Absolute identity with one's cause is the first and great condition of successful leadership.
Woodrow Wilson

Clearly no one knows what leadership has gone undiscovered in women of all races, and in black and other minority men.
Gloria Steinem

Leadership in today's world requires far more than a large stock of gunboats and a hard fist at the conference table.
Hubert H. Humphrey

One of the true tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency.
Arnold H. Glasow

One of the tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency.
Arnold H. Glasow

I start with the premise that the function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.
Ralph Nader

The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.
Ralph Nader

There are many elements to a campaign. Leadership is number one. Everything else is number two.
Bertolt Brecht

The test of leadership is not to put greatness into humanity, but to elicit it, for the greatness is already there.
James Buchanan

My observation is that women are merely waiting for their husbands to assume leadership.
James Dobson

All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership.
John Kenneth Galbraith

Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy.
Norman Schwarzkopf

You learn far more from negative leadership than from positive leadership. Because you learn how not to do it. And, therefore, you learn how to do it.
Norman Schwarzkopf

If you don't understand that you work for your mislabeled 'subordinates,' then you know nothing of leadership. You know only tyranny.
Dee Hock

At that time, the army leadership said the implementation of this agreement would allow everyone, including the IRA, to take its political objectives forward by peaceful and democratic means.
Gerry Adams

Sinn Fein has demonstrated the ability to play a leadership role as part of a popular movement towards peace, equality and justice.
Gerry Adams

The Irish Republican Army has kept every commitment made by its leadership.
Gerry Adams

Educationists should build the capacities of the spirit of inquiry, creativity, entrepreneurial and moral leadership among students and become their role model.
Abdul Kalam

To have long term success as a coach or in any position of leadership, you have to be obsessed in some way.
Pat Riley

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