c2p-cmd/Good-Quotes-Authors huggingface dataset:
As repressed sadists are supposed to become policemen or butchers so those with an irrational fear of life become publishers.
— Cyril Connolly
There's a certain fear of simplicity. I think that's the thing, when you're younger as an artist, you get this idea in your head that complexity equals quality. The more notes you're playing, the better.
— Patrick Stump
We all have our ways of handling fear and managing trying; jumping in or climbing down, a direct approach or a delay, joyful or miserable, a spirit of adventure, or God help me, get this thing over with.
— Kristin Armstrong
The fear of the never-ending onslaught of gizmos and gadgets is nothing new. The radio, the telephone, Facebook - each of these inventions changed the world. Each of them scared the heck out of an older generation. And each of them was invented by people who were in their 20s.
— Daniel H. Wilson
Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth; when perfect sincerity is expected, perfect freedom must be allowed; nor has anyone who is apt to be angry when he hears the truth any cause to wonder that he does not hear it.
— Tacitus
There is nothing that fear and hope does not permit men to do.
— Luc de Clapiers
Therefore, when I considered this carefully, the contempt which I had to fear because of the novelty and apparent absurdity of my view, nearly induced me to abandon utterly the work I had begun.
— Nicolaus Copernicus
Tell us your phobias and we will tell you what you are afraid of.
— Robert Benchley
To me, watching a movie is like going to an amusement park. My worst fear is making a film that people don't think is a good ride.
— Darren Aronofsky
The great thing about behavioural psychology and economics is that they help us to see that there are actually pretty good reasons why human beings swing from greed to fear, and why we're not really calculating machines or utility-maximisers.
— Niall Ferguson
I was a very fearful little kid, and I would always see the worst in everything. The glass was half-empty. I would see people kissing, and I would think one was trying to bite the other.
— Daniel Clowes
It seemed that rebellion must have an unassailable base, something guarded not merely from attack, but from the fear of it: such a base as we had in the Red Sea Parts, the desert, or in the minds of the men we converted to our creed.
— T. E. Lawrence
An ugly sight, a man who is afraid.
— Jean Anouilh
I don't fear aging. It's natural, and I can't stop it!
— Madhuri Dixit
There's always an element of fear that you need to work a lot until people get sick and tired of you or finally figure out that you're a fraud after all!
— Ben Stiller
Monopolists who fear competition and who distrust democracy because it stands for equal opportunity would like to secure their position against small and energetic enterprise.
— Henry A. Wallace
In contrast, fear societies are societies in which dissent is banned.
— Natan Sharansky
Right out of high school I never had the fear of getting beat, which is how most people lose.
— Dan Gable
My apartment is the equivalent of one room in my Toronto home. Now I understand why New Yorkers are on the streets at all hours. People don't want to stay inside for fear they'll go crazy.
— Samantha Bee
The world has nothing to fear from military ambition in our Government.
— James K. Polk
Fear of the unknown is a terrible fear.
— Joan D. Vinge
We need a pedagogy free from fear and focused on the magic of children's innate quest for information and understanding.
— Sugata Mitra
I began to realize that when people experience the love of God, it casts out their fear and frees them from guilt.
— Joseph Prince
I'd love to work with Aaron Sorkin on something. Just the way he writes, he has no fear in writing people that are fiercely intelligent, and I love that.
— David Tennant
I could write an entertaining novel about rejection slips, but I fear it would be overly long.
— Louise Brown
Preachers prepare with this fear: 'Am I going to be able to fill the time?' The audience never worries about that.
— Andy Stanley
A line from one of my 1997 columns - 'Do one thing every day that scares you' - is now widely attributed to Eleanor Roosevelt, though I have yet to see any evidence that she ever said it and I don't believe she did. She said some things about fear, but not that thing.
— Mary Schmich
I fear God never showed mercy to one so vile as I.
— David Brainerd
Jealousy is the fear or apprehension of superiority: envy our uneasiness under it.
— William Shenstone
Whatever hardships there have been in my life I still live in a very privileged position. Fear is not knowing where your next meal is coming from. Fear is seeing a child get hurt. Fear is watching someone you love waste away. Fear is knowing you are going to die yourself. But there's no fear in what I do. I write books.
— James Frey
Too many people don't do things for fear of falling. You'll never get good unless you fall. Experiences and new accomplishments are feelings we should never lose.
