Leader Quotes · Page 72

Leadership is the willingness to put oneself at risk.

— John C. Maxwell

A new leadership. A choice. A chance. Don't cry about what you don't have. Use what you got.

— Jesse Jackson

An executive is a person who always decides; sometimes he decides correctly, but he always decides.

— John Henry Patterson

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

— John D. Rockefeller

That's just a trait that I have. I feel like I've always been a leader.

— Davante Adams

Not every reader is a leader, but every leader must be a reader.

— Harry S. Truman

Leadership is the ability to hide your panic from others.

— Anonymous

Leaders earn a heck of a lot more money than followers.

— T. Harv Eker

“A man of vision cannot question his potentials. He does not doubt his capabilities. He keeps going because he had seen himself…

— Israelmore Ayivor

The best leaders are readers of people. They have the intuitive ability to understand others by discerning how they feel and recognizing…

— John C. Maxwell

The leader who refuses to move until the fear is gone will never move. Consequently, he will never lead.

— Andy Stanley

Anybody who thinks that they are a leader and doesn't have anyone following them is just out for a walk.

— John C. Maxwell

I would not presume from this distance, nor would America presume to say who should be the leader of the Iraqi nation.

— Colin Powell

Quarterbacks are the leaders of the team, and I want to try to get guys going. That's a job of a leader.…

— Ryan Tannehill

If we are to remain mission focused, as we must be if we are to be relevant in an uncertain age, the…

— Frances Hesselbein

What is the primary purpose of a political leader? To build a majority. If voters care about parking lots, then talk about…

— Newt Gingrich

“To lead is to live dangerously because when leadership counts, when you lead people through difficult change, you challenge what people hold…

— Martin Linsky

You can deceive yourself into thinking that America is a technological leader, but if you don't see what anyone else is doing…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

Hopefully that will be seen as a response, a leadership responding to an issue and therefore one's authority, while it's not as…

— Brian Cowen

... How is it [, then] that the leaders of our society have seen fit to try to eliminate this one very…

— Alexander Shulgin

The Upton Sinclair of today's global economy is Charles Kernaghan, the New York based muckraker most famous for his expose of sweatshops…

— Charles Derber

After years spent trying to deal with the effects of COINTELPRO, my rage at the FBI's almost unimaginable evil remains undiminished because…

— William Kunstler

Even a brief interaction can change the way people think about themselves, their leaders, and the future. Each of those many connections…

— Douglas Conant

Dogs seek attention from you. But by paying them that attention when they want it, you're reinforcing the bad or hyperactive or…

— Cesar Millan

The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality.

— Max De Pree

Now I have known Sen. Bill Frist, the Majority Leader of the United States Senate, since he was born.

— John Jay Hooker

Zidane is a leader in the dressing room. His personality is going to make him very successful.

— Roberto Carlos

“When you strive for excellence in leadership, then you will excel as a leader.”

— Gift Gugu Mona

All great leaders constantly seek new information and new ways of thinking.

— Warren G. Bennis

As a leader, your job is to energize people around the mission and vision you've articulated.

— Jack Welch

“Take your leadership position, the time to establish your person-hood is now”

— Anyaele Sam Chiyson

Fidel Castro was a charismatic revolutionary and a ruthless leader who allowed no dissent.

— Scott Simon

Character is more important than any other leadership trait.

— John Wooden

Accountants are in the past, managers are in the present, and leaders are in the future.

— Paul Orfalea

“You take the lead. He'll open up more easily to a copper than a mumbo jumbo man”

— Val McDermid

Government never falls lower than when decent people dutifully excuse their leaders' sins.

— Tony Snow

People learn to lead because they care about something.

— Charlotte Bunch

The best leaders realize their success depends on their people.

— John C. Maxwell

We women in Somalia are trying to be leaders in our community.

— Hawa Abdi

The leader's main job is to make themselves obsolete.

— Laozi