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Educationists should build the capacities of the spirit of inquiry, creativity, entrepreneurial and moral leadership among students and become their role model.

    Author: Abdul Kalam
   

In fact, the converse is true: At a time when the United States has been called on for a level of moral leadership, vision and inspiration not seen since World War II, we cannot afford to dissemble about crimes against humanity.

    Author: Adam Schiff
   

The art of leadership... consists in consolidating the attention of the people against a single adversary and taking care that nothing will split up that attention.

    Author: Adolf Hitler
   

I am convinced that your Mayor must take the leadership role in education too.

    Author: Alan Autry
   

Leadership demands that we make tough choices.

    Author: Alan Autry
   

Leadership requires the courage to make decisions that will benefit the next generation.

    Author: Alan Autry
   

It simply cannot be disputed that for decades the Palestinian leadership was more interested in there not being a Jewish state than in there being a Palestinian state.

    Author: Alan Dershowitz
   

Example is leadership.

    Author: Albert Schweitzer
   

The public sector certainly includes the Department of Labor. Those are jobs that are available. They are open and they are good paying jobs. The government as a whole has been actually retrenching under President Clinton's leadership.

    Author: Alexis Herman
   

The leadership lost its nerve. Instead of taking the lead in the reform movement... they pulled the plug on it. They tried and are still trying to return the church to the dry ice of the previous century and a half.

    Author: Andrew Greeley
   

But I think Steve's main contribution besides just the pure leadership is his passion for excellence. He's a perfectionist. Good enough isn't good enough. And also his creative spirit. You know he really, really wants to do something great.

    Author: Andy Hertzfeld
   

Now, if we look at the way in which the labor movement itself has evolved over the last couple of decades, we see increasing numbers of black people who are in the leadership of the labor movement and this is true today.

    Author: Angela Davis
   

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.

    Author: Angela Davis
   

Leaders of the future will have to be visionary and be able to bring people in - real communicators. These are things that women bring to leadership and executive positions, and it's going to be incredibly valuable and incredibly in demand.

    Author: Anita Borg
   

I have never been afraid to stand up to the leadership on issues where we disagree. If you chose to keep Cambridge Labour, then I can continue to press the Government for the things that matter to you, in a way that members of the opposition are unable to.

    Author: Anne Campbell
   

One of the tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency.

    Author: Arnold H. Glasow
   

One of the true tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency.

    Author: Arnold H. Glasow
   

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.

    Author: Arnold Schwarzenegger
   

The trouble with the Labour Party leadership and the trade union leadership, they're quite willing to applaud millions on the streets of the Philippines or in Eastern Europe, without understanding the need to also produce millions of people on the streets of Britain.

    Author: Arthur Scargill
   

We can't drive our SUVs and eat as much as we want and keep our homes on 72 degrees at all times... and then just expect that other countries are going to say OK. That's not leadership. That's not going to happen.

    Author: Barack Obama
   

There are many elements to a campaign. Leadership is number one. Everything else is number two.

    Author: Bertolt Brecht
   

Leadership is unlocking people's potential to become better.

    Author: Bill Bradley
   

In any case, decisions on troop levels in the American system of government are not made by any general or set of generals but by the civilian leadership of the war effort.

    Author: Bill Kristol
   

Shouldn't Democrats insist that Sen. Durbin step down as their whip, the number two man in their leadership?

    Author: Bill Kristol
   

Actions, not words, are the ultimate results of leadership.

    Author: Bill Owens
   

Leadership is an active role; 'lead' is a verb. But the leader who tries to do it all is headed for burnout, and in a powerful hurry.

    Author: Bill Owens
   

Leadership offers an opportunity to make a difference in someone's life, no matter what the project.

    Author: Bill Owens
   

True leadership lies in guiding others to success. In ensuring that everyone is performing at their best, doing the work they are pledged to do and doing it well.

    Author: Bill Owens
   

House Republican leadership have refused to allow a clean minimum wage vote. Close to 15 million Americans will be affected if we did this. Do Republicans really expect a family to live on less than $11,000 a year?

