

Leadership mobilization toward a common goal.- Gary Wills

Making good decisions is a crucial skill at every level.

All organizations are perfectly designed to get the results they are now getting. If we want different results we must change the way we do things.

The more I have studied Lincoln, the more I have followed his thought processes, the more I am convinced that he understood leadership better than any other American president.

You have no power at all if you do not exercise constant power.

... the most improper job of any man even saints who at any rate were at least unwilling to take it on is bossing other men. Not one in a million is fit for it and least of all those who seek the opportunity.

If the only thing that you are good at is convincing others that you are good then being in biz with you is bad experience.

No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit for doing it.

The penalty of leadership is loneliness.

I've been the co chair of the Non Partisan Women's Caucus and vice chair for several years, taking a leadership role in this women's organization.

If you don't understand that you work for your mislabeled 'subordinates,' then you know nothing of leadership. You know only tyranny.

One of the surest signs of the estimated changes in the consciousness of the American proletariat is to be found in the character of the demands now being put forward by the leadership.

We do not need international help to stop corruption, we need strong Louisiana Leadership.

Clearly you need a new team to go out to bat on your behalf; to fight for your rights and to report back to you personally and to the leadership of the IFP.

Overall, the challenge of leadership is both moral and one of developing the characteristics that make us respected by one another.

There was great leadership in this country at the time of World War II. There was also unrelenting resolve at home, in America's factories and on the farms, in the cities and the country.

Youre a leader. Its your job to keep your passion hot. Do whatever you have to do read whatever you have to read go wherever you have to go to stay fired up. And dont apologize to anybody.nbsp

The true leader is always led.

Leaders of the future will have to be visionary and be able to bring people in real communicators. These are things that women bring to leadership and executive positions, and it's going to be incredibly valuable and incredibly in demand.

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.

I think the greater responsibility, in terms of morality, is where leadership begins.

The House has passed several bipartisan bills to ensure all Americans have the opportunity to secure a good job to provide for their families. All of these jobs bills deserve the support of our Senators and a strong show of leadership from the president.

Truth is the foundation of our global leadership, but our credibility has been shattered, and we are left increasingly isolated and vulnerable in a hostile world.

The quality of a leader is reflected in the standards they set for themselves.

We have treated our most serious adversaries, such as Iran and North Korea, in the most juvenile manner by giving them the silent treatment. In so doing, we have weakened, not strengthened, our bargaining position and our leadership.

If there is such a thing as good leadership, it is to give a good example. I have to do so for all the Ikea employees.

Doing is a quantum leap from imagining.

Blessed are the people whose leaders can look destiny in the eye without flinching but also without attempting to play God.

It is the responsibility of leadership to provide opportunity, and the responsibility of individuals to contribute.

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

Leaders learn by leading, and they learn best by leading in the face of obstacles. As weather shapes mountains, problems shape leaders.

The humblest individual exerts some influence, either for good or evil, upon others.

Ninety percent of leadership is the ability to communicate something people want.

A good leader needs to have a compass in his head and a bar of steel in his heart.

Such highly qualitative leadership is demanded especially in the realm of the fostering of right international relations. Here the demand is simply irresistible.

In the end, it is important to remember that we cannot become what we need to be by remaining what we are.

Public sentiment is everything, with it nothing can fail, without it nothing can succeed.

In this nation, leadership is dollars.

But 85 percent of the mosques have extremist leadership in this country. Most Muslims, the overwhelming majority of Muslims, are loyal Americans.

In working with UNICEF our corporate partners have demonstrated time and again that their financial resources, leadership and expertise can bring about real and lasting benefits for the world's children.

A noble leader answers not to the trumpet calls of self promotion but to the hushed whispers of necessity.

I don't know what leadership is. You can't touch it. You can't feel it. It's not tangible. But I do know this: you recognize it when you see it.

I think that all areas of the budget have to be scrubbed. Clearly the entitlement issues have to be reformed and that's an issue that's going to require I think some strong bipartisan cooperation and leadership.

Leadership has become a heavy industry. Concern and interest about leadership development is no longer an American phenomenon. It is truly global. Though I will probably be in less demand, I wanted to move on.

Search others for their virtue, and yourself for your vices.

The important thing is that we recognize our President's leadership, that he is not saying: I am going to walk away from this. He is saying: I am going to do the right thing.

Leaders rely on their intuition because intuition combined with experience is a powerful combination.

To lead people walk behind them.

Leadership is an active role; 'lead' is a verb. But the leader who tries to do it all is headed for burnout, and in a powerful hurry.

If people are not making mistakes they are not trying new things. If they are making the same mistake twice they are not learning new things

Dr. King's leadership reaffirmed the promise of our democracy: that everyday people, working together, have the power to change our government and our institutions for the better.

The lead dog gets the best view. The rest of the dogs view is butt ugly. Of course, the lead dog is also the first to fall into the ravine.

We need leadership, and we need it now.

One of the things about leadership is that you've got to show up. And if you want to be president of the United States you've got to make a case to the American people that Barack Obama needs to be dismissed from his position.

The Chinese leadership hoped that the world would soon forget the Tiananmen Square massacre. Our job in Congress is to ensure that we never forget those who lost their lives in Tiananmen Square that day or the pro democracy cause for which they fought.

