Quotes About Leadership

Leaders are the ones who have the courage to go first, to put themselves at personal risk to open a path for others to follow.

Leadership is only courage and wisdom, and a great carefulness of self.

To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires some of the same courage that a soldier needs.

It takes courage to lead a life. Any life.

There is one thing more powerful than kings and all the soldiers in the world, and that is a visionary who has the courage to persevere.

Courage is poorly housed that dwells in numbers; the lion never counts the herd that are about him, nor weighs how many flocks he has to scatter.

To be a good executive you have to be strong, and you have to have a simple attribute that people have forgotten about - courage.

He hath borne himself beyond the promise of his age, doing, in the figure of a lamb, the feats of a lion.

It takes a great deal of courage to follow another person's lead.

It takes courage to push things forward.

The first of all qualities of a general is courage.

What this misguided world and generation needs is a massive group of courageous and caring, wise and unwearying women.

Because of what America is and what America has done, a firmer courage, a higher hope, inspires the heart of all humanity.

Few things are more damaging to our democracy than a military officer who doesn't have the moral courage to stand up for what's right or the moral fiber to step aside when circumstances dictate.

I think we need someone in a responsible political position to have the courage to say, 'Let's terminate human spaceflight.'

I think it takes a lot of courage to be able to direct a film. If you have that courage and that vision together, and you pick the cast that you believe will achieve your vision, you win.

Have the moral courage to be a light for others to follow.

Aristotle deemed courage to be the first virtue, because it makes all the other possible.

The courage to care about your people, your clients, and your career.

One of the characteristics of successful scientists is having courage.

The future belongs to those who have the courage to create it. We need a new humanity. We need a new expression of community. We need the Church to bring the world together. This makes me excited.

Leaders need the courage to acknowledge when something isn't working.

We need moral leadership and courage in our world.

It takes no courage to say or do what's popular.