The manager accepts the status quo; the leader challenges it.
~By Warren G. Bennis ~
The Chinese leadership hoped that the world would soon forget the Tiananmen Square massacre. Our job in Congress is to ensure that we never forget those who lost their lives in Tiananmen Square that day or the pro-democracy cause for which they fought.
~By Tom Lantos ~
As a world leader, America must be prepared to confront any challenge.
~By Christopher Dodd ~
I am a leader by default, only because nature does not allow a vacuum.
~By Desmond Tutu ~
I'm glad I'm not Brezhnev. Being the Russian leader in the Kremlin. You never know if someone's tape recording what you say.
~By Richard M. Nixon ~
America must be the moral leader. It is not enough to have power. Power must be used to protect freedom and give all people hope for the opportunity to see the fruit of their own labor.
~By Jesse Helms ~
My hope that the Church will emerge as a strong leader in society is just that a hope. What I described in The Catholic Moment is not a prophecy but the outline of a possibility. There are no guarantees that my hopes expressed in The Catholic Moment will ever be realised.
~By Richard John Neuhaus ~
Clearly no one knows what leadership has gone undiscovered in women of all races, and in black and other minority men.
~By Gloria Steinem ~
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.
~By Ken Blanchard ~
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.
~By Harry S. Truman ~
I have a different vision of leadership. A leadership is someone who brings people together.
~By George W. Bush ~
I dream of the realization of the unity of Africa, whereby its leaders combine in their efforts to solve the problems of this continent. I dream of our vast deserts, of our forests, of all our great wildernesses.
~By Nelson Mandela ~
But for 30 years, Orthodox leaders have tipped the balance between hawks and doves, and have been in a position to determine who forms a coalition and who runs the country.
~By Amos Oz ~
Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them.
~By John C. Maxwell ~
It is only the Somalis themselves - and I don't hide that fact when I meet the political leaders here - they themselves have to stop their old practices of fighting each other every time they have a problem. They have to learn how to do peaceful conflict resolution.
~By Jan Egeland ~
Elected leaders who forget how they got there won't the next time.
~By Malcolm Forbes ~
Our leaders are acting like lemmings.
~By Jack Herer ~
But the question is to find and rear leaders that are really one with the masses. This can only be accomplished by the masses, the political parties and the Trade Unions, by means of the most severe struggle, also inwardly.
~By Herman Gorter ~
We do not need international help to stop corruption, we need strong Louisiana Leadership.
~By David Vitter ~
We in the press, by our power, can actually undermine leadership.
~By Christiane Amanpour ~
Harvard is first and foremost a university and not a consulting operation, and our job here is to teach and to research and to create knowledge on Asia in conjunction and in cooperation with scholars as well as with political, intellectual, and cultural leaders in Asia.
~By William Kirby ~
Khomeini was not a puppet like Arafat or Qaddafi or the many other dictators I met in the Islamic world. He was a sort of Pope, a sort of king - a real leader.
~By Oriana Fallaci ~
Choosing one's leaders is an affirmation that the person making the choice has inherent worth.
~By Linda Chavez ~
Leadership is influence.
~By John C. Maxwell ~
I think Mr. Clarke had a tendency to interfere too much with the activities of the CIA, and our leadership at the senior level let him interfere too much. So criticism from him I kind of wear as a badge of honor.
~By Michael Scheuer ~
Leaders are not pale reflectors of major social conflicts; they play up some, play down others, ignore still others.
~By James MacGregor Burns ~
Good leaders must first become good servants.
~By Robert Greenleaf ~
The scrupulous and the just, the noble, humane, and devoted natures; the unselfish and the intelligent may begin a movement - but it passes away from them. They are not the leaders of a revolution. They are its victims.
~By Joseph Conrad ~
The manager has his eye on the bottom line; the leader has his eye on the horizon.
~By Warren G. Bennis ~
Example is leadership.
~By Albert Schweitzer ~
The leader is one who mobilizes others toward a goal shared by leaders and followers... Leaders, followers and goals make up the three equally necessary supports for leadership.
~By Gary Wills ~
No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit for doing it.
~By Andrew Carnegie ~
I want to organize so that women see ourselves as people who are entitled to power, entitled to leadership.
~By Patricia Ireland ~
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.
~By Dwight D. Eisenhower ~
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.
~By Walter Lippmann ~
Comrade Deng Xiaoping - along with other party elders - gave the party leadership their firm and full support to put down the political disturbance using forceful measures.
