Leadership Quotes

The power to influence flows to the person with the most information.

~ Dr. Rob Pennington

Diplomacy's primary law: LEAVE ROOM FOR NEGOTIATION.

~ Barbara W. Tuchman

Leadership embodies a spirit of encouragement. It is difficult to lead people where they are not enthusiastically encouraged to go.

~ Dewayne Owens

The world has enough deceit, decay, and despair; be different.

~ Lindsey Rietzsch

Superficial and emotional subject might sway undecided voters.

~ Harold Holzer

In the 1960 campaign, Arthur Schlesinger wrote of Adlai Stevenson, who already lost twice as the party's presidential nominee, He has been away from power too long; he gives me an odd sense of unreality, a certain frivolity, distractedness, over-interest in words and phrases.

~ David Pietrusza

We need to know not only what is done but what is purposed and said by those who shape the destines of states and realms. Horace Greeley

~ Harold Holzer

Lincoln said his spiky hair had a way of getting up in the world.

~ Harold Holzer

The press-savy Lincoln looked not to the future, but to the past.

~ Harold Holzer

It remains for you to save one before saving others, to lead one before leading others.

~ Dan Groat

Leadership is when you build the team,have the tools,teach the trade,use their skills to ready them for success.~Bluenscottish

~ Bluenscottish

Leaders who listen to their team ,encourage dreams, they inspire success by example andl ignite the passion needed to achieve ~Bluenscottish

~ Bluenscottish

The art of oratory was considered part of the equipment of a statesman.

~ Barbara W. Tuchman

The author says one patrician English leader saw his relationship with the populace thusly: He wasn't responsible TO them. He was responsible FOR them. He was responsible for their care.

~ Barbara W. Tuchman

A minister's (cabinet member's) function was not to DO the work but to see that it got done.

~ Barbara W. Tuchman

A lot of people here some South in your mouth, and they automatically think you're dumb. They think if you talk funny, you are funny. – Lloyd Hand

~ David Pietrusza

Duty was not untinged by ambition.

~ Barbara W. Tuchman

Britain had an air of careless supremacy which GALLED her neighbors.

~ Barbara W. Tuchman

In person, Mr. Desmond mixes low-key friendliness and on-message discipline.

~ Jennifer Schuessler

In my opinion, the state of mind of a community is always directly due to the influence of the man at the top.

~ Agatha Christie

What does sincerity mean if it is chosen as deliberate strategy?

~ Rick Perlstein

When justice is more certain and more mild, is at the same time more efficacious.

~ Alexis De Tocqueville

The miserable man was a man of that confined stolidity of mind that he could not discuss my prospects without having me before him.

~ Charles Dickens

She led me to believe we will going fast because her thoughts were going fast.

~ Charles Dickens

The only nations which deny the utility of provincial liberties are those which have fewest of them; in other words, those who are unacquainted with the institution are the only persons who passed censure upon it.

~ Alexis De Tocqueville

Persuasion is a strong but subdued outrider.

~ Harold Bloom

I am not a leader but a pathfinder and a motivator.

~ Debasish Mridha

The whole people contracts the habits and tastes of the magistrate.

~ Alexis De Tocqueville

King die hard, in Shakespeare and in life.

~ Harold Bloom

Tolkien, lucky man, had protected a realm of his own invention to which he could flee. Robert Graves, embittered by battle, writes: The child alone a poet is: Spring and Fairyland are his… Wisdom made him old and wary banishing his Lords of Faery

~ Philip Zaleski

Governing is not a hero's profession. It is a profession of compromises.

~ Rick Perlstein

Jack had an actor's control. Chuck Spalding

~ David Pietrusza

Jousting with an obvious hoodlum couldn't hurt.

~ David Pietrusza

From hope evolves faith. From faith evolves belief. From belief evolves expectations. From expectations evolve success. As long as you have hope you can achieve success.

~ Dewayne Owens

Integrity is the ultimate foundation of leadership.

~ Debasish Mridha

When you get to the junction of double mindedness in purposefulness, remember the will of God.

~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

An anti-politician is hardly an anti-politician once he starts winning and works to close the deal by working to sew up the Establishment.

~ Rick Perlstein

It was not because I had a strong sense of the virtue of industry, but because Joe had a strong sense of the virtue of industry, that I worked with tolerable zeal against the grain.

~ Charles Dickens

He talks to people's grievances, but he doesn't seem mad. – Elizabeth Drew

~ Rick Perlstein

Chronicling the mid-1970s up session with Gerald Ford's clumsiness, the author quotes a medieval maxim that the king has two bodies. The head of state has a physical body like everyone else, but he also represents the body politic, either reflecting its majesty or its weakness.

~ Rick Perlstein