Quotes About Leadership

When I first became captain the job was new and refreshing and didn't affect my batting. I was still in the same mental pattern I had had for 10 years; batting came first and captaincy fitted in with that.

Movie directing is a perfect refuge for the mediocre.

What do you do if you are asked to do a job, first by the Prime Minister, and then by the King? How can you refuse?

Those who refuse to reform may not make mistakes, but they will be blamed for not assuming their historical responsibility.

Decent people must refuse to back Corbyn and his candidates.

No one shrieked, 'We want Bung Hatta.' I did not need him. Just as also I did not need Sjahrir, who refused to show himself at the time of the reading of the Proclamation. Indeed, I could do it myself, and indeed, I did it alone.

I have flatly refused to be conned by Jyoti Basu and his corrupt government.

If Rosa Parks had not refused to move to the back of the bus, you and I might never have heard of Dr. Martin Luther King.

That's one reason I retired as a sergeant and not at a higher rank... I refused to 'play the game' the way the bosses wanted the game played. It is a decision that has cost me money in retirement pay but one that I have never regretted.

Time and again I was asked to arrest Jamaat activists but I put my foot down and refused to cave in.

The 'We Have Overcome' generation has run out of intellectual creativity but refuses to leave the political stage.

McConnell's the Senate Republican leader, but he refuses to lead on defunding Obamacare. What good is a leader like that?

Refusing to grant clemency is a failure of one of the most basic jobs of being governor.

If I made a mistake in terms of running for president, the mistake was not in refusing to run in '91.

By refusing to lend a hand, we are not only robbing our colleagues and peers of the opportunity to gain guidance, but we are also robbing ourselves of the opportunity to lead.

Our politicians don't say anything anymore: they just refute and assert.

To regain our political footing, we must prove to moderates that Democrats can make tough choices.

National leaders who find themselves wilting under the withering criticisms by members of the media, would do well not to take such criticism personally but to regard the media as their allies in keeping the government clean and honest, its services.

The man who is denied the opportunity of taking decisions of importance begins to regard as important the decisions he is allowed to take.

The connection has been lost between the country's direction, especially with regard to the way in which the economy has been run, and the citizen.

I think I can regard myself as a political decision-maker.

I have the highest possible regard for the district attorneys in the State of New York.

Somebody made the point with regard to President Obama that, because he tried to do so much so fast, so extreme on health care, on energy, just run down the list, he went to... the fringe elements of his party to satisfy their demands.

At any given time, when there is a Republican president, typically we regard that person as the leader of the Republican Party.