    Author: Bill Pascrell
   

Without initiative, leaders are simply workers in leadership positions.

    Author: Bo Bennett
   

I don't know what leadership is. You can't touch it. You can't feel it. It's not tangible. But I do know this: you recognize it when you see it.

    Author: Bob Ehrlich
   

Public office is supposed to be a public trust. This is a clear sign of the rampant corruption at the highest levels of the Republican leadership.

    Author: Bob Etheridge
   

A significant number of pages and sentences that the administration wants to keep in a classified status have already been released publicly, some of it by public statements of the leadership of the CIA and the FBI.

    Author: Bob Graham
   

Half a world away nations that once lived under oppression and tyranny are now budding democracies due in large part to America 's leadership and the sacrifices of our military.

    Author: Bob Riley
   

As long as the opposition believes the world will stand with Ukraine's democrat reformers, they will have the leverage and the courage to establish a legitimate republic under the leadership of Viktor Yushchenko.

    Author: Bob Schaffer
   

We need leadership, and we need it now.

    Author: Byron Dorgan
   

One of the surest signs of the estimated changes in the consciousness of the American proletariat is to be found in the character of the demands now being put forward by the leadership.

    Author: C. L. R. James
   

Leadership comes in small acts as well as bold strokes.

    Author: Carly Fiorina
   

In working with UNICEF our corporate partners have demonstrated time and again that their financial resources, leadership and expertise can bring about real and lasting benefits for the world's children.

    Author: Carol Bellamy
   

This assumption of Negro leadership in the ghetto, then, must not be confined to matters of religion, education, and social uplift; it must deal with such fundamental forces in life as make these things possible.

    Author: Carter G. Woodson
   

Our democracy poses problems and these problems must and shall be solved by courageous leadership.

    Author: Charles Edison
   

The Divine Thing that made itself the foundation of the Church does not seem, to judge by his comments on the religious leadership of his day, to have hoped much from officers of a church.

    Author: Charles Williams
   

Organizations endure, however, in proportion to the breadth of the morality by which they are governed. Thus the endurance of organization depends upon the quality of leadership; and that quality derives from the breadth of the morality upon which it rests.

    Author: Chester Irving Barnard
   

But the ability to articulate what you are doing, to be clear about it, and to stick to it is, I think, the essence of political leadership.

    Author: Chris Patten
   

We in the press, by our power, can actually undermine leadership.

    Author: Christiane Amanpour
   

Being a CEO still means sitting across the table from big institutional investors and showing your leadership and having them believe in you.

    Author: Christie Hefner
   

Alliances and international organizations should be understood as opportunities for leadership and a means to expand our influence, not as constraints on our power.

    Author: Chuck Hagel
   

Al Qaeda is not the organization now that it was before. It is under stress organizationally. Its leadership spends more time trying to figure out how to keep from getting caught than they do trying to launch operations.

    Author: Cofer Black
   

Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help or concluded you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership.

    Author: Colin Powell
   

We needed to go back on the offense and offer clear leadership on Iraq.

    Author: Condoleezza Rice
   

Vocational education programs have made a real difference in the lives of countless young people nationwide; they build self-confidence and leadership skills by allowing students to utilize their unique gifts and talents.

    Author: Conrad Burns
   

Leadership is particularly necessary to ensure ready acceptance of the unfamiliar and that which is contrary to tradition.

    Author: Cyril Falls
   

The very exercise of leadership fosters capacity for it.

    Author: Cyril Falls
   

Sport fosters many things that are good; teamwork and leadership.

    Author: Daley Thompson
   

The President's speech suggested to me that were we to follow his leadership, we will be in Iraq not for months, but for years. I also hope I am wrong on this.

    Author: Daniel Inouye
   

The more I have studied Lincoln, the more I have followed his thought processes, the more I am convinced that he understood leadership better than any other American president.

