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Leadership Quotes
What it actually takes to lead well.
These leadership quotes come largely from voices in education reform, arguing that leadership, not technology, is what determines whether students succeed, and that building leadership capacity in a country takes sustained investment rather than shortcuts. See our Speeches for longer-form takes on the same theme.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
No matter how good you think you are as a leader, my goodness, the people around you will have all kinds of ideas for how you can get better. So for me, the most fundamental thing about leadership is to have the humility to continue to get feedback and to try to get better - because your job is to try to help everybody else get better.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
I learned long ago on the battlefields of Vietnam that in a crisis, there is no substitute for clear-eyed leadership.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
The function of combat is not merely to perpetrate violence, but to perpetrate violence on command, instantaneously and reflexively. The function of the service academies is to prepare men for leadership positions where they may someday exercise that command.
- Freedom-Loving
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- Nov 07, 2020
All Americans and freedom-loving people around the world owe President Reagan our deepest gratitude for his strong, principled leadership that ended the Cold War and brought freedom to millions of people.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
America somehow thinks that leadership relates to governance, and it certainly does. But society is much bigger than governance, and some of the truly great leadership of our society is outside the governance arena.
- Direction
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- Nov 07, 2020
Occasionally, you see presidents come in and provide a clear change in direction of leadership.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
To my mind the election was stolen by George Bush and we have been suffering ever since under this man's leadership.
- Must
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- Nov 07, 2020
Leadership has a harder job to do than just choose sides. It must bring sides together.
- Courage
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- Nov 07, 2020
Time is neutral and does not change things. With courage and initiative, leaders change things.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
Leadership cannot just go along to get along. Leadership must meet the moral challenge of the day.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
MoMA is one of the world's great cultural institutions with one of the world's premier Boards and Museum leadership. It is my distinct pleasure to work with such a talented and highly qualified group. I salute Bob Menschel for the high bar he has set and follow him in the position of Chairman with all the respect he has earned.
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- Nov 07, 2020
It was funny that rank-and-file evangelicals were ahead of all the leadership. They saw for decades conservative Republicans had made promises to them on issues that were important to Christians and conservatives when they were running for office. But when they won, they didn't keep those promises.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020