I'm not a natural leader. I'm too intellectual; I'm too abstract; I think too much.

Leadership is not about titles positions or flowcharts. It is about one life influencing another.

Leaders are readers.

No man has ever risen to the real stature of spiritual manhood until he has found that it is finer to serve somebody else than it is to serve himself.

Count your blessings discount youre loses

Most people associate command and control leadership with the military.

As we go forward, those who lead will be the ones taking advantage of the creativity and productivity gains available by focusing on the human, collaborative dimension, while laggards will suffer in the face of unrelenting change.

We should see the leadership from the White House setting dates certain for certain goals of achieving greater alliance on alternative and renewable energy sources, but we are not.

The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.

Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.

I look forward to working with our leadership team to advance the causes of smaller government, lower taxes, eliminating terrorism, and providing affordable health care, among other issues.

He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.

Dont waste your energy trying to educate or change opinions go over under through and opinions will change organically when youre the boss. Or they wont. Who cares Do your thing and dont care if they like it.

It is the Vague and Elusive. Meet it and you will not see its head. Follow it and you will not see its back.

An order that can be misunderstood will be misunderstood.

I feel fantastically excited that we have a leader who fought for the leadership without compromising his quite challenging view that the party has to change.

Certainly a leader needs a clear vision of the organization and where it is going, but a vision is of little value unless it is shared in a way so as to generate enthusiasm and commitment. Leadership and communication are inseparable.

We cannot all be masters.

Leadership is the key to 99 percent of all successful efforts.

It would be difficult to exaggerate the degree to which we are influenced by those we influence.

If America wants to retain its position as a global power, its president must listen to the people and show strong leadership at this turning point in human history.

It's a different era. Our job now is to show leadership and vision and to help the next generation of artists.

Bipartisanship isn't an option anymore; it is a requirement. The American people have divided responsibility for leadership right down the middle.

Leaders must encourage their organizations to dance to forms of music yet to be heard.

My attitude is never to be satisfied, never enough, never.

Those who sleep with dogs gets up with fleas.

I think Mr. Clarke had a tendency to interfere too much with the activities of the CIA, and our leadership at the senior level let him interfere too much. So criticism from him I kind of wear as a badge of honor.

I mean, Emily Harris was his wife. And she seemed to resent his leadership, but on the other hand, she felt like a good soldier, that he had to be the leader.

It is time for a new generation of leadership, to cope with new problems and new opportunities. For there is a new world to be won.

There's a void of leadership in a lot of Washington. I think one of the reasons why there's so much angst across the country.

Shouldn't Democrats insist that Sen. Durbin step down as their whip, the number two man in their leadership?

We are reformers in the spring and summer, but in autumn we stand by the old. Reformers in the morning, and conservers at night.

Each day you are leading by example. Whether you realize it or not or whether its positive or negative you are influencing those around you.

The leadership lost its nerve. Instead of taking the lead in the reform movement... they pulled the plug on it. They tried and are still trying to return the church to the dry ice of the previous century and a half.

It simply cannot be disputed that for decades the Palestinian leadership was more interested in there not being a Jewish state than in there being a Palestinian state.

I recognize we will pay more attention when we have different leadership.

The leader can never close the gap between himself and the group. If he does, he is no longer what he must be. He must walk a tightrope between the consent he must win and the control he must exert.

And I'd say one of the great lessons I've learned over the past couple of decades, from a management perspective, is that really when you come down to it, it really is all about people and all about leadership.

I conceive a knowledge of books is the basis upon which other knowledge is to be built.

The first thing a great person does, is make us realize the insignificance of circumstance.

People will sit up and take notice of you if you will sit up and take notice of what makes them sit up and take notice.

Republican leadership in Congress let the energy companies write the energy bill that sent prices soaring, and has turned a blind eye to the struggles of working families trying to make ends meet.

Some men must follow, and some command, though all are made of clay.

And this administration and this House leadership have said, quote unquote, they will stop at nothing to pass this health care bill. And now they've gotten rid of me and it will pass. You connect the dots.- Eric Massa

While Mayor Daley surprised me today with his decision to not run for reelection, I have never been surprised by his leadership, dedication and tireless work on behalf of the city and the people of Chicago.

Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out.

Victim fall in love with excuses

As long as the opposition believes the world will stand with Ukraine's democrat reformers, they will have the leverage and the courage to establish a legitimate republic under the leadership of Viktor Yushchenko.

Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help or concluded you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership.

There has not yet been a major ground offensive battle... There are, we know, negotiations going on between the opposition forces and the Taliban leadership for surrender.

A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better.

I think our leadership team is a highly accountable leadership team.

Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.

Big shots are little shots who kept shooting.

I think we need the feminine qualities of leadership, which include attention to aesthetics and the environment, nurturing, affection, intuition and the qualities that make people feel safe and cared for.

The public sector certainly includes the Department of Labor. Those are jobs that are available. They are open and they are good paying jobs. The government as a whole has been actually retrenching under President Clinton's leadership.

The highest of distinctions is service to others.

Under the leadership of President Bush and Vice President Cheney, the United States has given up the moral high ground that we used to occupy as an international leader.

A substandard education will always result in a substandard nation.

