Quotes on leadership

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

Author: John Abizaid

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.

Author: Gerry Adams

The Irish Republican Army has kept every commitment made by its leadership.

Author: Gerry Adams

Success is not about reaching the top, but about how many people you bring up with you on the way.

Author: Michelle Obama

Success isn't just about reaching the top, but staying true to yourself while you're up there.

Author: Michelle Obama

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

Author: Christiane Amanpour

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

Author: Marian Anderson

When a man assumes leadership, he forfeits the right to mercy.

Author: Gennaro Angiulo

I urge the Iraqi leadership for sake of its own people... to seize this opportunity and thereby begin to end the isolation and suffering of the Iraqi people.

Author: Kofi Annan

Leadership demands that we make tough choices.

Author: Alan Autry

Leadership requires the courage to make decisions that will benefit the next generation.

Author: Alan Autry

But no nation can base its survival and development on luck and prayers alone while its leadership fritters away every available opportunity for success and concrete achievement.

Author: Ibrahim Babangida

To meet the expectations of the majority of our people, and to open up new vistas of economic opportunity so that the aspirations of Nigerians can stand a fair chance of being fulfilled in a lifetime, there must be a truly committed leadership in a democratic Nigeria.

Author: Ibrahim Babangida

Be the change you wish to see in the world, for the light you shine onto others will illuminate your own path.

Author: Maya Angelou

On the other hand, the waging of peace as a science, as an art, is in its infancy. But we can trace its growth, its steady progress, and the time will come when there will be particular individuals designated to assume responsibility for and leadership of this movement.

Author: Fredrik Bajer

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

Author: Steve Ballmer

I'm floored that the House leadership would turn its back on job creation for Mississippians.

Author: Haley Barbour

Organizations endure, however, in proportion to the breadth of the morality by which they are governed. Thus the endurance of organization depends upon the quality of leadership; and that quality derives from the breadth of the morality upon which it rests.

Author: Chester Barnard

Do not conform to the patterns of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind.

Author: John Maxwell

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.

Author: Carol Bellamy

Without initiative, leaders are simply workers in leadership positions.

Author: Bo Bennett

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.

Author: Warren Bennis

The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born-that there is a genetic factor to leadership. This myth asserts that people simply either have certain charismatic qualities or not. That's nonsense; in fact, the opposite is true. Leaders are made rather than born.

Author: Warren Bennis

Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.

Author: Warren Bennis

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

Author: Michael Bergdahl

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.

Author: Larry Bird

Leadership is getting players to believe in you. If you tell a teammate you're ready to play as tough as you're able to, you'd better go out there and do it. Players will see right through a phony. And they can tell when you're not giving it all you've got.

Author: Larry Bird

Embrace the beauty of your uniqueness, for only when you shine as yourself can you truly light up the world.

Author: Michelle Obama

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

Author: Tim Bishop

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.

Author: Cofer Black

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

Author: Ken Blanchard

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.

Author: Anita Borg

The 9/11 Commission recently released their report, citing important changes which need to be made to improve our nation's homeland security. I voiced my disappointment with the House leadership when this report was left until after the August recess for action.

Author: Leonard Boswell

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

Author: Erskine Bowles

Leadership is unlocking people's potential to become better.

Author: Bill Bradley

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

Author: Omar Bradley

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

Author: Bertolt Brecht

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.

Author: H. Brown

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.

Author: Scott 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.

Author: Sherrod Brown

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.

Author: Sherrod Brown

Success is not defined by the trophies you display, but by the lives you impact along the way.

Author: Michelle Obama

Authenticity is not about being liked by everyone, but rather being true to yourself regardless of opinions.

Author: Michelle Obama

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?

Author: Zbigniew Brzezinski

We should be therefore supporting a larger Europe, and in so doing we should strive to expand the zone of peace and prosperity in the world which is the necessary foundation for a stable international system in which our leadership could be fruitfully exercised.

Author: Zbigniew Brzezinski

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

Author: John Buchan

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

Author: James Buchanan

The Leadership Training Institute of America trains and equips young men and women to be leaders with high standards of personal morality and integrity.

Author: Michael Burgess

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

Author: Michael Burgess

Woodrow Wilson called for leaders who, by boldly interpreting the nation's conscience, could lift a people out of their everyday selves. That people can be lifted into their better selves is the secret of transforming leadership.

Author: James Burns

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

Author: James Burns

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.

Author: Ron Burton

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

Author: George Bush

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

Author: George Bush

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.

Author: Mangosuthu Buthelezi

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

Author: Octavia Butler

Success is not defined by the accolades you receive, but by the impact you have on others. True greatness lies in the shadows of humility.

Author: Michelle Obama

The one thing that the President can do is to establish a real energy independence plan. We have all the recources we need right here in this country to establish energy independence if we had the leadership.

Author: Herman Cain

Success is not defined by the position you hold, but by the impact you make.

Author: Michelle Obama

I believe it is time for new leadership that is able to leave the '70s behind.

Author: Kim Campbell

The longer we go without strong leadership from the Administration and until we see significant progress in the day-to-day lives of the Iraqi people, the more difficult it will become to sustain the support of the American people and Congress for the current course.

Author: Dennis Cardoza

A true leader is not defined by the title they hold, but by the positive impact they have on those around them.

Author: Maya Angelou

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.

Author: Steve Case

The only way to truly inspire others is to first be inspired by yourself.

Author: Michelle Obama

Success is not measured by the status you achieve, but by the impact you have on others.

Author: Michelle Obama

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.

Author: Peter Chernin

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.

Author: Roy Clark

We need real leadership, Democrat, Republican and independent to stand up and say, we have to live within our means.

