The world needs our leadership more than ever. To keep engaging with the world as a responsible power. To be a force for peace and for positive change. — Ursula von der Leyen
the leader of armies is the arbiter of the people's fate, the man on whom it depends whether the nation shall be in peace or in peril. — Sun Tzu
I myself consider myself the most powerful figure in the world. — Idi Amin
A leader is one who, out of madness or goodness, volunteers to take upon himself the woe of the people. There are few men so foolish, hence the erratic quality of leadership in the world. — John Updike
The most powerful person in the world is the story teller.
The storyteller sets the vision, values and agenda
of an entire generation that is to come. — Steve Jobs
People all over the world recognize me as a spiritual leader. — Steven Seagal
We must move as quickly as possible to a one-world government; a one-world religion; under a one world leader. — Robert Muller
Iran? Number 1! Russia? Number 1! USA? Hacktui! — The Iron Sheik
A leader is a man who can adapt principles to circumstances. — George S. Patton
Who then is the greatest leader? The one who has served the most. — James Hunter
The leader has to be practical and a realist, yet must talk the language of the visionary and the idealist. — Eric Hoffer
In modern politics, even the leader of the free world needs help from the sultan of Facebookistan. — Rebecca MacKinnon
A leader. . .is like a shepherd. He stays behind the flock, letting the most nimble go out ahead, whereupon the others follow, not realizing that all along they are being directed from behind. — Nelson Mandela
Short World Leader Quotes
The man who can dominate a London dinner-table can dominate the world. — Oscar Wilde
Leaders make things possible. Exceptional leaders make them inevitable. — Lance Morrow
A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
The United Nations is our one great hope for a peaceful and free world. — Ralph Bunche
Conquering the world on horseback is easy; it is dismounting and governing that is hard. — Genghis Khan
You see things and you say, 'Why?'. But I dream things and I say, 'Why not?'. — George Bernard Shaw
The greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things. He is the one that gets the people to do the greatest things. — Ronald Reagan
The people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders...tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the peacemakers for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. — Hermann Goring
He who has never learned to obey cannot be a good commander. — Aristotle
If you're going to be thinking anyway, think big! — Donald Trump
The local church is the hope of the world, and its future rests primarily in the hands of its leaders. — Bill Hybels
The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born. — Warren G. Bennis
Part of being optimistic is keeping one's head pointed toward the sun, one's feet moving forward. — Nelson Mandela
A leader is best when people barely know that he exists. — Witter Bynner
The world will not be destroyed by those who do evil, but by those who watch them without doing anything.
Who Is A Leader Quotes
He who finds a new path is a pathfinder, even if the trail has to be found again by others; and he who walks far ahead of his contemporaries is a leader, even though centuries pass before he is recognized as such. — Ibn Khaldun
People would say 'Who is a leader?' A leader is a person that does the work. It's very simple. It's a personal choice for people who choose to put in their time and their commitment to do the work. It's a personal choice. — Dolores Huerta
Leadership is the other side of the coin of loneliness, and he who is a leader must always act alone. And acting alone, accept everything alone. — Ferdinand E. Marcos
I fear the day that technology will surpass our human interaction. The world will have a generation of idiots.
He who neither drinks, nor smokes, nor dances, he who preaches & even occasionally practice piety, temperance and celibacy, is generally a saint, or a mahatma or more likely a humbug but he certainly won't make a leader or for that matter a good soldier — Sam Manekshaw
The leader is a teacher who succeeds without taking credit. And, because credit is not taken, credit is received. — Lao Tzu
The drums of a World War are beating. Beware of the military-industrial complex and the warmongers who exploit tragedy to advocate for more war. A global war would lead to immeasurable suffering. Diplomacy, conversation between leaders is the way out. — Lex Fridman
The world is changed by your example, not by your opinion.
I don't want to be a great leader; I want to be a man who goes around with a little oil can and when he sees a breakdown, offers his help. To me, the man who does that is greater than any holy man in saffron-colored robes. The mechanic with the oil can: that is my ideal in life. — Baba Amte
The mark of a great man is one who knows when to set aside the important things in order to accomplish the vital ones. — Brandon Sanderson
One revolution is still necessary: the one that will not end with the rule of its leader. It will be the revolution against revolutions, the uprising of all peaceable individuals, who will become soldiers for once so that neither they nor anyone else will ever have to be a soldier again. — Jose Marti
If you want to be a leader who attracts quality people, the key is to become a person of quality yourself. — Jim Rohn
Good leaders hold positive, views of the future. We believe God fulfills our dreams, and our dreams are enlarged. Our desires exceed what we currently have and where we currently are. — Phil Pringle
Great leaders and great organizations are good at seeing what most of us can’t see. They are good at giving us things we would never think of asking for. — Simon Sinek
A true leader has the confidence to stand alone, the courage to make tough decisions, and the compassion to listen to the needs of others.