~By Li Peng ~
For centuries the leaders of Christian thought spoke of women as a necessary evil, and the greatest saints of the Church are those who despise women the most.
~By Annie Besant ~
If you don't understand that you work for your mislabeled 'subordinates,' then you know nothing of leadership. You know only tyranny.
~By Dee Hock ~
Far less wealthy industrialized countries have committed to end child poverty, while the United States is sliding backwards. We can do better. We must demand that our leaders do better.
~By Marian Wright Edelman ~
As far as Iraq is concerned, let's not forget what the UNSCR is about, that the main consideration in Iraq is that there is a leader who has been developing weapons of mass destruction, and has been violating UN resolutions for over a decade.
~By Donald Evans ~
The problem is, we elected a manager and we need a leader. Let's face it: Bush is just dim.
~By George Clooney ~
The great leaders of the second world war alliance, Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill, understood the twin sides of destruction and salvation. Their war aims were not only to defeat fascism, but to create a world of shared prosperity.
~By Jeffrey Sachs ~
Any time the country is split 50/50, the leader is wrong.
~By Charles Evers ~
We became convinced that, regardless of Stalin's awful brutality and his reign of terror, he was a great war leader. Without Stalin, they never would have held.
~By W. Averell Harriman ~
Throughout history, great leaders have known the power of humor.
~By Allen Klein ~
Many of our nation's great leaders began their careers at a service academy. I encourage anyone interested in a rewarding college experience or military career to apply as soon as possible.
~By Chris Cannon ~
Humility is a great quality of leadership which derives respect and not just fear or hatred.
~By Yousef Munayyer ~
I was told to challenge every spiritual teacher, every world leader to utter the one sentence that no religion, no political party, and no nation on the face of the earth will dare utter: 'Ours is not a better way, ours is merely another way.
~By Neale Donald Walsch ~
When we were doing the cheerleading for this, I was excited about doing it because I always wanted to be a cheerleader. I always wanted to but I didn't get to because I was working.
~By Christina Milian ~
True leadership lies in guiding others to success. In ensuring that everyone is performing at their best, doing the work they are pledged to do and doing it well.
~By Bill Owens ~
What I do is I'm a bandleader, frontman, entertainer.
~By Shane MacGowan ~
There is no credible evidence of the current exceptional global warming trumpeted by the IPCC. The IPCC is no longer behaving as an investigative scientific organization or pretending to be one. Their leaders betrayed the trust of the world community.
~By Grant Miles ~
I believe that it is irresponsible, it is basically part of the crisis of leadership in D.C. to not look at Social Security and understand that there has got to be a solution posed. We've got to take a look at it and make sure that we create a solution so our seniors aren't left out in the cold.
~By Joe Miller ~
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.
~By Henry A. Kissinger ~
Becoming a leader is synonymous with becoming yourself. It is precisely that simple, and it is also that difficult.
~By Warren G. Bennis ~
The true test of a leader is whether his followers will adhere to his cause from their own volition, enduring the most arduous hardships without being forced to do so, and remaining steadfast in the moments of greatest peril.
~By Xenophon ~
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.
~By Roger Waters ~
This country was the moral leader of the world until George Bush became president.
~By Howard Dean ~
We're going to march on Washington with a host of Republicans, Democrats, business leaders, legislators.
~By Gray Davis ~
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?
~By Hakeem Olajuwon ~
In the past, there's always been one leader that has led the pack to development of the music.
~By Herbie Hancock ~
A leader is someone who steps back from the entire system and tries to build a more collaborative, more innovative system that will work over the long term.
~By Robert Reich ~
I've been a very effective leader in the gay rights movement, though at times I've been controversial.
~By Jean O'Leary ~
As far as Iraq, the important thing is that the Taliban is gone in Afghanistan, three-quarters of the al-Qaida leadership is either dead or in jail, and we now have Saudi Arabia working with us, Pakistan working with us.
~By Peter King ~
Yahoo! is the only company with both scale and leadership in branded and search advertising.
~By Terry Semel ~
The United States is the leader of the free world.
~By Elizabeth Dole ~
It is hard to look up to a leader who keeps his ear to the ground.
~By James H. Boren ~
Very few of the great leaders ever get through their careers without failing, sometimes dramatically.
~By Phil Crosby ~
Leaders need to be optimists. Their vision is beyond the present.
