In our system leadership is by consent not command. To lead a President must persuade. Personal contacts and experiences help shape his thinking. They can be critical to his persuasiveness and thus to his leadership.

Character matters leadership descends from character.

Leadership has a harder job to do than just choose sides. It must bring sides together.

To have long term success as a coach or in any position of leadership you have to be obsessed in some way.

I forgot to shake hands and be friendly. It was an important lesson about leadership.

We live in a society obsessed with public opinion. But leadership has never been about popularity.

I think we need the feminine qualities of leadership which include attention to aesthetics and the environment nurturing affection intuition and the qualities that make people feel safe and cared for.

Leadership is getting someone to do what they don't want to do to achieve what they want to achieve.

Leadership consists not in degrees of technique but in traits of character it requires moral rather than athletic or intellectual effort and it imposes on both leader and follower alike the burdens of self-restraint.

I start with the premise that the function of leadership is to produce more leaders not more followers.

The function of leadership is to produce more leaders not more followers.

Leadership can not be measured in a poll or even in the result of an election. It can only be truly seen with the benefit of time. From the perspective of 20 years not 20 days.

Leadership is an opportunity to serve. It is not a trumpet call to self-importance.

Black leadership has to recognize that principles more than speech character more than a claim is greater in advancing the cause of our liberation than what has transpired thus far.

I have a different vision of leadership. A leadership is someone who brings people together.

Leadership is getting players to believe in you. If you tell a teammate you're ready to play as tough as you're able to you'd better go out there and do it. Players will see right through a phony. And they can tell when you're not giving it all you've got.

Leadership in today's world requires far more than a large stock of gunboats and a hard fist at the conference table.

The growth and development of people is the highest calling of leadership.

A functioning robust democracy requires a healthy educated participatory followership and an educated morally grounded leadership.

Leadership to me means duty honor country. It means character and it means listening from time to time.

Leadership is a matter of having people look at you and gain confidence seeing how you react. If you're in control they're in control.

Central to America's rise to global leadership is our Judeo-Christian tradition with the vision of the goodness and possibilities of every human life.

My leadership will end the Obama era and begin a new era of American prosperity.

Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.