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Quotes About Leadership

Relief isn't quite the right word but there's satisfaction at a job well done and I'm proud to say that I'm an Ashes-winning captain. Without taking it too personally, it has a nice little ring to it.
~ Alastair Cook
We are not educated well enough to perform the necessary act of intelligently selecting our leaders.
~ Walter Cronkite
If a prospective Presidential approach can't be explained clearly enough to be understood well, it probably hasn't been thought through well enough. If not well understood by the American people, it probably won't 'sail' anyway. Send it back for further thought.
~ Donald Rumsfeld
I'm not saying that all politicians are awful. I don't know any of them well enough to say whether they're awful or not. But almost every day, you find out something about them that's appalling. Maybe we shouldn't be surprised any longer.
~ Peter Capaldi
You get down, but you have to pick your teammates up. Good things are eventually going to happen. There's no way around that for your team if you practice well enough.
~ Stefon Diggs
Donald Trump is well known for liking people he thinks are tough.
~ Bari Weiss
It is well known that my husband and Lady Thatcher enjoyed a very special relationship as leaders of their respective countries during one of the most difficult and pivotal periods in modern history. Ronnie and Margaret were political soul mates, committed to freedom and resolved to end Communism.
~ Nancy Reagan
My father constantly reminded me that he named me after Angela Yvonne Davis, a scholar and activist who was well known for her work in tandem with the Black Panther Party. That felt like a purposeful, beckoning call to engage in strategic resistance and to fight for the oppressed.
~ Angela Rye
A good cult delivers on its promises. A good cult nourishes the needs of its members, has transparency and integrity, and creates provisions for challenging its leadership openly. A good cult expands the freedoms and well-being of its members rather than limits them.
~ Philip Zimbardo
Good government is one of the most important factors in economic growth and social well-being.
~ Joe Lonsdale
I believe that the way politics has been done in the country is wrong. It has always been based on alliances that don't have the well-being of the people as their first priority.
~ Nayib Bukele
Even if the most ethical people were elected to high position and we ran out of resources, there would still be lying, cheating, stealing, and corruption. It is not ethical people that are needed but rather a way of intelligently managing the Earth's resources for everyone's well-being.
~ Jacque Fresco
Once you're more aware of people's needs, you can create action plans for others to follow. That way, you're responsible for your own well-being, too.
~ Deepak Chopra
If the world's leaders are serious about improving collective well-being, we'd better get serious about prioritizing education in our nations and in our global discussion.
~ Wendy Kopp
When governments work well, they safeguard citizens' health, well-being, resilience and security, and they increase prosperity. To do this, they must respond effectively to the new, the unexpected, and the game-changing.
~ Mark Walport
Families, community leaders, and others must create the public will to address the challenges facing black girls and other girls of color as well by listening to them, valuing their experiences, and becoming actively involved in creating policies and innovative programs that promote their well-being.
~ Kimberle Williams Crenshaw
We need a leader who puts the health and well-being of the country ahead of 2016 politics.
~ Jeff Duncan
Historically, corporate aversion to politics has at times held firm even under national leadership that threatens the health of the economy, and with it the well-being of every company.
~ James B. Stewart
In the back of my mind, always, is the firmly held belief that public policies must serve the long-term interests and well-being of the community at large.
~ Carrie Lam
My number one priority as governor is to ensure the safety and well-being of the people of our state.
~ John Bel Edwards
Are we going to be risk-averse about health care, education, child well-being, or are we going to set aside those attitudes, which we find in government all too often, and lead?
~ Michelle Lujan Grisham
A good leader should balance what the coronavirus-limited 'experts' are arguing for with all other health, safety, security, and well-being concerns. Too few realize that.
~ Mollie Hemingway
The Queen has well-informed opinions of many of her bishops and likes those who are straightforward and intelligent. Both she and Prince Philip believe Christianity is as much about forgiveness as morality.
~ Ingrid Seward
Bin Laden was intelligent, well-informed, and low key. The people around him treated him with great deference, calling him 'sheikh,' a term of respect.
~ Peter Bergen