    Author: David Herbert Donald
   

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

    Author: David Vitter
   

If you don't understand that you work for your mislabeled 'subordinates,' then you know nothing of leadership. You know only tyranny.

    Author: Dee Hock
   

The longer we go without strong leadership from the Administration and until we see significant progress in the day-to-day lives of the Iraqi people, the more difficult it will become to sustain the support of the American people and Congress for the current course.

    Author: Dennis Cardoza
   

The truth is the Republican leadership has created a credit card Congress that is recklessly selling out the future of America, our children and our grandchildren, and President Bush is the most fiscally irresponsible President in the history of America.

    Author: Dennis Cardoza
   

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.

    Author: Dennis Hastert
   

Instead of starting a new nuclear arms race, now is the time to reclaim our Nation's position of leadership on nuclear nonproliferation efforts.

    Author: Dianne Feinstein
   

Ninety percent of leadership is the ability to communicate something people want.

    Author: Dianne Feinstein
   

And the whole world, the whole world that believes in freedom, whether you're talking about personal freedom, economic freedom, religious freedom, they look to the United States for leadership; and you're part of that leadership.

    Author: Don Nickles
   

At the very outset I want to say how the people of America appreciate the steadfast support of the people of Morocco, the leadership of Morocco in our war against terrorism.

    Author: Donald Evans
   

Don't necessarily avoid sharp edges. Occasionally they are necessary to leadership.

    Author: Donald Rumsfeld
   

In our system leadership is by consent, not command. To lead a President must persuade. Personal contacts and experiences help shape his thinking. They can be critical to his persuasiveness and thus to his leadership.

    Author: Donald Rumsfeld
   

Presidential leadership needn't always cost money. Look for low- and no-cost options. They can be surprisingly effective.

    Author: Donald Rumsfeld
   

That is what leadership is all about: staking your ground ahead of where opinion is and convincing people, not simply following the popular opinion of the moment.

    Author: Doris Kearns Goodwin
   

Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.

    Author: Dwight D. Eisenhower
   

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.

    Author: Dwight D. Eisenhower
   

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

    Author: Dwight D. Eisenhower
    Topics: Motivational

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

    Author: E. P. Thompson
   

I knew I could not maintain that leadership in open struggle against Moscow influence. Only two Communist leaders in history ever succeeded in doing this - Tito and Mao Tse-tung.

    Author: Earl Browder
   

Jamal Crawford reminds me the most of myself, the way he goes to the basket. But they need leadership.

    Author: Earl Monroe
   

If Ralph Nader runs, President Bush is going to be re-elected, and if Ralph Nader doesn't run, President Bush is going to be re-elected. We're going to run on the president's strong and principled leadership and his positive agenda for a second term.

    Author: Ed Gillespie
   

So I think that our foreign policy, the president's strong and principled leadership when it comes to the war against terror and foreign policy is going to be an asset.

    Author: Ed Gillespie
   

The problem is, is that President Bush and the Republican leadership in the Congress have resisted attempts to increase dramatically our fuel economy standards over the last five years.

    Author: Ed Markey
   

There was no imminent threat. This was made up in Texas, announced in January to the Republican leadership that war was going to take place and was going to be good politically. This whole thing was a fraud.

    Author: Edward Kennedy
   

At a time when we are facing threats from nations such as North Korea and Iran, and attempting to convince others such as India and Pakistan to become responsible nuclear powers, it is vital that America reclaims the leadership we once had on arms control.

    Author: Ellen Tauscher
   

Charlatanism of some degree is indispensable to effective leadership.

    Author: Eric Hoffer
   

I am not saying that during the Second World War Germany did not, under the leadership of the National Socialist government, commit crimes.

    Author: Ernst Zundel
   

Leadership is the key to 99 percent of all successful efforts.

    Author: Erskine Bowles
   

The only safe ship in a storm is leadership.

    Author: Faye Wattleton
   

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.

    Author: Ferdinand Marcos
   

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.

