Browsing Topic Best World Leader Quotes

You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.

Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others.

Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.

As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.

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

We need a little bit of humility. We can be part of the solution, but we have not earned the right – nor do we have the power – to be in charge.

You don’t lead by hitting people over the head – that’s assault, not leadership.

Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.

Every generation of children offers mankind the possibility of rebuilding his ruin of a world.

The CIA has a plot…they’ve used before to get rid of world leaders. Only problem…is convincing Hussein…to fly to Dallas.

The great leaders are like the best conductors – they reach beyond the notes to reach the magic in the players.

Become the kind of leader that people would follow voluntarily; even if you had no title or position.

The idea of being a foreign correspondent and wandering the world and witnessing great events, having adventures and covering the activities of world leaders, appealed to me greatly. It was a very glamorous life in those days.

Today, more than ever before, science holds the key to our survival as a planet and our security and prosperity as a nation. It’s time we once again put science at the top of our agenda and work to restore America’s place as the world leader in science and technology.

If I was trying to destroy this country, what I would do is find a way to drive wedges between all the people, drive the debt to an unsustainable level, and then step off the stage as a world leader and let our enemies increase while we decreased our capacity as a military person. And that’s what [Hillary Clinton] doing.

As I travel around the world, it’s fascinating; European leaders, Asian leaders, they all say to me, America is actually poised to be the world leader for another century – if we can fix some of this political dysfunction. … We’ve got a lot of national security challenges, but if we get our economy together, and if we can get our political system to work well, I am really confident about our future.

The led must not be compelled; they must be able to choose their own leader.

Clouds of a different sort signal an environmental holocaust without precedent. Once again, world leaders waffle, hoping the danger will dissipate. Yet today the evidence is as clear as the sounds of glass shattering in Berlin.

With Albright at the helm of the State Department, Osama bin Laden ran wild throughout the Middle East, the North Koreans began feverishly building nukes under her nose, and we staged a pre-emptive attack solely for purposes of regime change based on false information presented to the American people by Albright about a world leader who was not an imminent threat to the United States. Slobodan Milosevic wasn’t even a latent, long-term, hypothetical threat.

I call for the need of world leaders to address climate change and reduce the increasing risk of disasters- and world leaders must include mayors, townships and community leaders.

Of course, there is no question that Libya – and the world – will be better off with Gaddafi out of power. I, along with many other world leaders, have embraced that goal, and will actively pursue it through non-military means. But broadening our military mission to include regime change would be a mistake.

Leaders need to provide strategy and direction and to give employees tools that enable them to gather information and insight from around the world. Leaders shouldn’t try to make every decision.

He who has never learned to obey cannot be a good commander.

Being a world leader is less about destiny than focused determination, and it is there that we have faltered.

The failure of world leaders to act on the critical issue of global warming is often blamed on economic considerations.

What world leader is considered the most controversial and everyone has a view of him? That’s Putin.

Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help or concluded you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership.

The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them.

I think America has more than enough maturity and intelligence to start exercising its world leadership responsibly.

The current generation of world leaders — our generation — is also being called to face significant challenges concerning peace, collective security and the environment. We have been unable to solve old disputes and to prevent new threats. The use of force is incapable of eliminating the underlying causes of conflict.

If George Bush can’t get along with Stephen Harper, he can’t get along with any world leader. They’re ideological cousins, if not twins.

President Bush spent last night calling world leaders to support the war with Iraq and it is sad when the most powerful man on earth is yelling, ‘I know you’re there, pick up, pick up.

As a world leader, America must be prepared to confront any challenge.

Leaders stand out. Good leaders succeed. Great leaders make a difference in the world.

I believe in MasterPeace. World leaders cannot push back armed conflict alone. We need the whole world to make this happen.