Real Leadership Quotes

#1. Real leadership is not about prestige, power, or status. It is about responsibility. #Quote by Robert L. Joss

#2. Our country will need real leadership to undo President Obama's failed policies, and replace them with the conservative principles Mitt Romney learned turning around businesses and a failing Olympics and successfully, conservatively governing a Democratic state. I am proud to endorse him and will work my hardest to ensure he is elected so we can turn around our country. #Quote by Nikki Haley

#3. If you can fix something that needs to be fixed, go ahead and fix it. But real leadership is most often needed where simple solutions have already been tried and have failed. When things are hard, sometimes the best thing you can do is to drown what's wrong in a sea of what's right. #Quote by Eric Greitens

#4. Some sacrificial souls delight in sacrificing themselves, but refuse reciprocal gestures. They do not want to feel obligated to those they are serving. But real leadership recognizes the value of the gestures of others. To neglect receiving kindness and help is to isolate oneself, to rob others of opportunity, and to deprive oneself of sustenance. #Quote by J. Oswald Sanders

#5. Bosses push, Leaders pull. Real leadership is servant leadership. #Quote by Dave Ramsey

#6. Authenticity is the language of visionaries. #Quote by Andrena Sawyer

#7. REAL Leadership is the building of belief, that activates and aligns the full potential, for a meaningful cause #Quote by Tony Dovale

#8. I hope many of you will be people that question why things are and why we have to do them the way we have always done them. I hope you will take some risks, exert some real leadership on issues, and if you will, dance along the edge of the roof as you continue for life. #Quote by Wilma Mankiller

#9. The manager who understands what her employees want and need must seldom resort to the authority of the org chart or the paycheck. Taking a third-level approach, the smart manager doesn't scream the truth, but whispers messages that make others feel strong and successful. Only then are great change and real leadership possible. #Quote by Peter S. Temes

#10. This, the only occasion in the Iliad when furious Achilles smiles serves as a bittersweet reminder of the difference real leadership could have made to the events of the Iliad. Agamemnon's panicked prize-grabbing in Book One and even Nestor's rambling "authority" pale beside Achilles' instinctive and absolute command of himself and the dangers of this occasion. #Quote by Caroline Alexander

#11. Hope and change? We're not doing that anymore. They're doing attack and blame. And so, I just think people are going to see through this. They want real leadership. They want us to get this country on the right track. #Quote by Paul Ryan

#12. Today's generation want leaders who excite them and ignite them. They want leaders who are real. #Quote by Gabrielle Dolan

#13. We're up against the conventional thinking that says your ability to lead as president comes from longevity in Washington or proximity to the White House. But we know that real leadership is about candor and judgment and the ability to rally Americans from all walks of life around a common purpose, a higher purpose. #Quote by Barack Obama

#14. Real leadership comes from the quiet nudging of an inner voice. It comes from realizing that the time has come to move beyond waiting to doing. #Quote by Madeleine Albright

#15. Real leadership is being the person others will gladly and confidently follow. #Quote by John C. Maxwell

#16. I think the American people are looking for real leadership. That's what I've done in Louisiana, that's what I'll do in America. #Quote by Bobby Jindal

#17. Real leadership involves clear communication, personal accountability, and a zest for bringing out the best in everyone! #Quote by Farshad Asl

#18. A leaders job is to ELEVATE the team, not delegate the team. Elevate your team to take initiative because real leadership is when you can create a culture of self-leadership within your team #Quote by Janna Cachola

#19. It's sort of easy to make a challenge. It's very hard to put the full fate of your government behind the challenge and make it happen. That's real leadership. #Quote by Jody Williams

#20. The idea that the UN system could provide real leadership on the great development challenges will strain credulity in some quarters. #Quote by Jeffrey Sachs

#21. The only thing you have for measuring what's real is your mind ... so what happens when your mind becomes a pathological liar? #Quote by Neal Shusterman

#22. Drawing the desperate and the adrift, Los Angeles has long been the dumping ground of dreams both real and cinematic. #Quote by Steve Erickson

#23. The thing is that, they all had real strong personalities and real distinct identities, and I don't find most of the groups that are coming out now really do. #Quote by Lester Bangs