— Robin Quivers
Show me a guy who's afraid to look bad, and I'll show you a guy you can beat every time.
— Lou Brock
We fear the thing we want the most.
— Robert Anthony
A child understands fear, and the hurt and hate it brings.
— Nadine Gordimer
Our democracy is predicated on the belief that our government should be accessible by the people. We cannot allow ourselves to give in to fear or shy away from interacting with the public.
— Erik Paulsen
Most fear stems from sin; to limit one's sins, one must assuredly limit one's fear, thereby bringing more peace to one's spirit.
— Marvin Gaye
These days, all we hear about is that the industry is in trouble. Everybody is so scared, but our mission statement is having no fear.
— Frank Iero
I am always scared before going on stage this is the fear which makes me do well. 
— Kapil Sharma
I don't feel that fear is a good incentive on a film set.
— Andrew Lincoln
We should not be afraid to go into a new era, to leave the old beyond.
— Zack Wamp
It seems to me we have been in a rhetorical arms race in this country, with each side unwilling to lay down its weapons for fear - usually justified - the other side would beat them to a pulp.
— Pat Sajak
We tell lies when we are afraid... afraid of what we don't know, afraid of what others will think, afraid of what will be found out about us. But every time we tell a lie, the thing that we fear grows stronger.
— Tad Williams
Do what you fear most and you control fear.
— Tom Hopkins
I hasten to laugh at everything, for fear of being obliged to weep.
— Pierre Beaumarchais
I love overcoming challenges and fear.
— Laura Wilkinson
When you're fearful, you stumble.
— Jenna Jameson
Chemistry itself knows altogether too well that - given the real fear that the scarcity of global resources and energy might threaten the unity of mankind - chemistry is in a position to make a contribution towards securing a true peace on earth.
— Kenichi Fukui
Everything I've ever done was out of fear of being mediocre.
— Chet Atkins
Discipline is simply the art of making the soldiers fear their officers more than the enemy.
— Claude Adrien Helvetius
I don't want fear or cancer to define me, but it's always in the back of your mind.
— Ethan Zohn
To show a 'well-founded fear of persecution', an alien need not prove that it is more likely than not that he or she will be persecuted in his or her home country.
— John Paul Stevens
You know, once something freezes, it's solid. That's the key to the arctic - they didn't fear the cold, they made use of it.
— Wade Davis
If children live with hostility, they learn to fight. If they live with fear, they learn to be apprehensive. If they live with criticism, they learn to condemn.
— Ron Finley
I think what weakens people most is fear of wasting their strength.
— Etty Hillesum
If you let your fear of consequence prevent you from following your deepest instinct, your life will be safe, expedient and thin.
— Katharine Butler Hathaway
Fear is excitement without breath.
— Robert Heller
When we are afraid we ought not to occupy ourselves with endeavoring to prove that there is no danger, but in strengthening ourselves to go on in spite of the danger.
— Hale White
I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived.
— Harold Kushner
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
Understanding dissolves fear. When we understand the true nature of our being, fears dissipate. We are spiritual beings, not human beings.
— Brian Weiss
Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.
— George Sewell
Fear can be conquered. I became a better person and a better football player when I learned that lesson.
— Roger Craig
By action and reaction do we become strong or weak, according to the character of our thoughts and mental states. Fear is the deadly nightshade of the mind.
— Edward Walker
So when I look in the mirror I'm driven by both vanity and fear.
— Andy Whitfield
A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.
— John C. Maxwell
I am not afraid of an army of lions led by a sheep I am afraid of an army of sheep led by a lion. 
— Alexander the Great
The quality of a leader is reflected in the standards they set for themselves.
— Ray Kroc
Management is doing things right leadership is doing the right things. 
— Peter Drucker
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
Don't find fault, find a remedy.
— Henry Ford
Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.
— Steve Jobs
People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader leads, and the boss drives.
— Theodore Roosevelt
Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.
— Warren Bennis
The key to successful leadership today is influence, not authority.
— Ken Blanchard
When you can't make them see the light, make them feel the heat.
— Ronald Reagan
A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Leadership is not about the next election, it's about the next generation.
— Simon Sinek
Leadership is unlocking people's potential to become better.
— Bill Bradley
Leadership - leadership is about taking responsibility, not making excuses.
— Mitt Romney
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
When your values are clear to you, making decisions becomes easier.
— Roy E. Disney
I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles but today it means getting along with people. 
