Leadership & Management: Leadership Quotes

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"The presidency is an independent office and the Irish people whom I appreciate so much and I take with such responsibility have given a very clear mandate on a very clear set of ideas to me, as the ninth president"

Michael D. Higgins, Politician

"Great men are usually the products of their times, and one of the men developed by these times takes rank with the greatest railroad leaders in history"

John Moody, Businessman

"With me it is exceptionally true that the Presidency is no bed of roses"

James K. Polk, President

James K. Polk

"It is not enough to receive support, no matter how needed it may be. It is fundamental to know how to receive this support and ensure that its result is exponential"

Kay Rala Xanana Gusmao, Politician

Kay Rala Xanana Gusmao

"I want volunteers, not hostages"

Mike Tomlin, Coach

Mike Tomlin

"One secret of leadership is that the mind of a leader never turns off. Leaders, even when they are sightseers or spectators, are active; not passive observers"

James Humes, Lawyer

"Leadership is diving for a loose ball, getting the crowd involved, getting other players involved. It's being able to take it as well as dish it out. That's the only way you're going to get respect from the players"

Larry Bird, Coach

Larry Bird

"Not houses finely roofed or the stones of walls well builded, nay nor canals and dockyards make the city, but men able to use their opportunity"

Alcaeus, Poet

Alcaeus

"Great men are rarely isolated mountain peaks; they are the summits of ranges"

Thomas W. Higginson, Clergyman

"I'd rather be running the game than playing it"

Steven Brust, Author

"My advisers built a wall between myself and my people. I didn't realize what was happening. When I woke up, I had lost my people"

Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, Royalty

"A king's true power lies not in his armies or his treasures, but in his wisdom and his ability to govern justly"

Philip IV, Royalty

Philip IV

"A well balanced, inclusive approach, according to certain standards and ideals, is essential for the proper governance of any country"

Laisenia Qarase, Politician

"Women will change the corporation more than we expect"

Anita Borg, Scientist

"A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd"

Max Lucado, Clergyman

"If something happens, you have to realize that you can't just yell at people all the time"

Arthur Blank, Businessman

"A feeble executive implies a feeble execution of the government"

Joseph Story, Judge

"Leaders have to act more quickly today. The pressure comes much faster"

Andy Grove, Businessman

Andy Grove

"I want to be a representative and be a role model for the Asian American community"

Jeremy Lin, Athlete

Jeremy Lin

"We're not going to win all the battles in the current geopolitical climate, but we can win a battle where there is common purpose"

Mia Mottley, President

Mia Mottley

"Leadership is the capacity to influence others through inspiration motivated by passion, generated by vision, produced by a conviction, ignited by a purpose"

Myles Munroe, Author

Myles Munroe

"He who knows not how to dissimulate, can not reign"

Louis XI, Royalty

"It always impresses me when a person of small stature has command"

Ned Beatty, Actor

"I began by telling the president that there was a cancer growing on the presidency and that if the cancer was not removed, the president himself would be killed by it"

John Dean, Lawyer

"A Parliament is that to the Commonwealth which the soul is to the body. It behoves us therefore to keep the facility of that soul from distemper"

John Pym, Politician

"In the World War nothing was more dreadful to witness than a chain of men starting with a battalion commander and ending with an army commander sitting in telephone boxes, improvised or actual, talking, talking, talking, in place of leading, leading, leading"

J. F. C. Fuller, Soldier

"There can be only one captain to a ship"

Thomas John Barnardo, Celebrity

"A wise government knows how to enforce with temper, or to conciliate with dignity"

George Grenville, Statesman

"Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown"

William Shakespeare, Dramatist

William Shakespeare

"Say what you will about President Trump's tone, tactics, or tweeting, but even his most strident critics admit he's at his best when on the offensive"

Charlie Kirk, Politician

Charlie Kirk

"Trump is the first president in a generation who is willing to take political risks to secure our border"

Charlie Kirk, Politician

Charlie Kirk

"Some day I shall be President"

Abraham Lincoln, President

Abraham Lincoln

"In every society some men are born to rule, and some to advise"

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Philosopher

Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The first quality that is needed is audacity"

Winston Churchill, Statesman

Winston Churchill

"I can no longer obey; I have tasted command, and I cannot give it up"

Napoleon Bonaparte, Leader

Napoleon Bonaparte

"Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me"

Napoleon Bonaparte, Leader

Napoleon Bonaparte

"Let the path be open to talent"

Napoleon Bonaparte, Leader

Napoleon Bonaparte

"It doesn't take a majority to make a rebellion; it takes only a few determined leaders and a sound cause"

H. L. Mencken, Writer

H. L. Mencken

"I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office"

Thomas Jefferson, President

Thomas Jefferson

"The most successful politician is he who says what the people are thinking most often in the loudest voice"

Theodore Roosevelt, President

Theodore Roosevelt

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