To Be A Leader Quotes

I believe a good leader brings out the best in people by listening to them, trusting in them, believing in them, respecting them and letting them have a go.

What leaders have in common is that each really knows their strengths, has developed their strengths, and can call on the right strength at the right time.

Woman is superlative; the best leader in life, the best guide in happy days, the best consoler in sorrow.

If you want to be a leader, the first person you have to lead is yourself.

No person can be a great leader unless he takes genuine joy in the successes of those under him.

As a leader you set the tone for your entire team. Communicate your vision.

I'm quite modest. I don't want to tell people I'm a leader.

Great leaders get people to think more of themselves, not more of the leader.

The job of the leader is to speak to the possibility.

I think it's inarguable that Vladimir Putin has been a stronger leader in his country than Barack Obama has been in this country.

Great leaders inspire, they don't manipulate.

In this era of uncertainty and conflict, the United States - blessed with the world's strongest military, most ingenious economy, and most tolerant society - remains a model and leader to the world.

In its current form, globalization cannot be sustained. Democratic societies will not support it. Authoritarian leaders will fear to impose it.

We don’t recruit volunteers; we release leaders. Volunteers do good things but leaders change the world.

The race needs workers, not leaders.

A leader is admired, a boss is feared.

Leaders are creators. They bring their visions to fruitition through the creative process.

True leadership has people who follow when they have the freedom not to.

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.

I like democracy. I like to be able to throw out my political leaders when they get things wrong, and we don't get to do that with Brussels.

The best leader brings out the best in those he has stewardship over.

There are two ways of destroying a people. Either condemn them en bloc or force them to repudiate the leaders they adopted. The second is the worse.

If a group of people - leaders - can convince a group of folk who barely have a pot to piss in that the rich shouldn't be taxed-- THAT is leadership!

The trouble with being a ghostwriter or artist is that you must remain rather anonymously without credit. If one wants the credit, one has to cease being a ghost and become a leader or innovator.

A leader has a sound program, has a good policy, and then brings people together to solve problems.

Leaders make things possible. Exceptional leaders make them inevitable.

A leader has the vision and conviction that a dream can be achieved. He inspires the power and energy to get it done.

The real heart of strategy is the strategist.

Never underestimate the power of people who are determined to change life and work with all their might towards it. They are the ones who turn into leaders and revolutionize the world around us.

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.

A Leader is someone who can do everything him(her)self, but let's other people help him(her).

The difference between a good leader and a great leader is humility.

Cruel leaders are replaced only to have new leaders turn cruel.

The greatest leader in the world could never win a campaign unless he understood the men he had to lead.

In order for America to remain a global leader in innovation and opportunity, we must give our children a solid foundation in math and science.

What leader has no lessons to learn from his followers?

The first task of a leader is to keep hope alive.

Live every day as if it is a festival. Turn your life into a celebration

The leader of genius must have the ability to make different opponents appear as if they belonged to one category.

A true leader always keeps an element of surprise up his sleeve, which others cannot grasp but which keeps his public excited and breathless.

Of all the things a leader should fear, complacency heads the list.

Great leaders encourage leadership development. By openly developing themselves

The leader for today and the future will be focused on how to be - how to develop quality, character, mind-set, values, principles, and courage.

Great leaders gain authority by giving it away.

Charisma is the gift from above where a leader knows from inside himself what to do.

A leader who doesn't hesitate before he sends his nation into battle is not fit to be a leader.

I would not like to be a political leader in Russia. They never know when they're being taped.

The best leader does not ask people to serve him, but the common end. The best leader has not followers, but men and women working with him.

Show me a poorly uniformed troop and I'll show you a poorly uniformed leader.

I don't want to be a leader. I want to be one who goes around with a little oil can and offer help when I see a breakdown.