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A Leader Quotes

My role in society, or any artist's or poet's role, is to try and express what we all feel. Not to tell people how to feel. Not as a preacher, not as a leader, but as a reflection of us all.
- John Lennon

The chief executive who knows his strengths and weaknesses as a leader is likely to be far more effective than the one who remains blind to them.
- John Adair

Sinn Fein has demonstrated the ability to play a leadership role as part of a popular movement towards peace, equality and justice.
- Gerry Adams

If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.
- John Quincy Adams

The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on.
- Walter Lippmann

I've always been one of the youngest guys on the team. But now I'm one of the older guys, one of the more experienced guys, and I have to be more of a leader. The guys are looking up to me, asking me questions and looking at me to step up.
- Freddy Adu

A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.
- Harry S Truman

As a leader, you have to have the ability to assimilate new information and understand that there might be a different view.
- Madeleine Albright

Those who cannot think or take responsibility for themselves need, and clamor for, a leader.
- Hermann Hesse

When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty, and there is nothing more to fear from them, then he is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader.
- Plato

I've decided to run for the U.S. Senate because I believe Wisconsin families need a senator who will work hard to deliver results for the middle class - a leader with the courage to do what's right, no matter how tough the odds or how powerful the special interests we have to fight.
- Tammy Baldwin

A leader is a dealer in hope.
- Napoleon Bonaparte

A leader is a person you will follow to a place you wouldn't go by yourself.
- Joel A Barker

At the end of the day, we need a leader who thinks with his head but leads with his heart.
- Gresham Barrett

And we learned that you don't have to be famous or rich or physically healthy to be a leader. You just have to try to be a true person. We learned that helping other people brings out the good in everybody.
- Joan Bauer

I am a leader by default, only because nature does not allow a vacuum.
- Desmond Tutu

Peace comes when you talk to the guy you most hate. And that's where the courage of a leader comes, because when you sit down with your enemy, you as a leader must already have very considerable confidence from your own constituency.
- Desmond Tutu

Free men cannot start a war, but once it is started, they can fight on in defeat. Herd men, followers of a leader, cannot do that, and so it is always the herd men who win battles and the free men who win wars.
- John Steinbeck

Becoming a leader is synonymous with becoming yourself. It is precisely that simple, and it is also that difficult.
- Warren G Bennis

If a good man can't sleep after hurting people,
then he should learn much more to be a leader.
- Toba Beta

We know we are all tarnished, so we doubt everyone else too. It is sad situation, where we need a leader but cannot really trust anyone.
- Chetan Bhagat

In the past a leader was a boss. Today's leaders must be partners with their people... they no longer can lead solely based on positional power.
- Ken Blanchard

It is hard to look up to a leader who keeps his ear to the ground.
- James H Boren

I have a different vision of leadership. A leadership is someone who brings people together.
- George W Bush

A leader's most important decisions are about people. Who do you put in which jobs? How long do you leave them in a job?
- Carly Fiorina

A leader has to 'appear' consistent. That doesn't mean he has to be consistent.
- James Callaghan

A leader must have the courage to act against an expert's advice.
- James Callaghan

A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don't necessarily want to go, but ought to be.
- Rosalynn Carter

People, like sheep, tend to follow a leader - occasionally in the right direction.
- Alexander Chase

We need to be a leadership position about protecting minors on the Internet and, more importantly, giving the parents the tools they need to protect them.
- Peter Chernin

The job of a leader, the job of a governor, the job of a president, is to get the people in the room and bang enough heads together and rub enough arms and cajole enough to have them put the country and the state's greater interest ahead of their own personal partisan interest. That's what we did in New Jersey and that's the model for America.
- Chris Christie

And a leader has to command confidence, and consent.
- John Christopher

In terms of having views and being prepared to express them, yes, I think New Zealand's had a leadership role in a lot of things.
- Helen Clark

