Presidential Leadership Quotes:

If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.

- John Quincy Adams

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Top Management, Management Motivation

Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.

- Barack Obama

source: June Jordan, “Poem For South African Women”

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Change, Times Have Changed, Inspirational Presidential

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.

- Abraham Lincoln

topic: Inspirational, Leadership, Clever, Innovation And Leadership, Too Much Power

People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader leads, and the boss drives.

- Theodore Roosevelt

topic: Leadership, Differences, People, Management Motivation, Innovation And Leadership

Action will delineate and define you.

- Thomas Jefferson

topic: Action, Define You, Inspirational Teamwork, Motivation And Drive, Motivational Teamwork

Defeat doesn't finish a man, quit does. A man is not finished when he's defeated. He's finished when he quits.

- Richard M. Nixon

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Failure, Men, Doe, Inspiring Presidential, Presidential Leadership

My fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.

- John F. Kennedy

source: Inaugural Address, 20 Jan. 1961

topic: Inspirational, Inspiring, Country, Inaugural Speech, Independence Day Patriotic

we are the ones we have been waiting for

- Alice Walker

source: Alice Walker (2013). “The World Has Changed: Conversations with Alice Walker”, p.342, The New Press

topic: Confidence, Waiting, African American, Times Have Changed, Inspirational Presidential

It is not strange... to mistake change for progress.

- Millard Fillmore

topic: Change, Mistake, Presidential, Dishonorable, Presidential Leadership

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself-and possibly teh bogey man.

- Pat Paulsen

topic: Fear, Breast Cancer, Men, Inaugural Speech, Sound Bites

We are the ones we've been waiting for.

- June Jordan

topic: Waiting, Times Have Changed, Inspirational Change, Inspirational Presidential, Time And Change

It is better to be alone than in bad company.

- Unknown

topic: Inspirational, Friendship, Lonely, Inspirational Relationship, Inspiring Presidential

First of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself - nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

topic: Fear, Patriotic, History, Inaugural Address, Inaugural Speech

Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.

- John F. Kennedy

topic: Inspirational, Life, Change, Managing Change, Managing Time

The truth was that all men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree.

- James Madison

source: James Madison's notes on the debates in the Federal Convention, avalon.law.yale.edu. July 11, 1787.

topic: Truth, Men, Presidential, Power Corruption, Limited Government

Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

- John F. Kennedy

topic: Inspirational, Leadership, Educational, Live And Learn, Top Management

Frequently the more trifling the subject, the more animated and protracted the discussion.

- Franklin Pierce

topic: Patriotic, Presidential, Political, Trifling, Presidential Leadership

It would be judicious to act with magnanimity towards a prostrate foe.

- Millard Fillmore

topic: Inspirational Life, Would Be, Foe, Presidents Day, Magnanimity

If you’re walking down the right path and you’re willing to keep walking, eventually you’ll make progress.

- Barack Obama

source: "Barack Obama's farewell speech: this is how a leader signs off" by Ruchira Karnik, www.hindustantimes.com. January 15, 2017.

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Inspiring, Inspirational Presidential, Inspiring Presidential

A good leader can't get too far ahead of his followers.

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

topic: Business, Leader, Followers, Good Leader, Presidential Leadership

Go for the moon. If you don't get it, you'll still be heading for a star. Happiness lies not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of the creative effort.

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

topic: Stars, Lying, Moon, Creativeness, Inner Peace And Happiness

Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.

- Thomas Jefferson

topic: Crush, Morning, Motivation, Inspirational Teamwork, Motivational Teamwork

American presidential leadership never goes out of style.

- Monica Crowley

topic: Presidential, Style, American President, Presidential Leadership

Lately even the harshest critics of President Bush have been forced to admit maybe he's right about freedom's march around the globe. What if we are watching an example of presidential leadership that will be taught in American schools for generations to come? It's an idea gaining more currency.

- Brian Williams

topic: School, Ideas, Presidential, Presidential Leadership

In the '90s, there was scant presidential leadership and insufficient domestic political mobilization for foreign policy grounded in human rights.

- Samantha Power

topic: Rights, Presidential, Political, Mobilization, Presidential Leadership

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

- Donald Rumsfeld

source: Donald Rumsfeld (2001). “Public Statements of Donald H. Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense, 2001”

topic: Leadership, Presidential, Looks, Presidential Leadership

President Lincoln was trying to convince some people, he used some arguments, convincing other people, he used other arguments. That was a great - I thought a great display of presidential leadership.

- Hillary Clinton

source: "Transcript of the Second Debate". www.nytimes.com. October 10, 2016.

topic: People, Presidential, Trying, Convincing Others, President Lincoln

Presidential leadership is a really tough job, does come not easily.

- Dinesh Sharma

source: Source: www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com

topic: Jobs, Presidential, Doe, Presidential Leadership

The cavalier casual way that Donald Trump talks about nuclear weapons is not only frightening but it goes counter to more than 70 years of bipartisan, presidential leadership of Republicans and Democrats who believed that we have to prevent other countries from getting nuclear weapons and we have to do what we can to decrease the number of nuclear weapons in the world.

- Hillary Clinton

source: Source: abcnews.go.com

topic: Country, Numbers, Years, Other Countries, Presidential Leadership

You've seen [Doanld Trump] come out with a lot more specifics. He's not in hiding or smashing BlackBerry or BleachBit himself to death like we've seen Hillary do or Hillary [Clinton] throwing her stuff, you know, under the bus. She's not showing presidential leadership qualities.

- Kimberly Guilfoyle

source: Source: www.foxnews.com

topic: Specifics, Leadership Qualities, Presidential Leadership, Smashing