Leader Quotes

You cannot be a leader, and ask other people to follow you, unless you know how to follow, too.
Sam Rayburn

Cannot, Ask, Unless

When I became leader, I made very clear I was not going to choose the easy life. I have always taken risks. I don't like comfort-zone politics.
Nick Clegg

Life, Politics, Made

In my lifetime, Mitt Romney is the most qualified leader I've ever seen run for the presidency of the United States.
Jack Welch

Seen, Run, United

A leader is the one who can outline the broad vision and the direction, and say here's where we are going to go, here's why we need to go there, and here's how we are going to get there. A manager is the one who actually gets up under the hood and tunes the carburetor.
Mike Huckabee

Why, Here, Vision

Stories are the single most powerful tool in a leader's toolkit.
Howard Gardner

Powerful, Single, Stories

All these boundaries - Africa, Asia, Malaysia, America - are set by men. But you don't have to look at boundaries when you are looking at a man - at the character of a man. The question is: What do you stand for? Are you a follower, or are you a leader?
Hakeem Olajuwon

Men, Character, America

The job of a leader, the job of a governor, the job of a president, is to get the people in the room and bang enough heads together and rub enough arms and cajole enough to have them put the country and the state's greater interest ahead of their own personal partisan interest. That's what we did in New Jersey and that's the model for America.
Chris Christie

Job, Together, Country

I think the journey for a politician goes from wanting to please all the people all the time, to a political leader that realises in the end his responsibility is to decide. And when he decides, he divides.
Tony Blair

Time, End, Political

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

Revolution, However, Finally

A person always doing his or her best becomes a natural leader, just by example.
Joe DiMaggio

Best, Person, Her

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

Great, Forget, Become

But the question we should ask ourselves is, who is the next visionary leader of America? How do we have the aspiration and inspire Americans to reach their highest level? We need a president that does so.
Tim Scott

America, Question, Next

I am endlessly fascinated that playing football is considered a training ground for leadership, but raising children isn't. Hey, it made me a better leader: you have to take a lot of people's needs into account; you have to look down the road. Trying to negotiate getting a couple of kids to watch the same TV show requires serious diplomacy.
Dee Dee Myers

Leadership, Children, Football

I'm trying to be a singer, not a civil rights leader.
Adam Lambert

Trying, Rights, Singer

As it happens, Chicago is the nation's leader in municipal privatization efforts. That's right: The city that conservatives portray as the citadel of the power-grabbing, government-growing left has been selling itself off in pieces for years. It signed a 99-year lease for the Chicago Skyway, a toll road in the city's South Side, back in 2005.
Thomas Frank

Off, Nation, Road

There's no leader of this band, and there never will be. That's the key. You can't control how the public perceives you-people see rock'n'roll bands as the guitar player and the singer.
Shannon Hoon

Rock, Control, Guitar

For the greater good, I thought I should be a spiritual leader for people for some reason.
Johnny Vegas

Good, Spiritual, Thought

I think one of the keys to leadership is recognizing that everybody has gifts and talents. A good leader will learn how to harness those gifts toward the same goal.
Benjamin Carson

Leadership, Good, Goal

I'm a shepherd, not a sheep, and I've always prided myself on being a leader and not a follower.
Dustin Diamond

Sheep, Shepherd, Follower

All religious leaders and spiritual teachers emphasize finding a place within us that is true. People who obsessively follow these leaders instead of their own purpose attach to the spiritual leader and become fanatical and controlling. That's why Jesus tried to tell his followers not to get attached to outward form.
Martha Beck

Spiritual, True, Jesus

First of all, I can't forget my first responsibility - which is to be the Leader of the Opposition and that's to provide an alternative government.
Stephen Harper

Government, Forget, Opposition

The Leader of the Opposition's constitutional obligation - the obligation to Parliament - it's the reason we did the merger! - is to make sure Canadians have an alternative for government.
Stephen Harper

Government, Reason, Sure

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

Strength, Ambition, High

Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.
Tacitus

Reason, Judgment, Qualities

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

Powerful, Woman, Born

What holds an Arab leader in power is a mixture of violence and prestige. Both President Assad and King Hussein were felt to have defended Arab interests against the world. That, in the end, is more important than what they wear on their head.
James Buchan

Power, End, Important

It's a miracle was the last track recorded for the album, we based it on the rhythm from the middle of 'Late Home Tonight, where there's Graham Broad playing lots and lots of drums with me shouting in the background, pretending to be a mad Arab leader.
Roger Waters

Home, Mad, Last

The most important thing as a leader is your relationship with God.
Manny Pacquiao

To be a leader, you have to make people want to follow you, and nobody wants to follow someone who doesn't know where he is going.
Joe Namath

Someone, Nobody, Wants

A woman as the leader of the Free World is an impossibility. Muslim countries won't talk to you.
Geena Davis

Woman, Free, Talk

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