You're not a leader if you haven't been elected.
- Hillary Clinton

My feeling is if you're going to be a leader, you have to carefully assess where people are and where people want to go.
- Hillary Clinton

The problem is, we elected a manager and we need a leader. Let's face it: Bush is just dim.
- George Clooney

A leader leads by example, not by force
- Sun Tzu

At such a loving invitation, Pinocchio, with one leap from the back of the orchestra, found himself in the front rows. With another leap, he was on the orchestra leader's head. With a third, he landed on the stage.
- Carlo Collodi

A Chief must show no fear, no worry... A Chief is a leader first, and a man second..
- Cressida Cowell

Every year
A dreamer is born
Every year
A leader is formed
Every year
There will be someone
Who speaks 4 the voiceless
Fight 4 those in need
Each year
A messenger will
achieve 11/17/2011
- O Crisstopher

When I look at President Obama, I see a leader with a cool head, a caring heart and an open mind, a president who has demonstrated through his demeanor and through his deeds that he is uniquely qualified to heal our divisions, rebuild our nation and lead us to a brighter future together.
- Charlie Crist

Horrors from beyond the veil of time and space are coming to eat us so shut up, sounds like a pretty good draw card for a leader to have.
- Yahtzee Croshaw

You don't have to hold a position in order to be a leader.
- Anthony J Dangelo

It's getting better and better. You know, guys are feeling more comfortable and they are not afraid to speak up and be a leader. I mean, our team, we have 25 players, we have about 25 leaders, too. So whatever someone says, people listen.
- Johnny Damon

Iraq is not the only nation in the world to possess weapons of mass destruction, but it is the only nation with a leader who has used them against his own people.
- Tom Daschle

The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between, the leader is a servant.
- Max De Pree

I will never be a leader of men, and neither do I want to be one, and neither do I want to be led. I thought: I want to lead only myself.
- Patrick Dewitt

I'm a shepherd, not a sheep, and I've always prided myself on being a leader and not a follower.
- Dustin Diamond

Enclave life becomes very tense, Even when they do elect a leader, the factions remain, with the threat of splitting off.
- Mary Douglas

Behind a leader there must be followers, but they should always be on the lookout for the main chance and ready to change sides if the current leader doesn't deliver.
- Mary Douglas

Your first and foremost job as a leader is to take charge of your own energy and then help to orchestrate the energy of those around you.
- Peter Drucker

No institution can possibly survive if it needs geniuses or supermen to manage it. It must be organized in such a way as to be able to get along under a leadership composed of average human beings.
- Peter Drucker

People want to listen to a message, word from Jah. This could be passed through me or anybody. I am not a leader. Messenger. The words of the songs, not the person, is what attracts people.
- Bob Marley

The true test of a leader is whether his followers will adhere to his cause from their own volition, enduring the most arduous hardships without being forced to do so, and remaining steadfast in the moments of greatest peril.
- Xenophon

George W. Bush is a leader, and that's what we need in the White House. George Bush is someone you can believe and trust.
- Jim Edgar

I don't see a candidate on the scene right now, but it is going to have to be a candidate that people can look at as a leader and not as a man or a woman.
- Julie Nixon Eisenhower

To be a leader of men one must turn one's back on men.
- Havelock Ellis

As the U.S. trade deficit, and the portion of that deficit attributed to China, continue to grow, our own economy is at risk of losing its reputation as a leader in world trade.
- Jo Ann Emerson

In the simplest terms, a leader is one who knows where she wants and gets up and goes.
- John Erskine

As far as Iraq is concerned, let's not forget what the UNSCR is about, that the main consideration in Iraq is that there is a leader who has been developing weapons of mass destruction, and has been violating UN resolutions for over a decade.
- Donald Evans

A leader...is like a shepherd. He stays behind the flock, letting the most nimble go out ahead, whereupon the others follow, not realizing that all along they are being directed from behind.
- Nelson Mandela

I was not a messiah, but an ordinary man who had become a leader because of extraordinary circumstances.
- Nelson Mandela