We are drawn to leaders and organizations that are good at communicating what they believe. Their ability to make us feel like we belong, to make us feel special, safe and not alone is part of what gives them the ability to inspire us. — Simon Sinek
You have to work and think about how we can make this world a better place for all. This is what I'd really like to ask our young leaders. We will try as leaders of today to minimise the problems which we will hand over to you. But it is to you. You have to take ownership and leadership of tomorrow. For that to be possible, you have to strengthen your capacity and widen your vision as a global citizen. — Ban Ki-moon
...The final secret is that there is no secret. Devote yourself to your leader. Work hard. Be grateful. Act boldly. Some may deride such suggestions as commonplace, and they'd be right: They are common. But to see them successfully enacted in this world is rare indeed. — Toyotomi Hideyoshi
Add to this the pride of achievement; the desire to rank among the successful souls on earth, and we have the factors which have brought some of the ablest of human beings into the limelight that revealed them to an admiring world, as leaders and examples. — Lewis Howard Latimer
Our dependence on foreign energy sources is our Achilles heel, not just in the realm of diplomacy, but in terms of our future as the world's economic leader. — Judy Biggert
In today's America He (Jesus) has moved from the central figure of world history to source material for late-night comics and pundits who would not dare treat other religious leaders with such disrespect. — David Jeremiah
People without homes will not quarrel with their leaders. This is well known among our principle men now engaged in forming an imperialism of capitalism to govern the world. By dividing the people we can get them to expend their energies in fighting over questions of no importance to us except as teachers of the common herd. — J. P. Morgan
Storytelling is the most powerful way to put ideas into the world today. — Robert McKee
We overthrew democratically elected leaders in the Western hemisphere during the Cold War because we were unhappy with their policies. This is the way great powers behave... We went around the world trying to create liberal democracies. Our main focus, of course, was in the greater Middle East, and you know how well that worked out. Not very well. — John Mearsheimer
Extreme ownership. Leaders must own everything in their world. There is no one else to blame. — Jocko Willink
We must alert and organise the world's people to pressure world leaders to take specific steps to solve the two root causes of our environmental crises - exploding population growth and wasteful consumption of irreplaceable resources. Overconsumption and overpopulation underlie every environmental problem we face today. — Jacques Yves Cousteau
What if a small group of world leaders were to conclude that the principal risk to the Earth comes from the actions of the rich countries?... In order to save the planet, the group decides: Isn't the only hope for the planet that the industrialized civilizations collapse? Isn't it our responsibility to bring that about? — Maurice Strong
The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. — Max De Pree
I use it as a prophylaxis. President Trump uses it as a prophylaxis. Most of the world's leaders use it as a prophylaxis. — Nayib Bukele
In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. — Harry S. Truman
Internationally, President Obama has adopted an appeasement strategy. He believes America's role as leader in the world is a thing of the past. I believe a strong America must - and will - lead the future. — Mitt Romney
Chinese involvement is an attractive proposition for many African governments. Beijing and the big Chinese companies don't ask difficult questions about human rights, and they don't demand economic reform or even suggest that certain African leaders stop stealing their countries' wealth, as the IMF or World Bank might. For example, China is Sudan's biggest trading partner, which goes some way to explaining why China constantly protects Sudan at the UN Security Council and continued to back its president even when there was an arrest warrant issued for him by the International Criminal Court. — Tim Marshall
I wouldn't call myself a leader. I don't want to lead people, I want to tempt them, I want to create a new world for them, just for that very small moment, when they are losing themselves in my music. I want to inspire them — Paul van Dyk
We [Israel people] always blame Moses, that he was our greatest leader and one of the most gifted people in the world. He brought us the moral code and so on, belief in one God, but then he was a bad navigator. He brought us to the only part of the Middle East without any gas, without any oil. — Benjamin Netanyahu
Your most important task as a leader is to teach people how to think and ask the right questions so that the world doesn't go to hell if you take a day off. — Jeffrey Pfeffer
The enormous gap between what US leaders do in the world and what Americans think their leaders are doing is one of the great propaganda accomplishments. — Michael Parenti
You manage things, you lead people. We went overboard on management and forgot about leadership. It might help if we ran the MBAs out of Washington. — Grace Hopper
I've heard people say that the trouble with the world is that we haven't enough great leaders. I think we haven't enough great followers. I have stood side by side with great thinkers - surgeons, engineers, economists; people who deserve a great following - and have heard the crowd cheer me instead. — Babe Ruth
Naturally the common people don't want war. . . but after all it is the leaders of a country who determine policy, and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along. . . — Hermann Goring
A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done. — Dwight D. Eisenhower
Those who believe in this type of thing [Paul the Octopus, who ‘predicted’ the result of World Cup matches] cannot be the leaders of the global nations that aspire, like Iran, to human perfection, basing themselves in the love of all sacred values. — Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
In this era of world leadership, the metal detector is the altar and the minicam may be god. — Hugh Sidey
Religion is the yeast of death cakes. It is the most awful agent on a vulnerable mind. It's the refuge of alienated and lonely people. It's what people had before television. It yokes people together into an imaginary world. It is just people talking to their imaginary friends, at length. I wouldn't mind, but some of the people are world leaders. — Dylan Moran
Strategy equals execution. All the great ideas and visions in the world are worthless if they can't be implemented rapidly and efficiently. Good leaders delegate and empower others liberally, but they pay attention to details, every day. — Colin Powell
Conventional wisdom is no wisdom at all. Conventional wisdom is taking somebody else's word for the way things are It's the followers of this world who rely on assumption. Not the leaders. — Richard Marcinko
It's a sad day when the leaders of the free world engage in such deception and trickery. I voted against this unnecessary war and will continue to argue that the best way to support our troops is to bring them home. — Major R. Owens
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