1. I never saw myself as an individual who had any particular leadership powers. - Angela Davis 

2. I fully support U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon in his Global Education First Initiative and the work of U.N. Special Envoy for Global Education Gordon Brown and the respectful president of the U.N. General Assembly Vuk Jeremic. I thank them for the leadership they continue to give. - Malala Yousafzai 

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

4. In order to cultivate a set of leaders with legitimacy in the eyes of the citizenry, it is necessary that the path to leadership be visibly open to talented and qualified individuals of every race and ethnicity. - Sandra Day O'Connor 

5. I got put into leadership roles very early in life from fifth grade, sixth grade. I always ended up being the quarterback or the leader of the sports teams, and it's kind of benefiting me now. - Tony Dungy 

6. You're born with some things inside you that will allow you to lead, but I think you have to take the bull by the horns. You have to want that leadership position, and then there are things you can do to develop that. - Tony Dungy 

7. The book is actually called 'A Mentor Leader, a Different Way to Lead.' It really talks about my experience in the way I tried lead our football team, things that I learned from, basically, the coaches that I played for and my parents about leadership. And it is a little bit different, counter to maybe what society says about great leaders. - Tony Dungy 

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

9. Leadership cannot just go along to get along. Leadership must meet the moral challenge of the day. - Jesse Jackson 

10. I believe in servant leadership, and the servant always asks, 'Where am I needed most?' - Mike Pence 

11. In this age, I don't care how tactically or operationally brilliant you are: if you cannot create harmony - even vicious harmony - on the battlefield based on trust across service lines, across coalition and national lines, and across civilian/military lines, you need to go home, because your leadership is obsolete. - Jim Mattis 

12. There's two parts of leadership. You've got to be a good leader - you've got to be somebody that people want to emulate and care about the other people. But the other guys that you have have to accept their leadership. They have to respond to it. That's the chemistry that you never know how that is going to happen. - Nick Saban 

13. 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. - Deepak Chopra 

14. There are very few good examples of effective, nurturing leadership that unlocks people's potential or even enthusiasm. - Deepak Chopra 

15. One civilization after another has been wrecked upon the attempt to secure sufficient leadership from a single group or class. - Herbert Hoover 

16. We needed to go back on the offense and offer clear leadership on Iraq. - Condoleezza Rice 

17. I talked about the need for American leadership, I talked about the importance of the United States to a more peaceful world, a world that has been quite turbulent in recent years, and needs a strong American anchor. - Condoleezza Rice 

18. I know of no single formula for success. But over the years I have observed that some attributes of leadership are universal and are often about finding ways of encouraging people to combine their efforts, their talents, their insights, their enthusiasm and their inspiration to work together. - Queen Elizabeth II 

19. My parents never ceased to struggle, but in witnessing their lives, I learned more about natural industry and leadership than in any classroom. - Stacey Abrams 

20. In Georgia and around the country, people are striving for a middle class where a salary truly equals economic security. But instead, families' hopes are being crushed by Republican leadership that ignores real life or just doesn't understand it. - Stacey Abrams 

21. There are racial and gender implications to how we think about what leadership looks like in the country. - Stacey Abrams 

22. Leadership requires the ability to engage and to create empathy for communities with disparate needs and ideas. Telling an effective story - especially in romantic suspense - demands a similar skill set. - Stacey Abrams 

23. I have been privileged to write across multiple facets of my life: to write romance novels, to write memoir, to write about leadership, and to write tax and social policy articles. The act of writing is integral to who I am. I'm a writer, a politician, a tax attorney, a civic leader, and an entrepreneur. I am proud of what I've accomplished. - Stacey Abrams 

24. The thing I'm most focused on today is, how am I maximizing the effectiveness of the leadership team, and what am I doing to nurture it? - Satya Nadella

 25. One thing we've talked a lot about, even in the first leadership meeting, was, what's the purpose of our leadership team? The framework we came up with is the notion that our purpose is to bring clarity, alignment and intensity. - Satya Nadella 

26. Military school was great and especially great for leadership and then I spent two years in Vietnam. - Robert Kiyosaki 

27. People invest in businesses that they believe have the leadership, mission and team to grow and operate profitably. - Robert Kiyosaki 

28. Most businesses think that product is the most important thing, but without great leadership, mission and a team that deliver results at a high level, even the best product won't make a company successful. - Robert Kiyosaki 

29. 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. - Louis Farrakhan 

30. Overall, the challenge of leadership is both moral and one of developing the characteristics that make us respected by one another. - Louis Farrakhan 

31. Constant, gentle pressure is my preferred technique for leadership, guidance, and coaching. - Danny Meyer 

32. Put your leaders in stressful scenarios. Make them figure out solutions under pressure. See if you can make them frustrated, angry, and flustered, and then demand decisive leadership from them. They will be challenged at first, but they will get better over time. - Jocko Willink 

33. Just as discipline and freedom are opposing forces that must be balanced, leadership requires finding the equilibrium in the dichotomy of many seemingly contradictory qualities between one extreme and another. - Jocko Willink 

