Leadership Attributes Quotes

Leadership is taking responsibility while others are making excuses.

The true measure of leadership is influence - nothing more, nothing less.

No real-world human being brings to the U.S. presidency the range of attributes necessary for full success in the job.

A strong leader accepts blame and gives the credit. A weak leader gives blame and accepts the credit.

Leadership is like beauty - it's hard to define but you know it when you see it.

Successful leadership is not about being tough or soft, sensitive or assertive, but about a set of attributes. First and foremost is character

Leadership is a role you have to earn in order to be effective.

A leader is someone who has the courage to say publicly what everybody else is whispering privately. It is not his insight that sets the leader apart from the crowd. It is his courage to act and speak up when everyone else is silent....are those who would rather challenge what needs to change and pay the price than remain silent and die on the inside.

The insight to see possible new paths, the courage to try them, the judgment to measure results - these are the qualities of a leader.

In the end leaders are leaders. They get the credit and they get the blame.

Leadership is learned, earned, and discerned. You develop it. It's based on trust and credibility. Others see it in you. You can't demand it.

It is the quality and the character of the leader that determines the results and performance.

True leaders respect and honor authority but are comfortable in its presence.

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.

It just never comes across as a quality you want in a president that you're sitting in a room. It's almost as if they woke up and realized, You know, we're running against a former secretary of state. Our guy used to do the Miss Universe pageant around the world. Maybe we should try to heavy this up.

Can you believe that? She says I'm not leader enough for her. Who was she looking for... Hitler?

We very often confuse personality with leadership.

Not everybody who has a vision is a leader, but every leader has a vision.

You mustn't confuse the need for effective chairmanship, which is part of the job of the boss, along with the ability to take tough decisions and to lead people.

Though there are lessons that can be learned about becoming a great leader, most exist inherently in the bellies of those who lead.

I would assert that highly effective leaders are made more than they're born. Every leader I know who's been highly effective has worked hard at it, and they've been students of it. The more you're a student of leadership, the more you figure out what works for you and the more effective you're going to be.

There are themes that somehow stir me and that I find very interesting. They're themes that deal with leadership, the nature of bravery and courage, and how to define those.

It looks to me like any man that wants to be President in times like these lacks something.

Leadership does take work. And it should. If you aspire to be a leader, you ought to treat leadership as a craft, you ought to become a student of it, and you ought to work at it. And if you're not willing to work at it, well, you get what you give.