Leadership
Quotes

(Leaders) can express the values that hold the society together. Most important, they can conceive and articulate goals that lift people out of their petty preoccupations, carry them above the conflicts that tear a society apart, and unite them in the pursuit of objectives worthy of their best efforts.
- John W. Gardner

(We find) the stuff of leadership...in a MacArthur and a Churchill-proud, vain, paradoxical, posing always, yet brilliant, insightful, with their eyes on the long view of history; driven men driving others, whose views of their own destinies coincided more often than not with their views of their countries destinies.
- Richard M. Nixon

A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

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

A leader has two important characteristics: first, he knows where he is going; second, he is able to persuade other people to go with him.
- Unknown

A leader is a dealer in hope.
- Napoleon

A leader who doesn't hesitate before he sends his nation into battle is not fit to be a leader.
- Golda Meir