Coretta Scott King Quotes

Optimism is infectious, and opportunity irresistible. Progress follows progress. Someone, even government, just has to get it started.

When you meet someone with a vision, you have to give them a shot and an opportunity to see what they can do.

Every one of us has the capacity to lead.

For me, leadership is making a difference. It's using your agency to bring about change.

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

Leadership comes in small acts as well as bold strokes.

There's nothing worse than a leader who lacks ambition.

Leadership involves finding a parade and getting in front of it.

If you tell people where to go, but not how to get there, you'll be amazed at the results.

Everything rises and falls on leadership.

Men make history and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better.

I am and always will be a leader.

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.

One of the jobs of a manager is to instill confidence, pump confidence into your people. And when you've got somebody who's raring to go and you can smell it and feel it, give 'em that shot.

Average leaders inspire people to punch a time clock. Great leaders inspire industry and passion.

Leadership is of the spirit, compounded of personality and vision

To be a leader is to be awake and dissatisfied at all times. Leadership is action. Leadership is influence

Leadership is the willingness to put oneself at risk…. Leadership is seeing the possibilities in a situation while others are seeing the limitations…. Leadership is evoking in others the capacity to dream.

A real leader does not rely on consensus. He builds consensus.

You give a good leader very little and he will succeed; you give mediocrity a great deal and he will fail.

I've learned that positive thinking and encouragement are essential for leadership and progress.

That's part of being a leader, being the guy that people look to and making everybody around you better.

Anyone can be something. Leaders want to do something.

A good leader sets the right goals, gets things moving, and helps us to discover that we already know what to do.

These are the days in which a true leader wants to live. These are days when opportunities to change lives and even destinies are nearly endless. You are running the anchor leg of the relay because you were born to lead. You were born for glory.