Focusing on others will give you more inuence and power than focusing on yourself.

At the same time, as social beings, we are moved in the relations with our fellow beings by such feelings as sympathy, pride, hate, need for power, pity, and so on.

A community is like the ones who govern it.

Why because as a oil and gas small business owner - I know if someone is not doing their job, they should not get paid. Again leadership by example.- Jeff Landry

To succeed, one must be creative and persistent.

I want to see a player on the football field. I want to see what kind of teammate they are, what kind of leadership qualities they have. I want to see how aggressive they are, how much fun they have playing the game.

In one short sentence it is captaincy that counts

Roosevelt was the one who had the vision to change our policy from isolationism to world leadership. That was a terrific revolution. Our country's never been the same since.

Leadership doesnt occur in a vacuum it manifests in a context. These contexts are as dynamic as the personalities stakes culture and information available.

I believe that we as the leader of the Free World must provide important leadership on the ethical parameters, the ethical constraints that this research requires.

Leadership is a matter of having people look at you and gain confidence, seeing how you react. If you're in control, they're in control.

If people want to compete for leadership of a religious group, they can compete in piety. A chilling thought. Or funny.

An old African leader says about leadership, he says that leadership should never be shared; it should always remain in the hands of the dispossessed people. We will lead the revolution.

That perfect bliss and sole felicity, the sweet fruition of an earthly crown.

We need the kind of leadership exemplified by President Kennedy to just do it! But we must do it as good stewards, aggressively exerting control over the moon. We can best do this by going there.

A man always has two reasons for doing anything: a good reason and the real reason.

Party domination and State leadership are concepts incompatible with one another.

People who don't take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year. People who do take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year.

As for leadership, I am the kind who leads reluctantly and more by example than anything else. Someone had to be on the incorporation papers as president.

We must recognize that as the dominant power in the world we have a special responsibility. In addition to protecting our national interests, we must take the leadership in protecting the common interests of humanity.

Justice is the first virtue of those who command, and stops the complaints of those who obey.

Many citizens see all the leadership of these large institutions together in a conspiracy against them rather than in any adversary relationship with each other.

At an unprecedented time with the worst attack ever on our soil, our President displayed extraordinary determination, leadership and resolve when history was thrust upon him and the United States.

The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.

Leadership must be established from the top down.

Military school was great and especially great for leadership and then I spent two years in Vietnam.

There are many elements to a campaign. Leadership is number one. Everything else is number two.

Some are born leaders some achieve leadership and some have leadership thrust upon them. Which of these are you or would you rather not bother

You can never stop and as older people, we have to learn how to take leadership from the youth and I guess I would say that this is what I'm attempting to do right now.

It's not as if our party has a leadership campaign underway.

Best way to learn a new skill is jump right into it. Education is great, yet we learn more from experience!

Leadership is the other side of the coin of loneliness, and he who is a leader must always act alone. And acting alone, accept everything alone.

If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.

People want guidance not rhetoric. They need to know what the plan of action is and how it will be implemented. They want to be given responsibility to help solve the problem and authority to act on it.

And a leader has to command confidence and consent.

For many members of Congress, the time for choosing is near do what the party leadership demands, or do what the people have asked you to do. If my colleagues don't mind some advice from a newcomer, I'd suggest going with the will of the people.- Scott Brown

Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy.

How we think shows through in how we act. Attitudes are mirrors of the mind. They reflect thinking.

Clearly no one knows what leadership has gone undiscovered in women of all races, and in black and other minority men.

Ronald Reagan has held the two most demeaning jobs in the country; President of the United States and radio broadcaster for the Chicago Cubs.

Leadership is all about inspiring people, showing them the way, and leading by example.

Never do that by proxy which you can do yourself.

Perhaps in His wisdom the Almighty is trying to show us that a leader may chart the way, may point out the road to lasting peace, but that many leaders and many peoples must do the building.

I refuse to live life with unsettled differences.

Leadership cannot really be taught. It can only be learned.

The person who lives with cripples will soon learn to limp.

If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.

The fact is, when it comes to economic leadership, the Republicans have nothing to brag about. This isn't what the American people want. They want to see progress that works for them.

Through leadership of the fight against French colonialism, Ho Chi Minh had made a name for himself in the international political arena.

The minute a person whose word means a great deal to others dare to take the open hearted and courageous way, many others follow.- Marian Anderson

Successful leaders have the courage to take action where others hesitate.

By providing outstanding economic leadership, this country can wage its attack successfully and can thereby build the foundations of a peaceful world.- James Forrestal

I believe that the will of the people is resolved by a strong leadership. Even in a democratic society, events depend on a strong leadership with a strong power of persuasion, and not on the opinion of the masses.

Leadership in telecommunications is also essential, since we are now in the age of e commerce.- Michael Oxley

The great leaders have always stage managed their effects.

It is a great pity when the one who should be the head figure is a mere figure head.

The best efforts of a fine person is felt after we have left their presence.

I cannot give you a formula for success but I can give you the formula for failure which is try to please everybody.

In any case, decisions on troop levels in the American system of government are not made by any general or set of generals but by the civilian leadership of the war effort.

Leadership on the other hand is about creating change you believe in.

