Leader Quotes - Page 20

A leader is someone who puts their people in position to be successful all the time

The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality.

No one is born a good citizen or a good democrat or a good leader; it takes time and education.

As for leadership, I am the kind who leads reluctantly and more by example than anything else. Someone had to be on the incorporation papers as president.

The road to Easy Street goes through the sewer.

At a time when we are facing threats from nations such as North Korea and Iran, and attempting to convince others such as India and Pakistan to become responsible nuclear powers, it is vital that America reclaims the leadership we once had on arms control.

It is better to have a lion at the head of an army of sheep, than a sheep at the head of an army of lions.

A strange and somewhat impassive physiognomy is often, perhaps, an advantage to an orator, or leader of any sort, because it helps to fix the eye and fascinate the mind.

The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves.

The mark of a great man is one who knows when to set aside the important things in order to accomplish the vital ones.

I am personally convinced that one person can be a change catalyst, a 'transformer' in any situation, any organization. Such an individual is yeast that can leaven an entire loaf. It requires vision, initiative, patience, respect, persistence, courage, and faith to be a transforming leader.

If we took away barriers to women's leadership, we would solve the climate change problem a lot faster

The ones that you're calling wild are going to be the leaders in a little while.

A good leader has a compass in their head and a magnet in their heart.

Every generation of children offers mankind the possibility of rebuilding his ruin of a world.

If I'd had some set idea of a finish line, don't you think I would have crossed it years ago?

Your ancestors invaded Macedonia and the rest of Greece and did us great harm, though we had done them no prior injury; ... [and] I have been appointed leader of the Greeks.

Coaches who can outline plays on a black board are a dime a dozen. The ones who win get inside their player and motivate.

As they were leading me up, I looked up and around the galleries and I could feel the whole Aboriginal race, of those who had gone before, were all up there, and I could visualise, I could hear voices and amongst those voices was the voice of my grandfather saying, 'It's alright now boy, you are finally in the council with the Australian Elders. Everything is now going to be alright.'

Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent then the one derived from fear of punishment.

A strong leader accepts blame and gives the credit. A weak leader gives blame and accepts the credit.

Good leadership consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people.

If the rate of change on the outside exceeds the rate of change on the inside, the end is near.

What are you doing here? Tell me why you are here. If you are not here to win a national championship, you're in the wrong place. You boys are special. I don't want my players to be like other students. I want special people. You can learn a lot on the football field that isn't taught in the home, the church, or the classroom. There are going to be days when you think you've got no more to give and then you're going to give plenty more. You are going to have pride and class. You are going to be very special. You are going to win the national championship for Alabama.

Look at what realists have done for us. They have led us to war and climate change, poverty on an unimaginable scale, and wholesale ecological destruction. Half of humanity goes to bed hungry because of all the realistic leaders in the world. I tell people who call me 'unrealistic' to show me what their realism has done. Realism is an outdated, overplayed and wholly exaggerated concept.