Leadership has a price.
Leadership is hard. It's a skill. It's a technique.
Leadership means setting a moral tone.
Leadership and management are not synonymous.
Leaders don't look behind; they don't look to the side - they look ahead.
Leaders walk a fine line between self-confidence and humility.
Leader Reid is doing a horrendous job.
Leaders are important but not omnipotent.
Leadership is not about the next election, it's about the next generation.
Leadership comes in small acts as well as bold strokes.
Leaders need to be optimists. Their vision is beyond the present.
Leaders listen. Staggeringly well.
Leadership distilled down to 3 words: Make a difference.
Leaders are limited by their vision rather than by their abilities.
Leadership is an achievement of trust.
Leadership desperately needs women.
Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.
Leadership is influence.
Leaders have to act more quickly today. The pressure comes much faster.
Leadership involves finding a parade and getting in front of it.
Leaders don't create followers, they create more leaders.
Leaders understand the ultimate power of relationships.
Leaders live by choice, not by accident.
Leadership is an action, not a position.
Leaders are problem solvers by talent and temperament, and by choice.
Leadership must be established from the top down.
Leaders must be willing to put the ship's performance ahead of their egos.
Leaders who kill new ideas love living with old problems.
Leadership is being the first egg in the omelet.
Leadership requires insensitivity.
Leaders grasp nettles.
Leadership is the challenge to be something more than average.
Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.
Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.
When you strike at a king, you must kill him.
When I was in college, I wanted to be involved in things that would change the world.
When a police dog buried his fangs in the ankle of a small child in Birmingham, he buried his fangs in the ankle of every American. The bell of man's inhumanity to man does not toll for any one man. It tolls for you, for me, for all of us.
Whatever your life's work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.
Whatever measure of influence I had as a result of the importance which the world attaches to the Nobel Peace Prize would have to be used to bring the philosophy of nonviolence to all the world’s people who grapple with the age-old problem of racial injustice.
Whatever career you may choose for yourself – doctor, lawyer, teacher – let me propose an avocation to be pursued along with it.
Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be. This is the interrelated structure of reality.
What you’re saying may get you a foundation grant but it won’t get you into the kingdom of truth.
When I want to know what France thinks, I ask myself.
When you become an animal, a vulture, in the ghetto, as I had become, you enter a world of animals and vultures. It becomes truly the survival of only the fittest.
