Leadership has a harder job to do than just choose sides. It must bring sides together.
– Jesse Louis Jackson
Leadership is based on inspiration, not domination; on cooperation, not intimidation.
– William Arthur Wood
Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.
– Peter Drucker
Men make history, and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better.
– Harry S Truman
One of the tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency.
– Arnold Glasgow
Rule three hundred of obscure leadership if it's your idea, you get to implement it.
– Leland Exton Modesitt, Jr.
The leadership instinct you are born with is the backbone. You develop the funny bone and the wishbone that go with it.
– Elaine Agather
The leaven of true leadership cannot lift others unless we are with and serve those to be led.
– Spencer W. Kimball
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. Failing organizations are usually over-managed and under-led.
– Warren Bennis
The only safe ship in a storm is leadership.
– Faye Wattleton
The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it is on a section gang, a football field, in an army, or in an office.
– Dwight D Eisenhower
The very essence of leadership is that you have to have a vision.
– Theodore Hesburgh
The very essence of leadership is that you have to have vision. You can't blow an uncertain trumpet.
The world is in dreadful need of men who will assume the new leadership – who will have the courage of their own visions and who will recognise clearly that we are only at the beginning of the voyage, and have to learn an entirely new system of seamanship.
– Hendrik Willem van Loon
There are many elements to a campaign. Leadership is number one. Everything else is number two.
– Bernd Brecher
When the leadership is right and the time is right, the people can always be counted upon to follow--to the end at all costs.
– Harold J. Seymour
Whether a man is burdened by power or enjoys power whether he is trapped by responsibility or made free by it whether he is moved by other people and outer forces or moves them -- this is of the essence of leadership.
– Theodore Harold White
Whether a man is burdened by power or enjoys power; whether he is trapped by responsibility or made free by it; whether he is moved by other people and outer forces or moves them -- this is of the essence of leadership.
– Theodore H. White, The Making of the President, 1960
