Leadership Quotes

"I can’t be your mentor without occasionally being your tormentor."

- Dr. Sharon

"I believe that fortitude is key. More than anything, be consistent. Go at it. Go at it. Go at it. When you succeed, don’t forget the responsibility of making somebody else succeed with you."

- Antonia Novello

"There was nobody that I could look up and say “That’s somebody like me”. Which is probably why I’m now known in my community as ‘ La Pionera ’, or the Pioneer. I really don’t think of myself as a role model. But it turns out that I am to a lot of the Hispanic community. Not just in show business, but in life. But that’s what happens when you’re first, right?"

- Rita Moreno

"How I vote is not relevant . . . I think that as a woman, as a Hispanic, as a member of a minority, as the first surgeon general who is all these, I bring a lot of sensitivity to the job."

- Antonia Novello

"Growing up, there wasn’t an exact Hispanic role model that I had. I didn’t realize how big a difference I was making, going to the Olympics and being Hispanic, until I would be in an autograph session, and parents would come up to me and say, ‘You know, our family is so proud of you, you’re really doing Hispanics proud.’"

- Laurie Hernández

"I want to be remembered not only as an entertainer but as a person who cared a lot, and I gave the best that I could. I tried to be the best role model that I possibly could."

- Selena Quintanilla

"I want to be able to look back someday and say, ‘I did make a difference.’ Whether is was to open the minds of people to think that a woman can do a good job, or whether it’s the fact that so many kids out there think that they could be like me."

- Antonia Novello

"This was the last astronaut job that was not (yet) done by a woman. Now with this milestone we can focus on the fact that what is important to succeed in life, it does not matter whether you are a man or a woman."

- Ellen Ochoa

"Decision making is the specific executive task."

- Peter Drucker

"Make decisions with the long term in mind."

- David Miller

"Business today is about making decisions amid ambiguity."

- Geraldine Laybourne

"The worst business decision you can make is no decision."

- John Peace

"Great leaders don’t lead others with bitterness or resentfulness of past mistakes, they lead with hope and knowledge of the past to inform greater decision making in the future."

- Spencer Fraseur

"A person who is quietly confident makes the best leader."

- Fred Wilson

"The secret to successful hiring is this: look for the people who want to change the world."

- Marc Benioff

"If we have to use force, it is because we are America. We are the indispensable nation. We stand tall. We see further into the future."

- Madeleine Albright

"“The fate of America cannot depend on any one man. The greatness of America is grounded in principles and not on any single personality.”"

- Franklin Roosevelt

"Leadership requires the courage to make decisions that will benefit the next generation."

- Alan Autry

"A person who is worthy of being a leader wants power not for himself, but in order to be of service."

- Senator Sam J. Ervin, Jr.

"I think each person, if you're a CEO, the most important thing is to have - to me, is to pick people around you that aren't like you, that complement you. Because you want to build a puzzle; you don't want to stack Chiclets up and have everyone be the same. And so I believe in diversity with a capital D."

- Tim Cook

"You need a high degree of synchronization and the ability to orchestrate a big team. That’s an important part of leadership."

- Satya Nadella

"Never when in authority rebuke any one in anger, but only when anger has passed away; and so shall the rebuke bring forth good fruit."

- Teresa of Avila

"The authority by which the Christian leader leads is not power but love, not force but example, not coercion but reasoned persuasion. Leaders have power, but power is safe only in the hands of those who humble themselves to serve."

- John Stott

"It takes more than a busy church, a friendly church, or even an evangelical church to impact a community for Christ. It must be a church ablaze, led by leaders who are ablaze for God."

- Wesley Duewel

"I think the responsibility of leadership in the church is not to do slick meetings and not to figure out how to get 5,000 people through a facility in a weekend. It is to produce a people like Jesus. Let’s be a people who are actually producing something on the ground that could totally annihilate the enemy in our city. That’s our job!"

- Graham Cooke

"The first order of things to be changed is me, the leader. After I consider how hard it is to change myself, then I will understand the challenge of trying to change others. This is the ultimate test of leadership."

- John Maxwell

"You cannot antagonize and influence at the same time."

- John Knox

"One of the tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency."

- Arnold Glasow

"Be the leader in a school of fish."

"You were the captain of our ship, steering us safely through the turbulent waters of life. How we miss your guidance today, brother."