Leader Quotes - Page 117

It is a grave error for any leader to be oversensitive in the face of criticism

The youth of today are the leaders of tomorrow.

Loyalty was a great thing, but no lieutenants should be forced to choose between their leader and a circus with elephants.

A true leader is not the one with the most followers, but one who creates the most leaders.

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.

Though every human being on the planet has an inclination for leadership, most of us do not have the courage to cultivate it.

We need people to be taught that they possess a hidden leader on the inside, and to reconnect to that leader, they must reconnect to the Creator who placed that leadership potential in them. They must be reconnected to God, and this is why we should come back to God not really to go to heaven, but to rediscover our true leadership dominion mandate, and then serve that to the world.

All genuine learning is active, not passive.

As the leader of the Republicans what I'm telling that we elected the president to be president. It's time for him to step up to the plate and lead us in the direction of reducing our excessive spending.

Leaders should be reliable without being predictable. They should be consistent without being anticipated

...in the words of Max DePree: "Management has a lot to do with answers. But leadership is a function of questions. And the first question for a leader always is: 'Who do we intend to be?' Not 'What are we going to do?' but 'Who do we intend to be?'"

No rising hope on the political scene who offered his services to Labour when I happened to be its leader can be dismissed as an opportunist.

I think leaders are incapable of the strength that passive resistance entails.

In some South Pacific cultures, a speaker holds a conch shell as a symbol of temporary position of authority. Leaders must understand who holds the conch-that is, who should be listened to and when.

It distresses me, this failure to keep pace with the leaders of thought, as they pass into oblivion.

The last thing I want to do is pastor a church Jesus ain't at.

And the most successful leader of all is one who sees another picture not yet actualized. He sees the things which belong in his present picture but which are not yet there.

That moment was very important because it was political. That's what has to be done, so they struck a deal. She figures his is a well-thought-out motivation that she felt was worthy trade-off. The motivation here is survival, and she has to think like a leader.

I try never to let my schooling get in the way of my education.

If you have a sense of purpose and a sense of direction, I believe people will follow you. Democracy isn't just about deducing what the people want. Democracy is leading the people as well.

Consensus is the negation of leadership.

Most people associate command and control leadership with the military.

Any time you can degrade or take away the top leadership of an organization, it's a positive step forward.

The great task of statesmanship is to apply past lessons to new situations, to draw correct analogies to understand and act upon present forces, to recognise the need for change.

You know, my father was a great encouragement for me because he spoke out for women's rights, he spoke out for girl's education. And at that time I said that why should I wait for someone else, why should I be looking to the government, to the army that they would help us? Why don't I raise my voice, why don't we speak up for our rights?