    Author: Francis Maude
   

Party domination and State leadership are concepts incompatible with one another.

    Author: Franz von Papen
   

Among my activities was membership in the Boy Scouts; I rose each year through the ranks, eventually achieving the rank of Eagle Scout and undertaking leadership roles in the organization.

    Author: Frederick Reines
   

On the other hand, the waging of peace as a science, as an art, is in its infancy. But we can trace its growth, its steady progress, and the time will come when there will be particular individuals designated to assume responsibility for and leadership of this movement.

    Author: Fredrik Bajer
   

Leadership - mobilization toward a common goal.

    Author: Gary Wills
   

The leader is one who mobilizes others toward a goal shared by leaders and followers... Leaders, followers and goals make up the three equally necessary supports for leadership.

    Author: Gary Wills
   

When a man assumes leadership, he forfeits the right to mercy.

    Author: Gennaro Angiulo
   

We must recognize that as the dominant power in the world we have a special responsibility. In addition to protecting our national interests, we must take the leadership in protecting the common interests of humanity.

    Author: George Soros
   

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

    Author: George W. Bush
   

Leadership to me means duty, honor, country. It means character, and it means listening from time to time.

    Author: George W. Bush
   

Leadership is, among other things, the ability to inflict pain and get away with it - short-term pain for long-term gain.

    Author: George Will
   

At that time, the army leadership said the implementation of this agreement would allow everyone, including the IRA, to take its political objectives forward by peaceful and democratic means.

    Author: Gerry Adams
   

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

    Author: Gerry Adams
   

The Irish Republican Army has kept every commitment made by its leadership.

    Author: Gerry Adams
   

Clearly no one knows what leadership has gone undiscovered in women of all races, and in black and other minority men.

    Author: Gloria Steinem
   

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I have seen for the first time in 100 years of conflict, the two peoples - the Israeli people and the Palestinian people - are ahead of their leaderships.

    Author: Amos Oz
   

An old African leader says about leadership, he says that leadership should never be shared; it should always remain in the hands of the dispossessed people. We will lead the revolution.

    Author: H. Rap Brown
   

I'm floored that the House leadership would turn its back on job creation for Mississippians.

    Author: Haley Barbour
   

Leadership cannot really be taught. It can only be learned.

    Author: Harold S. Geneen
   

Leadership is practiced not so much in words as in attitude and in actions.

    Author: Harold S. Geneen
   

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.

    Author: Harry S. Truman
   

The growth and development of people is the highest calling of leadership.

    Author: Harvey S. Firestone
   

Germany must be a country which generates political ideas and leadership, which is capable of compromise, which is sovereign and yet knows that it needs its partners on both sides of the Atlantic.

    Author: Horst Koehler
   

I look forward to working with our leadership team to advance the causes of smaller government, lower taxes, eliminating terrorism, and providing affordable health care, among other issues.

    Author: Howard Coble
   

Leadership in today's world requires far more than a large stock of gunboats and a hard fist at the conference table.

    Author: Hubert H. Humphrey
   

But no nation can base its survival and development on luck and prayers alone while its leadership fritters away every available opportunity for success and concrete achievement.

    Author: Ibrahim Babangida
   

Each one of us, and, indeed, all those who aspire to national leadership must bring their own visions, views and styles to the business of reforming Nigeria, and the search for solutions.

    Author: Ibrahim Babangida
   

To meet the expectations of the majority of our people, and to open up new vistas of economic opportunity so that the aspirations of Nigerians can stand a fair chance of being fulfilled in a lifetime, there must be a truly committed leadership in a democratic Nigeria.

    Author: Ibrahim Babangida
   

If there is such a thing as good leadership, it is to give a good example. I have to do so for all the Ikea employees.

    Author: Ingvar Kamprad
   

The democratic idealist is prone to make light of the whole question of standards and leadership because of his unbounded faith in the plain people.

    Author: Irving Babbitt
   

The biggest difference is in the leadership. It was better for us. We had more coaches and mentors to help us. A lot of the younger players today suffer from a lack of direction.

