Leadership Quotes

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Most significant of all was the success of Robespierre and the central Montagnard leadership to turn the revered memory of their fallen comrade to a potent weapon in the Jacobin triumph over the Gironde, who thereafter could convincingly be portrayed as destabilizers or fomenters of civil war for their role in the assassination of a great patriot.

Clifford D. Conner

Great things happen nationally when topmost leadership is goaded and supported from below.

John Gardner (American writer)

Guard your integrity as if it's your most precious leadership possession, because that is what it is.

We must act as if our institutions are ours to create, our learning is ours to define, our leadership we seek is ours to become.

Get on the fashion nerves of your peers, not your parents - that is the key to fashion leadership.

When we don't take God too seriously, others don't take our leadership too seriously!

It isn't polls or public opinion at the moment that counts. It is right and wrong and leadership--men with fortitude, honesty, and a belief in the right that makes epochs in the history of the world.

Harry S. Truman

How does humility manifest itself in leadership and in life? A humble person is more concerned about what is right than about being right, about acting on good ideas than having the ideas, about embracing new truth than defending outdated position, about building the team than exalting self, about recognizing contribution than being recognized for making it.

Because these firms listened to their customers, invested aggressively in new technologies that would provide their customers more and better products of the sort they wanted, and because they carefully studied market trends and systematically allocated investment capital to innovations that promised the best returns, they lost their positions of leadership.

Clayton M. Christensen

Leadership has less to do with position than it does with disposition.

John C. Maxwell

In all forms of leadership, whether you are a coach, a CEO, or a parent, there are four words that, when said, can bring out the best in your team, your employees, and your family. I BELIEVE IN YOU. Those four words can mean the difference between a fear of failure and the courage to try.

Mike Krzyzewski

This duality, making yourself better while teaching and developing others' judgment capabilities, is the key to leadership that is both productive and principled.

This is the only leadership life I get, my one and only shot at following God the way I feel him prompting me to do so. This isn't some pre-game warm-up. It's the game, and the clock is ticking!

While the white man keeps the impetus of his own proud, onward march, the dark races will yield and serve, perforce. But let the white man once have a misgiving about his own leadership, and the dark races will at once attack him, to pull him down into the old gulfs.

Honest people know that the road to success and virtue always involves shared sacrifice, hard work, and gratification postponed. Telling people otherwise isn't leadership, it is pandering.

Great leadership is not attained by pursuing greatness but by persevering through great tests.

But I noted with real satisfaction how well ex-footballers seemed to have leadership qualifications... I believe that football, perhaps more than any other sport, tends to instill in men the feeling that victory comes through hard - almost slavish - work, team play, self-confidence, and an enthusiasm that amounts to dedication.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

The retreat of many elderly comrades from leadership posts is needed for the development of the party enterprise.

We have to understand the emergency of the situation. Our leadership has failed us. Young people must hold older generations accountable for the mess they have created. We need to get angry, and transform that anger into action.

If you don't choose to do it in leadership time up front, you do it in crisis management time down the road.

If leadership is the act of going beyond what is... it begins by going beyond what is within ourselves.

Leadership is the process of motivating, mobilizing, resourcing, and directing people to passionately and strategically pursue a vision from God that a group jointly embraces.

Leadership is different from management, but not for the reasons most people think.

The more intentional you are about your leadership growth, the greater your potential for becoming the leader you're capable of being. Never stop learning.

John C. Maxwell

Ordinary thinking and ordinary effort are almost never enough to generate leadership.