Quotes about Leadership

The late President Harry Truman often referred to leaders as people who can get others to do what they don't want to do-and make them like doing it!

When God puts His hand on a plain, ordinary person whom He has destined for leadership, that person is given mountain-matching abilities, whether he be a Roosevelt, a Lincoln, a Nehemiah-or a person like you or me.

Remember those who led you, who spoke the word of God to you; and considering the result of their conduct, imitate their faith. Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today, yes and forever. Do not be carried away by varied and strange teachings; for it is good for the heart to be strengthened by grace, not by foods, through which those who were thus occupied were not benefited. (Heb. 13:7—9)

As we shall see, the best leaders are actually servants. Unselfishly

I am not a fool. I keep on hearing and seeing the way people misbehave with their coaches and seniors.

I know this is going to sound cheesy and like I'm trying to be Miss America, but the most important responsibility a celebrity has is to set an example and be a role model.

Thinking I'd be in politics just wasn't something I'd thought of as a younger woman. There just weren't a lot of role models there.

I want to be great - in everything I do. As far as football, I always looked up to Kellen Moore of Boise State. I thought it was the coolest thing that he was the winningest QB of all time.

Leadership cannot just go along to get along. Leadership must meet the moral challenge of the day.

Any football club that is any good is down to the manager more than anything else.

I've worked in the business world and, as a futurist, the whole 20 years that I've led at Mosaic.

One of the most amazing things about my job is that I have arguably, maybe not even arguably - definitively - the best boss on the planet. Shonda Rhimes is the best.