The manager accepts the status quo; the leader challenges it.
Warren G. Bennis

The manager has a short-range view; the leader has a long-range perspective.
Warren G. Bennis

If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.
John Quincy Adams

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

Shiloh is a wonderfully dramatic battle. The leader of one side is killed, and the other one is going on to glory, and it was the first great battle. It lasted two days.
Shelby Foote

For some reason the football coach of a major college program is seen as one of the leaders of the campus. And some way we have to let our young people know that that leader can look like anyone.
Tony Dungy

I never thought in terms of being a leader. I thought very simply in terms of helping people.
John Hume

As the leader of twelve apostles, even Jesus had more executive experience than Obama.
Ann Coulter

I would not want to live in a country that would have me as a leader in any sort of political bent.
Tom Hanks

A political leader must keep looking over his shoulder all the time to see if the boys are still there. If they aren't still there, he's no longer a political leader.
Bernard Baruch

In the past a leader was a boss. Today's leaders must be partners with their people... they no longer can lead solely based on positional power.
Ken Blanchard

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

The chief qualification of a mass leader has become unending infallibility; he can never admit an error.
Hannah Arendt

Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.
Margaret Fuller

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

I enter negotiations with Chairman Arafat, the leader of the PLO, the representative of the Palestinian people, with the purpose to have coexistence between our two entities, Israel as a Jewish state and Palestinian state, entity, next to us, living in peace.
Yitzhak Rabin

The leader of genius must have the ability to make different opponents appear as if they belonged to one category.
Adolf Hitler

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

I mean, I think I liked every band I ever played in because each band was different, each band had a different concept, and each band leader was different... different personalities and musical tastes.
Buddy Rich

The U.S. used to be perceived as the moral leader of the world, and we have absolutely lost that.
Tom Ford