Leadership Quotes

Strong convictions precede great actions.
James Freeman Clarke

Great, Strong, Actions

To succeed, one must be creative and persistent.
John H. Johnson

Creative, Succeed, Persistent

What helps people, helps business.
Leo Burnett

Business, Helps

Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.
Henry J. Kaiser

Work, Problems, Clothes

You have to have your heart in the business and the business in your heart.
An Wang

Business, Heart

You have no power at all if you do not exercise constant power.
Major Owens

Power, Exercise, Constant

Whatever ought to be, can be.
James Rouse

Whatever, Ought

The very exercise of leadership fosters capacity for it.
Cyril Falls

Exercise, Capacity, Fosters

The nicest thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from.
Ken Olsen

Choose, Standards, Nicest

A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better.
Jim Rohn

Good, Help, Objective

The fact that we are here today to debate raising America's debt limit is a sign of leadership failure. America has a debt problem and a failure of leadership. Americans deserve better. I, therefore, intend to oppose the effort to increase America's debt.
Barack Obama

Failure, Today, America

Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.
John F. Kennedy

The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it is on a section gang, a football field, in an army, or in an office.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

Success, Integrity, Real

We can't drive our SUVs and eat as much as we want and keep our homes on 72 degrees at all times... and then just expect that other countries are going to say OK. That's not leadership. That's not going to happen.
Barack Obama

Happen, Keep, Times

But the person who scored well on an SAT will not necessarily be the best doctor or the best lawyer or the best businessman. These tests do not measure character, leadership, creativity, perseverance.
William Julius Wilson

Best, Character, Person

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

Positive, Negative, Learn

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

Creativity, Become, Moral

Leadership is a privilege to better the lives of others. It is not an opportunity to satisfy personal greed.
Mwai Kibaki

Greed, Others, Personal

You don't lead by hitting people over the head - that's assault, not leadership.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

Head, Lead, Hitting

Men make history and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better.
Harry S. Truman

Courage, Change, Men

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

Character, Strategy, Potent

No institution can possibly survive if it needs geniuses or supermen to manage it. It must be organized in such a way as to be able to get along under a leadership composed of average human beings.
Peter Drucker

Human, Able, Needs

Leadership is the other side of the coin of loneliness, and he who is a leader must always act alone. And acting alone, accept everything alone.
Ferdinand Marcos

Alone, Loneliness, Everything

In giving us children, God places us in a position of both leadership and service. He calls us to give up our lives for someone else's sake - to abandon our own desires and put our child's interests first. Yet, according to His perfect design, it is through this selflessness that we can become truly fulfilled.
Charles Stanley

God, Design, Children

God will never direct us to be prideful, arrogant and unforgiving, immoral or slothful or full of fear. We step into these things because we are insensitive to the leadership of the Holy Spirit within us.
Charles Stanley

God, Fear, Holy

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