Leadership Quotes: Guidance for Todays Leaders - Page 3

Empower your leadership journey with quotes from successful leaders. Gain insights to lead effectively and inspire others. Page 3 provides more leadership quotes.

Image of Henry J. Kaiser
Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.
- Henry J. Kaiser
Collection: Leadership
Image of Leo Burnett
What helps people, helps business.
- Leo Burnett
Collection: Leadership
Image of Tony Blair
The art of leadership is saying no, not saying yes. It is very easy to say yes.
- Tony Blair
Collection: Leadership
Image of David Joseph Schwartz
How we think shows through in how we act. Attitudes are mirrors of the mind. They reflect thinking.
- David Joseph Schwartz
Collection: Leadership
Image of Mary Kay Ash
The speed of the leader is the speed of the gang.
- Mary Kay Ash
Collection: Leadership
Image of Mitt Romney
Leadership - leadership is about taking responsibility, not making excuses.
- Mitt Romney
Collection: Leadership
Image of Henry Ward Beecher
Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Collection: Leadership
Image of Duke Ellington
My attitude is never to be satisfied, never enough, never.
- Duke Ellington
Collection: Leadership
Image of Casey Stengel
The key to being a good manager is keeping the people who hate me away from those who are still undecided.
- Casey Stengel
Collection: Leadership
Image of Albert Schweitzer
Example is leadership.
- Albert Schweitzer
Collection: Leadership
Image of Tom Hopkins
Getting in touch with your true self must be your first priority.
- Tom Hopkins
Collection: Leadership
Image of Paul Hawken
Good management is the art of making problems so interesting and their solutions so constructive that everyone wants to get to work and deal with them.
- Paul Hawken
Collection: Leadership
Image of Davy Crockett
I have always supported measures and principles and not men.
- Davy Crockett
Collection: Leadership
Image of John D. Rockefeller
Good leadership consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people.
- John D. Rockefeller
Collection: Leadership
Image of Laurence J. Peter
Lead, follow, or get out of the way.
- Laurence J. Peter
Collection: Leadership
Image of John O. Brennan
Since taking office, President Obama has worked to restore a positive vision of American leadership in the world - leadership defined, not by the threats and dangers that we will oppose, but by the security, opportunity and dignity that America advances in partnership with people around the world.
- John O. Brennan
Collection: Leadership
Image of Paul Wellstone
I emphasize self-esteem, self-confidence, and dignity, not as an ideal, but as a real test of community organization. Without leadership development, community organizations do not have staying power.
- Paul Wellstone
Collection: Leadership
Image of Tom Vilsack
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.
- Tom Vilsack
Collection: Leadership
Image of Chris Christie
They said it was impossible to touch the third rail of politics, to take on public-sector unions and to reform a pension and health benefits system that was headed to bankruptcy. But with bipartisan leadership, we saved taxpayers $132 billion dollars over 30 years and saved retirees their pensions. We did it.
- Chris Christie
Collection: Leadership
Image of William Hague
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.
- William Hague
Collection: Leadership
Image of Yingluck Shinawatra
In terms of the principles of politics, I think I understand well. Thailand needs someone who has leadership, who has the management skills to help the country.
- Yingluck Shinawatra
Collection: Leadership
Image of Ed Gillespie
If Ralph Nader runs, President Bush is going to be re-elected, and if Ralph Nader doesn't run, President Bush is going to be re-elected. We're going to run on the president's strong and principled leadership and his positive agenda for a second term.
- Ed Gillespie
Collection: Leadership
Image of Dara Khosrowshahi
One of the early lessons that I learned in leadership is that it's the leader's job to always go against the flow.
- Dara Khosrowshahi
Collection: Leadership
Image of Kendrick Meek
It is sad that the Republican leadership is not as interested as they say they are in protecting the institution of marriage as they are in waging a campaign to divide and distract the American people from the real issues that need to be addressed.
- Kendrick Meek
Collection: Leadership
Image of Hubert H. Humphrey
Leadership in today's world requires far more than a large stock of gunboats and a hard fist at the conference table.
- Hubert H. Humphrey
Collection: Leadership
Image of Kim Campbell
I believe it is time for new leadership that is able to leave the '70s behind.
- Kim Campbell
Collection: Leadership
Image of Paul Ryan
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.
- Paul Ryan
Collection: Leadership
Image of John Lasseter
A good part of my leadership skills is crafted from learning from experiences early in my career that were not positive experiences.
- John Lasseter
Collection: Leadership
Image of Eskinder Nega
In the long march of history, at least two poles of attraction and antagonism have been the norm in world politics. Rarely has only one nation carried the burden of leadership. The unipolar world of the 21st century, dominated for the past two decades by the United States, is a historical anomaly.