On February 7, 2.2 million Haitians went to the polls and exercised their constitutional right to select a leader. They went by foot, by tap tap and other forms of transportation, traveling hours and standing in line for almost a day to get to their polling places.
- Mark Foley

President Wilson says a leader must treat public opinion the way a sailor deals with the wind, using it to blow the ship in one direction or another, but never trying to go directly against it.
- Ken Follett

You don't have to hold a position in order to be a leader.
- Henry Ford

Sometimes being a leader isn't about winning. Sometimes it's about doing what's right, instead of what's powerful.
- James Patterson

Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.
- Margaret Fuller

Stories are the single most powerful tool in a leader's toolkit.
- Howard Gardner

I can't say I have control over my emotions; I don't know my mind. I'm lost like everyone else. I'm certainly not a leader.
- Richard Gere

In choosing a president, we really don't choose a Republican or Democrat, a conservative or liberal. We choose a leader.
- Rudy Giuliani

A tribe is a group of people connected to one another, connected to a leader, and connected to an idea. For millions of years, human beings have been part of one tribe or another. A group needs only two things to be a tribe: a shared interest and a way to communicate.
- Seth Godin

Being a leader gives you charisma. If you look and study the leaders who have succeeded, that's where charisma comes from, from the leading.
- Seth Godin

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

many people must be ruled to thrive. In their selfishness and greed, they see free people as their oppressors. They wish to have a leader who will cut the taller plants so the sun will reach them. They think no plant should be allowed to grow taller than the shortest, and in that way give light to all. They would rather be provided a guiding light, regardless of the fuel, than light a candle themselves.
- Terry Goodkind

You suffer from the oldest delusion in politics. You think you can change the world by talking to a leader. Leaders are the effects, not the causes of changes.
- Alasdair Gray

I would not want to live in a country that would have me as a leader in any sort of political bent.
- Tom Hanks

A leader does not deserve the name unless he is willing occasionally to stand alone.
- Henry A Kissinger

A leader who confines his role to his people's experience dooms himself to stagnation; a leader who outstrips his people's experience runs the risk of not being understood.
- Henry A Kissinger

President Reagan was a leader at a time when the American people most needed leadership. He outlined a vision that captured the imagination of the free world, a vision that toppled the Communist empire and freed countless millions.
- Dennis Hastert

This group had a kind of dark glamour within the castle. They were a motley collection; a mixture of the weak seeking protection, the ambitious seeking some shared glory, and the thuggish gravitating toward a leader who could show them more refined forms of cruelty.
- J K Rowling

What is important for a leader is that which makes him a leader. It is the needs of his people.
- Frank Herbert

We know the major conditions wherein this large populace may turn upon its keepers -
One: When they find a leader. This is the most volatile threat to the powerful; they must retain control of leaders.
Two: When the populace recognises its chains. Keep the populace blind and unquestioning.
Three: When the populace perceives a hope of escape from bondage. They must never even believe that escape is possible!
- Frank Herbert

Remember that in the early days of the feminist movement, they refused to have a leader; different women would just stand up and speak. The early feminists were very careful to not put what was spontaneously arising back in the old bottle.
- James Hillman

All of us, who are members of the Germanic peoples, can be happy and thankful that once in thousands of years fate has given us, from among the Germanic peoples, such a genius, a leader, our Fuehrer Adolf Hitler, and you should be happy to be allowed to work with us.
- Heinrich Himmler

Penn State has also continued to be a leader in Pennsylvania's largest industry: Agriculture.
- Tim Holden

A leader is someone who helps improve the lives of other people or improve the system they live under.
- Sam Houston

I never thought in terms of being a leader. I thought very simply in terms of helping people.
- John Hume

One secret of leadership is that the mind of a leader never turns off. Leaders even when they are sightseers or spectators, are active; not passive observers.
- James Humes

No one knows who they are more than someone who changes their identity (before I became a farmer, I was a leadership coach).
- M C Humphreys

