People Quotes

I think what weakens people most is fear of wasting their strength.

~ Etty Hillesum

What is the biggest thing that stops people from living their lives in the present moment? Fear - and we must learn how to overcome fear.

~ Brian Weiss

People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader leads, and the boss drives.

~ Theodore Roosevelt

Leadership is unlocking people's potential to become better.

~ Bill Bradley

It is better to lead from behind and to put others in front, especially when you celebrate victory when nice things occur. You take the front line when there is danger. Then people will appreciate your leadership.

~ Nelson Mandela

People buy into the leader before they buy into the vision.

~ John C. Maxwell

You don't lead by hitting people over the head - that's assault, not leadership.

~ Dwight D. Eisenhower

The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.

~ Henry Kissinger

People who enjoy meetings should not be in charge of anything.

~ Thomas Sowell

One thing that somebody told me is that leadership is a lonely role - some people can do it, and some people can't.

~ Kyrie Irving

You're only as good as the people you hire.

~ Ray Kroc

Leadership is about doing the right thing, even if it going against a vast number of naysayers and mediocre people.

~ N. R. Narayana Murthy

True leadership isn't about having an idea. It's about having an idea and recruiting other people to execute on this vision.

~ Leila Janah

Leadership is a matter of having people look at you and gain confidence, seeing how you react. If you're in control, they're in control.

~ Tom Landry

I think a major act of leadership right now, call it a radical act, is to create the places and processes so people can actually learn together, using our experiences.

~ Margaret J. Wheatley

The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born-that there is a genetic factor to leadership. This myth asserts that people simply either have certain charismatic qualities or not. That's nonsense; in fact, the opposite is true. Leaders are made rather than born.

~ Warren Bennis

I have a different vision of leadership. A leadership is someone who brings people together.

~ George W. Bush

There are very few good examples of effective, nurturing leadership that unlocks people's potential or even enthusiasm.

~ Deepak Chopra

You can never stop and as older people, we have to learn how to take leadership from the youth and I guess I would say that this is what I'm attempting to do right now.

~ Angela Davis

I think we need the feminine qualities of leadership, which include attention to aesthetics and the environment, nurturing, affection, intuition and the qualities that make people feel safe and cared for.

~ Deepak Chopra

One of my beliefs about leadership is it's not how many followers you have, but how many people you have with different opinions that you can bring together and try to be a good listener.

~ Robert Kraft

I think a captain is someone who captains on the cricket field but, most of the leadership that happens is off the cricket field. It's very easy to captain people on the cricket field, but if you can start leading them off the cricket field, and show them that trust, what you have in them.

~ Gautam Gambhir

I learned early on that one of the secrets of campus leadership was the simplest thing of all: speak to people coming down the sidewalk before they speak to you. I would always look ahead and speak to the person coming toward me. If I knew them I would call them by name, but even if I didn't I would still speak to them.

~ Sam Walton

I speak directly to the people, and I know that the people of California want to have better leadership. They want to have great leadership. They want to have somebody that will represent them. And it doesn't matter if you're a Democrat or a Republican, young or old.

~ Arnold Schwarzenegger

Online leadership is about leveraging digital platforms such as blogs, YouTube, Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, and other networks to build a loyal following of people who want to learn more about and benefit from your experiences and expertise.

~ Lewis Howes

To me, leadership is about encouraging people. It's about stimulating them. It's about enabling them to achieve what they can achieve - and to do that with a purpose.

~ Christine Lagarde

We're in a leadership position in sports. People look up to the National Football League.

~ Roger Goodell

We need leadership in this country, which will improve the lives of working families, the children, the elderly, the sick and the poor. We need leadership which brings our people together and makes us stronger.

~ Bernie Sanders

There's two parts of leadership. You've got to be a good leader - you've got to be somebody that people want to emulate and care about the other people. But the other guys that you have have to accept their leadership. They have to respond to it. That's the chemistry that you never know how that is going to happen.

~ Nick Saban

Leadership that exploits and sacrifices young people on the altar of its goals is nothing more than raw, demonic power. Genuine leadership is found in ceaseless efforts to foster young people, to pave the way forward for them.

~ Daisaku Ikeda

Real leadership is leaders recognizing that they serve the people that they lead.

~ Pete Hoekstra

I think it is quite dangerous for an organisation to think they can predict where they are going to need leadership. It needs to be something that people are willing to assume if it feels relevant, given the context of any situation.

~ Margaret J. Wheatley

Leaders are for calling people to their better angels, for helping guide them to a kind of sterner, more mature sense of what we need to do. To me, Reagan's brand of leadership was what I call 'a liturgy of absolution.' He absolved Americans almost in a priestly role to contend with sin. Who wouldn't want that?

~ Rick Perlstein

People are starving for truth and leadership.

~ Chris Gibson

The people of Oklahoma deserve better. We deserve leadership that's willing and unafraid to take a public stand against bigotry and bullying.

~ Lynn Schusterman

When you're in a leadership role, you can never please all of the people all of the time. There's also a lot of responsibility that goes along with it that others may not realize.

~ Joyce Meyer

In the area we're discussing, leadership begins on Madison Avenue, on the desks and in the offices of people who spend hundreds of millions of dollars buying what will get them ratings.

~ Norman Lear

People invest in businesses that they believe have the leadership, mission and team to grow and operate profitably.

~ Robert Kiyosaki

Lincoln's leadership is based on a number of precepts, but my favorite one is that he acted in the name, and for the good, of the people.

~ Steven Spielberg

We in the United States believe in the protection of minorities; we recognize the contributions that they can make and the leadership that they can provide; and we do not believe that any people - whether majority or minority, or individual human beings - are 'expendable' in the cause of theory or of policy.

~ Robert Kennedy