Leader Quotes

In choosing a president, we really don't choose a Republican or Democrat, a conservative or liberal. We choose a leader.
Rudy Giuliani

President, Republican, Liberal

A leader or a man of action in a crisis almost always acts subconsciously and then thinks of the reasons for his action.
Jawaharlal Nehru

Crisis, Action, Almost

The true measure of the value of any business leader and manager is performance.
Brian Tracy

Business, True, Value

The most important quality in a leader is that of being acknowledged as such. All leaders whose fitness is questioned are clearly lacking in force.
Andre Maurois

Fitness, Important, Quality

A leader who doesn't hesitate before he sends his nation into battle is not fit to be a leader.
Golda Meir

Battle, Before, Nation

Becoming a leader is synonymous with becoming yourself. It is precisely that simple, and it is also that difficult.
Warren G. Bennis

Yourself, Simple, Difficult

Peace comes when you talk to the guy you most hate. And that's where the courage of a leader comes, because when you sit down with your enemy, you as a leader must already have very considerable confidence from your own constituency.
Desmond Tutu

Peace, Courage, Hate

A true leader always keeps an element of surprise up his sleeve, which others cannot grasp but which keeps his public excited and breathless.
Charles de Gaulle

True, Cannot, Others

The speed of the leader is the speed of the gang.
Mary Kay Ash

A leader has the vision and conviction that a dream can be achieved. He inspires the power and energy to get it done.
Ralph Nader

Power, Done, Energy

As a Zionist youth leader in the 1940s, I was among those who called for a binational state in Mandatory Palestine. When a Jewish state was declared, I felt that it should have the rights of other states - no more, no less.
Noam Chomsky

Youth, Less, State

There are many qualities that make a great leader. But having strong beliefs, being able to stick with them through popular and unpopular times, is the most important characteristic of a great leader.
Rudy Giuliani

Great, Strong, Important

The leader must aim high, see big, judge widely, thus setting himself apart form the ordinary people who debate in narrow confines.
Charles de Gaulle

Judge, Big, High

I am a leader by default, only because nature does not allow a vacuum.
Desmond Tutu

Nature, Vacuum, Default

I don't think that a leader can control, to any great extent, his destiny. Very seldom can he step in and change the situation if the forces of history are running in another direction.
Richard M. Nixon

Change, Great, History

Show me a poorly uniformed troop and I'll show you a poorly uniformed leader.
Robert Baden-Powell

Show, Poorly, Troop

People are afraid, and when people are afraid, when their pie is shrinking, they look for somebody to hate. They look for somebody to blame. And a real leader speaks to anxiety and to fear and allays those fears, assuages anxiety.
Henry Louis Gates

Fear, Hate, Real

The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully.
Walter Lippmann

Good, Him, Sense

I believe that no man who holds a leader's position should ever accept favors from either side. He is then committed to show favors. A leader must stand alone.
Mother Jones

Alone, Show, Accept

I'm not a natural leader. I'm too intellectual; I'm too abstract; I think too much.
Newt Gingrich

Natural, Abstract

If you understand hallucination and illusion, you don't blindly follow any leader. You must know if the person is sane or insane, over the abyss.
Marguerite Young

Person, Understand, Illusion

I'm glad I'm not Brezhnev. Being the Russian leader in the Kremlin. You never know if someone's tape recording what you say.
Richard M. Nixon

Someone, Glad, Recording

I am an international leader, the dean of the Arab rulers, the king of kings of Africa and the imam of Muslims, and my international status does not allow me to descend to a lower level.
Muammar al-Gaddafi

Africa, King, Level

I was never the smartest guy in the room. From the first person I hired, I was never the smartest guy in the room. And that's a big deal. And if you're going to be a leader - if you're a leader and you're the smartest guy in the world - in the room, you've got real problems.
Jack Welch

Real, Person, Big

The true test of a leader is whether his followers will adhere to his cause from their own volition, enduring the most arduous hardships without being forced to do so, and remaining steadfast in the moments of greatest peril.
Xenophon

True, Greatest, Whether

I pray to be a good servant to God, a father, a husband, a son, a friend, a brother, an uncle, a good neighbor, a good leader to those who look up to me, a good follower to those who are serving God and doing the right thing.
Mark Wahlberg

Good, God, Husband

A leader is one who, out of madness or goodness, volunteers to take upon himself the woe of the people. There are few men so foolish, hence the erratic quality of leadership in the world.
John Updike

Leadership, Men, Few

Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.
Margaret Fuller

Today, Tomorrow, Reader

A true leader has to have a genuine open-door policy so that his people are not afraid to approach him for any reason.
Harold S. Geneen

True, Him, Afraid

Unlike any other leader in modern American history, we are led today by a president that has decided to pit Americans against each other.
Marco Rubio

History, Today, American

Share with your Friends

Everyone likes a good quote - don't forget to share.

Related Definition

Leader Definition

Victor Hugo

Popular Topics

Friendship Quotes

Motivational Quotes

Inspirational Quotes

Get Social with BrainyQuote

BrainyQuote Desktop

BrainyQuote Mobile

Site

Quote of the Day

Social

BQ on Pinterest

Syndication

Funny Quote Feed

Love Quote Feed

Nature Quote Feed

About Us