You're a leader. It's your job to keep your passion hot. Do whatever you have to do, read whatever you have to read, go wherever you have to go to stay fired up. And don't apologize to anybody.
- Bill Hybels

Name me a leader who has a better idea for homeland security than making us take off our shoes in airports and throw away our shampoo?
- Lee Iacocca

When you experience a failure as a leader, don't hide it - talk about it. Your missed opportunity will encourage others to take risks.
- Naveen Jain

I would rather be an artist than a leader. Ironically, a leader has to follow the rules.
- Criss Jami

You can judge a leader by the size of the problem he tackles. Other people can cope with the waves, it's his job to watch the tide.
- Antony Jay

Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.
- Steve Jobs

I believe that no man who holds a leader's position should ever accept favors from either side. He is then committed to show favors. A leader must stand alone.
- Mother Jones

Leadership. I separate myself from the pack at such a great distance that it may be said that I'm a leadera leader of one with followers of none.
- Jarod Kintz

Only one man in a thousand is a leader of men -- the other 999 follow women.
- Groucho Marx

The trouble with being a ghostwriter or artist is that you must remain rather anonymously without credit. If one wants the credit, one has to cease being a ghost and become a leader or innovator.
- Bob Kane

It's good to have a leader, otherwise we argue too much.
- Hamad Bin Isa Al Khalifa

The Secret Service is a strange group. They don't really have a leader. It's not set up like a military. Each one is supposed to be able to act like a leader when something comes up.
- Val Kilmer

Herman Cain continues to show himself to be a leader.
- Alveda King

America wants solutions. America wants a leader. No more tabloid politics.
- Alveda King

As far as Iraq, the important thing is that the Taliban is gone in Afghanistan, three-quarters of the al-Qaida leadership is either dead or in jail, and we now have Saudi Arabia working with us, Pakistan working with us.
- Peter King

The Law is supposed to keep us safe and strong and able to birth healthy children, yet the Law wants us to tear each other apart to find a leader. The Law's a bunch of hypocrisy.
- Annette Curtis Klause

I'm really thankful and complimented when people come to me and say, thank you for the great times for all these years. But I don't think about it as being a leader.
- Bill Kreutzmann

The quality of a leader is reflected in the standards they set for themselves.
- Ray Kroc

Each group and each youngster is different. As a leader or coach, you get to know what they need.
- Mike Krzyzewski

Clearly, every company needs a leader. That's an important part of being the CEO of the company.
- Sanjay Kumar

Anyway, I've never been captain in 16 years in the NHL. But that didn't stop me being a leader in my own way.
- Guy Lafleur

I am about tribal feminine power. As a leader, I may stumble but my essence lives to the future-- of my people, of my literature, of my art. And when a tribesman turn against its leader, that tribe will become two. It may faulter my course, but it will not stifle my ending. I rule only among my believers.
- Kristie Levangie

A leader who loses his connection to his people soon loses the ability to lead them.
- Robert Ley

It's not as if our party has a leadership campaign underway.
- Peter Mackay

A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.
- Lao Tzu

When the Master governs, the people
are hardly aware that he exists.
Next best is a leader who is loved.
Next, one who is feared.
The worst is one who is despised.
If you don't trust people,
you make them untrustworthy.
The Master doesn't talk, he acts.
When his work is done,
the people say, Amazing:
we did it, all by ourselves!
- Lao Tzu

I have three precious things which I hold fast and prize. The first is gentleness; the second is frugality; the third is humility, which keeps me from putting myself before others. Be gentle and you can be bold; be frugal and you can be liberal; avoid putting yourself before others and you can become a leader among men.
- Lao Tzu

The first duty of a leader is to make himself be loved without courting love. To be loved without 'playing up' to anyone - even to himself.
- Andre Malraux

Leadership is the other side of the coin of loneliness, and he who is a leader must always act alone. And acting alone, accept everything alone.
- Ferdinand Marcos

