Leader Quotes - page 2

Leadership is standing with your people. People say you have to live to fight another day, but sometimes you have to show you are a true leader. (Leymah Gbowee)
My role in society, or any artist's or poet's role, is to try and express what we all feel. Not to tell people how to feel. Not as a preacher, not as a leader, but as a reflection of us all. View quote
John Lennon
The first duty of a leader is to make himself be loved without courting love. To be loved without 'playing up' to anyone - even to himself. View quote
André Malraux
In choosing a president, we really don't choose a Republican or Democrat, a conservative or liberal. We choose a leader. View quote
Rudy Giuliani
There are many qualities that make a great leader but having strong beliefs, being able to stick with them through popular and unpopular times, is the most important characteristic of a great leader. View quote
Rudy Giuliani
The quality of his being one with the people, of having no artificial or natural barriers between him and them, made it possible for him to be a leader without ever being or thinking of being a dictator. View quote
Frances Perkins
The one thing I have learned as a CEO is that leadership at various levels is vastly different. When I was leading a function or a business, there were certain demands and requirements to be a leader. As you move up the organization, the requirements for leading that organization don't grow vertically; they grow exponentially. View quote
Indra Nooyi
The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on. View quote
Walter Lippmann
There comes a point when a man must refuse to answer to his leader if he is also to answer to his own conscience. View quote
Hartley Shawcross, Baron Shawcross
One leader, one people, signifies one master and millions of slaves. View quote
Albert Camus
The President is not only the leader of a party, he is the President of the whole people. He must interpret the conscience of America. He must guide his conduct by the idealism of our people. (Herbert Hoover)
Social conditions that spur large numbers of people into action are ignored in favor of a Hollywood version of history focusing on one conquering hero. Since a movement for social change is embodied in its leader, death of the leader means death of the movement. View quote
Patricia Hill Collins
To be a leader of men one must turn one's back on men. View quote
Havelock Ellis
A military leader often faces a situation he has to deal with, but because it is his duty, no court can try him. View quote
Albert Kesselring
Whenever we proclaim the uniqueness of a religion, a truth, a leader, a nation, a race, a part or a holy cause, we are also proclaiming our own uniqueness. View quote
Eric Hoffer
The leader has to be practical and a realist, yet must talk the language of the visionary and the idealist. View quote
Eric Hoffer
The chief qualification of a mass leader has become unending infallibility; he can never admit an error. View quote
Hannah Arendt
I think one of the keys to leadership is recognizing that everybody has gifts and talents. A good leader will learn how to harness those gifts toward the same goal. View quote
Ben Carson
I must follow the people. Am I not their leader? View quote
Benjamin Disraeli
A leader has to appear consistent. That doesn't mean he has to be consistent. View quote
James Callaghan
If your goal is anything but profitability - if it's to be big, or to grow fast, or to become a technology leader - you'll hit problems. (Michael E. Porter)
The chief strategist of an organization has to be the leader - the CEO. View quote
Michael E. Porter
I was told to challenge every spiritual teacher, every world leader to utter the one sentence that no religion, no political party, and no nation on the face of the earth will dare utter: 'Ours is not a better way, ours is merely another way. View quote
Neale Donald Walsch
I hope America can also be the cultural leader of the world, and use this frontier spirit to lead and show others that we need courage to go places where we have not gone before. View quote
Tadao Ando
You always want to try to make something new, and, of course, America is the world leader in economics today. View quote
Tadao Ando