Leadership Quotes · Page 165

The experience of pain or loss can be a formidably motivating force.

— John C. Maxwell

America's still a very, very powerful symbol and a very important place of leadership for the world.

— Condoleezza Rice

We need more leaders in Washington who will do more with less - and that's how we engineer real change.

— Ron Estes

“Keep your promises and be consistent. Be the kind of person others can trust.”

— Roy T. Bennett

Franklin Roosevelt was a great leader. He saw how to use the levers of power to affect change.

— Pete du Pont

I had been looking for leaders, but I realized that leadership is about being the first to act.

— Edward Snowden

Leadership is unlocking people's potential to become better.

— Bill Bradley

The successful leader does not talk down to people. He lifts them up.

— Richard M. Nixon

“All to often, on the long road up, young leaders become servants of what is rather than shapers of what might be.”

— John Gardner

“All leadership begins from inside a person and must be developed and grown as they grow into emerging and enduring leaders”

— Thomas Narofsky

Even as the leader of the party, my first duty always is to the people who elected me, my first duty always…

— Annamie Paul

Our leadership group has a responsibility to pass on what it means to be a Boomer and play for your country and…

— Patty Mills

I'm a leader. I'm the leader of this team, and they look for me at any point in the game, and that's…

— LeBron James

Vision involves optimism and hope. The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees opportunity in every difficulty. The pessimist tends…

— J. Oswald Sanders

Every leader needs to remember that a healthy respect for authority takes time to develop. It’s like building trust. You don’t instantly…

— Mike Krzyzewski

I know, we can barely fit them in. That is a big challenge. Treating four lead characters equally, within a 30-minute format,…

— Mark Duplass

I think Enda Kenny has shown himself to be a good leader in the sense that he can accept that people might…

— Lucinda Creighton

It doesn't happen often, it's what you dream and hope for. We are happy, but we want to make sure these changes…

— Amy Ziering

“Too often we think sharing our weaknesses will cause us to lose respect. We think making our weaknesses know will cause us…

— Dan B. Allender

A leader who accepts the outside financing of his movement is like the man who accustoms his body to live on medication.…

— Corneliu Zelea Codreanu

Being an Arab leader has its rewards: the suite at the Waldorf-Astoria during the United Nations General Assembly, travel in your own…

— Elliott Abrams

“Yes, I still know where I’m going!” I snapped as he emerged beside me yet again, cutting him off before he could…

— Julie Kagawa

Throw away those books and cassettes on inspirational leadership. Send those consultants packing. Know your job, set a good example for the…

— Dyan Machan

I ask particularly that those of you who are now in school will prepare yourselves to bear the burden of leadership over…

— John F. Kennedy

Dissonance / (if you are interested) / leads to discovery.

— William Carlos Williams

“Everything what you do is Leadership, if you are OK being number 2 from time to time.”

— Alin Sav

[Michael] Gove will be the underdog fighting for the underdog in this leadership race.

— Dominic Raab

If you are a local church or non-profit, you live and die with volunteers.

— Andy Stanley

When someone grows up in poverty they never know that's going to be a benefit to their child.

— Santiago "Jimmy" Mellado

Jessica Jones is the first female superhero Marvel's ever introduced as a lead.

— Melissa Rosenberg

Remember that our nation's first great leaders were also our first great scholars.

— John F. Kennedy

I don't look at myself as a leader. I do look at myself as part of a community.

— Michael J. Fox

After 'Buniyaad,' I acted in a few movies as the main lead, but that did not work out well.

— Alok Nath

The central activity of leadership is teaching - first by example, second by precept.

— M. Russell Ballard

Effective leaders are, first and foremost, good teachers. We're in the education business.

— John Wooden

Martin Luther King Jr. was a civil rights leader and an American hero.

— Harry Enten

When you live in a leading lady's body, which I do, you have to constantly prove that you are funny.

— Elizabeth Banks

Imagine going in knowing that no Mexican American before you had ever succeeded in a lead role.

— George Lopez

The best way to solve a problem? Try explaining it to somebody outside your field.

— Jonah Lehrer

“What percentage of the followers shares failures or mistakes with peers and the leader?”

— Aubrey C. Daniels