I am a leader. Leaders always get heat. They're always going against the grain. Jimi Hendrix got heat; Bob Marley got heat; Miles Davis got heat. Every great artist got heat. Heat means you're doing something right.
- Ziggy Marley

I feel fantastically excited that we have a leader who fought for the leadership without compromising his quite challenging view that the party has to change.
- Francis Maude

It is simply the view, and a view I think shared by most members of the party, that it is very difficult to have a leader that does not command the support of the parliamentary party.
- Francis Maude

The most important quality in a leader is that of being acknowledged as such. All leaders whose fitness is questioned are clearly lacking in force.
- Andre Maurois

A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.
- John C Maxwell

A leader who produces other leaders multiples their influences.
- John C Maxwell

I want a leader that sets out a path. I want one that doesn't just talk about cuts, but talks about the shining city on the hill. We're only going to get out of this problem if we grow this economy.
- Kevin Mccarthy

It is time for a leader who will lead.
- Mitch Mcconnell

That moment was very important because it was political. That's what has to be done, so they struck a deal. She figures his is a well-thought-out motivation that she felt was worthy trade-off. The motivation here is survival, and she has to think like a leader.
- Mary Mcdonnell

A leader who doesn't hesitate before he sends his nation into battle is not fit to be a leader.
- Golda Meir

This business is always changing. If you're going to be a leader, you've got to take chances.
- Ronnie Milsap

I've been the co-chair of the Non-Partisan Women's Caucus and vice-chair for several years, taking a leadership role in this women's organization.
- Gwen Moore

Somebody has to take responsibility for being a leader.
- Toni Morrison

And, of course, the fact that Maurice Strong, a Canadian, was in charge made it important for us to pull up our socks and become leaders in this field. Now, here is a field we should be a leader in!
- Brian Mulroney

Mitt Romney understands the importance of Alaska as a leader in our country's energy production and I look forward to working with him on such an important economic and national security matter.
- Lisa Murkowski

A leader has the vision and conviction that a dream can be achieved. He inspires the power and energy to get it done.
- Ralph Nader

To be a leader, you have to make people want to follow you, and nobody wants to follow someone who doesn't know where he is going.
- Joe Namath

A leader or a man of action in a crisis almost always acts subconsciously and then thinks of the reasons for his action.
- Jawaharlal Nehru

Being a leader is making the people you love hate you a little more each day.
- Patrick Ness

San Francisco has long been a leader in the arts, nurturing generations of painters, sculptors, poets, novelists, playwrights, film-makers, and performing artists and innovators of every kind.
- Gavin Newsom

I don't think that a leader can control, to any great extent, his destiny. Very seldom can he step in and change the situation if the forces of history are running in another direction.
- Richard M Nixon

If an individual wants to be a leader and isn't controversial, that means he never stood for anything.
- Richard M Nixon

Japan is already a leader in energy efficiency, and it has a wealth of innovative technologies. We must put this expertise to use creating a model for growth and sustainability that we can share with the world.
- Yoshihiko Noda

The one thing I have learned as a CEO is that leadership at various levels is vastly different. When I was leading a function or a business, there were certain demands and requirements to be a leader. As you move up the organization, the requirements for leading that organization don't grow vertically; they grow exponentially.
- Indra Nooyi

As a leader, I am tough on myself and I raise the standard for everybody; however, I am very caring because I want people to excel at what they are doing so that they can aspire to be me in the future.
- Indra Nooyi

All these boundaries - Africa, Asia, Malaysia, America - are set by men. But you don't have to look at boundaries when you are looking at a man - at the character of a man. The question is: What do you stand for? Are you a follower, or are you a leader?
- Hakeem Olajuwon

To have a man who can flirt is next thing to indispensable to a leader of society.
- Margaret Oliphant

It is the solemn obligation of a leader always to be a leader. Even when - perhaps especially when - you don't feel like being a leader.
- Bill Owens

