Quotes About Leadership

It takes no courage to make war, particularly if you're not going to go and your children are not going to go.

The real meaning of courage was the personal sacrifice of Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King.

Leaders are not buffeted about by circumstance. They make what is into what might be, transforming challenging situations by means of courage and insight.

As a world leader who refused to accept injustice, Nelson Mandela's courage helped change our entire world

President George Bush had the courage and the vision and we will always be grateful to President George Bush for that tremendous leadership and statesmanship.

For the sake of our security, our economy and our planet, we must have the courage and commitment to change.

Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others.

In order to soar like an eagle one has to be bold like a lion.

Whenever I see John Lewis, I invariably say, 'Thank you.' And I will never stop. I don't know how he's still standing, because what he endured took courage and strength that I don't know that I have.

In politics guts is all.

In the South, there was absence of any leadership corresponding in breadth and courage to that of Abraham Lincoln.

My student days in PSG saw three Prime Ministers, two wars, taught us courage, resilience, leadership and optimism.

Leadership is about having the courage to go against the advice of the so-called experts and doing what your instinct tells you is right.

My dad always had this little sign on his desk: 'The bigger your head is, the easier your shoes are to fill'. He really drilled that in.

Well, my dad was the district attorney of New Orleans for about 30 years.

I recruited my dad to be my bass player and fired him on several occasions. He stayed on as a bus driver.

It's like our country is being run by a bunch of bad alcoholic dads right now.

My sisters and I can still recite Dad's grilling rules: Rule No. 1: Dad is in charge. Rule No. 2: Repeat Rule No. 1.

When I was a kid growing up, my dad being a football coach, he asked the same question of all the assistants that he ever hired: 'Is your goal to be a head football coach?

My dad was an entrepreneurial businessman, and maybe I got some of his ability.

I had watched Dad climb into the biggest arena and succeed. I wanted to find out if I had what it took to join him.

President Obama filled in as the coach of his daughter Sasha's basketball team. Sasha evidently listened to her Dad, because all she did was drive straight down the center and piss everyone off.

Dads are the leaders in their homes, and our kids need leaders.

I would be ready to become a dad if I was with the right person. I'd like a boy, though. Because they're in charge.