Moral Leadership Quotes

• Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.

  Peter Drucker

  Inspirational, Change, Leadership

  "Seven Habits of Highly Effective People" by Stephen R. Covey, (p. 101), 1989.

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• You don't lead by hitting people over the head - that's assault, not leadership.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Funny, Relationship, Leadership

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• The presidency is not merely an administrative office...It is pre-eminently a place of moral leadership.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Office, Administrative, Presidency

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• It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Courage, Integrity

  Mark Twain (2013). “Autobiography of Mark Twain”, p.372, Univ of California Press

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• The Presidency is not merely an administrative office. Thats the least of it. It is more than an engineering job, efficient or inefficient. It is pre-eminently a place of moral leadership. All our great Presidents were leaders of thought at times when certain historic ideas in the life of the nation had to be clarified.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Jobs, Engineering, Ideas

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• The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.

  Ralph Nader

  Inspirational, Motivational, Inspiring

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• We must dissent from the indifference. We must dissent from the apathy. We must dissent from the fear, the hatred and the mistrust. We must dissent from a nation that has buried its head in the sand, waiting in vain for the needs of its poor, its elderly, and its sick to disappear and just blow away. We must dissent from a government that has left its young without jobs, education or hope. We must dissent from the poverty of vision and the absence of moral leadership. We must dissent because America can do better, because America has no choice but to do better.

  Thurgood Marshall

  Jobs, Blow, America

  Thurgood Marshall, J. Clay Smith, Jr. (2003). “Supreme Justice: Speeches and Writings”, p.15, University of Pennsylvania Press

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• What are most people hungry for? I believe it is spiritual and moral leadership. Increases in technology, scientific inventions, and medical miracles have been marvelous and incredible. But we must use them properly to bring us joy, and that requires spiritual and moral leadership.

  James E. Faust

  Spiritual, Believe, Technology

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• Leadership consists not in degrees of technique but in traits of character; it requires moral rather than athletic or intellectual effort, and it imposes on both leader and follower alike the burdens of self-restraint.

  Lewis H. Lapham

  Leadership, Integrity, Character

  Lewis H. Lapham (1985). “High Technology and Human Freedom”

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• I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Leadership, Time

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• There must appear a spiritual and moral leadership rising above economic and political situations. Governments in both their domestic and foreign policies appeal for popular support by promises of material gain. We cannot make peace by mere appeal to greed. We must give the peoples of the world something to live for as well as something to live on.

  John Haynes Holmes

  Leadership, Spiritual, Government

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• If America ever passes out as a great nation, we ought to put on our tombstone: America died from a delusion she had Moral Leadership.

  Will Rogers

  Tombstone, Usa, America

  Will Rogers (1979). “Will Rogers' Daily Telegrams: The Hoover years, 1931-1933”, Will Rogers Heritage Trust

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• His peaceful resistance shook the foundations of an empire, exposed the emptiness of a repressive ideology, and proved that moral leadership is more powerful than any weapon.

  Barack Obama

  Inspiring, Powerful, Peaceful

  Statement on the death of Vaclav Havel, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. December 18, 2011.

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• We need moral leadership and courage in our world.

  Jacqueline Novogratz

  Our World, Thought Provoking, Needs

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• Since when do grown men and women, who presume to hold high government office and exercise what they think of as "moral leadership," require ethics officers to tell them whether it is or isn't permissible to grab the secretary's behind or redirect public funds to their own personal advantage?

  Meg Greenfield

  Success, Exercise, Men

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• The Court's great power is its ability to educate, to provide moral leadership.

  William O. Douglas

  Court, Ability, Educate

  Time Magazine Interview, November 12, 1973.

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• Yes, America must do the right thing, but to provide moral leadership, America must do it in the right way, too.

  David Cameron

  America, Way, Right Thing

  "U.K. State Dinner Highlights Obama, Cameron Friendship" by Christina Wilkie, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 15, 2012.

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• Educationists should build the capacities of the spirit of inquiry, creativity, entrepreneurial and moral leadership among students and become their role model.

  Abdul Kalam

  Leadership, Creativity, Young Generation

  Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam (0101). “Enlightened Minds”, p.34, Prabhat Prakashan

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• Great literature is like moral leadership; everyone deplores the lack of it, but there is a tendency to prefer it from the safely dead.

  Shirley Hazzard

  Leadership, Literature, Moral

  Shirley Hazzard (2016). “We Need Silence to Find Out What We Think: Selected Essays”, p.67, Columbia University Press

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• In fact, the converse is true: At a time when the United States has been called on for a level of moral leadership, vision and inspiration not seen since World War II, we cannot afford to dissemble about crimes against humanity.

  Adam Schiff

  War, Inspiration, Humanity

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• So [Vladimir] Putin is a mess. He's committed all sort of murderous thuggery, and I am opposed to the way Putin conducts himself in world affairs, and I hope that the president also wants to show moral leadership about this issue.

  Benjamin E. Sasse

  Issues, President, World

  Source: www.sfgate.com

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• I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts. I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat! If we ever pass out as a great nation we ought to put on our tombstone 'America died from a delusion that she had moral leadership.'

  Will Rogers

  Tombstone, Party, Government

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• I think America has a responsibility to maintain its leadership in technology and its moral leadership in the world, to explore, to seek knowledge.

  Gene Cernan

  Responsibility, Technology, Thinking

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• The American color bar unless speedily removed will be the rock on which our international Good Neighbor policy and our pious claims to moral leadership will founder.

  Charles Hamilton Houston

  Color, Rocks, Bars

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