The most important thing as a leader is your relationship with God.
- Manny Pacquiao

My job as a leader is to make sure everybody in the company has great opportunities, and that they feel they're having a meaningful impact and are contributing to the good of society. As a world, we're doing a better job of that. My goal is for Google to lead, not follow that.
- Larry Page

IBM has taken a leadership role in this area and is prepared to be a technology partner with companies around the world to take advantage of these new developments.
- John Patrick

You cannot be a leader, and ask other people to follow you, unless you know how to follow, too.
- Sam Rayburn

The quality of his being one with the people, of having no artificial or natural barriers between him and them, made it possible for him to be a leader without ever being or thinking of being a dictator.
- Frances Perkins

To its great credit, Wimbledon has been a leader in bringing about change and improvement in the sport.
- Fred Perry

The little people will get even, which is one of a thousand reasons why they are not little people at all. If you're a jerk as a leader, you will be torpedoed. And usually it won't be by your vice presidents; it will be on the loading dock at 3am when no supervisors are around.
- Tom Peters

I'm quite modest. I don't want to tell people I'm a leader.
- Pol Pot

I think whether you're having setbacks or not, the role of a leader is to always display a winning attitude.
- Colin Powell

If a leader doesn't convey passion and intensity then there will be no passion and intensity within the organization and they'll start to fall down and get depressed.
- Colin Powell

The man who lets a leader prescribe his course is a wreck being towed to the scrap heap.
- Ayn Rand

A leader is someone who steps back from the entire system and tries to build a more collaborative, more innovative system that will work over the long term.
- Robert Reich

A leader isn't someone who forces others to make him stronger; a leader is someone willing to give him strength to others so that they may have the strength to stand on their own.
- Beth Revis

Power isn't control at all power is strength, and giving that strength to others. A leader isn't someone who forces others to make him stronger; a leader is someone willing to give his strength to others that they may have the strength to stand on their own.
- Beth Revis

The country already has a leader who divides us with the bitter politics of envy. We have to offer an alternative vision.
- Mitt Romney

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

Our customer base is not necessarily a leader, an early adopter.
- Lee Scott

It's hard for us in our stores to be a leader in technology.
- Lee Scott

We live in a time where government is not a leadership thing, it's more a business that's out there and running riot, so I guess the people have to go out there and say stuff.
- Yahoo Serious

Netanyahu is pressured easily, gets into a panic, and loses his senses... to run a country like Israel a leader needs to have reason and judgment and nerves of steel, two traits he does not have.
- Ariel Sharon

The secret of a leader lies in the tests he has faced over the whole course of his life and the habit of action he develops in meeting those tests.
- Gail Sheehy

Penn State is a leader in food science.
- Don Sherwood

In a pre-scientific society the best the common man can do is pin his faith on a leader and give him his support, trusting in his benevolence against the misuse of the delegated power and in his wisdom to govern justly and make war successfully.
- B F Skinner

A full-out rebellion would take a major amount of luck and coordination. The Tech Nos and Domotor looked at me, waiting. No one else would be able to organize both sides. I drew in a deep breath. We had the technology, the intelligence and the peopleput enough sheep together and you have a herd, a force to be reckoned with. We needed a leader.
- Maria V Snyder

Europe is difficult to coordinate, and our main deficit may not even lie in this area of finance and economics, but in foreign and security policy. We have a leadership problem because we are still 27 different members who have still not decided on how to work with each other based on what we used to call a European constitution.
- Peer Steinbruck

Strength of my heart, I need not fail,
Not mind to fear but to obey,
With such a Leader, who could quail?
Thou art as Thou wert yesterday.
Strength of my heart, I rest in Thee,
Fulfil Thy purposes through me.
- Amy Wilson Carmichael

One problem with being a leader, is that even among your friends you are alone, for it is you -- and you alone -- to whom the others look for final guidance.
- Trenton Lee Stewart