#24. The man who has dedicated himself to the success of the protect, the master builder, no longer has any freedom: his conduct is now determined altogether by the constraining force of the end. Logically, therefore, he is bound to require at every moment from his companions whatever will best serve that end, and he demands of them imperiously whatever he thinks is of that nature. This imperiousness, though to immediate view that of the master, springs ultimately from the project itself, for it is the project which is in command. In the eyes of those under him, however, it is the master who hustles them, and they think him inhuman by reason of his disregard of their moods and personalities and his inability to see them other than as servants of the project (like himself). #Quote by Bertrand De Jouvenel

#25. Draconian limits on economic growth and on the use of the automobile should not be necessary in order to give Americans clean air at levels they are willing to pay for, but it will require significant Federal, State, and local leadership and innovative approaches from government and industry. #Quote by George H. W. Bush

#26. When people keep telling you that you can't do a thing, you kind of like to try it. #Quote by Margaret Chase Smith

#27. I sort of ended up in Los Angeles by accident. And it was sort of terrible to be jostled into this position of a fame-hungry starlet. Which is so honestly not me! In fact, I could use a bit more of that because I am such a hermit! So I allowed myself to get really bothered. #Quote by Kate Beckinsale

#28. I laughed and said, Life is easy. What I meant was, Life is easy with you here, and when you leave, it will be hard again. #Quote by Miranda July

#29. Treat your employees like you would want to be treated if you were an employee. #Quote by Amber Hurdle

#30. David was at his best in group settings, soldier enough to join in the raucous jests, king enough to make it matter that he remembered some moments of bravery or sacrifice, and praised each man accordingly. #Quote by Geraldine Brooks

#31. There should be a healthy 'stubbornness', assertiveness and confidence that comes from knowledge of your clear vision, mission, values and personal brand. #Quote by Archibald Marwizi

#32. I think everyone practices their Oscars acceptance speech with a shampoo bottle, and I've done my fair share of them. It's really surreal to be able to do it in real life. #Quote by Graham Moore

#33. I see the gods - the names, images, stories - as the poetic encapsulation of our human experience, our relationship with the ineffable forces that shape human life. While this makes the gods no thing, it does not make them nothing. I see the gods as representing very real, powerful, even dangerous forces. I believe the gods are real. It doesn't matter what we call them or don't call them. They are real and dangerous, and we will contend with them. This for me is the message of the Bacchae. - M. J. Lee, "Being Human When Surrounded by Greek Gods #Quote by John Halstead

#34. We know the surrealist solution: concrete irrationality, objective risk. Poetry is the conquest, the only possible conquest, of the 'supreme position', 'a certain position of the mind from where life and death, the real and the imaginary, the past and the future ... cease to be perceived in a contradictory sense.' #Quote by Albert Camus

#35. As I get older, I find myself way more into sports. I'm in a basketball league. You maybe know some of the people in it. They're real people, not fake ones like me. #Quote by Bryan Greenberg

#36. Worldly relationships are not true [are not real]; it is a 'business arrangement'. #Quote by Dada Bhagwan

#37. The teacher, whether mother, priest, or schoolmaster, is the real maker of history. #Quote by H.G.Wells

#38. The film [Close Up] made itself, to a large extent. The characters involved were very real, I wasn't directing the actors so much as being directed by them. So it was a very particular film. #Quote by Abbas Kiarostami

#39. The real power, the power we have to fight for night and day, is not power over things, but over men #Quote by George Orwell

#40. You put on a face for the public. The face isn't false; it's just another side of you. If it were false, you couldn't last. People want something real and natural, and if they catch you acting, you're dead. It has to look real. In order to look real, it has to be real, and I've always thought of the characters I've played as real people. #Quote by James Garner

#41. Typically, if you reward something, you get more of it. You punish something, you get less of it. And our businesses have been built for the last 150 years very much on that kind of motivational scheme. #Quote by Daniel H. Pink

#42. It was a good plan, and like all plans since the dawn of time, this would fail to survive contact with real life. #Quote by Ben Aaronovitch

#43. Today's aikido is so dimensionless. It's hollow, empty on the inside. People try to reach the highest levels without even paying their dues. That's why it seems so much like a dance these days. You have to master the very basics solidly, with your body, and then proceed to develop to the higher levels ... Now we see nothing but copying or imitation without any grasp of the real thing ... #Quote by Gozo Shioda

#44. It's a real problem to decide whether it's more boring to do something boring than to pass along everything boring that comes in to somebody else and then have nothing to do at all. #Quote by Joseph Heller

