To Be A Leader Quotes

Ronald Reagan was an excellent leader of our nation during challenging times at home and abroad.

I've been active in a minor way compared to professional activists. I was a labor leader. I led two labor strikes. I've manipulated boards. I've led marches. I've done many things.

I don't know a lot about politics but I have great trust in him as leader.

Mussolini was the greatest political leader of the century.

When men realize that feminism is a universal good that affects them in very intimate ways then I think they really become allies and leaders.

Now the long-feared Asiatic colossus takes its turn as world leader, and we--the white race--have become the yellow man's burden.Let us hope that he will treat us more kindly than we treated him.

You deserve whoever governs you ... Everyone is responsible for the actions of their leaders.

I love sports, and when I was playing soccer, I was always trying to be the leader on the team and the one who takes control.

At the end of the day, we need a leader who thinks with his head but leads with his heart.

America has had gifted conservative statesmen and national leaders. But with few exceptions, only the liberals have gone down in history as national heroes.

I think that the process of figuring out what kind of leader I wanted to be was challenging, because as an actor, you work alone, really.

Great leaders inspire us to go places we would never go on our own, and to attempt things we never thought we had in us.

I like moral judgment to emerge from the reader. We are being sold a very simplistic morality by our leaders at a time when nuance and understanding are at a premium.

Tories never actually talk about getting rid of their leader, then suddenly there us a flash of steel between he shoulder-blades and rigormortis sets in.

This is a very crucial period and we have got five fantastic candidates. All of them would make excellent leaders of the Party.

We women in Somalia are trying to be leaders in our community.

The leaders of the future will be those who dare to claim their irrelevance in the contemporary world as a divine vocation.

The convictions that leaders have formed before reaching high office are the intellectual capital they will consume as long as they continue in office.

Most black leaders, whether left, right or center, from Frederick Douglas and Martin Delaney on in the middle of the 19th century have not even wondered about the merits of the capitalist system.

Fortunately, in President Obama, the child of an African and an American, we finally have a leader who is uniquely positioned to bridge the great reparations divide.

This obsession with leadership... It's not neutral; it's American, this idea of the heroic leader who comes in on a white horse to save the day. I think it's killing American companies.

In the city of Pyongyang, you don't have to look very far to see an image of the Great Leader, Kim Il Sung. They love the guy. He is responsible for the wonder that is North Korea.

In the past, there's always been one leader that has led the pack to development of the music.

Every leader operates under the threat of assassination.

You're not a leader if you haven't been elected.

I don't have any comment on who the people of Russia choose to be their leaders.

I really believe being a good listener is important for anybody, and particularly for somebody who wants to be a leader.

The leader, mingling with the vulgar host, Is in the common mass of matter lost.

Marble statues, engraved with public inscriptions, by which the life and soul return after death to noble leaders.

We as Iraqis have suffered enormously as a result of al-Qaeda and its leader.

This country was the moral leader of the world until George Bush became president.

The leaders in Washington have got to come together in a bipartisan way and do the right thing for the people who are being left behind. We cannot have an America that is only based on the wealthy.

When in all the nations of the world the rule of law is the darling of the leaders and the plague of the people, we ought to begin to recognize this.

I'm not ruling. I never ruled. I have one vote and I'm the leader of the party. I've always had a vote on the central committee. I always had more influence than that one vote. I'll admit that.

I think almost every political leader is always told that the next speech they make is the most crucial one.

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

Hiring great people is almost the most important thing you can do as a leader because they enable you to scale, and they create better leverage for you and your time.

To be a leader in the Church has always required strength and faith beyond the merely human.

The number of business leaders who asked me to lower their taxes can be counted on one hand.

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

Six Sigma is a quality program that, when all is said and done, improves your customers' experience, lowers your costs, and builds better leaders.

As leaders, we owe it to every employee to let them know where they stand in the organization.

If you can't energize others, you can't be a leader.

I still feel that the kind of leader I want to be is one that spends time understanding our work in a way that allows me to translate it for policymakers and people who have real access to resources.

If you have a charismatic cause you don't need to be a charismatic leader.

Throw leaders into an extreme environment, and it will separate the stark differences between greatness and mediocrity.

I think that the United States should be the leader, not only militarily. We need to stand for freedom; we need to stand for justice in the world, because there aren't too many countries that do.

If leadership is, fundamentally, about serving others, then any one person should be able to move between being a "leader" and a "follower."

Theodore Roosevelt is a natural choice for leadership education. Along with many other observers, I believe he was among the greatest of leaders to serve as president.

William McKinley has surely been underrated - in no small part because he was succeeded by a memorable leader, Theodore Roosevelt.