Quotes About Leadership

Leadership is the science of converting possibilities in to realities and the art of drawing a picture that others think is their.

The essence of leadership is being able to see the iceberg before it hits the Titanic.

Good leadership consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people.

Shine brightly, so you can help those who have not found their path a way through the darkness.

Take risks in your life. If you win, you can lead! If you loose, you can guide.

Don't find comfort in being followed because you're feared, but rather, be followed because you're respected. That's true leadership.

If you cannot manage conflict, dont create conflict.

Don't wait for the world to recognize your greatness, live it and let the world catch up to you.

I would have carved on the portals of the National Press Club, Put not your trust in princes. Only the very rarest of princes can endure even a little criticism, and few of them can put up with even a pause in the adulation.

The age of leaders has come and gone. You must be your own leader now. You must contain the spirit of our time in your own life and your own nature. You must really explore, as youve never explored before, what human nature is like.

Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof; it is temporary expedient, often wise in party politics, almost sure to be unwise in statesmanship.

I am the highest ranking woman in this land, and I know who I am, where I came from and where I am going. I know the traditions of my people and I have honored them all my life (The Conversion Of Ka'ahumanu 16)

In a world where men have always been in charge, it was hard for women to break through. But Ka'ahumanu was different. She was born to rule (Kneubuhl 27)

I now announce myself as candidate for the Presidency. I anticipate criticism but however unfavorable I trust that my sincerity will not be called into question.

Disarming an idealist was easy. One only needed to ask why the idealist was not on the front line of the particular battle he had chosen.

Like a shark who must keep swimming to live, a politician... had to keep his lips constantly moving.

Like a shark who must keep swimming to live, a politician—which was what the General had become—had to keep his lips constantly moving.

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No wonder, then, that I was drawn to the General, who, like my friends Man and Bon, never sneered about my muddled heritage. Upon selecting me for his staff, the General said, The only thing I'm interested in is how good you are at what you do, even if the things I ask you to do may not be so good. I

What was it like to live in a time when one's fate was not war, when one was not led by the craven and the corrupt, when one's country was not a basket case kept alive only through the intravenous drip of American aid?

I'm not a T.G.I.F. guy. I get off a plane at 2 o'clock in the morning and I'm looking for my secretary because I want to know what's going on.

Congress is where the liars and thieves meet.

For a happy marriage the husband should be the head and the wife the heart.

Hang out with the powerful and people will kneel before you wherever you go.