Buzz Aldrin Quotes

If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever.

If you have men who will only come if they know there is a good road, I don't want them. I want men who will come if there is no road at all.

For good or ill, I'm a person of leadership. I do my best. I don't dodge responsibility.

Leadership is the other side of the coin of loneliness, and he who is a leader must always act alone. And acting alone, accept everything alone.

A big part of leadership is just being comfortable with the fact that some decisions really are only yours.

You who choose to lead must follow. But if you fall, you fall alone.

Leaders often find themselves temporarily alone.

Somebody has to try it.

It's just that as a solo artist, I have more burden and responsibilities on my shoulders.

Leadership is the willingness to put oneself at risk.

Whatever happens, take responsibility.

I hope that you will learn to take responsibility for your decisions. Don't take counsel of your fears.

You can't always wait for the guys at the top. Every manager at every level in the organization has an opportunity, big or small, to do something. Every manager's got some sphere of autonomy. Don't pass the buck up the line.

A leader does not deserve the name unless he is willing occasionally to stand alone.

All leaders share something in common. They feel they are the only ones who can do the job.

If you're a quarterback, you want everything on your shoulders. You want to be the one to make the decisions.

Being prime minister is a lonely job... you cannot lead from the crowd.

Great presidents, and even those not so great, never complained about the hands they were dealt. Just the opposite. They assumed they were in the big chair to meet big challenges, no matter how difficult.

Real leadership means tackling tough problems ourselves and not leaving them to our children.

Great leaders are willing to sacrifice the numbers to save the people. Poor leaders sacrifice the people to save the numbers.

In a word I was a pioneer, and therefore had to blaze my own trail.

I think it's the sign of a leader to step up and say, you know, when something's not working to have the guts to reverse it. And the worst thing you can do is to let that mistake linger.

Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.

Life is an adventure, it's not a package tour.

I want to tell you ladies and gentlemen, the actions that we took were not always easy. The actions that we took were not always popular. But when you get yourself in public office, you must lead, you must do what's necessary.