You don't have to hold a position in order to be a leader.
Anthony J. D'Angelo

If the leader is filled with high ambition and if he pursues his aims with audacity and strength of will, he will reach them in spite of all obstacles.
Karl Von Clausewitz

Never forget that no military leader has ever become great without audacity.
Karl Von Clausewitz

The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.
Henry A. Kissinger

A leader does not deserve the name unless he is willing occasionally to stand alone.
Henry A. Kissinger

A leader who confines his role to his people's experience dooms himself to stagnation; a leader who outstrips his people's experience runs the risk of not being understood.
Henry A. Kissinger

It is, after all, the responsibility of the expert to operate the familiar and that of the leader to transcend it.
Henry A. Kissinger

I am a leader. Leaders always get heat. They're always going against the grain. Jimi Hendrix got heat; Bob Marley got heat; Miles Davis got heat. Every great artist got heat. Heat means you're doing something right.
Ziggy Marley

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

Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.
Tacitus

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

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

Those who cannot think or take responsibility for themselves need, and clamor for, a leader.
Hermann Hesse

Military leaders aren't made. They are born. To be a good leader, you have to have something in your character to cause people to follow you.
Jimmy Johnson

Robespierre, however, was not the type of leader finally destined to emerge from the Revolution.
Irving Babbitt

The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on.
Walter Lippmann

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

All of us, who are members of the Germanic peoples, can be happy and thankful that once in thousands of years fate has given us, from among the Germanic peoples, such a genius, a leader, our Fuehrer Adolf Hitler, and you should be happy to be allowed to work with us.
Heinrich Himmler

We still think of a powerful man as a born leader and a powerful woman as an anomaly.
Margaret Atwood