Leader Quotes - Page 14

Leaders make decisions that create the future they desire.

We're here for a reason. I believe a bit of the reason is to throw little torches out to lead people through the dark.

Leadership is diving for a loose ball, getting the crowd involved, getting other players involved. It's being able to take it as well as dish it out. That's the only way you're going to get respect from the players.

The key to successful leadership today is influence, not authority.

A leader has to be one of two things: he either has to be a brilliant visionary himself, a truly creative strategist, in which case he can do what he likes and get away with it; or else he has to be a true empowerer who can bring out the best in others.

Humans are the only animals who will follow unstable pack leaders.

I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.

Some men change their party for the sake of their principles; others their principles for the sake of their party

It is the population which decides when it's time for a leader to leave, not foreign powers.

Never forget that only dead fish swim with the stream.

No person among us desires any other reward for performing a brave and worthy action, but the consciousness of having served his nation.

A community is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm.

If you have selfish, ignorant citizens, you're gonna get selfish, ignorant leaders.

Time is money.

Beware of little expenses. A small leak will sink a great ship.

You have to work and think about how we can make this world a better place for all. This is what I'd really like to ask our young leaders. We will try as leaders of today to minimise the problems which we will hand over to you. But it is to you. You have to take ownership and leadership of tomorrow. For that to be possible, you have to strengthen your capacity and widen your vision as a global citizen.

The leaders who work most effectively, it seems to me, never say 'I'. They don't think 'I'. They think 'we'; they think 'team'.

I want you to know that everything I did, I did for my country.

Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil and you're a thousand miles from the corn field.

There is no mat space for malcontents or dissenters. One must neither celebrate insanely when he wins, nor sulk when he loses. He accepts victory professionally, humbly; he hates defeat, but makes no poor display of it.

The graveyards are full of indispensable men.

Don't quack like a duck, soar like an eagle.

Managers help people see themselves as they are; Leaders help people to see themselves better than they are.

Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.

Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some hire public relations officers.