— Mahatma Gandhi
No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit for doing it.
— Andrew Carnegie
Leadership is not a popularity contest it's about leaving your ego at the door. The name of the game is to lead without a title. 
— Robin S. Sharma
Leadership is a choice, not a position.
— Stephen Covey
If you think you can do a thing or think you can't do a thing, you're right.
— Henry Ford
You have to think anyway, so why not think big?
— Donald Trump
If a window of opportunity appears, don't pull down the shade.
— Tom Peters
Leadership is a privilege to better the lives of others. It is not an opportunity to satisfy personal greed.
— Mwai Kibaki
People buy into the leader before they buy into the vision.
— John C. Maxwell
The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.
— Ralph Nader
Speak softly and carry a big stick you will go far. 
— Theodore Roosevelt
Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.
— Henry Ward Beecher
You don't lead by hitting people over the head - that's assault, not leadership.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall. 
— Stephen Covey
Leadership is a way of thinking, a way of acting and, most importantly, a way of communicating.
— Simon Sinek
Millions saw the apple fall, but Newton was the one who asked why.
— Bernard Baruch
Whether we're talking about leadership, teamwork, or client service, there is no more powerful attribute than the ability to be genuinely honest about one's weaknesses, mistakes, and needs for help.
— Patrick Lencioni
Go as far as you can see; when you get there, you'll be able to see farther.
— J. P. Morgan
The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.
— Henry Kissinger
A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd.
— Max Lucado
Getting in touch with your true self must be your first priority.
— Tom Hopkins
The world needs new leadership, but the new leadership is about working together.
— Jack Ma
People who enjoy meetings should not be in charge of anything.
— Thomas Sowell
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.
— Lewis H. Lapham
High expectations are the key to everything.
— Sam Walton
I learned that leadership is about falling in love with the people and the people falling in love with you. It is about serving the people with selflessness, with sacrifice, and with the need to put the common good ahead of personal interests.
— Joyce Banda
Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked leadership is defined by results not attributes. 
— Peter Drucker
Grades don't measure tenacity, courage, leadership, guts or whatever you want to call it. Teachers or any other persons in a position of authority should never tell anybody they will not succeed because they did not get all A's in school.
— Thomas J. Stanley
Leadership is working with goals and vision management is working with objectives. 
— Russel Honore
Management's job is to convey leadership's message in a compelling and inspiring way. Not just in meetings, but also by example.
— Jeffrey Gitomer
He who is prudent and lies in wait for an enemy who is not, will be victorious.
— Sun Tzu
The amount of good luck coming your way depends on your willingness to act.
— Barbara Sher
Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out.
— Stephen Covey
Leadership requires the courage to make decisions that will benefit the next generation.
— Alan Autry
Empowerment isn't a buzzword among leadership gurus. It's a proven technique where leaders give their teams the appropriate training, tools, resources, and guidance to succeed.
— John Rampton
To be an objective leader means aligning your models with the needs of the organization. There is no question anymore that collaboration, seeking out diverse perspectives and developing new ways to look at challenges and opportunities, is a key leadership competency.
— Elizabeth Thornton
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
The test of leadership is not to put greatness into humanity, but to elicit it, for the greatness is already there.
— James Buchanan
A throne is only a bench covered with velvet.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
Without initiative, leaders are simply workers in leadership positions.
— Bo Bennett
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
You're only as good as the people you hire.
— Ray Kroc
Everyone who's ever taken a shower has an idea. It's the person who gets out of the shower, dries off and does something about it who makes a difference.
— Nolan Bushnell
Management is about arranging and telling. Leadership is about nurturing and enhancing.
— Tom Peters
Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them. 
— W. Clement Stone
Everything rises and falls on leadership.
— John C. Maxwell
Leadership cannot really be taught. It can only be learned.
— Harold S. Geneen
Affirmation without discipline is the beginning of delusion.
— Jim Rohn
Clarity affords focus.
— Thomas Leonard
Leadership is about doing the right thing, even if it going against a vast number of naysayers and mediocre people.
— N. R. Narayana Murthy
Making good decisions is a crucial skill at every level.
— Peter Drucker
Give whatever you are doing and whoever you are with the gift of your attention.
— Jim Rohn
There is no force in the world that can block the powerful march of our army and people, who are holding high the banner of the suns of great Comrade Kim Il Sung and great Comrade Kim Jong Il and continuing to advance under the leadership of the party and with strong faith in sure victory.
