Leader Quotes - Page 32

I haven't been a leader - not at all.

Talent is everywhere, it only needs the opportunity.

Courage is the enforcing virtue, the one that makes possible all the other virtues common to exceptional leaders: honesty, integrity, confidence, compassion and humility

If you create an environment where the people truly participate, you don't need control. They know what needs to be done and they do it. And the more that people will devote themselves to your cause on a voluntary basis, a willing basis, the fewer hierarchies and control mechanisms you need.

The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution.

When you become a leader, you lose the right to think about yourself.

To sin by silence, when they should protest, makes cowards of men.

Leadership is action, not position

The speed of the leader determines the rate of the pack.

If you have leaders who are prepared to incite group against group it is very easy to manufacture reasons and excuses.

Patience is a key element of success.

Give us the tools, and we will finish the job

Independent India's leaders will neither use a foreign language nor rule from a remote place.

God bless Africa, Guard her people, Guide her leaders, And give her peace.

Every country has its own reality and its own leaders, and the leaders act in accordance with their reality.

Nowadays everybody wants to become a leader. No one wants to become a servant. In reality, the world is badly in need of servants, not leaders. A real servant is a real leader.

To me consensus seems to be - the process of abandoning all beliefs, principles, values and policies in search of something in which no-one believes, but to which no-one objects - the process of avoiding the very issues that have to be solved, merely because you cannot get agreement on the way ahead. What great cause would have been fought and won under the banner "I stand for consensus"?

In order to solve problems, information has to be shared; and not only information, but doubts, fears and questions.

Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases.

It is monstrous that the feet should direct the head.

If you're regularly willing to give a critique, but not willing to take one, you're not a leader, you're a cynic.

A lion never roars after a kill.

The question in life is not whether you get knocked down. You will. The question is, are you ready to get back up... And fight for what you believe in?

You know you're a good leader when people follow you out of curiosity.

The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows.