Leadership Quotes

His constant references to the ancient world have the effect of giving ordinary soldiers a sense of their lives.

~ Andrew Roberts

Perfectionism is a disease. Procrastination is a disease. ACTION is the cure.

~ Richie Norton

Only a writer with Bennett's craft and brass could manage to praise and insult his readers at the same time.

~ Harold Holzer

While JFK had made the sale on a political level, he had not yet completed it on an emotional one.

~ David Pietrusza

House Speaker Thomas Reed could destroy an argument or expose a fallacy in fewer words than anyone else. His language was vivid and picturesque. He had a way of phrasing things which was peculiarly apt and peculiarly his own.

~ Barbara W. Tuchman

James Gordon Bennett said he aimed to be, serious in my aims but full of frolic in my means.

~ Harold Holzer

Public sentiment is everything, said Lincoln. With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed.

~ Harold Holzer

The mid-19th century was noted for a partisan, rather than a consensus press, but this partisanship was able to turn out voters consistently.

~ Harold Holzer

Words are catch-basins of experience, fingerprints and footprints of the past that the literary detective may scrutinize in order to sleuth out the history of human consciousness.

~ Philip Zaleski

Stories were heirlooms in these parts.

~ Robert Kurson

No true power can be founded among men which does not depend upon the free union of their inclinations, and patriotism and religion are the only two motives in the world which can permanently direct the whole of the body politic to one end.

~ Alexis De Tocqueville

You have a nicety of awareness of the difference between a blade's edge and its tip.

~ Frank Herbert

Secretary of the treasury Albert Gallatin is accused of treason by war enthusiasts merely for suggesting budget adjustments to pay for war measures.

~ Donald R. Hickey

He was a generous but subtly demanding boss.

~ H.w. Brands

Presidents are also always storytellers, purveyors of useful national mythologies.

~ Rick Perlstein

Leaders create awareness in their followers about the great potentials they carry and how to release them for the benefit of all. Leaders are motivators

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Leadership is built on inspirations. Inspiration does both the theoretical and the practical job. By inspiration, people are not only informed to know what is right. But they are also convinced to always do what’s right.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Leaders don’t step on toes of dwarfs. They mount shoulders of giants.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

When motivation flows, people see work as interesting as music. They enjoy it till they do more than they could have done. Leaders motivate people to do greater things.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

There comes a time in your life when you can no longer put off choosing. You have to choose one path or the other. You can live safe and be protected by people just like you, or you can stand up and be a leader for what is right. Always, remember this: People never remember the crowd; they remember the one person that had the courage to say and do what no one would do.

~ Shannon L. Alder

You're going to meet people in this world who are fine, quality people. They'll build your character, and you want to hang around with them. Then there are the ones who don't do right. They will tear you down. Be nice to them-never hurt anybody-but don't hang with them.

~ Ruthi Postow Birch

If You Respect Their Preparation,You never Drop the Baton

~ Vineet Raj Kapoor

Good values are like a magnet, they attract good people.

~ John Wooden

The most reliable friend you have is your shadow.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Leadership is never an avenue to be self-serving but,a platform to render great service to people.

~ Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

We will never know peace and stability in the world without balance. And we will never know balance without justice for all. Yet, justice exists only where there is fairness and equality -- when every man and country is treated and viewed equally. No country should be given power over another. In addition, no country should be granted privileges that are denied to others. No one country has the authority to decide which country will be embargoed, denied to protect itself, and will be favored based on the weight of their resources. Eliminate the hypocrisy.

~ Suzy Kassem

Leadership is self-made. People who have deliberately decided to become problems solver lead better.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Leaders build bridges, and seek common grounds to unite. Pygmies build walls, and invent excuses to divide.

~ Mamur Mustapha

Don't let your fear of criticism suffocate your leadership potential. Once you begin to speak your truth, you will discover the people who have been waiting for someone exactly like you. Until you speak up, all you need is the faith that they exist. And I promise you: they do.

~ Vironika Tugaleva

Sometimes, people don’t need our homes to live in or our bodies to lean on. All they need are our hands to lift them up.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

People who achieve marvelously in critical challenges are commended than people who achieve same things on the silver platter.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Bear it in mind that people who do not take actions are not and cannot be leaders. Leadership is action.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Good people who are always silent for bad people to gain freedom and do their worsts are the most dangerous wastes the world ever has.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Talk to people about what they want to hear, and they'll stay for more. Talk to them about what you want them to hear, and they'll soon turn away.

~ Nabil N. Jamal

People deserve their leaders.

~ Kambiz Shabankareh

People will react to you as a result of their own mindset, rather than as a reflection of your worth. Most people use others as mirrors for their own darkness. If you have been hurt by such people, perhaps you can use these experiences to become a different kind of person—one who reflects the light within others instead of using them as mirrors. Maybe your experiences of pain can lead you to being a great leader, someone who lights up the world. Your most painful struggle is ripe with opportunity.

~ Vironika Tugaleva

Any leadership that is observant and committed to its people, will always find better ways to solve problems.

~ Gift Gugu Mona

It's hard to lead a cavalry charge if you think you look funny on a horse.

~ Adlai E. Stevenson Ii

When two brothers are busy fighting, an evil man can easily attack and rob their poor mother. Mankind should always stay united, standing shoulder to shoulder so evil can never cheat and divide them.

~ Suzy Kassem

Oh! What honour for the female sex! It is perfectly obvious that God has special regard for it when all these wretched people who destroyed the whole Kingdom – now recovered and made safe by a woman, something that 5000 men could not have done – and the traitors [have been] exterminated. Before the event they would scarcely have believed this possible.

~ Christine De Pizan