— Kim Jong-un
The only safe ship in a storm is leadership.
— Faye Wattleton
Leadership is absolutely vital if there are comparable countries which can affect the security of the world you live in. Between Lincoln and Roosevelt's time, America was protected by huge oceans and, in practice, by the British navy. Today, it's different, and the obsession of the Obama administration has been for retrenchment.
— Henry Kissinger
I think for me, or for anyone who plays the quarterback position, it's almost an unspoken word when you think about leadership. Some guys can be a leader and be a running back or a lineman, or wide receiver, strong safety, or linebacker. But when you speak of quarterbacks, it's automatically a default that you're supposed to be a leader.
— Cam Newton
Leadership is an individual sport, one that has to be fine-tuned to each of the people that reports to you. Leaders also need to provide the direction, energy, encouragement and inspiration for each person who reports directly to the leader as well as for the overall organization.
— David Petraeus
A leader who doesn't hesitate before he sends his nation into battle is not fit to be a leader.
— Golda Meir
Educationists should build the capacities of the spirit of inquiry, creativity, entrepreneurial and moral leadership among students and become their role model.
— A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
Divorced from ethics, leadership is reduced to management and politics to mere technique.
— James MacGregor Burns
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
How we think shows through in how we act. Attitudes are mirrors of the mind. They reflect thinking.
— David Joseph Schwartz
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 means forming a team and working toward common objectives that are tied to time, metrics, and resources.
— Russel Honore
Example is leadership.
— Albert Schweitzer
Be the chief but never the lord.
— Lao Tzu
Leadership is influence.
— John C. Maxwell
Time is neutral and does not change things. With courage and initiative, leaders change things.
— Jesse Jackson
A leadership culture is one where everyone thinks like an owner, a CEO or a managing director. It's one where everyone is entrepreneurial and proactive.
— Robin S. Sharma
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. 
— Conrad Burns
Pay attention to those employees who respectfully ask why. They are demonstrating an interest in their jobs and exhibiting a curiosity that could eventually translate into leadership ability.
— Harvey Mackay
I don't know any other way to lead but by example.
— Don Shula
Honor bespeaks worth. Confidence begets trust. Service brings satisfaction. Cooperation proves the quality of leadership.
— James Cash Penney
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
The secret to understanding me is, I'm not trying to be anybody other than who I actually am. People want candid, refreshing leadership. And I've always tried to go with solutions. You know, I've always tried to say, here's how we get our economy growing, here's why we get our debt under control. That's what Mitt Romney is offering.
— Paul Ryan
In the end, leadership comes down to consistency and strong, confident action upon which the team can rely - and this doesn't mean imposing a bunch of rules.
— Don Yaeger
I want American Dream growth - lots of new businesses, well-paying jobs, and American leadership in new industries, like clean energy and biotechnology.
— William J. Clinton
Seventy years after China emerged from the Second World War, the greatest threat facing the nation's leadership is not imperialism but skepticism.
— Evan Osnos
You were born to lead as mothers and fathers, because nowhere is righteous leadership more crucial than in the family.
— Sheri L. Dew
Leadership is simply the ability of an individual to coalesce the efforts of other individuals toward achieving common goals. It boils down to looking after your people and ensuring that, from top to bottom, everyone feels part of the team.
— Frederick W. Smith
Optimism is the ultimate definition of a leader. A leader has to look optimistically at what is ahead while not ignoring the challenges that must be overcome. Those challenges are in government, politics, world leadership, and even in community life.
— Linda McMahon
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.
— Carol Bellamy
If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.
— William James
For success of any mission, it is necessary to have creative leadership. Creative leadership is vital for government, non-governmental organisations as well as for industries.
— A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
To succeed, one must be creative and persistent.
— John H. Johnson
As a woman leader, I thought I brought a different kind of leadership. I was interested in women's issues, in bringing down the population growth rate... as a woman, I entered politics with an additional dimension - that of a mother.
— Benazir Bhutto
The key to being a good manager is keeping the people who hate me away from those who are still undecided.
— Casey Stengel
The first man gets the oyster, the second man gets the shell.
— Andrew Carnegie
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.
— Larry Bird
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.
— Bill Owens
You learn far more from negative leadership than from positive leadership. Because you learn how not to do it. And, therefore, you learn how to do it.