There is great force hidden in a gentle command.

There's a very big gulf between the black civil rights leadership in America and the black middle class in America. The black middle class are conservative. Many of those minorities can be persuaded to be members of the Republican Party.

I am not saying that during the Second World War Germany did not, under the leadership of the National Socialist government, commit crimes.

This week you will nominate the most experienced executive to seek the presidency in 60 years in Mitt Romney. He has no illusions about what makes America great, and he doesn't confuse the presidency with celebrity, or loftiness with leadership.

Hamas, also elected to governmental leadership in Palestine, includes the jihadists, people who have declared war on the United States of America and its ally, Israel.

Efficiency tends to deal with Things. Effectiveness tends to deal with People. We manage things, we lead people

Sheep are always looking for a new shepherd when the terrain gets rocky.

Always try to associate yourself with and learn as much as you can from those who know more than you do who do better than you who see more clearly than you.

Life isn't easy, and leadership is harder still.

Leadership is being the first egg in the omelet.

I think leadership is service and there is power in that giving: to help people, to inspire and motivate them to reach their fullest potential.

In the great mass of our people there are plenty individuals of intelligence from among whom leadership can be recruited.

The test of leadership is not to put greatness into humanity, but to elicit it, for the greatness is already there.

He that entereth not by the door into the sheepfold, but climbeth up some other way, the same is a thief and a robber. But he that entereth in by the door is the shepherd of the sheep.

Affirmation without discipline is the beginning of delusion.

A leader is a dealer in hope.

To be a philosopher just reverse everything you have ever been told...and have a sense of humor doing it.

One secret of leadership is that the mind of a leader never turns off. Leaders even when they are sightseers or spectators, are active; not passive observers.

I am convinced that your Mayor must take the leadership role in education too.

God uses imperfect people for impossible tasks

What you cannot enforce, do not command.

Being a CEO still means sitting across the table from big institutional investors and showing your leadership and having them believe in you.

A crown, golden in show is but a wreath of thorns.

The Divine Thing that made itself the foundation of the Church does not seem, to judge by his comments on the religious leadership of his day, to have hoped much from officers of a church.

We in the press, by our power, can actually undermine leadership.

A great leader never sets himself above his followers except in carrying responsibilities.

Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

Those who can command themselves command others.

What I've really learned over time is that optimism is a very, very important part of leadership.

The weaknesses of the many make the leader possible.

The union is much more than me, and when you think the union is you and it's not about who you represent, I think you've sort of lost your morals and focus and the purpose of your leadership.

In simplest terms, a leader is one who knows where he wants to go, and gets up, and goes.

You dont know what you can get away with until you try.

You have to think anyway, so why not think big?

The more you become aware of and respond to the needs of others the richer your own life becomes.

Be not angry that you cannot make another what you wish them to be; since you cannot make yourself what you wish to be.

Politics is a matter of leading other people. Admittedly not where they want to go but where they ought to go.

Socrates had a student named Plato, Plato had a student named Aristotle, and Aristotle had a student named Alexander the Great.

Most important, leaders can conceive and articulate goals that lift people out of their petty preoccupations and unite them in pursuit of objectives worthy of their best efforts.

At that time, the army leadership said the implementation of this agreement would allow everyone, including the IRA, to take its political objectives forward by peaceful and democratic means.

Leadership is one of the things that cannot be delegated.

I always believe that ultimately, if people are paying attention, then we get good government and good leadership. And when we get lazy, as a democracy and civically start taking shortcuts, then it results in bad government and politics.

The Christian leader of the future is called to be completely irrelevant and to stand in this world with nothing to offer but his or her own vulnerable self.

The world cannot be governed without juggling.

The real leader has no need to lead he is content to point the way.

What a mother sings to the cradle goes all the way down to the coffin.

Most people live with pleasant illusions but leaders must deal with hard realities.

It is the capacity to develop and improve their skills that distinguishes leaders from followers.

A tyrant is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader.

The person who has no enemies has no followers.

The secret of leadership is simple Do what you believe in. Paint a picture of the future. Go there.People will follow.

Unfortunately, the Republican leadership in the House right now seems to have been strangled by the tea party.

If you get too far in front of your troops, you start looking like the enemy.

Real leadership means tackling tough problems ourselves and not leaving them to our children.

Denmark needs change, Denmark needs to move on and Denmark needs my leadership.

Market leadership can translate directly to higher revenue, higher profitability, greater capital velocity, and correspondingly stronger returns on invested capital.

People will not change their minds but they will make new decisions based upon new information.

Such manifestations I account as representing the creative leadership of the new forces of thought and appreciation which attend changes in technological pattern and therefore of the pattern of human relationships in society.

Tell a person they are brave and you help them become so.

Anyone contemplating world war is certifiably insane, no matter how calm they seem.

Diplomacy is the delicate weapon of the civilized warrior. Hun A. T.

He who influences the thought of his times influences the times that follow.

Coaching is nothing more than eliminating mistakes before you get fired.

Humility is a great quality of leadership which derives respect and not just fear or hatred.

You dont feel like a winner and then do you do like a winner and then feel.

No great manager or leader ever fell from heaven its learned not inherited.

There are three secrets to managing. The first secret is have patience. The second is be patient. And the third most important secret is patience.

