Jesse Jackson Quotes

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

Vision without action is merely a dream. Action without vision just passes the time. Vision with action can change the world.

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

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

The world isn't one way or another. Things can be changed very, very rapidly by someone with sufficient confidence, sufficient knowledge and sufficient authority.

Leadership is particularly necessary to ensure ready acceptance of the unfamiliar and that which is contrary to tradition.

Some talk change. Others cause it..

It’s time for change. It’s time for someone smart enough to know, strong enough to do, sure enough to lead...

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

But the main things about a man are his eyes and his feet. He should be able to see the world and go after it.

Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.

Most people talk; we do things. They plan; we achieve. They hesitate; we move ahead. We are living proof that when human beings have the courage and commitment to transform a dream into reality, there is nothing that can stop them.

Leadership comes in small acts as well as bold strokes.

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.

There are times when a leader must move out ahead of the flock, go off in a new direction, confident that he is leading his people the right way.

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.

I choose bold. I choose action. I choose what's right for the people. I choose to make a difference.

The world is not looking for servants, there are plenty of these, but for masters, men who form their purposes and then carry them out, let the consequences be what they may.

There is a difference between bold leadership and nibbling around the edges.

If you want to do things – to change things – you must run the risk of not succeeding.

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

It is not enough to stare up the steps; we must step up the stairs.

High office—whether elected, appointed, or simply taken—comes with power. But that is not a sufficient precondition for success. Among the world’s hundreds …, only a few really stand out for the risks that they have taken and the changes they have made