Quotes on Leadership

The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you'll make one.

My father's leadership was about more than civil rights. He was deeply concerned with human rights and world peace, and he said so on numerous occasions. He was a civil rights leader, true. But he was increasingly focused on human rights and a global concern and peace as an imperative.

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.

One thing my dad's always told me about leadership is when all hell's breaking loose, everyone's looking at you to see how you're handling it. If you're frantic and out of control, they're going to be frantic and out of control. If you're calm, cool and collected and doing the right things, they'll follow you.

We've found that service learning builds life skills, leadership and a sense of global citizenship that makes helping a lifelong habit.

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.

No matter how carefully you plan your goals they will never be more than pipe dreams unless you pursue them with gusto.

Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.

Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.

Nelson Mandela, a better man, not a bitter man, made our world a better place in which to live. His life and leadership exemplify the highest courage, dignity, and dedication to human liberation.

It is good to have money and the things that money can buy, but it's good too, to check up once in a while and make sure you haven't lost the things money can't buy.

I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure - which is: Try to please everybody.

The ability to plan for what has not yet happened, for a future that has only been imagined, is one of the hallmarks of leadership.

The British people know that, given strong leadership, time, and a little bit of hope, the forces of good ultimately rally and triumph over evil.

Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.

It is our experience that political leaders do not always mean the opposite of what they say.

Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible.

I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples.

It is important to ask ourselves, as citizens, whether a world power can provide global leadership on the basis of fear and anxiety.

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.

America is stronger because of President Obama's leadership, and I'm better because of his friendship.