    Author: Isiah Thomas
   

Leadership does not depend on being right.

    Author: Ivan Illich
   

Leadership is an opportunity to serve. It is not a trumpet call to self-importance.

    Author: J. Donald Walters
   

It takes leadership to improve safety. And I started off the movement in my time, but the person who has done more over the past 20 to 30 years and who has led it is Professor Sid Watkins.

    Author: Jackie Stewart
   

The test of leadership is not to put greatness into humanity, but to elicit it, for the greatness is already there.

    Author: James Buchanan
   

Honor bespeaks worth. Confidence begets trust. Service brings satisfaction. Cooperation proves the quality of leadership.

    Author: James Cash Penney
   

My observation is that women are merely waiting for their husbands to assume leadership.

    Author: James Dobson
   

By providing outstanding economic leadership, this country can wage its attack successfully - and can thereby build the foundations of a peaceful world.

    Author: James Forrestal
   

Every time you have to speak, you are auditioning for leadership.

    Author: James Humes
   

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.

    Author: James Humes
   

The art of communication is the language of leadership.

    Author: James Humes
   

Divorced from ethics, leadership is reduced to management and politics to mere technique.

    Author: James MacGregor Burns
   

Woodrow Wilson called for leaders who, by boldly interpreting the nation's conscience, could lift a people out of their everyday selves. That people can be lifted into their better selves is the secret of transforming leadership.

    Author: James MacGregor Burns
   

He's a novice, but he's had these - he's experienced in leadership in tight circumstances. He started - he dropped the first bomb, led the first air strike into North Vietnam.

    Author: James Stockdale
   

The House Republican leadership has simply run out of ideas.

    Author: Jan Schakowsky
   

Bad leadership during the past years has cast on our Party the shadow of great and grave burdens.

    Author: Janos Kadar
   

The United States is the most innovative country in the world. But our leadership could slip away if we fail to properly fund primary, secondary and higher education.

    Author: Jeff Bingaman
   

Democrats have no agenda, no plan for the future, and no sense of leadership.

    Author: Jeff Miller
   

Leadership cannot just go along to get along. Leadership must meet the moral challenge of the day.

    Author: Jesse Jackson
   

Leadership has a harder job to do than just choose sides. It must bring sides together.

    Author: Jesse Jackson
   

To my mind the election was stolen by George Bush and we have been suffering ever since under this man's leadership.

    Author: Jessica Lange
   

This Congress is simply not doing its job under Republican leadership.

    Author: Jim Cooper
   

All Americans and freedom-loving people around the world owe President Reagan our deepest gratitude for his strong, principled leadership that ended the Cold War and brought freedom to millions of people.

    Author: Jim Ramstad
   

A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better.

    Author: Jim Rohn
   

I also know that there have been many times in our history when the proximity of an election has induced exactly the kind of leadership and consensus-building that produce progress in our democracy.

    Author: Joe Lieberman
   

I think what actually works best is local-level individual targeting of key leadership nodes.

    Author: John Abizaid
   

The task of leadership is not to put greatness into humanity, but to elicit it, for the greatness is already there.

    Author: John Buchan
   

Leadership is influence.

    Author: John C. Maxwell
   

Good leadership consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people.

    Author: John D. Rockefeller
   

This is one of the major problems we have. By the way, it was endorsed by leadership on both sides of the aisle and both ends of the Capitol, by the NRA and also by the gun control groups.

    Author: John Dingell
   

Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

    Author: John F. Kennedy
   

Such manifestations I account as representing the creative leadership of the new forces of thought and appreciation which attend changes in technological pattern and therefore of the pattern of human relationships in society.

    Author: John Grierson
   

All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership.

    Author: John Kenneth Galbraith
   

Leadership involves finding a parade and getting in front of it.

    Author: John Naisbitt
   

The conduct of President Bush's war of choice has been plagued with incompetent civilian leadership decisions that have cost many lives and rendered the war on and occupation of Iraq a strategic policy disaster for the United States.