All of this suggests that while citizens became more comfortable with President Bush after September 11 and thought him to have the requisite leadership skills, they continue to harbor doubts about his priorities, loyalties, interests, and policies.

The influence of individual character extends from generation to generation.

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

Without action a vision is just a piece of paper. In education we have lots of paper.

The more varied the environments in which you exercise your leadership gift the stronger that gift will become. You will become a far more effective leader.

The essence of community its heart and soul is the nonmonetary exchange of value things we do and share because we care for others and for the good of the place.

May hundred die but not a honest and truthful leader.

Managers maintain an efficient status quo while leaders attack the status quo to create something new.

An educator will teach the students. An Educarer will reach the students.

Leadership is the challenge to be something more than average.

It is absolutely necessary... for me to have persons that can think for me as well as execute orders.

What is important for a leader is that which makes him a leader. It is the needs of his people.

Without the vision of a goal a man cannot manage his own life much less the lives of others.

While once it was the rank and file that cheered with all the partisan passions at their heights, today it is the party leaders who are cheering themselves; and all by themselves. The mob that is their audience is in one vast universal trance, thinking about something else.

Its not about you. Its about them.

I dont see myself being special I just see myself having more responsibilities than the next man. People look to me to do things for them to have answers.

I believe that the capacity that any organisation needs is for leadership to appear anywhere it is needed, when it is needed.

Faith moves mountains love transforms hearts.

Leaders grasp nettles.

The things journalists should pay attention to are the issues the political leadership agrees on, rather than to their supposed antagonisms.

Germany must be a country which generates political ideas and leadership, which is capable of compromise, which is sovereign and yet knows that it needs its partners on both sides of the Atlantic.

Small thinking and big dreams is an oxymoron

If you lead a country like Britain, a strong country, a country which has taken a lead in world affairs in good times and in bad, a country that is always reliable, then you have to have a touch of iron about you.

Every ruler is harsh whose laws is new.

The key to successful leadership is influence not authority.

The influential man is the successful man, whether he be rich or poor.

I have a different vision of leadership. A leadership is someone who brings people together.

Leadership is an ever evolving position.

High expectations are the key to everything.

The power to lead is the power to mislead and the power to mislead is the power to destroy.

It's really necessary for the United States to continue to give strong leadership to the Middle East peace process, supported by European countries at the same time.

I don't agree with all male leaderships. Men cannot be left to run things on their own. I think it's a thoroughly bad thing to have a men only leadership.

He's a novice, but he's had these he's experienced in leadership in tight circumstances. He started - he dropped the first bomb, led the first air strike into North Vietnam.- James Stockdale

Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.

Most people dont care whos in charge as long as someone is.

The fact is five months ago this was an issue that people weren't really talking that much about. Because of the president's leadership, because he's brought it to people's attention, it's now a top issue.

Be a great student of life so you can be an outstanding teacher of living.

Ever since Israel has been a nation the United States has provided the leadership. Every president down to the ages has done this in a fairly balanced way, including George Bush senior, Gerald Ford, and others including myself and Bill Clinton.

I made a commitment... both to myself and to some supporters to carefully consider a run for the Liberal leadership for the Liberal Party of Canada.

Half a world away nations that once lived under oppression and tyranny are now budding democracies due in large part to America 's leadership and the sacrifices of our military.

It is past time for Republican leadership to answer for record deficits and reckless spending, both in Iraq and in the U.S. It's time for a plan to bring our troops home.

A good coach will make his players see what they can be rather than what they are.

The secret of my influence has always been that it remained secret.

Leadership consists not in degrees of technique but in traits of character; it requires moral rather than athletic or intellectual effort, and it imposes on both leader and follower alike the burdens of self restraint.

Your first and foremost job as a leader is to take charge of your own energy and then help to orchestrate the energy of those around you.

Be your self at your personal best

I have learned that the harder you fallthe higher you bounce

No affection and a great brain, these are the people to command the world.

See that no one puts a stumbling block, or an occasion to fall in his brothers way.

The Christian leader cannot simply be persons who have well informed opinions about the burning issues of our time.

The biggest difference is in the leadership. It was better for us. We had more coaches and mentors to help us. A lot of the younger players today suffer from a lack of direction.

Great teams do not hold back with one another. They are unafraid to air their dirty laundry. They admit their mistakes their weaknesses and their concerns without fear of reprisal.

Al Qaeda is not the organization now that it was before. It is under stress organizationally. Its leadership spends more time trying to figure out how to keep from getting caught than they do trying to launch operations.

You can tell the size of a person by the way he treats people who cannot help him.

The next thing is: we can make IBM even better. We brought IBM back but we're gunning for leadership.

A leader has been defined as one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.

My observation is that women are merely waiting for their husbands to assume leadership.

Presidential leadership needn't always cost money. Look for low and no cost options. They can be surprisingly effective.

Leadership is like the old galley ships. 100s are rowing, but only one (the captain) knows where they are going

The greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things. He is the one that gets the people to do the greatest things.

The first job of a leaderat work or at homeis to inspire trust. Its to bring out the best in people by entrusting them with meaningful stewardships and to create an environment in which hightrust interaction inspires creativity and possibility.