— Norman Schwarzkopf
I am the wealthiest man, not just in Europe, but in the whole world. I collect emotions. I am wealthy in that the people of Russia have twice entrusted me with the leadership of a great nation such as Russia - I believe that is my greatest wealth.
— Vladimir Putin
Leadership is getting someone to do what they don't want to do, to achieve what they want to achieve.
— Tom Landry
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.
— John Dingell
Because management deals mostly with the status quo and leadership deals mostly with change, in the next century we are going to have to try to become much more skilled at creating leaders.
— John P. Kotter
It is better to have a lion at the head of an army of sheep, than a sheep at the head of an army of lions.
— Daniel Defoe
The art of leadership is saying no, not saying yes. It is very easy to say yes.
— Tony Blair
Leaders must encourage their organizations to dance to forms of music yet to be heard.
— Warren Bennis
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
Different times need different types of leadership.
— Park Geun-hye
Character in leadership is the most important balance for leadership. Without character, leaders have no safety. Leadership has no protection without character.
— Myles Munroe
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
Leadership involves finding a parade and getting in front of it.
— John Naisbitt
Sport fosters many things that are good teamwork and leadership. 
— Daley Thompson
Market leadership can translate directly to higher revenue, higher profitability, greater capital velocity, and correspondingly stronger returns on invested capital.
— Jeff Bezos
There are no more excuses for leaving women out of the inner circles of power. Qualified women are everywhere. Women are ready for leadership they just need to be identified and asked. 
— Madeleine M. Kunin
Leadership is absolutely about inspiring action, but it is also about guarding against mis-action.
— Simon Sinek
Power should be reserved for weightlifting and boats, and leadership really involves responsibility.
— Herb Kelleher
The most significant barrier to female leadership is the actual lack of females in leadership. The best advice I can give to women is to go out and start something, ideally their own businesses. If you can't see a path for leadership within your own company, go blaze a trail of your own.
— Safra A. Catz
Americans must place greater emphasis on the more subtle dimensions of national power, such as innovation, education, the balance of force and diplomacy, and the quality of political leadership.
— Zbigniew Brzezinski
I think there is probably no better person to aspire to emulate than Steve Jobs and what he has done at Apple in terms of his leadership, his innovation, not settling for mediocrity.
— Howard Schultz
Few things kill likeability as quickly as arrogance. Likable leaders don't act as though they're better than you because they don't think that they're better than you. Rather than being a source of prestige, they see their leadership position as bringing them additional accountability for serving those who follow them.
— Travis Bradberry
Leadership is... to make sure you never limit the idea or opportunity.
— Kevin Plank
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
Stubbornness is a positive quality of presidential leadership - if you're right about what you're stubborn about.
— Douglas Brinkley
Actions, not words, are the ultimate results of leadership.
— Bill Owens
The role of leadership is to transform the complex situation into small pieces and prioritize them.
— Carlos Ghosn
The cost of leadership is self-interest.
— Simon Sinek
In one of my recent books, 'The Success Principles,' I taught 64 lessons that help people achieve what they want out of life. From taking nothing less than 100 percent responsibility for your life to empowering others, these are the fundamentals to success - and to great leadership.
— Jack Canfield
I'm a pragmatist. I think, as a woman, you have to be more careful. You have to be more communal, you have to say yes to more things than men, you have to worry about things that men don't have to worry about. But once we get enough women into leadership, we can break stereotypes down. If you lead, you get to decide.
— Sheryl Sandberg
Leadership to me means duty, honor, country. It means character, and it means listening from time to time.
— George W. Bush
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
Leaders grasp nettles.
— David Ogilvy
When placed in command, take charge.
— Norman Schwarzkopf
Lead, follow, or get out of the way.
— Laurence J. Peter
The real leader has no need to lead - he is content to point the way.
— Henry Miller
If you have ideas, you have the main asset you need, and there isn't any limit to what you can do with your business and your life. Ideas are any man's greatest asset.
— Harvey S. Firestone
One must be convinced to convince, to have enthusiasm to stimulate the others.
— Stefan Zweig
If you want to get the most out of your men, give them a break! Don't make them work completely in the dark. If you do, they won't do a bit more than they have to. But if they comprehend, they'll work like mad.
— Chesty Puller
One of the most important things about leadership is that you have to have the kind of humility that will allow you to be coached.
— Jim Yong Kim
Leadership is an opportunity to serve. It is not a trumpet call to self-importance.