34. Anybody who tells you that a two-day conference, you're going to turn into the General Patton of leadership, they're not telling you the truth. But you can learn the fundamentals; you can absolutely understand the fundamentals. - Jocko Willink 

35. Leadership is hard. It's a skill. It's a technique. - Jocko Willink 

36. Taking on a leadership role doesn't mean that you only have to be personally ambitious. - Jacinda Ardern 

37. I am the wealthiest man, not just in Europe, but in the whole world. I collect emotions. I am wealthy in that the people of Russia have twice entrusted me with the leadership of a great nation such as Russia - I believe that is my greatest wealth. - Vladimir Putin 

38. We the people have the strength to bring our country from our weak-kneed stumbling gait in the last ranks of reason to the leadership of the great march to environmental victory. - Walter Cronkite 

39. Character matters; leadership descends from character. - Rush Limbaugh 

40. There's a void of leadership in a lot of Washington. I think one of the reasons why there's so much angst across the country. - Rush Limbaugh 

41. Nobody in a leadership level in American politics is trying to inspire the American people. Everybody needs to be goosed. The vast majority of people are not self-starters. - Rush Limbaugh 

42. The Republican leadership thinks the best way to avoid losing elections is to let the Democrats win every controversial issue. - Rush Limbaugh 

43. Don't necessarily avoid sharp edges. Occasionally they are necessary to leadership. - Donald Rumsfeld 

44. 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. - Donald Rumsfeld 

45. Presidential leadership needn't always cost money. Look for low- and no-cost options. They can be surprisingly effective. - Donald Rumsfeld 

46. Ever since Israel has been a nation the United States has provided the leadership. Every president down to the ages has done this in a fairly balanced way, including George Bush senior, Gerald Ford, and others including myself and Bill Clinton. - Jimmy Carter 

47. Absolute identity with one's cause is the first and great condition of successful leadership. - Woodrow Wilson 

48. I'm sad to report that in the past few years, ever since uncertainty became our insistent 21st century companion, leadership has taken a great leap backwards to the familiar territory of command and control. - Margaret J. Wheatley 

49. I believe that the capacity that any organization needs is for leadership to appear anywhere it is needed, when it is needed. - Margaret J. Wheatley

50. I think it is quite dangerous for an organization to think they can predict where they are going to need leadership. It needs to be something that people are willing to assume if it feels relevant, given the context of any situation. - Margaret J. Wheatley 

51. I think a major act of leadership right now, call it a radical act, is to create the places and processes so people can actually learn together, using our experiences. - Margaret J. Wheatley 

52. Most people associate command and control leadership with the military. - Margaret J. Wheatley 

53. Charlatanism of some degree is indispensable to effective leadership. - Eric Hoffer 

54. I would say that one of the things that encouraged me so much when I became elected to the leadership was the letters I received from fathers of daughters, saying that, 'My daughter can now do many more things because of what you did.' - Nancy Pelosi 

55. The Republican Party is the Grand Old Party. It's made enormous contributions to the success of our country. And it is a party that has embraced its leadership role when it has had the majority or the White House. - Nancy Pelosi 

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

57. I emphasize self-esteem, self-confidence, and dignity, not as an ideal, but as a real test of community organization. Without leadership development, community organizations do not have staying power. - Paul Wellstone 

58. 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. - Larry Bird 

59. This is about systemic, institutional corruption, not personality. To ask the Democratic leadership to clean things up would be like asking the old Soviet bureaucracy under Brezhnev to reform itself. It ain't going to happen. - Newt Gingrich 

60. I think leadership is not something you learn; it's something you discover. - Myles Munroe

61. Character in leadership is the most important balance for leadership. Without character, leaders have no safety. Leadership has no protection without character. - Myles Munroe 

62. In giving us children, God places us in a position of both leadership and service. He calls us to give up our lives for someone else's sake - to abandon our own desires and put our child's interests first. Yet, according to His perfect design, it is through this selflessness that we can become truly fulfilled. - Charles Stanley 

63. God will never direct us to be prideful, arrogant and unforgiving, immoral or slothful or full of fear. We step into these things because we are insensitive to the leadership of the Holy Spirit within us. - Charles Stanley 

64. I started doing organizing work as a teenager. I was part of an organization called the 21st Century Youth Leadership Movement at 14. - Tarana Burke 

65. We have to trust the voices of the community to be in leadership and know what we need for our communities. - Tarana Burke 

66. We do not have a crisis at Freddie Mac, and particularly Fannie Mae, under the outstanding leadership of Frank Raines. - Maxine Waters 

67. I urge the Iraqi leadership for sake of its own people... to seize this opportunity and thereby begin to end the isolation and suffering of the Iraqi people. - Kofi Annan 

68. Priesthood lessons are regularly devoted to topics of family leadership, and quorum leaders everywhere are feeling more and more their responsibility to teach and train their quorum members to be better husbands and fathers. - Joseph B. Wirthlin 

69. This assumption of Negro leadership in the ghetto, then, must not be confined to matters of religion, education, and social uplift; it must deal with such fundamental forces in life as make these things possible. - Carter G. Woodson 