There are only two kinds of coaches those who have been fired, and those who will be fired.

I think it is important to ask ourselves as citizens, not as Democrats attacking the administration, but as citizens, whether a world power can really provide global leadership on the basis of fear and anxiety?

Men are lead by trifles.

Leadership that exploits and sacrifices young people on the altar of its goals is nothing more than raw, demonic power. Genuine leadership is found in ceaseless efforts to foster young people, to pave the way forward for them.

On being in a position of leadership Even if its your dog youve got authority over somebody. Start treating him better.

A general never shows despair. He instills confidence in his troops. He leads them forward even into the mouth of death.

Democrats have no agenda, no plan for the future, and no sense of leadership.

The failure of women to have reached positions of leadership has been due in large part to social and professional discrimination.

If a guy is intimidated by a woman in leadership, he has real problems with his own concepts of masculinity. That's a harsh statement, but I believe it to be true.

To function efficiently any group of people or employees must have faith in their leader. Capt. Blighret.

Through the inspiration of Vaclav's words, the courage of his dissidence and the integrity of his leadership, Czechoslovakia successfully transitioned from an authoritarian state to a free democracy at the heart of Europe.

The art of leadership is saying no not yes. It is very easy to say yes.

Give as few orders as possible his father had told him once long ago. Once youve given orders on a subject you must always give orders on that subject.

A weak King must be what other Kings have been a strong King is himself and from then on the meaning of the name of King is changed.

In fair weather prepare for foul.

If you seek honor and respect you will not find it for a leader is powerless to elevate himself. It is only when you serve others without regard for self will honor respect and lasting success be found.

transformation begins with the individual Dr William Edwards DemingThe New Economics 1993

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

Leadership is familiar but not well understood.

And if the blind lead the blind both shall fall into the ditch.

But the ability to articulate what you are doing, to be clear about it, and to stick to it is, I think, the essence of political leadership.

Always remember Son the best boss is the one who bosses the least. Whether its cattle or horses or men the least government is the best government.

My leadership will end the Obama era and begin a new era of American prosperity.

One thing I never want to be accused of is not working.

But the person who scored well on an SAT will not necessarily be the best doctor or the best lawyer or the best businessman. These tests do not measure character, leadership, creativity, perseverance.

There are no office hours for leaders.

Author points out in Woodrow Wilson the flipside of the positive we might call big picture vision. He observes that as college president Wilson resorted to the language of a national crusade when he met resistance in a local academic issue.

Great companies in the way they work, start with great leaders.

What little Jack does not learn, big John will never.

Central to America's rise to global leadership is our Judeo Christian tradition with the vision of the goodness and possibilities of every human life.

Jesus did not command us to develop leaders. He commanded us to make disciples. The world develops leaders the Church disciples them. The two are not the same.

The ruler attains wholeness in the correct governance of the people.

When employees feel that they have been heard, it puts their mind to rest, it makes them more productive and most of all, it makes them respect their leaders.

Its not just picking the right friends. It is being the right friend.

I also know that there have been many times in our history when the proximity of an election has induced exactly the kind of leadership and consensus building that produce progress in our democracy.

Being a leader is making the people you love hate you a little more each day.

Film making is like fighting a war with leadership at the front.

We had a military and political leadership at that period which was genuinely deluded.

I think directors should be confident in their leadership capabilities. I think directors should be confident in what they want to do.

True greatness true leadership is achieved not by reducing men to ones service but in giving oneself in selfless service to them.

What we heard today was not fiscal leadership from our Commander in Chief, what we heard today was a political broadside from our Campaigner in Chief.

You cannot expect your team to rise above your example.

Taking charge of your own learning is a part of taking charge of your life which is the sine qua non in becoming an integrated person.

We shouldn't be debating whether to deal with the current code by allowing it to be extended or not. We should have a president who shows leadership and comes to Congress and says: 'You know what? We need to reform this whole tax code.'

Recognizing and accepting both the responsibilities and the opportunities leadership offers you is a signicant step in your development as a leader.

People ask the difference between a leader and a loss.... The leader works in the open and the boss in covert. The leader leads and the boss drives.

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.

Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren't used to an environment where excellence is expected.

Strategy is not really a solo sport even if youre the CEO.

The Leadership Training Institute of America is a cultural think tank providing training and opportunity in leadership development and cultural dynamics.

It is the responsibility of intellectuals to speak the truth and expose lies.

What you always do before you make a decision is consult. The best public policy is made when you are listening to people who are going to be impacted. Then, once policy is determined, you call on them to help you sell it.

A man can only lead when others accept him as their leader and he has only as much authority as his subjects give to him. All of the brilliant ideas in the world cannot save your kingdom if no one will listen to them.

There is an irresistible demand to strengthen the leadership of the constructive forces of the world at the present momentous time. This is true because of stupendous, almost unbelievable changes which have taken place in recent years on every continent.

I think a major act of leadership right now, call it a radical act, is to create the places and processes so people can actually learn together, using our experiences.

You have a life make a success of it.

Efficiency is doing the thing right. Effectiveness is doing the right thing.

Communication is the real work of leadership.