- Eskinder Nega
Collection: Leadership
Image of Brad Wenstrup
Every time I would give a talk, someone would say, 'You ought to go into politics.' I prefer to call it government leadership. My life has taken me to places where I have experiences that I think I can share. A lot of times, we see people who are career politicians. I'm not the conventional candidate, nor do I want to be.
- Brad Wenstrup
Collection: Leadership
Image of George Osborne
I had the closest thing I have ever had to an out-of-body experience lying in bed one morning. I turned on the 'Today' programme and item four on the news was: 'The shadow chancellor has ruled himself out of the leadership.' I lay there thinking that's interesting, then I realised it was me.
- George Osborne
Collection: Leadership
Image of Lindsey Graham
President Obama chose politics over leadership. 'Hope' and 'Change' have become bait-and-switch.
- Lindsey Graham
Collection: Leadership
Image of Steven Spielberg
Lincoln's leadership is based on a number of precepts, but my favorite one is that he acted in the name, and for the good, of the people.
- Steven Spielberg
Collection: Leadership
Image of Mark Udall
President Ford was a devoted, decent man of impeccable integrity who put service to his country before his own self interest. He helped heal our nation during a time of crisis, provided steady leadership and restored people's faith in the presidency and in government.
- Mark Udall
Collection: Leadership
Image of Edgar Bronfman, Sr.
In politics, as in business, leadership is crucial.
- Edgar Bronfman, Sr.
Collection: Leadership
Image of Gene Cernan
I think America has a responsibility to maintain its leadership in technology and its moral leadership in the world, to explore, to seek knowledge.
- Gene Cernan
Collection: Leadership
Image of Viggo Mortensen
One of the main ways that leadership stays in power is by, in various ways, convincing people that they should just let those who are in government govern: 'Trust us. Trust me. Just let us take care of things. Stay out of it.' Your opinions don't really matter. You are isolated. You are insignificant.
- Viggo Mortensen
Collection: Leadership
Image of Cori Bush
Dr. Henry Givens, Jr. led Harris-Stowe State University for 32 years. His leadership transformed Harris-Stowe, the university I attended, from a small college with just one building into the nationally acclaimed HBCU that it is today.
- Cori Bush
Collection: Leadership
Image of Daisaku Ikeda
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.
- Daisaku Ikeda
Collection: Leadership
Image of Anne Campbell
I have never been afraid to stand up to the leadership on issues where we disagree. If you chose to keep Cambridge Labour, then I can continue to press the Government for the things that matter to you, in a way that members of the opposition are unable to.
- Anne Campbell
Collection: Leadership
Image of Elliott Abrams
As the Palestinian leadership never seems to pay any penalty for its words, America's seriousness about the peace process is in doubt.
- Elliott Abrams
Collection: Leadership
Image of Noah Feldman
In politics, Joseph Smith was something of a radical. He preached, instead of democracy, a version of theocratic rule within a framework given by his own prophetic leadership. At Nauvoo, Smith affected a Napoleonic uniform and made himself into a general and quasi king of the polity he had constituted.
- Noah Feldman
Collection: Leadership
Image of David Mixner
President Clinton not only benefits by gay and lesbian votes, but he benefits by showing the nation that he is a strong leader who implements his beliefs, who stands firm by those who he believes are being treated unfairly, and I think people respect that kind of leadership in the country.
- David Mixner
Collection: Leadership
Image of Margaret D. Nadauld
I watched my parents in their leadership callings in the Church and the community. We just grew up knowing that we should serve and do whatever we could do to make things grow.
- Margaret D. Nadauld
Collection: Leadership
Image of Eliot Spitzer
I think President Obama could have handled politics and policies differently. But he has been decisive, strong, and consistent - important qualities in a president. Mitt Romney is indeed an Etch A Sketch, the antithesis of leadership.
- Eliot Spitzer
Collection: Leadership
Image of Jackie Speier
As members of Congress, we take an oath to uphold the Constitution and bear true faith and allegiance to the United States, not the Republican or Democratic party. I have been willing to stand up to my own leadership when it's in the national interest.
- Jackie Speier
Collection: Leadership
Image of Sherrod Brown
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.
- Sherrod Brown
Collection: Leadership
Image of Ed Case
The sentiments in Hawaii about Washington's failure of leadership are no different than the rest of the country.
- Ed Case
Collection: Leadership
Image of Mildred Dresselhaus
All the leadership positions that I have had have one common denominator: none has required that I give up my science work.
- Mildred Dresselhaus
Collection: Leadership