70. I have yet to meet members of a leadership team who I thought lacked the intelligence or the domain expertise required to be successful. I've met many, however, who failed to foster organizational health. Their companies were riddled with politics, various forms of dysfunction, and general confusion about their direction and mission. - Patrick Lencioni 

71. Whether we're talking about leadership, teamwork, or client service, there is no more powerful attribute than the ability to be genuinely honest about one's weaknesses, mistakes, and needs for help. - Patrick Lencioni 

72. Comrade Kim Jong Il, who was faithful to Comrade Kim Il Sung's ideas and cause, led our revolution along the glorious road of victory, braving the severe trials and adversities of history by dint of his unique leadership of the Songun revolution. - Kim Jong-un 

73. Success in the revolution and construction depends on how a party, the General Staff of the revolution, is built and on how its leadership role is enhanced. - Kim Jong-un 

74. A revolutionary party is, in its essence, the party of its leader that carries out his ideology and cause, and the main thing in its building is to ensure the unitary character and inheritance of his ideology and leadership. - Kim Jong-un

75. Our Party conferred the honorable title, 'The Heroic Working Class of Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il,' on our working class that supported the great leaders' ideas and leadership with loyalty. - Kim Jong-un 

76. The women's movement in Korea is a Juche-oriented movement, which was pioneered by the great Comrade Kim Il Sung and which followed the proud road of development under the leadership of Comrades Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il. - Kim Jong-un 

77. We should steadily intensify the work of establishing the Party's monolithic leadership system to make the whole Party share ideology with the Party Central Committee, breathe the same breath as it, and keep pace with it. - Kim Jong-un 

78. The great Comrades Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il, putting forward the development of sports as a matter that has an important bearing on the prosperity of the country and nation, indicated the road ahead of the Juche-based sports and wrote a new chapter in the history of building a sports power by dint of outstanding ideas and leadership. - Kim Jong-un 

79. All the organizations and officials of Chongryon, regarding this unity as the great foundation of the movement of Koreans in Japan, should rally themselves around the central leadership with one mind and purpose, and accomplish its patriotic cause, which was pioneered with comradely unity, by dint of comradeship. - Kim Jong-un 

80. Pay attention to those employees who respectfully ask why. They are demonstrating an interest in their jobs and exhibiting a curiosity that could eventually translate into leadership ability. - Harvey Mackay 

81. The world needs new leadership, but the new leadership is about working together. - Jack Ma 

82. Nobody knows better than I do what the pressures of party leadership can do to a young family. It tore mine apart. - Justin Trudeau 

83. My father's values and vision of this country obviously form everything I have as values and ideals. But this is not the ghost of my father running for the leadership of the Liberal party. This is me. - Justin Trudeau 

84. You can't run a government from one single person. What instead matters is that leadership be about gathering around extraordinary individuals and getting the best out of them. - Justin Trudeau 

85. Leadership is inspiring extraordinary people to step up and serve their country. - Justin Trudeau 

86. Some people have come to admire Stephen Harper's style because he's standing at the top of the pyramid - that's not leadership to me. - Justin Trudeau 

87. There are many elements to a campaign. Leadership is number one. Everything else is number two. - Bertolt Brecht 

88. The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers. - Ralph Nader 

89. I start with the premise that the function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers. - Ralph Nader 

90. I think as far as any kind of pressure on a football team or on an individual in professional sports really depends not only on that individual but the leadership they have on the team and the leadership they have on the coaching staff. A lot of times, they can divert some of those pressures off of the individual and off of the team. - Jimmy Johnson 

91. Leadership is absolutely vital if there are comparable countries which can affect the security of the world you live in. Between Lincoln and Roosevelt's time, America was protected by huge oceans and, in practice, by the British navy. Today, it's different, and the obsession of the Obama administration has been for retrenchment. - Henry Kissinger 

92. All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership. - John Kenneth Galbraith 

93. Great leadership can be a difficult thing to pin down and understand. You know a great leader when you're working for one, but even they can have a hard time articulating what it is that makes their leadership so effective. - Travis Bradberry 

94. It's through a leader's actions - what he or she does and says on a daily basis - that the essence of great leadership becomes apparent. - Travis Bradberry 

95. Few things kill likeability as quickly as arrogance. Likable leaders don't act as though they're better than you because they don't think that they're better than you. Rather than being a source of prestige, they see their leadership position as bringing them additional accountability for serving those who follow them. - Travis Bradberry 

96. Too many talk about a company's leadership, referring to the senior most executives in the organization. They are just that: senior executives. Leadership doesn't automatically happen when you reach a certain pay grade. Hopefully you find it there, but there are no guarantees. - Travis Bradberry 

97. Leadership is a mindset in action. So don't wait for the title. Leadership isn't something that anyone can give you - you have to earn it and claim it for yourself. - Travis Bradberry

98. Leadership and management are not synonymous. - Travis Bradberry 

99. The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born-that there is a genetic factor to leadership. This myth asserts that people simply either have certain charismatic qualities or not. That's nonsense; in fact, the opposite is true. Leaders are made rather than born. - Warren Bennis 

100. Leadership has become a heavy industry. Concern and interest about leadership development is no longer an American phenomenon. It is truly global. Though I will probably be in less demand, I wanted to move on. - Warren Bennis