The atmosphere at my school was very competitive. Young girls were competing with each other every day for status, for leadership, for the affection of the teachers. I hated it.

fire is cathing and if we burn then you burn with us. katniss everdeen, mockingjay

If you cant swallow your pride you cant lead. Even the highest mountain had animals that step on it.

The very essence of leadership is that you have to have vision. You can't blow an uncertain trumpet.

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.

You did what your heart told you to do Brain complimented. It is what leaders not followers do.

Our business in life is not to get ahead of others, but to get ahead of ourselves.

The secret of a leader lies in the tests he has faced over the whole course of his life and the habit of action he develops in meeting those tests.

Leverage is the ability to apply positive pressure on yourself to follow through on your decisions even when it hurts.

A lord may love the men that he commands but he cannot be a friend to them. One day he may need to sit in judgement on them or send them forth to die.

To my mind the election was stolen by George Bush and we have been suffering ever since under this man's leadership.

Women are not just waiting to be filled up with resourcestheyre waiting to put their resources on the table to be able to lead towards a different world

Average leaders raise the bar on themselves good leaders raise the bar for others great leaders inspire others to raise their own bar.

It's a tremendous responsibility to be direct descendants of the prophet Muhammad. This family has had the burden of leadership on its shoulders for 1,400 years. I'm not going to drop the ball on my shift.

No one would have doubted his ability to reign had he never been emperor.

Democrats are going to proudly run on the fact that we turned the economy around. It was our policies under President Obama's leadership through the Recovery Act, through investing in the automobile industry.

But the fact is that the vast majority of Republicans support the Sinn Fein leadership.

On Lee as commander He had a cheerful dignity and could praise them his men without seeming to court their favor.

You are good. But it is not enough just to be good. You must be good for something. You must contribute good to the world. The world must be a better place for your presence. And the good that is in you must be spread to others....

I have learnt from the politics of my great country Nigeria that there is nothing wrong with the heads of states but there is something wrong with the state of the heads.

Remember that mentor leadership is all about serving. Jesus said For even the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve others and to give his life as a ransom for many Mark 1045.

In a battle between nbsptwo ideas the best one doesnt necessarily win. No the idea that wins is the one with the most fearless heretic behind it.

Real leaders are people who help us overcome the limitations of our own individual laziness and selfishness and weakness and fear and get us to do better harder things than we can get ourselves to do on our own.

Leaders know that the fruit of life is out on a limb.

But I think Steve's main contribution besides just the pure leadership is his passion for excellence. He's a perfectionist. Good enough isn't good enough. And also his creative spirit. You know he really, really wants to do something great.

Engage the enemy more closely.

Leadership in today's world requires far more than a large stock of gunboats and a hard fist at the conference table.

Now, if we look at the way in which the labor movement itself has evolved over the last couple of decades, we see increasing numbers of black people who are in the leadership of the labor movement and this is true today.

Leadership is a combination of strategy and character. If you must be without one, be without the strategy.

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

The world is full of stupid people. Thats why we have rules. But with enough intelligence a person can be above the rules. She can make rules.

America would be a better place if leaders would do more long term thinking.

Leadership, leadership is about taking responsibility, not making excuses.

A good leader is a person who takes a little more than his share of the blame and a little less than his share of the credit.

They accepted my donation so theyre aware theyd better serve my interests or Ill buy some leadership that will.

Wise leaders generally have wise counselors because it takes a wise person themselves to distinguish them.

Define excellence vividly quantitatively. Paint a picture for your most talented employees of what excellence looks like. Keep everyone pushing and pushing toward the righthand edge of the bell curve.

One mark of a good officer he remembered was the ability to make quick decisions. If they happen to be right so much the better

Great leaders understand human behavior rather than the cybernetics of any function.

If you want to be comfortable take an easy job. If you aspire to leadership, take off your coat.

Wise leaders understand that the single greatest determinant of whether followers will ever own a vision deeply is the extent to which whose followers believe the leader will own it.

Asking questions will get you the performance you are after far more than dictating demands.

You cannot transpose the U.S. system on Turkey, and the Turkish system on France etc. You have to understand the people and their culture. That's leadership.

Actions, not words, are the ultimate results of leadership.

The first key to leadership is selfcontrol.

Winning requires reaching inside of yourself for that extra gear to accelerate challenges.

Whatever ought to be, can be.

A leader may symbolize and express what is best in his people, like Pericles, or what is worst, like Hitler, but he cannot successfully express what is only in his heart and not in theirs.

Through reallife stories Kristin Kaufman illustrates the core idea of being present in the moment and opening oneself up to new ideas in order to become an authentic leader in life.

Winners see the dream and develop plans while the rest see the obstacles and develop justifications.

I think what actually works best is local level individual targeting of key leadership nodes.

Not all readers are leaders but all leaders are readers.

Getting results through people is a skill that cannot be learned in the classroom.

Control your own Destiny or somebody else will

A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.

I think it is quite dangerous for an organisation to think they can predict where they are going to need leadership. It needs to be something that people are willing to assume if it feels relevant, given the context of any situation.

Surround yourself with great people delegate authority get out of the way

No institution can possibly survive if it needs geniuses or supermen to manage it. It must be organized in such a way as to be able to get along under a leadership composed of average human beings.

We need someone with proven conservative leadership experience, not entitlement, to be able to represent us and lead us.

