Leadership Test Quotes

History tells us that a general can move and feed an army as efficiently as he likes, but the real litmus test is the battlefield.

I am accepting all the resignations that have been sent to me by various party leaders. These resignations have shown me just who continues to stand by me and who doesn't.

I report to you that our country is challenged at home and abroad: that it is our will that is being tried and not our strength; our sense of purpose and not our ability to achieve a better America.

The test of leadership for David Cameron was actually to bring the British Conservative Party back in to the mainstream.

The greatness of a leader is measured by the achievements of the led. This is the ultimate test of his effectiveness.

When you're a leader at any level of any scale, leaders are defined at times of crisis.

A position of eminence makes a great person greater and a small person less.

[Donald Trump] is in the process of building up an organization. And well, we'll have to see how that works. And it'll be a test, I think, for him and the people that he's designated to be able to execute on his vision.

Just as crises can provide a test of anyone's character, they do so especially with presidents.

The White House, as Warren Harding said, and I think accurately, is an alchemist. We find out the strengths, the weaknesses and the smarts and the dumbs of whoever those occupants are under the pressure of the presidency.

I am persuaded that a leader is not made in one life. He has to be born for it. For the difficulty is not in organisation and making plans; the test, the real test, of the leader, lies in holding widely different people together along the line of their common sympathies. And this can only be done unconsciously, never by trying.

It is one thing to lead by example with half a dozen soldiers at your back. It is wholly another with ten thousand.

There are times when people that you put in those positions make mistakes, they disappoint you, you lose their - you lose your confidence in them, or they lie to you. And when you find that out, the test of leadership is what do you do?

Perhaps the ultimate test of a leader is not what you are able to do in the here and now - but instead what continues to grow long after you're gone

A man has no more character than he can command in a time of crisis.

Sarah Palin is an attractive candidate, but based on her background, she only was governor for what, two years. I don't think she passed that test.

The ultimate test of practical leadership is the realization of intended, real change that meets people's enduring needs.

Mark my words.It will not be six months before the world tests Barack Obama like they did John Kennedy. The world is looking. We're about to elect a brilliant 47-year-old senator president of the United States of America. Remember I said it standing here if you don't remember anything else I said. Watch, we're gonna have an international crisis, a generated crisis, to test the mettle of this guy.

At every club I have been at I have had a test in the first few weeks from the big players at the club. At that moment you define your success at that club, you either win the group or you lose the group.

Mark my words. It will not be six months before the world tests Barack Obama like they did John Kennedy.

Very few presidents create their own greatness. Greatness is thrust upon them by a crisis.

It's easy to be the Mayor of Slamtown in the wrestling ring.

Narendra Modi is a bubble. After elevation in his party, his first test was the Karnataka election. He failed miserably in that.

A candidate is not going to suddenly change once they get into office. Just the opposite, in fact. Because the minute that individual takes that oath, they are under the hottest, harshest light there is. And there is no way to hide who they really are.

I will only hire someone to work directly for me if I would work for that person. It's a pretty good test.