Quotes About Leadership

Leaders do not sway with the polls. Instead, they sway the polls through their own words and actions.

Lord Chi Wen thought three times before taking any action. When the Master heard this, he said: Twice is plenty enough.

Actions, not words, are the ultimate results of leadership.

The sphere of influence is noticed if your actions reflect the virtues of the kingdom

Have you inspired someone today by your actions?

All rulers in all ages have tried to impose a false view of the world upon their followers.

We are an age without leaders. We stopped having leaders at the end of the 20th century

Everyone matures. When I was Newt's age, I thought I had the right answer to things. The baby-boomers as political leaders are still on trial by the American people.

If you wish to obtain a great name or to found an establishment, be completely mad; but be sure that your madness corresponds with the turn and temper of your age.

In the information age, the richest people are entrepreneurs. We may not become a king or queen, but we can all be entrepreneurs.

I started my ministry when I was 19, I was pastoring at 22 and I got married when I was 24, so I was building at such a young age and that fight, that dream and tenacity is still in me.

When someone reaches middle age, people he knows begin to get put in charge of things, and knowing what he knows about the people who are being put in charge of things scares the hell out of him.

We must be authors of the history of our age.

I really believe that more harm is done by old men who cling to their influence than by young men who anticipate it.

When you retire, you switch bosses - from the one who hired you to the one who married you.

It's not like I'm some kind of veteran and there is this huge age gap. I identify with them more off the field. I need to set an example, which is great, and I look forward to doing just that.

The ages of greatest public spirit are not always eminent for private virtue.

I am involved in a lot of nonprofits. And when I reached the ripe old age of 60, I wanted to provide leadership to some I had been involved in.

It is personalities not principles that move the age.

If General Haig is so smart, why did he finish 214th (out of 310) in his graduating class at West Point? Does that mean there are 213 generals his age who are smarter than he is?

I'd like to have stayed in the Scouts beyond the age of 12.

Tolstoy was the greatest apostle of nonviolence that the present age has produced.

I think that there shouldn't be an age limit to become a boss, so having that element is really important.

The age of celebrity editors and monstrous staffing are over.