#45. It was a real whale, a photograph of a real whale. I looked into its tiny wise eye and wondered where that eye was now. Was it alive and swimming, or had it died long ago, or was it dying now, right this second? When a whale dies, it falls down through the ocean slowly, over the course of a day. All the other fish see it fall, like a giant statue, like a building, but slowly, slowly. #Quote by Miranda July

#46. I think the most useful thing you can do as a writer is to reconstruct real life with all its color, hardship, joy, and intrigue. If you're interested in people, you honor them best, I think, by making the fullest possible picture of them. Your subjects may - and from my experience probably will - protest your portrait of them. #Quote by Rosemary Mahoney

#47. In your school you take part in various activities that habituate you not to shut yourselves in on yourselves or in your small world, but to be open to others, especially to the poorest and neediest, to work to improve the world in which we live. Be men and women with others and for others, real champions in the service of others. To be magnanimous with interior liberty and a spirit of service, spiritual formation is necessary. Dear children, dear youths, love Jesus Christ ever more! #Quote by Pope Francis

#48. I always love that 'we' part from a staff officer. #Quote by Eric Haney

#49. God's high freedom in Jesus Christ is His freedom for LOVE. The divine capacity which operates and exhibits itself in that superiority and subordination is manifestly also God's capacity to bend downwards, to attach Himself to another and this other to Himself, to be together with him. This takes place in that irreversible sequence, but in it is completely real. In that sequence there arises and continues in Jesus Christ the highest communion of God with man. God's deity is thus no prison in which He can exist only in and for Himself. It is rather His freedom to be in and for Himself but also with and for us, to assert but also to sacrifice Himself, to be wholly exalted but also completely humble, not only almighty but also almighty mercy, not only Lord but also servant, not only judge but also Himself the judged, not only man's eternal king but also his brother in time. And all that without in the slightest forfeiting His deity! All that, rather, in the highest proof and proclamation of His deity! He who DOES and manifestly CAN do all that, He and no other is the living God. #Quote by Karl Barth

#50. Your real job in this world is to be you. #Quote by India.Arie

#51. I went to college a little bit, and that didn't work out, and I didn't finish. So, I would play in bars until I ran out of money, and then I'd get a real job. #Quote by Chris Stapleton

#52. The energy now spent on self-protection can be converted into positive energy if we're willing to encounter reality and see it clearly. Facing reality is an empowering act - it can liberate our mind and heart to discern how best to use our power and influence in service for this time. #Quote by Margaret J. Wheatley

#53. Mentors turn into tormentors if they believe they are always right. #Quote by Andy Hargreaves

#54. The social mould civilization fits us into have no more relation to our actual shapes than the conventional shapes of the constellations have to the real star-patterns. I am called Mrs. Richard Phillotson, living a calm wedded life with my counterpart of that name. But I am not really Mrs. Richard Phillotson, but a woman tossed about, all alone, with aberrant passions, and unaccountable antipathies ... #Quote by Thomas Hardy

#55. My general rule of thumb is, once something's a ride at Disneyland, I assume that it is no longer a threat in real life. Which is why I don't expect to get attacked by a giant tea cup anytime soon. #Quote by Arj Barker

#56. Real inward devotion knows no prayer but that arising from the depths of its own feelings. #Quote by Wilhelm Von Humboldt

#57. I started to stand, but I neeed to say more to Tracey. "Tracey, I apologize again for calling you 'Arvey' all that time."
Her whole body, already still, stiffened.
"I wouldn't have done it if I had known your real name."
One hand slipped up under her hair, as if swiping a tear.
"I hope you never do anything like the picture again because it caused a lot of trouble, but there's something important I want you to know."
She slowly raised her head and faxed me with damp, red eyes.
Memory took me back to that night Grandma explained why she was so happy in spite of the horrors she had survived. I wanted to do what Grandma had done – leave the bad times behind so I could enjoy the good times. I wanted to close the door on this whole drama.
"Tracey, I forgive you. #Quote by Brenda Vicars

#58. Adaptability and change management requires strong emotional and social intelligence. It is a part of inside-out leadership. #Quote by Amit Ray

#59. Leaders know the great deal of productivity that comes out of a strong self-esteem. They help others to develop this esteem so that productivity can increase. #Quote by Israelmore Ayivor