— J. Donald Walters
There is no greater name for a leader than mother or father. There is no leadership more important than parenthood.
— Sheri L. Dew
I believe in servant leadership, and the servant always asks, 'Where am I needed most?'
— Mike Pence
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
Leadership is standing with your people. People say you have to live to fight another day, but sometimes you have to show you are a true leader.
— Leymah Gbowee
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
When poor people get involved in a long conflict, such as a strike or a civil rights drive, and the pressure increases each day, there is a deep need for spiritual advice. Without it, we see families crumble, leadership weaken, and hard workers grow tired.
— Cesar Chavez
Leadership can't be fabricated. If it is fabricated and rehearsed, you can't fool the guys in the locker room. So when you talk about leadership, it comes with performance. Leadership comes with consistency.
— Junior Seau
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've always maintained - a captain is only as good as his team. It is not about my leadership, it is not about me.
— Gautam Gambhir
I think the currency of leadership is transparency. You've got to be truthful. I don't think you should be vulnerable every day, but there are moments where you've got to share your soul and conscience with people and show them who you are, and not be afraid of it.
— Howard Schultz
I start with the premise that the function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.
— Ralph Nader
Leadership is intangible, and therefore no weapon ever designed can replace it.
— Omar N. Bradley
Education is the mother of leadership.
— Wendell Willkie
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.
— Jackie Stewart
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.
— Louis Farrakhan
I had a sense of what leadership meant and what it could do for you. So am I surprised that I am sitting up here on the 62nd floor of Rockefeller Plaza? No.
— Vernon Jordan
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.
— Ingvar Kamprad
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.
— Isaiah Thomas
It is the responsibility of leadership to provide opportunity, and the responsibility of individuals to contribute.
— William Pollard
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.
— Jim Rohn
We have treated our most serious adversaries, such as Iran and North Korea, in the most juvenile manner - by giving them the silent treatment. In so doing, we have weakened, not strengthened, our bargaining position and our leadership.
— Theodore C. Sorensen
With King Abdullah's leadership and his people's trust he can keep the kingdom stable and secure in all its affairs.
— Sultan bin Abdul-Aziz Al Saud
Leadership is an ever-evolving position.
— Mike Krzyzewski
In order to cultivate a set of leaders with legitimacy in the eyes of the citizenry, it is necessary that the path to leadership be visibly open to talented and qualified individuals of every race and ethnicity.
— Sandra Day O'Connor
I think leadership is knowing what you want to achieve and then purposefully and sensibly taking steps to achieve it, remembering always that you have got to bring people with you if you are seeking to be a successful political leader.
— Tony Abbott
Bill Gates can't control a high-level-energy dog, because his energy is very low, very calm. Very intellectual. A dog doesn't see that as leadership.
— Cesar Millan
Leadership does take work. And it should. If you aspire to be a leader, you ought to treat leadership as a craft, you ought to become a student of it, and you ought to work at it. And if you're not willing to work at it, well, you get what you give.
— Douglas Conant
If more women are in leadership roles, we'll stop assuming they shouldn't be.
— Sheryl Sandberg
I vividly remember a conversation I had many years ago in 1974, which marked a turning point in my leadership journey. I was sitting at a Holiday Inn with my friend, Kurt Campmeyer, when he asked me if I had a personal growth plan. I didn't. In fact, I didn't even know you were supposed to have one.
— John C. Maxwell
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 think leadership is not something you learn it's something you discover. 
— Myles Munroe
In this age, I don't care how tactically or operationally brilliant you are: if you cannot create harmony - even vicious harmony - on the battlefield based on trust across service lines, across coalition and national lines, and across civilian/military lines, you need to go home, because your leadership is obsolete.
— James Mattis
I know that millions of Americans from all walks of life agree with me that leadership does not mean putting the ear to the ground to follow public opinion, but to have the vision of what is necessary and the courage to make it possible.
— Shirley Chisholm
When I decided to leave the military, I realized that the skills I acquired there were transferable to the commercial world both in leadership and the information technology field. I made the decision to move to Oracle because of its strong leadership role.
— Keith Kellogg
Success in the revolution and construction depends on how a party, the General Staff of the revolution, is built and on how its leadership role is enhanced.
— Kim Jong-un
Our Party conferred the honourable title, 'The Heroic Working Class of Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il,' on our working class that supported the great leaders' ideas and leadership with loyalty.