    Author: John Olver
   

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.

    Author: John Patrick
   

Such highly qualitative leadership is demanded especially in the realm of the fostering of right international relations. Here the demand is simply irresistible.

    Author: John Raleigh Mott
   

There is an irresistible demand to strengthen the leadership of the constructive forces of the world at the present momentous time. This is true because of stupendous, almost unbelievable changes which have taken place in recent years on every continent.

    Author: John Raleigh Mott
   

The intelligence investigation under the leadership of Senator Church, which I know has helped cause this investigation by you, points out that the agencies did not disclose certain facts to us and that certain plots were going on.

    Author: John Sherman Cooper
   

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.

    Author: John Updike
   

Real leadership means tackling tough problems ourselves and not leaving them to our children.

    Author: Jon Kyl
   

Under the leadership of this President, the state of the union is not strong. We are being pulled apart rather than pulling together. Our democracy is suffering from the choices being made, and yet we are offered the same tired excuses and unrealistic analyses.

    Author: Jose Serrano
   

The war and terrorism in the Middle East, the crisis of leadership in many of the oil-supply countries in the developing world, the crisis of global warming - all these are very clearly tied to energy.

    Author: Julia Louis-Dreyfus
   

It is with obedience to your call that I take up the burden of government leadership for the final time.

    Author: Kamisese Mara
   

I am proud of the President's leadership. I am proud to support him in saying: Yes, we are going to do what is necessary now when it is less painful and less expensive.

    Author: Kay Bailey Hutchison
   

Our country also hungers for leadership to ensure the long-term survival of our Social Security system. With 70 million baby boomers in this country on the verge of retirement, we need to take action to shore up the system.

    Author: Kay Bailey Hutchison
   

The important thing is that we recognize our President's leadership, that he is not saying: I am going to walk away from this. He is saying: I am going to do the right thing.

    Author: Kay Bailey Hutchison
   

As for leadership, I am the kind who leads reluctantly and more by example than anything else. Someone had to be on the incorporation papers as president.

    Author: Keith Henson
   

The key to successful leadership today is influence, not authority.

    Author: Ken Blanchard
   

The fact is five months ago this was an issue that people weren't really talking that much about. Because of the president's leadership, because he's brought it to people's attention, it's now a top issue.

    Author: Ken Mehlman
   

It is sad that the Republican leadership is not as interested as they say they are in protecting the institution of marriage as they are in waging a campaign to divide and distract the American people from the real issues that need to be addressed.

    Author: Kendrick Meek
   

Studies have consistently shown that financial hardship is the biggest obstacle to heterosexual marriage, yet the Republican leadership has done precious little to help address the financial hardship faced by American families.

    Author: Kendrick Meek
   

There would not be enough talent that's educated, developed and ready to take on the next leadership challenge, and it would cap our growth. Now we've put programs in place not to have that happen, but that could be a weakness.

    Author: Kevin Rollins
   

I believe it is time for new leadership that is able to leave the '70s behind.

    Author: Kim Campbell
   

I urge the Iraqi leadership for sake of its own people... to seize this opportunity and thereby begin to end the isolation and suffering of the Iraqi people.

    Author: Kofi Annan
   

Leadership is diving for a loose ball, getting the crowd involved, getting other players involved. It's being able to take it as well as dish it out. That's the only way you're going to get respect from the players.

    Author: Larry Bird
   

Leadership is getting players to believe in you. If you tell a teammate you're ready to play as tough as you're able to, you'd better go out there and do it. Players will see right through a phony. And they can tell when you're not giving it all you've got.

    Author: Larry Bird
   

I forgot to shake hands and be friendly. It was an important lesson about leadership.

    Author: Lee Iacocca
   

The 9/11 Commission recently released their report, citing important changes which need to be made to improve our nation's homeland security. I voiced my disappointment with the House leadership when this report was left until after the August recess for action.

