Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ted Cruz

We deserve leaders who stand for principle, who unite us all behind shared values, who cast aside anger for love. That is the standard we should expect from everybody.

Theodore Roosevelt

The leader works in the open and the boss in covert. The leader leads, and the boss drives.

Theodore Roosevelt

My power vanishes into thin air the instant that my fellow citizens, who are straight and honest, cease to believe that I represent them and fight for what is straight and honest. That is all the strength that I have.

Theodore Roosevelt

If a strong man has not in him the lift toward lofty things, his strength makes him only a curse to himself and his neighbor.

Theodore Roosevelt

The stream will not permanently rise higher than the main source; and the main source of national power and national greatness is found in the average citizenship of the nation. Therefore it behooves us to do our best to see that the standard of the average citizen is kept high; and the average cannot be kept high unless the standard of the leaders is very much higher.

Theodore Roosevelt

He who makes no mistakes makes no progress.

Theodore Roosevelt

To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.

Theodore Roosevelt

Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.

Theodore Roosevelt

No man is worth his salt who is not ready at all times to risk his well-being, to risk his body, to risk his life, in a great cause.

Theodore Roosevelt

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

Theodore Hesburgh

The very essence of leadership is that you have to have vision. You can't blow an uncertain trumpet.

Thelonious Monk

All musicians are potential band leaders.

Marcus Buckingham

Clarity is the preoccupation of the effective leader. If you do nothing else as a leader, be clear.

Marcus Buckingham

Authenticity is your most precious commodity as a leader.

Marcus Buckingham

Clarity is the answer to anxiety. Effective leaders are clear.

Michael Enzi

Leaders should not just talk about - but walk the walk of - fiscal conservatism.

Michael Foot

No rising hope on the political scene who offered his services to Labour when I happened to be its leader can be dismissed as an opportunist.

Maurice Strong

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.

Matt Millen

Leaders are never appreciated or needed until you don't have them,

Max Weber

Charisma is the gift from above where a leader knows from inside himself what to do.

Max de Pree

Leadership is much more an art, a belief, a condition of the heart, than a set of things to do.

Max de Pree

Leaders should leave behind them assets and a legacy.

Max de Pree

Trust cannot be bought or commanded, inherited or enforced. To maintain it, leaders must continually earn it.

Max de Pree

In the end, it is important to remember that we cannot become what we need to be by remaining what we are.

Max Beerbohm

It distresses me, this failure to keep pace with the leaders of thought, as they pass into oblivion.

Some are born leaders, some achieve leadership, and some have leadership thrust upon them. Which of these are you, or would you rather not bother?

Mark Shields

There is nothing more basic to our democracy than the right to participate in electing our political leaders.

Plato

Do not use compulsion, but let early education be rather a sort of amusement.

Plato

The beginning is the most important part of any work, especially in the case of a young and tender thing; for that is the time at which the character is being formed and the desired impression is more readily taken.

Philip Zimbardo

Many cults start off with high ideals that get corrupted by leaders or their board of advisors who become power-hungry and dominate and control members lives. No group with high ideals starts off as a cult; they become one when their errant ways are exposed.

Lech Walesa

The world needs leaders of vision instead of leaders on television.

Lance Morrow

Leaders make things possible. Exceptional leaders make them inevitable.

Lisa Leslie

Well, the first quality of being a good leader is you have to be able to follow. See, a good leader cant just be the leader all the time, I have to be able to follow.