— Kim Jong-un
Absolute identity with one's cause is the first and great condition of successful leadership.
— Woodrow Wilson
The Leadership Training Institute of America trains and equips young men and women to be leaders with high standards of personal morality and integrity.
— Michael Burgess
Beginning under the Roman Empire, intellectual leadership in the West had been provided by Christianity. In the middle ages, who invented the first universities - in Paris, Oxford, Cambridge? The church.
— Nancy Pearcey
We're trained to see the world in terms of charismatic organizations and charismatic people. That's who we look to for leadership and change, for transformation. We're awaiting the next J.F.K., the next Martin Luther King, the next Gandhi, the next Nelson Mandela.
— Paul Hawken
I helped to restore America's leadership.
— Hillary Clinton
We also can't try to take over and rebuild every country that falls into crisis. That's not leadership; that's a recipe for quagmire, spilling American blood and treasure that ultimately weakens us. It's the lesson of Vietnam, of Iraq - and we should have learned it by now.
— Barack Obama
I feel comfortable in a position of leadership, but that's not to say I feel complacent about it. I take it incredibly seriously.
— Nicola Sturgeon
One of the main ways that leadership stays in power is by, in various ways, convincing people that they should just let those who are in government govern: 'Trust us. Trust me. Just let us take care of things. Stay out of it.' Your opinions don't really matter. You are isolated. You are insignificant.
— Viggo Mortensen
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
For citizens to become fully engaged in holding their leadership to account, accurate information is required to see where action is needed, to measure the results of policies and programmes, to build support for courageous decisions and to consolidate political legitimacy.
— Mo Ibrahim
The thing I'm most focused on today is, how am I maximizing the effectiveness of the leadership team, and what am I doing to nurture it?
— Satya Nadella
Constant, gentle pressure is my preferred technique for leadership, guidance, and coaching.
— Danny Meyer
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
In the conversation about women in leadership, male voices are noticeably absent.
— Adam Grant
Sometimes leadership is planting trees under whose shade you'll never sit. It may not happen fully till after I'm gone. But I know that the steps we're taking are the right steps.
— Jennifer Granholm
There is a new model of leadership in the world that rides on the premise that every single person in the organisation can be a leader. Titles are important for structure and order, but real power does not come from titles.
— Robin S. Sharma
We are watching industries crumble, Wall Street firms disappear, unemployment spike, and unprecedented government intervention. And our designated opinion leaders want to know: Is Obama up this week? Is he down? And is his leadership style more like Bill Clinton's, or Abraham Lincoln's?
— Thomas Frank
I now sit at the table in a variety of ways with the House leadership... as we go through taking a look at threat assessments and hot spots around the world. It's a national position, but certainly I don't forget that New Jersey has a critical part of national defense.
— Rodney Frelinghuysen
Under Superintendent Johnson's leadership, our police department is on a path to earn the respect of every community in the City of Chicago.
— Rahm Emanuel
You know, rural Americans are a special people. Their labor puts food on our table and fuel in our gas tanks. Their service in our military sets a powerful example of leadership, honor and sacrifice. Their spirit of community inspires us all.
— Tom Vilsack
People more than ever since I can remember are concerned about being out of step and out of line with their political party and won't cross over. There is nobody, man or woman, who wants to be left out, and people are fearful of that. People are fearful of their leadership as well.
— Gary Ackerman
Ben Roethlisberger is a proven winner in athletic competition. But the measure of a true leader is how they conduct themselves 24/7, not just during a winning touchdown drive or a goal-line stance. Leadership isn't something that gets switched off because the game clock expires.
— Jackson Katz
The conductor is the artistic leader and sometimes cultural arbiter of his or her community. It is their leadership that is looked to and should anything go wrong, they are the persons taking most of the heat.
— Leonard Slatkin
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
I emphasize self-esteem, self-confidence, and dignity, not as an ideal, but as a real test of community organization. Without leadership development, community organizations do not have staying power.
— Paul Wellstone
The current leadership of the Labor party react to the idea that working-class students might study the subjects they studied with the same horror that the Earl of Grantham showed when a chauffeur wanted to marry his daughter.
— Michael Gove
In 'Henry V,' the story of the assumption of true and responsible leadership by Henry I think is hard-won. He has to lose friends; he has to risk his life.
— Kenneth Branagh
Today's world requires a different leadership style - more collaboration and teamwork, including using Web 2.0 technologies. If you had told me I'd be video blogging and blogging, I would have said, 'No way.' And yet our 20-somethings in the company really pushed me to use that more.