    Author: Leonard Boswell
   

Leadership consists not in degrees of technique but in traits of character; it requires moral rather than athletic or intellectual effort, and it imposes on both leader and follower alike the burdens of self-restraint.

    Author: Lewis H. Lapham
   

Comrade Deng Xiaoping - along with other party elders - gave the party leadership their firm and full support to put down the political disturbance using forceful measures.

    Author: Li Peng
   

The school made it very clear that women were entitled to positions of authority. That sense of entitlement allowed us to feel that we have a natural place in leadership in the world. That gave me a mental and emotional confidence.

    Author: Linda Vester
   

President Bush has shown great leadership. He has said that the 21st century will not be ruled or dictated by terrorists, dictators, and murderers. He is absolutely right. God bless him for his resolve.

    Author: Lindsey Graham
   

Black leadership has to recognize that principles more than speech, character more than a claim, is greater in advancing the cause of our liberation than what has transpired thus far.

    Author: Louis Farrakhan
   

Overall, the challenge of leadership is both moral and one of developing the characteristics that make us respected by one another.

    Author: Louis Farrakhan
   

The next thing is: we can make IBM even better. We brought IBM back but we're gunning for leadership.

    Author: Louis Gerstner
   

Clearly you need a new team to go out to bat on your behalf; to fight for your rights and to report back to you personally and to the leadership of the IFP.

    Author: Mangosuthu Buthelezi
   

The cardinal responsibility of leadership is to identify the dominant contradiction at each point of the historical process and to work out a central line to resolve it.

    Author: Mao Tse-Tung
   

This - the leadership of the mayor is crucial, because it is to the mayor that people will look to provide the vision, the energy, and the sense of confidence in the rebuilding and the recovery.

    Author: Marc Morial
   

I believe that the capacity that any organisation needs is for leadership to appear anywhere it is needed, when it is needed.

    Author: Margaret J. Wheatley
   

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.

    Author: Margaret J. Wheatley
   

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.

    Author: Margaret J. Wheatley
   

I'm sad to report that in the past few years, ever since uncertainty became our insistent 21st century companion, leadership has taken a great leap backwards to the familiar territory of command and control.

    Author: Margaret J. Wheatley
   

Most people associate command and control leadership with the military.

    Author: Margaret J. Wheatley
   

Dr. King's leadership reaffirmed the promise of our democracy: that everyday people, working together, have the power to change our government and our institutions for the better.

    Author: Maria Cantwell
   

Leadership should be born out of the understanding of the needs of those who would be affected by it.

    Author: Marian Anderson
   

President Ford was a devoted, decent man of impeccable integrity who put service to his country before his own self interest. He helped heal our nation during a time of crisis, provided steady leadership and restored people's faith in the presidency and in government.

    Author: Mark Udall
   

But the fact is that the vast majority of Republicans support the Sinn Fein leadership.

    Author: Martin McGuinness
   

Under the leadership of President Bush and Vice President Cheney, the United States has given up the moral high ground that we used to occupy as an international leader.

    Author: Marty Meehan
   

If people want to compete for leadership of a religious group, they can compete in piety. A chilling thought. Or funny.

    Author: Mary Douglas
   

I've developed a huge regard for Toyota for its environmental awareness, for its immense commitment to research and development in this field, and for its leadership in developing hybrids which others are now following.

    Author: Maurice Strong
   

The signs of outstanding leadership appear primarily among the followers. Are the followers reaching their potential? Are they learning? Serving? Do they achieve the required results? Do they change with grace? Manage conflict?

    Author: Max de Pree
   

Servant leadership is the foundation and the secret of Sam Walton's ability to achieve team synergy.

    Author: Michael Bergdahl
   

The Leadership Training Institute of America is a cultural think tank providing training and opportunity in leadership development and cultural dynamics.

    Author: Michael Burgess
   

The Leadership Training Institute of America trains and equips young men and women to be leaders with high standards of personal morality and integrity.

    Author: Michael Burgess
   

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