Leadership Quotes

The elegance under pressure is the result of fearlessness.

~ Ashish Patel

It is not an overstatement to say that the destiny of the entire human race depends on what is going on in America today. This is a staggering reality to the rest of the world; they must feel like passengers in a supersonic jetliner who are forced to watch helplessly while a passel of drunks, hypes, freaks, and madmen fight for the controls and the pilot's seat. – Eldridge Cleaver, Soul on Ice, 1968

~ Mark Kurlansky

You have to imprint your own style. People like authentic personalities.

~ Dexter Hawk

Self-leadership always precedes team leadership.

~ Michael Hyatt

When efforts that are wisely executed, the situation and condition don't affect the performance.

~ Ashish Patel

How we lead ourselves in life impacts how we lead those around us.

~ Michael Hyatt

A leader or president that never rebukes violence, is like one that takes utter pride in it's rage

~ Andrew-Knox B Kaniki

The world is aching for feminine wisdom to come forward.

~ Tabby Biddle

A true leader must have enough backbone to stand alone, even when the crowd wants to take the easy road home. A true leader cannot be dependent on companionship for his or her security, but must learn to trust in God alone. Singleness can give us the kind of backbone - courage, confidence, and leadership skills that an effective Christian must learn.

~ Leslie Ludy

Service is a sacred strength.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

A prophet is not someone who first had an idea. He is the one to first believe in it and take it to its conclusion.

~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Every leadership role has a character driving force that will fulfill or decimate the ultimate purpose of the role. Jesus our role model

~ Ikechukwu Joseph

Standards are not established by your proclamations they are established by your routines.

~ T Jay Taylor

The value of someone is not determined by titles, positions and sects, but by the impact and the major contributions he/she makes in the society by digging a hole in the universe to build a foundation for the next generation that is coming.

~ Lydor Brunice

Organizing a coup was not the same as wanting one.

~ David Pietrusza

TO GROW OUR MIND- We must learn new things. We must CARE for more things. We must TEACH more things. We must SHARE more things. We must RETAIN more things. To grow our mind - We don't need education, We need a good memory.

~ Lorenzo Victory

John F. Kennedy responded, as he often did when at his best, skillfully mixing dollops of wit with, self-deprecation, and the principle of not-really-going-near-the-question.

~ David Pietrusza

Gen. de Gaulle is only concerned about history, and no jury can dictate the judgment of history. Georges Pompidou

~ Mark Kurlansky

Great leadership makes ordinary people into extraordinary people.

~ Jeffrey Fry

They probably think the sun won't come up unless you're there to allow it.

~ Larry Mcmurtry

William McKinley was a man made to be managed.

~ Barbara W. Tuchman

Nixon was by nature a excluder. Halderman like to exclude people. When Nixon's need met Halderman's abilities, you had the most perfect formula for disaster. – Jim Shepley

~ David Pietrusza

Richard Nixon coveted, to the point of obsession, a controversy-free, stage-managed coronation.

~ David Pietrusza

Begin each day with a promise to self to be grateful ,be kind .be authentic your day will meet your intent ~bns

~ Bluenscottish

House speaker Thomas read could see the trend, but he could not have changed himself.

~ Barbara W. Tuchman

[That] speaks to one of the most important roles of a leader; to boil down an organization's many priorities into a simple plan, so that employees can remember it, internalize it, and act on it.

~ Adam Bryant

JFK apparently felt genuine sympathy for his 1960 presidential opponent Richard Nixon. He felt that, with Nixon's frequent shifts in political philosophy and reinventions, he must have to decide which Nixon he will be at each stop. This, Kennedy reasoned, must be exhausting.

~ David Pietrusza

The author commented that John F. Kennedy's 1960 presidential campaign team worked like a band of brothers, while Richard Nixon's campaign team worked like a band of brothers in law under the direction of a quarrelsome aunt.

~ David Pietrusza

Nixon wanted view and advice brought to him through intermediaries. He wanted information filtered as it came to him – and he wanted his filters to filter his will back to those whom he must direct.

~ David Pietrusza

Eisenhower on LBJ: He hadn't got the depth of mind nor the breath vision to carry great responsibility.

~ David Pietrusza

Henry Cabot Lodge was like medicine, good for you, but hard to take. – Teddy White

~ David Pietrusza

There are really two essential things in campaigning. First, you must be in good humor. If you're going to be a raffle, you are to stay home. Second, you are to make sense in your speeches. These aren't the two things you must do. Unless you're saying, if you can be in good humor when you're exhausted. – Henry Cabot Lodge

~ David Pietrusza

The most important job of a leader is to instill the confidence to follow.

~ Kevin T. Cunningham

Eleanor Roosevelt on the changes in John F. Kennedy that led her to drop her opposition to his nomination for president: He has the qualities of a scholar, and a sense of history. I had the feeling that he was the man who can learn. I like him better than I ever had before because he seemed so little caulk-sure, and I think he has a mind that is open to new ideas.

~ David Pietrusza

He left to do whatever editors do.

~ Bill Bryson

The author's alliterative description of politics since the 1960 presidential debates: Government by Gotcha.

~ David Pietrusza

What other country has had the privilege of making the world's heart beat faster?

~ Barbara W. Tuchman

Jack Kennedy protected a mature and presidential image – tough, yet not unduly combative.

~ David Pietrusza

Peace is one of the most obvious earmarks of the authority of Christ.

~ Beth Moore

What we saw in Richard Nixon's face was the panic in his soul. – Richard Goodwin

~ David Pietrusza