Charles M. Blow Quotes

Having the capacity to lead is not enough. The leader must be willing to use it.

Leaders have to lead.

If you want leaders, you must become a leader yourself!

There is a big difference between being a leader and actually leading.

Great leadership is not attained by pursuing greatness but by persevering through great tests.

If you want to be a leader, go lead

Nothing that matters in this world happens unless leaders lead it.

The leadership definitely have to come from the leaders.

Earn your leadership every day.

Leadership is scarce because few people are willing to go through the discomfort required to lead.

There are good leaders who actively guide and bad leaders who actively misguide. Hence, leadership is about persuasion, presentation and people skills.

In the simplest terms, a leader is one who knows where she wants and gets up and goes.

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.

I am and always will be a leader.

When I select a leader I look for a person with integrity, intelligence and ambition. If he doesn’t have integrity I hope he doesn’t have the other two either.

We have good soldiers but crummy generals.

Great Presidents are made and not born. They have to be pushed into greatness.

I think leadership is something you earn, more through actions than words.

Boys go to Washington to be somebody...men go to do something.

I was born to be a leader. I love the fact that millions of people look up to me.

Be the leader you wish you had.

We will have to learn to lead people rather then to contain them.

I think being able to have follow-through, I think a lot of people who are in charge, that is the one quality that you can't forsake. You can get opinions, but you can't have too many cooks in the kitchen when you're envisioning something.

We live in a world that is crying out for better leadership.

I do have the strength. Leadership, leadership is not about attacking people and disparaging people. Leadership is about creating a serious strategy to deal with the threat of our time.