~By Rudy Giuliani ~
As long as the opposition believes the world will stand with Ukraine's democrat reformers, they will have the leverage and the courage to establish a legitimate republic under the leadership of Viktor Yushchenko.
~By Bob Schaffer ~
Myself, I don't think you will ever get security in the Mideast until you have what on the surface appears to be fair to both sides. You have to have leaders committed to peace, on both sides. One side can't impose a solution.
~By Bobby R. Inman ~
Today, diabetes is now epidemic, according to the Centers for Disease Control, the National Institutes of Health, the American Diabetes Association and other national healthcare leaders.
~By Tim Holden ~
It is with obedience to your call that I take up the burden of government leadership for the final time.
~By Kamisese Mara ~
I'm a shepherd, not a sheep, and I've always prided myself on being a leader and not a follower.
~By Dustin Diamond ~
The question is the morning after. What sort of Iraq do we wake up to after the bombing? What happens in the region? What impact could it have? These are questions leaders I have spoken to have posed.
~By Kofi Annan ~
People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader leads, and the boss drives.
~By Theodore Roosevelt ~
He's a novice, but he's had these - he's experienced in leadership in tight circumstances. He started - he dropped the first bomb, led the first air strike into North Vietnam.
~By James Stockdale ~
I think what actually works best is local-level individual targeting of key leadership nodes.
~By John Abizaid ~
We will continue to count on your unwavering support and commitment to working with leaders of our continent in bringing about the desired renaissance of Africa.
~By Thabo Mbeki ~
Bush may be a strong leader in the war on terrorism, but on budget deficits he is missing-in-action.
~By Jim Cooper ~
I know nothing about producing TV drama and any involvement on my part is liable to prove an obstacle to the producers, so I prefer to be a cheerleader and let them get on with it.
~By Bernard Cornwell ~
I forgot to shake hands and be friendly. It was an important lesson about leadership.
~By Lee Iacocca ~
How could I get up there and say, 'People, we've got to do better,' when I was the poster child for everything that was wrong? I've always believed leaders don't ask others to do what they're unwilling to do.
~By Mike Huckabee ~
It is sad that the Republican leadership is not as interested as they say they are in protecting the institution of marriage as they are in waging a campaign to divide and distract the American people from the real issues that need to be addressed.
~By Kendrick Meek ~
The best leaders... almost without exception and at every level, are master users of stories and symbols.
~By Thomas J. Peters ~
We should see the leadership from the White House setting dates certain for certain goals of achieving greater alliance on alternative and renewable energy sources, but we are not.
~By Ron Kind ~
Motivated more by partisan politics than by national security, today's Democratic leaders see America as an occupier, not a liberator. And nothing makes this Marine madder than someone calling American troops occupiers rather than liberators.
~By Zell Miller ~
It takes leadership to improve safety. And I started off the movement in my time, but the person who has done more over the past 20 to 30 years and who has led it is Professor Sid Watkins.
~By Jackie Stewart ~
Preparing our city to achieve its destiny will require strong leadership.
~By Thomas Menino ~
But 85 percent of the mosques have extremist leadership in this country. Most Muslims, the overwhelming majority of Muslims, are loyal Americans.
~By Peter King ~
Anyway, so here I was caught between Johnson on the one side, who was my leader, I was his whip, and here was my dear friend, personal friend, Kennedy, and they're going to go into my state and ruin it. What am I going to do?
~By George Smathers ~
The chief executive who knows his strengths and weaknesses as a leader is likely to be far more effective than the one who remains blind to them.
~By John Adair ~
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.
~By Joe Namath ~
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.
~By Barack Obama ~
It was wrongly assumed that I wished to become some sort of leader among gay activists, whereas in reality I was happier to be a foot soldier.
~By Ian Mckellen ~
And, of course, the fact that Maurice Strong, a Canadian, was in charge made it important for us to pull up our socks and become leaders in this field. Now, here is a field we should be a leader in!
~By Brian Mulroney ~
We needed to go back on the offense and offer clear leadership on Iraq.
~By Condoleezza Rice ~
Business leaders shape public opinion.
~By Marvin Bower ~
World War II had been such a tremendous success story for this country that the political and military leadership began to assume that they would prevail simply because of who they were. We were like the British at the turn of the 19th century.
~By Neil Sheehan ~
In working with UNICEF our corporate partners have demonstrated time and again that their financial resources, leadership and expertise can bring about real and lasting benefits for the world's children.
~By Carol Bellamy ~
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