leadership aspirations Quotes

I don't look in the mirror and see a president of the United States. I don't have that ambition.

I’d like to be a queen of people’s hearts ... but I don’t see myself being Queen of this country.

We must be prepared to keep pace with our leaders, stride for their every lengthened stride.

I don't think Cheney started off in 2000 with a burning desire to become vice-president. I think the prospect gradually became more appealing, and he goosed the process.

When I was a kid growing up, my dad being a football coach, he asked the same question of all the assistants that he ever hired: 'Is your goal to be a head football coach?'

I don't care how popular I am. I'm not putting myself out there to run for higher office.

I would love to be president. I just concluded I was not the best person to carry forward the Republican torch.

I'm a man, and I think every man wants to be No. 1.

Many people are leaders trapped in a follower's body.

I think that all politicians who aspire to the presidency are a little nuts, but for different reasons. What kind of person aspires to be the most powerful person in the world? The answer is someone with an internal drive that is so dynamic and so determined.

When I had a group of undergraduates in the room, I would say to them, 'How many of you want to run for office someday?' And almost every male hand in the room would go up. And very few of the young women.

Normal people don't just wake up in the morning and say I think it'd be a good idea to run for president of the United States.

I have the unmitigated gall to think that I could lead men anywhere, business, politics or combat.

I see myself a humble man, and I tell you I have no ambitions to be president.

Though every human being on the planet has an inclination for leadership, most of us do not have the courage to cultivate it.

I want to be a general manager, and I want to be a head coach. Definitely both.

I've started doing my coaching badges, I'd like to be a manager one day.

My mom didn't run for mayor until she was 65 years old - it was like a second and third career.... The way I've always thought about it is that I don't believe you run for office because you want a job. I believe if you run for office, it's because you have a vision for change. And if I ever came to that point, that's what would lead [me to run]. And right now I'm happily in a position where I believe I can work to deliver impact and work for change.

Putin did not head the KGB, never has. Putin was a mid-level nobody there. Putin was one of those guys in the KGB who was a climber. He was forever hoping, climbing that ladder, trying to get to the head spot.

I think I can achieve more outside the political arena.

Of course I'd have loved to be Prime Minister. But I'm not nursing a grievance.

At various times in the next 20 or 30 years I think it reasonable to anticipate that I will be among the leadershp of the Labour Party, but as far as being leader, I can't see it happening, and I'm not particularly keen on it happening.

It would be stupid of me to rule out ever being the leader because that's an impossible thing to rule out. I can't predict future events.

More people can be great leaders than think they can, but they need a purpose greater than themselves.

I've been asked several times over the years to become president, and I've always said no, because I didn't want to give up all the time from my work. The position won't be open for another year, but if they still want me then, I'll do it; I'll speak out as often as I can from that platform.