— John T. Chambers
I think you need to be intentional at times about your leadership - where you're eating lunch, who you're interacting with, making guys feel like you're interested in what they're doing. If it's authentic, then it's going to be an easy conversation and easy hangout time.
— Aaron Rodgers
If you don't understand that you work for your mislabeled 'subordinates', then you know nothing of leadership. You know only tyranny.
— Dee Hock
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.
— Mark Udall
We're in a leadership position in sports. People look up to the National Football League.
— Roger Goodell
Leadership comes in small acts as well as bold strokes.
— Carly Fiorina
I don't pretend there aren't biological differences, but I don't believe the desire for leadership is hardwired biology, not the desire to win or excel. I believe that it's socialization, that we're socializing our daughters to nurture and our boys to lead.
— Sheryl Sandberg
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
The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.
— J. Paul Getty
Our next-door neighbour taught physics at Hampton University. Our church abounded with mathematicians. Supersonics experts held leadership positions in my mother's sorority, and electrical engineers sat on the board of my parents' college alumni associations.
— Margot Lee Shetterly
The more that social democracy develops, grows, and becomes stronger, the more the enlightened masses of workers will take their own destinies, the leadership of their movement, and the determination of its direction into their own hands.
— Rosa Luxemburg
Our discomfort with female leadership runs deep. We call little girls bossy. We never really call little boys bossy, because a boy is expected to lead, so it doesn't surprise or offend.
— Sheryl Sandberg
It is essential to employ, trust, and reward those whose perspective, ability, and judgment are radically different from yours. It is also rare, for it requires uncommon humility, tolerance, and wisdom.
— Dee Hock
Leadership offers an opportunity to make a difference in someone's life, no matter what the project.
— Bill Owens
My best investment, as cliched as this sounds, is the money I've spent developing myself, via books, workshops and coaching. Leadership begins within, and to have a better career, start by building a better you.
— Robin S. Sharma
The highest calling of leadership is to challenge the status quo and unlock the potential of others. We need a leader who will lead the resurgence of this great nation and unlock its potential once again.
— Carly Fiorina
For me, leadership is making a difference. It's using your agency to bring about change.
— Melanne Verveer
If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.
— William James
Leadership does not depend on being right.
— Ivan Illich
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.
— Garry Wills
Don't necessarily avoid sharp edges. Occasionally they are necessary to leadership.
— Donald Rumsfeld
Overall, the challenge of leadership is both moral and one of developing the characteristics that make us respected by one another.
— Louis Farrakhan
Leadership demands that we make tough choices.
— Alan Autry
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
Leadership is something I was born with.
— Carmelo Anthony
I don't think leadership demands 'yes' or 'no' answers; I think leadership is providing the forum for making the right decision, which doesn't demand unanimity.
— Arthur Ochs Sulzberger, Jr.
Mexico has lost its leadership, and a lot of that has to do with its poor performance and the lack of better results in our country.
— Enrique Pena Nieto
If a guy is intimidated by a woman in leadership, he has real problems with his own concepts of masculinity. That's a harsh statement, but I believe it to be true.
— Tony Campolo
Leadership is a mindset in action. So don't wait for the title. Leadership isn't something that anyone can give you - you have to earn it and claim it for yourself.
— Travis Bradberry
The great leaders have always stage-managed their effects.
— Charles de Gaulle
I look for what needs to be done. After all, that's how the universe designs itself.
— R. Buckminster Fuller
Great companies in the way they work, start with great leaders.
— Steve Ballmer
I am a general. My soldiers are the keys and I have to command them.
— Vladimir Horowitz
Strong convictions precede great actions.
— James Freeman Clarke
There's no doubt West Point impacted who I am... It has an enormous emphasis, not only on military aspects, but character development. Whether it's the honor code, or the interactions you have, both with the cadet leadership and the academy leadership, every place you are is a character test.
— Mike Pompeo
Anyone can show exceptional leadership ability in easy times. When all's going to plan, anyone can be inspirational/excellent/innovative and strong. The real question is how do you show up when everything's falling apart?
— Robin S. Sharma
I believe that there are new perspectives that are needed in order for us to resolve the problems that we face as Americans and also the problems we face as people on this planet, and I believe that new perspective and new leadership is needed.
— Martin O'Malley