Author: Tom Coburn

Do not be afraid to stand out, for those who shine the brightest often light the way for others to follow.

Author: Sarah Johnson

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

Author: Jim Cooper

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

Author: Stephen Covey

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

Author: Stephen Covey

Success is not measured by the money you make, but by the difference you make in the world.

Author: Michelle Obama

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

Author: Tom Daschle

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.

Author: Angela Davis

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.

Author: Angela Davis

Do not be afraid to stand out in a crowd, for it is in your differences that your true greatness lies.

Author: Michelle Obama

Success is not defined by how high you climb, but by how many others you lift with you.

Author: Michelle Obama

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.

Author: Alan Dershowitz

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.

Author: John Dingell

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

Author: James Dobson

Instead of begging OPEC to drop its oil prices, let's use American leadership and ingenuity to solve our own energy problems.

Author: Pete Domenici

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.

Author: David Donald

We need leadership, and we need it now.

Author: Byron Dorgan

The war and terrorism in the Middle East, the crisis of leadership in many of the oil-supply countries in the developing world, the crisis of global warming - all these are very clearly tied to energy.

Author: Julia Dreyfus

Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.

Author: Peter Drucker

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.

Author: Peter Drucker

Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes.

Author: Peter Drucker

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

Author: Charles Edison

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.

Author: Bob Ehrlich

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.

Author: Robert. Ehrlich

The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it is on a section gang, a football field, in an army, or in an office.

Author: Dwight Eisenhower

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

Author: Dwight Eisenhower

Do not be afraid to stand out, for in a world full of copies, authenticity is a true masterpiece.

Author: Michelle Obama

Public office is supposed to be a public trust. This is a clear sign of the rampant corruption at the highest levels of the Republican leadership.

Author: Bob Etheridge

At the very outset I want to say how the people of America appreciate the steadfast support of the people of Morocco, the leadership of Morocco in our war against terrorism.

Author: Donald Evans

Leadership is particularly necessary to ensure ready acceptance of the unfamiliar and that which is contrary to tradition.

Author: Cyril Falls

The very exercise of leadership fosters capacity for it.

Author: Cyril Falls

Black leadership has to recognize that principles more than speech, character more than a claim, is greater in advancing the cause of our liberation than what has transpired thus far.

Author: Louis Farrakhan

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

Author: Louis Farrakhan

Instead of starting a new nuclear arms race, now is the time to reclaim our Nation's position of leadership on nuclear nonproliferation efforts.

Author: Dianne Feinstein

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

Author: Dianne Feinstein

Leadership comes in small acts as well as bold strokes.

Author: Carly Fiorina

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

Author: Harvey Firestone

Every obstacle is an opportunity to showcase your strength and resilience, turning challenges into triumphs.

Author: Michelle Obama

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

Author: James Forrestal

From a parent's right to know what their children are doing, to protecting citizens across the country from the growing threat of gang violence, the House Democrat leadership is simply out to lunch.

Author: Virginia Foxx

Success is not just about achieving goals, but about staying true to your values along the way.

Author: Michelle Obama

Embrace the power of your uniqueness and you will stand out in a sea of conformity.

Author: Michelle Obama

All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership.

Author: John Galbraith

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

Author: Mohandas Gandhi

Be the change you wish to see in the world, for your actions have the power to inspire others to follow suit.

Author: Mahatma Gandhi

Leadership is practiced not so much in words as in attitude and in actions.

Author: Harold Geneen

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

Author: Harold Geneen

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

Author: Louis Gerstner

Success is not found in following the crowd, but in forging your own path towards greatness.

Author: Michelle Obama

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.

Author: 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.

Author: Ed Gillespie

One of the true tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency.

Author: Arnold Glasow

One of the tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency.

Author: Arnold Glasow

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.

Author: Doris Goodwin

A significant number of pages and sentences that the administration wants to keep in a classified status have already been released publicly, some of it by public statements of the leadership of the CIA and the FBI.

Author: Bob Graham

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.

Author: Wilson Greatbatch

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.

Author: Andrew Greeley

Success is not determined by how high you climb, but by how many others you lift along the way.

Author: John Maxwell

Don't be afraid to stand out in a world that encourages conformity - your authentic self is your greatest strength.

Author: Michelle Obama

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.

Author: John Grierson

Success is not defined by the title you hold, but by the impact you make.

Author: Michelle Obama

Success is not defined by how well you conform to society's standards, but by how true you stay to your own values and aspirations.

Author: Michelle Obama

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

Author: Chuck Hagel

Embrace the imperfections that make you uniquely you, for true strength lies in unapologetically owning your authenticity.

Author: Michelle Obama

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.

Author: Patty Hearst

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

Author: Christie Hefner

Success is not defined by the trophies we display, but by the impact we make on those around us.

Author: Michelle Obama

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.

Author: Keith Henson

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.

Author: Andy Hertzfeld

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

Author: Theodore Hesburgh

Do not be afraid to shine brightly, for in your light you may inspire others to do the same.

Author: Sarah Jenkins

Success is not about reaching the top, but about staying true to yourself along the way.

Author: Michelle Obama

Charlatanism of some degree is indispensable to effective leadership.

Author: Eric Hoffer

Success is not measured by the trophies on your shelf, but by the impact you have on the lives of others.

Author: Michelle Obama

Success is not defined by the trophies we gather, but by the values we uphold along the way.

Author: Michelle Obama

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

Author: James Humes

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.

Author: James Humes

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

Author: Hubert Humphrey

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.

Author: Kay Hutchison

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.

Author: Kay Hutchison

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.

Author: Kay Hutchison

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

Author: Lee Iacocca

Success is not just about achieving your goals, but also about how you inspire others along the way.

Author: Michelle Obama