Tom Rath Quotes

A leader is a dealer in hope.

I remember being young in the 1960s... we had a great sense of the future, a great big hope. This is what is missing in the youth today. This being able to dream and to change the world.

On every front there are clear answers out there that can make this country stronger, but we're going to break through the fear and the frustration people are feeling. Our job is to make sure that even as we make progress, that we are also giving people a sense of hope and vision for the future.

It is not enough to look backwards with pride, justified as that pride may be. We must look forward with hope and confidence, too.

People will only follow you if they see you're ahead, are convinced you know the route, trust you, and want to get there too.

Many people remember that spirit that President Kennedy summoned forth. Many people look to me as somebody who embodies that sense of possibility.

The youth is the hope of our future.

Where there is no vision, there is no hope.

I was brought up in a family of leaders, and I think leadership is a life sentence. I like changing things that will shape the future.

You see things; and you say 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say 'Why not?'

I don't know what can be so dangerous about giving people hope.

As I've always said: The future lies ahead.

My greatest task is to convince people that things can be better.

See things not as they are but as they might be.

Leaders have to be dealers in hope.

The future is in good hands.

Leaders deal in hope.

The future and where we're going can be very terrifying, in some ways, but it's also really inspirational.

The only way to lead people is to show them a future: a leader is a dealer in hope.

I still have a dream.

If you have a dream, don't let anybody take it away, and always believe that the impossible is possible.

Part of what makes America strong is our resilience, tenacity, innovation and our willingness to be optimistic about our future. I know that President Obama is absolutely the best president to lead our country in the right direction.

Without faith, nothing is possible. With it, nothing is impossible.

Our faith in the present dies out long before our faith in the future.

The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.