Quotes About Leadership

When you make a courageous statement, people start to follow you, and that's nice.

I think I am the first person to have made a statement that Narendra Modi should be the Prime Minister of India.

I would never bring in a player to make a statement.

We as footballers, like with Sancho, have a lot of power to reach other people, to be role models and to say something. What we say to people outside gives us a big chance to make a statement.

I think the thing that I learned is I will never let a staff have too much control again, which is a strong statement.

I like to make statements on the field.

I kind of prefer to be sort of ahead of the pack checking things out, priming the canvas, if you will, for the younger guys that are going to come up and try to make their own statements about what they feel and what they have to contribute.

A board of directors that cannot produce reliable audited financial statements for almost seven years simply should not remain in office.

As a female athlete, I think it's really important to stand up on a podium and represent females and what we're capable of, and I always try to make political statements with what I do rather than with headlines.

I don't comment directly on actions or statements of candidates.

As a former U.S. attorney, I would only align myself with a first-class organization. World Patent Marketing goes beyond making statements about doing business 'ethically' and translates them into action.

States are not moral agents.

Time and again, when member states and the governments are faced with an insoluble problem, and they're under pressure to do something, that something usually ends up being referred to the U.N.

The 19th century was the century of empires, the 20th was the century of nation states, and the 21st is the century of cities and mayors.

In the absence of federal leadership, Coloradans should take our rightful role as leaders seriously and work with other states and countries to reduce carbon emissions.

I very much wanted to be editor of the 'New Statesman!' But I never wanted to be prime minister, except maybe as a little boy.

A statesman, we are told, should follow public opinion. Doubtless, as a coachman follows his horses; having firm hold on the reins and guiding them.

You know, a statesman is a dead politician.

The first requirement of a statesman is that he be dull.

I mean, like a lot of kids growing up in the early seventies, I was fed Dr. Kissinger with my Fruit Loops. He was the Dr. Ruth of American foreign policy, and the model statesman.

There's a certain clubbiness to the idea that you're an ex-president. You're no longer a politician. You're a statesman.

A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist.

The three great ends which a statesman ought to propose to himself in the government of a nation, are one, Security to possessors; two, facility to acquirers; and three, hope to all.

A statesman who keeps his ear permanently glued to the ground will have neither elegance of posture nor flexibility of movement.