“Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.”

“Our country also hungers for leadership to ensure the long-term survival of our Social Security system. With 70 million baby boomers in this country on the verge of retirement, we need to take action to shore up the system.”

“Party domination and State leadership are concepts incompatible with one another.”

“Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy.”

“In Britain, you do your job. When you do an American TV show, there is a sense of being one with the crew, and there is a leadership element, which was a learning curve for me because it is very different culturally. In Britain, you just do it, leave and say, 'Thanks.'”

“We should be therefore supporting a larger Europe, and in so doing we should strive to expand the zone of peace and prosperity in the world which is the necessary foundation for a stable international system in which our leadership could be fruitfully exercised.”

“The secret to success is good leadership, and good leadership is all about making the lives of your team members or workers better.”

“Public office is supposed to be a public trust. This is a clear sign of the rampant corruption at the highest levels of the Republican leadership.”

“Real leadership means tackling tough problems ourselves and not leaving them to our children.”

“The only safe ship in a storm is leadership.”

“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.”

“The key to being a good manager is keeping the people who hate me away from those who are still undecided.”

“Example is leadership.”

“As for leadership, I am the kind who leads reluctantly and more by example than anything else. Someone had to be on the incorporation papers as president.”

“The business manager was doing fine back in his office while they were out on the line, hungry. And, so they started to see a lot of that and there was, that maybe the leadership had its own cause. More so than the miners, you know, it was like a power struggle.”

“Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.”

“Life isn't easy, and leadership is harder still.”

“Obstacles are things a person sees when he takes his eyes off his goal.”

“True leadership lies in guiding others to success. In ensuring that everyone is performing at their best, doing the work they are pledged to do and doing it well.”

“It is rare to find a business partner who is selfless. If you are lucky it happens once in a lifetime.”

“Actions, not words, are the ultimate results of leadership.”