This semester has born in me the flame of hope to one day become a leader in the modern feminist movement. I can and will be the force that blows new life into it, giving a face and name to associate with instead of those women now who's names I don't know because they weren't listed on Wikipedia.
- Christy Leigh Stewart

Ted Turner is still a leader. And he sets a great example. His ability financially has been reduced, but his influence and his example still is an important asset to the whole environmental movement.
- Maurice Strong

My mother used to tell me to be a leader, never a follower. As a respect to my the words of my mother, I cannot place my faith in God or anyone else, because if I do, I am merely a follower. In order to respect my mother's wishes, I had to dethrone God himself and claim the title as leader.
- Lionel Suggs

Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.
- Tacitus

Gov. Romney is a proven and effective leader with vast experience in the business world, in the non-profit world and in government. And in every capacity in which he has ever served, he has been effective as a leader.
- Jim Talent

As a leader, you're supposed to be above reproach, and what that means is you can't even give the appearance that you're going to do something wrong.
- Kevin Thomas

I don't care tuppence whether I'm forced into a leadership position or not. I'd much sooner not.
- E P Thompson

The day before the anniversary of D-Day, we lost a man who was equaled by few and surpassed by none as a leader in the cause of freedom: Ronald Reagan.
- Mac Thornberry

What I care about is whether or not a leader will work with America's working people, whether or not a leader cares about responsibility and honest work and whether or not a leader will fight to keep the American Dream alive.
- Richard Trumka

A leader is one who, out of madness or goodness, volunteers to take upon himself the woe of the people. There are few men so foolish, hence the erratic quality of leadership in the world.
- John Updike

As soon as the leader of the game turns into a Leader, the principle of hierarchy is saved, and the Revolution sits down to preside over the execution of the revolutionaries. We must never forget that the revolutionary project belongs to the masses alone; leaders help it, Leaders betray it.
- Raoul Vaneigem

We do not need international help to stop corruption, we need strong Louisiana Leadership.
- David Vitter

Basically, as a leader, I try not to make any mistakes, because there's a lot of people watching even though you don't think so.
- Raushee Warren

My dad taught me to be a leader or a follower, and he said follower ain't fun. So I want to be the leader of Bubba Watson.
- Bubba Watson

No amount of study or learning will make a man a leader unless he has the natural qualities of one.
- Archibald Wavell

A leader should demonstrate his thoughts and opinions through his actions, not through his words.
- Jack Weatherford

One of the people that I respect the most now, a person I think has done a heck of a lot for this world as a leader, is Margaret Thatcher. She helped create a world that offers us a lot of excitement as we look to the next century.
- Sanford I Weill

When you were made a leader you weren't given a crown, you were given the responsibility to bring out the best in others.
- Jack Welch

When you become a leader success is all about growing others.
- Jack Welch

I was never the smartest guy in the room. From the first person I hired, I was never the smartest guy in the room. And that's a big deal. And if you're going to be a leader - if you're a leader and you're the smartest guy in the world - in the room, you've got real problems.
- Jack Welch

[Kay] was not at all an unpleasant person really, but clever, quick, proud, passionate and ambitious. He was one of those people who would be neither a follower nor a leader, but
only an aspiring heart, impatient in the failing body which imprisoned it.
- T H White

Well, Dwight was born to be No. 2 and I don't think he would know what to do as a leader. But he loves following. He would have made a great fascist.
- Rainn Wilson

A leader must inspire or his team will expire.
- Orrin Woodward

A leader is always first in line during times of criticism and last in line during times of recognition.
- Orrin Woodward

Everyone carries a bucket of water and a bucket of gas in life. A leader has learned to throw the right one at the right time.
- Orrin Woodward

If there is no certain reality, the idea of following a leader must be scrutinized.
- Marguerite Young

I think it's the sign of a leader to step up and say, you know, when something's not working to have the guts to reverse it. And the worst thing you can do is to let that mistake linger.
- Jeff Zucker

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