Leadership Quotes

Consensus: “The process of abandoning all beliefs, principles, values, and policies in search of something in which no one believes, but to which no one objects; the process of avoiding the very issues that have to be solved, merely because you cannot get agreement on the way ahead. What great cause would have been fought and won under the banner: ‘I stand for consensus?

~ Margaret Thatcher

Some leaders are born women.

~ Geraldine Ferraro

the most improper job of any man, even saints (who at any rate were at least unwilling to take it on), is bossing other men. Not one in a million is fit for it, and least of all those who seek the opportunity.

~ J.r.r. Tolkien

Men who find themselves late are never sure. They are all the things the civics books tell us the good citizen should be: partisans but never zealots, respectors of the facts which attend each situation but never benders of those facts, uncomfortable in positions of leadership but rarely unable to turn down a responsibility once it has been offered . . . or thrust upon them. They make the best leaders in a democracy because they are unlikely to fall in love with power.

~ Stephen King

He had learned that close-held secrets could often be cracked by going all the way to the top and there making himself unbearably unpleasant. He knew that such twisting of the tiger's tail was dangerous, for he understood the psychopathology of great power.

~ Robert A. Heinlein

They accepted my donation, so they're aware they'd better serve my interests or I'll buy some leadership that will.

~ Tom Robbins

...Regardless, I still do not believe that your duty is to do as the people wish. Your duty is to lead as best you can, following the dictates of your conscience. You must be true. Your Majesty, to the man you wish to become....

~ Brandon Sanderson

Pick a leader who is strong and confident, yet humble. Intelligent, but not sly. A leader who encourages diversity, not racism. One who understands the needs of the farmer, the teacher, the welder, the doctor, and the environmentalist -- not only the banker, the oil tycoon, the weapons developer, or the insurance and pharmaceutical lobbyist.

~ Suzy Kassem

In these times, a great leader must be extremely brave. Their leadership must be steered only by their conscience, not a bribe.

~ Suzy Kassem

Leaders say no to corruption. Anyone playing a role in governance, and is not ready to do this is not a leader.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Having a hearing is educational. Having a hearing with television cameras is useful. Having a hearing with two rows of television cameras is Heaven.

~ Tim Wirth

In the days when hyenas of hate suckle the babes of men, and jackals of hypocrisy pimp their mothers’ broken hearts, may children not look to demons of ignorance for hope.

~ Aberjhani

Politics is a matter of leading other people. Admittedly not where they want to go, but where they ought to go.

~ Peter Prange

In politics, it often pays to be ahead of the curve. That holds true for corporate governance too, even more so when politics enter the equation.

~ Mmanti Umoh

The parents of politics are lack of control and seeking to control. The parents of leadership are influence and trust.

~ Richie Norton

Politics is not leadership. It never has been. It never will be.

~ Richie Norton

At the end of the day, I do not care how many Democrats or Republicans are in office. What I do care about is whether our leader is truly serving THE PEOPLE or only his/her own pockets. Is our leader in tune with the concerns and needs of the man on the street - or only issues concerning private interests? Is this leader uniting or dividing the country? Milking or contributing to it? Building and preserving it -- or bringing it all down?

~ Suzy Kassem

No country can police corruption in other countries when it itself is not free from corruption. You cannot clean a dirty wall with dirty hands.

~ Suzy Kassem

People need to remember that a man who is deceptive deceives by hiding that he is deceptive. He is not going to openly validate that he is deceiving you because his aim is to deceive you.

~ Suzy Kassem

If we are not registering bad events in history to learn from them, then why are we even still publishing them at all? Is it really an outlandish ideal to want a peaceful and prosperous nation, one ruled only by compassion, truth and justice? As of now, there is no peace, no truth, no prosperity, no compassion - and NO COMMON SENSE. Since when did the words human and inhumane share the same meaning?

~ Suzy Kassem

In a world devoid of towering political leaders, we seem to have become experts at growing idiots & elevating them to important positions.

~ Mamur Mustapha

Once you were in the hands of a Grand Vizier, you were dead. Grand Viziers were always scheming megalomaniacs. It was probably in the job description: Are you a devious, plotting, unreliable madman? Ah, good, then you can be my most trusted minister.

~ Terry Pratchett

Cruel people are not only people who kill innocent people with guns. Individuals who steal from government coffers to enrich themselves at the expense of the poor are grossly cruel.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Mothers and fathers are born everywhere. What the world needs are leaders.

~ Abhijit Naskar

A nation with a thousand awakened citizens and a corrupt leader, is much more alive than a nation with an awakened leader and a thousand corrupt citizens.

~ Abhijit Naskar

His supporters will push him to disaster unless his opponents show where the dangers are.

~ Walter Lippmann

Leadership by deception isn't leadership. It's fraud.

~ Dashanne Stokes

But Frances was beginning to feel that somewhere along the line, property, business, and all that contributes to the creation of wealth, must give back to government enough to guarantee adequate safeguarding of human welfare. The question would be, how to protect human beings against homelessness, starvation, and dependent old age without breaking down human initiative. She was seeing this as one fundamental problem of the government of the future; seeing too that somewhere leaders must arise who will be able to cope with this problem—honest leaders who will see the problem in its many-sidedness, and at last be able to solve it constructively.

~ May Martin Van Wye

Politics means implementation of the best ideas for the society in the path of wellbeing and progress.

~ Abhijit Naskar

One of the most important qualities of a president is the ability to inspire, to bring people together for the common good.

~ Dashanne Stokes

Integrity must become a personal goal of a growing majority in America if we want to be a major world influence.

~ Herman L Glaess

Accepting fraud from our leaders means accepting fraud in our personal lives.

~ Dashanne Stokes

If this were a courageous country,it would ask Gloria to lead itsince she is sane and funny and beautiful and smartand the National Leaders we've always hadare not.When I listen to her talk about women's rightschildren's rightsmen's rightsI think of the long line of Americans who should have been president, but weren't.Imagine Crazy Horse as president. Sojourner Truth.John Brown. Harriet Tubman. Black Elk or Geronimo.Imagine President Martin Luther King confrontingthe youthful Oppie Oppenheimer. Imagine PresidentMalcolm X going after the Klan. Imagine President StevieWonder dealing with the Truly Needy.Imagine President Shirley Chisholm, Ron Dellums, orSweet Honey in the Rockdealing with Anything.It is imagining to make us weep with frustration,as we languish under real estate dealers, killers, and bad actors.

~ Alice Walker

Leaders who do not help the people must be replaced by the people.

~ Dashanne Stokes

The great political problem in our modern democracy is how to induce our leaders to lead.

~ Edward L. Bernays

Great leaders lead by example, not by making an example of others.

~ Stewart Stafford

When the truth reaches the mass, it becomes impossible to govern by deception.

~ Mike Ducheine

Power is given to those who reach to take it & claimed by those who will stop at nothing to fulfill what they believe is their birthright.

~ Saminu Kanti

A full loyalty to the leader merely fits to the dogs, not to the humans!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

... The form of leadership must be the focus of constant reappraisal. Weber states, for example: 'Each new fact may necessitate the re-adjustment of the relations between end and indispensable means, between desired goals and unavoidable subsidiary consequences.' This process of re-adjustment is ultimately without resolution, for the political and ethical value-spheres are not only in constant opposition but also in permanent flux. It is the task of the politician to negotiate this value conflict and to be decisive as to the value to be pursued and the means to be employed.

~ Nicholas Gane