A good hitting instructor is able to mold his teaching to the individual. If a guy stands on his head, you perfect that.

A person who cannot handle setbacks will never handle victories either.

Nigera is what it is because its leaders are not what they should be.

One of the fundamental aspects of leadership I realized more and more is the ability to instill confidence in others when you yourself are feeling insecure

... we shoved out many hopes and fears into their hands believing those hands were strong because they had firm handshakes. They failed us always. There was no way they could not fail us they were human and so were we.

Our democracy poses problems and these problems must and shall be solved by courageous leadership.

The business world reaches out for and rewards leaders who can relegate and delegate.

This Congress is simply not doing its job under Republican leadership.

So I think democracy, in the long term, in our countries will survive if it comes to be associated with leadership, will not survive if democracy plus media brings to us more and more followship rather than leadership.

I never saw myself as an individual who had any particular leadership powers.

I'm sad to report that in the past few years, ever since uncertainty became our insistent 21st century companion, leadership has taken a great leap backwards to the familiar territory of command and control.

Preparing our city to achieve its destiny will require strong leadership.

If you are not extreme then people will take shortcuts because they dont fear you.

We need to be a leadership position about protecting minors on the Internet and, more importantly, giving the parents the tools they need to protect them.

The manager asks how and when; the leader asks what and why.

Freedom flourishes upon the bedrock of ethics and integrity.

There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things.

Research has shown that the perceived style of leadership is by far the most important thing to most voters in evaluating officeholders and candidates.

A leader should demonstrate his thoughts and opinions through his actions not through his words.

Leadership is the activity of influencing people to cooperate towards some goal which they come to find desirable and which motivates them over the long haul.

Any man who has ever led an army an expedition or a group of Boy Scouts has sadism in his bones.

Year after year, President Bush has broken his campaign promises on college aid. And year after year, the Republican leadership in Congress has let him do it.

So if you see no one like you no one who agrees dont worry. There are actually hundreds of people like you and theyre waiting for a leader. That person is you.

Who succeeds in forming and leading a Great Group He or she is almost always a pragmatic dreamer. They are people who get things done but they are people with immortal longings. Often they are scientifically minded people with poetry in their souls.

In the area we're discussing, leadership begins on Madison Avenue, on the desks and in the offices of people who spend hundreds of millions of dollars buying what will get them ratings.

There was no imminent threat. This was made up in Texas, announced in January to the Republican leadership that war was going to take place and was going to be good politically. This whole thing was a fraud.

The best leaders... almost without exception and at every level, are master users of stories and symbols.

I want to see an elephant hunt down a man for the sole purpose of collecting his teeth while a chorus of typewriters sings songs that praises the bananas for their wisdom leadership and their high levels of potassium.

When your values are clear to you, making decisions becomes easier.

If you have fear of those that command you, spare those that obey you.

Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren't used to an environment where excellence is expected.

Produce great men, the rest follows.

In our society a man is known by the company he owns.

There is a difference between being a leader and being a boss. Both are based on authority. A boss demands blind obedience a leader earns his authority through understanding and trust.

Leaders lead when they take positions when they connect with their tribes and when they help the tribe connect to itself.

In leadership writ large, mutually agreed upon purposes help people achieve consensus, assume responsibility, work for the common good, and build community.

We shall all respect the principle of each other and do nothing that would be regarded as an act oppression to any portion of the people

So I think that our foreign policy, the president's strong and principled leadership when it comes to the war against terror and foreign policy is going to be an asset.

Whose leadership, whose judgment, whose values do you want in the White House when that crisis lands like a thud on the Oval Office desk?

Whoever is providing leadership needs to be as fresh and thoughtful and reflective as possible to make the very best fight.

It is with obedience to your call that I take up the burden of government leadership for the final time.

Every leader needs to look back once in a while to make sure he has followers. Source Unknown Effective leaders are known by the questions they ask rather than the statements they make.

Having a hearing is educational. Having a hearing with television cameras is useful. Having a hearing with two rows of television cameras is Heaven.

How was your day If your answer was fine then I dont think you were leading.

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

All poets adore explosions, thunderstorms, tornadoes, conflagrations, ruins, scenes of spectacular carnage. The poetic imagination is therefore not at all a desirable quality in a chief of state.

Go to the people. Live with them. Learn from them. Love them. Startwith what they know. Build with what they have. But with the bestleaders when the work is done the task accomplished the people willsay We have done this ourselves.

To know how to distinguish the agitation arising from covetousness from the agitation arising from principles to fight the one and aid the other in this lies the genius and the power of great revolutionary leaders.

Great leaders always remember they are part of their team, not apart from it.

Beside every great leader invariably stands a great assistant.

Ignorance combined with arrogance, are the perfect ingredients to make a leadership cocktail of the greatest incompetence.

There are two types of leader, those who lead to benefit themselves, and those who lead to benefit others.

When a leader looks after their team, their team will look after their leader.

Leadership is 20% building the strategy, and 80% building the relationships to help deliver the strategy.

Transformational leaders inspire others through their behaviours and values, not through loud words.

“A symbol of excellence, a badge of courage, a mark of distinction in the fight for freedom.” On the Green Berets April 11, 1962