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Leader Quotes

Where are you? Where is our leader at this time? At this time when our country is down on its knees, begging, pleading, hurt, angry, frustrated, in pain, begging and pleading with its arms out just wanting to be heard.

– Dwayne Johnson

On Donald Trump.

Trump is the worst political leader I have experienced in all of my professional life, which is 40 years of working with governments at a high level. I’ve never seen anything like the narcissism of this man.

– Jeffrey Sachs

On US response to coronavirus.

And what is it that makes one man an exceptional leader? We see indications that it is his negative side which makes him strong, that his evil side, if you will, properly controlled and disciplined, is vital to his strength.

– Mr. Spock

Star Trek: The Original Series, ‘The Enemy Within’.

My biggest thing is, I’m learning what it’s like to carry myself in a personal way and also a professional way: how I can be a leader and do multitasking.

– Genevieve Padalecki

A leader who confines his role to his people’s experience dooms himself to stagnation; a leader who outstrips his people’s experience runs the risk of not being understood.

– Henry Kissinger

As a leader, these attributes – confidence, perseverance, work ethic and good sense – are all things I look for in people. I also try to lead by example and create an environment where good questions and good ideas can come from anyone.

– Heather Bresch

The world needs a true leader, an Obama that promotes peace and understanding in the world.

– Hugo Chavez

Polling is merely an instrument for gauging public opinion. When a president or any other leader pays attention to poll results, he is, in effect, paying attention to the views of the people. Any other interpretation is nonsense.

– George Gallup

I think a balanced team of men and women makes better decisions. That’s one of the reasons why I was prepared to run for deputy leader.

– Harriet Harman

You’re not a leader if you haven’t been elected.

– Hillary Clinton

‘Wicked Nights’ is the story of Zacharel, the new leader of the Army of Disgrace – heavenly warriors in danger of falling from grace – and Annabelle, a human who has spent the last four years locked in an institution for the criminally insane.

– Gena Showalter

The chief qualification of a mass leader has become unending infallibility; he can never admit an error.

– Hannah Arendt

Stories are the single most powerful tool in a leader’s toolkit.

– Howard Gardner

Wayne Downing is also a great leader, has served our nation very well, and I think it’s great that he’s coming back to join a very capable administration already of dealing with this problem, and it will just strengthen that team.

– Hugh Shelton

All these boundaries – Africa, Asia, Malaysia, America – are set by men. But you don’t have to look at boundaries when you are looking at a man – at the character of a man. The question is: What do you stand for? Are you a follower, or are you a leader?

– Hakeem Olajuwon

A leader does not deserve the name unless he is willing occasionally to stand alone.

– Henry Kissinger

I’ve been part of a team and leader of the team. But wherever I’ve been, I’ve worked as if that was the only opportunity I had. I’ve never looked beyond that.

– Guler Sabanci

Those who cannot think or take responsibility for themselves need, and clamor for, a leader.

– Hermann Hesse

Well, I feel that everybody in the country knows me. I think people know who I am, and that I’m deputy leader of the Labour party, and that I’m out there talking about their big choice for the future.

– Harriet Harman

People have said I’m the candidate of anger. Well, we have a right to be angry. We lost 3 million jobs. We lost our place as the moral leader of the world.

– Howard Dean

Nelson Mandela was an outstanding leader and a mentor for me. I was in South Africa at the time he was released. I was in South Africa when he was inaugurated as the first president.

– Gail Kelly

The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.

– Henry Kissinger

There comes a point when a man must refuse to answer to his leader if he is also to answer to his own conscience.

– Hartley William Shawcross

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

It is, after all, the responsibility of the expert to operate the familiar and that of the leader to transcend it.

– Henry Kissinger

Anyway, I’ve never been captain in 16 years in the NHL. But that didn’t stop me being a leader in my own way.

– Guy Lafleur

Arrogance, ignorance, and incompetence. Not a pretty cocktail of personality traits in the best of situations. No sirree. Not a pretty cocktail in an office-mate and not a pretty cocktail in a head of state. In fact, in a leader, it’s a lethal cocktail.

– Graydon Carter

My fate is to be President of the Republic – or leader of the opposition.

– Georges Pompidou

No leader did more for his country than Winston Churchill. Brave, magnanimous, traditional, he was like a king-general from Britain’s heroic past. His gigantic qualities set him apart from ordinary humanity; there seemed no danger he feared, no effort too great for his limitless energies.

– Gretchen Rubin

Anyway, so here I was caught between Johnson on the one side, who was my leader, I was his whip, and here was my dear friend, personal friend, Kennedy, and they’re going to go into my state and ruin it. What am I going to do?

– George Smathers

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