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The principles that made this nation a great and powerful leader of the world, have not lost their meaning. They never will. We know we can bring this country back. I'm Mitt Romney. I believe in America. And I'm running for president of the United States.
Sep 24, 2025
Nothing is more odious than the majority, for it consists of a few powerful leaders, a certain number of accommodating scoundrels and submissive weaklings, and a mass of men who trot after them without thinking, or knowing their own minds.
I'd rather regret the things I've done than regret the things I haven't done.
It's hard to lead a cavalry charge if you think you look funny on a horse.
A great leader's courage to fulfill his vision comes from passion, not position.
I can't give you the sunset, but I can give you the night.
The building of a personality beyond its normal limitations.
People buy into the leader before they buy into the vision.
You don't lead by pointing and telling people some place to go. You lead by going to that place and making a case.
As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.
Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.
The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality.
Leadership is lifting a person's vision to high sights, the raising of a person's performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations.
The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.
The art of leadership is saying no, not saying yes. It is very easy to say yes.
All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership.
To do great things is difficult; but to command great things is more difficult.
When it comes to the pinch, human beings are heroic.
A ruler should be slow to punish and swift to reward.
The led must not be compelled; they must be able to choose their own leader.
A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don't necessarily want to go, but ought to be.
Earn your leadership every day.
A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd.
To lead people, walk beside them ... As for the best leaders, the people do not notice their existence. The next best, the people honor and praise. The next, the people fear; and the next, the people hate ... When the best leader's work is done the people say, 'We did it ourselves!
If you think you are leading and turn around to see no one following, then you are just taking a walk.
He who has never learned to obey cannot be a good commander.
High sentiments always win in the end. The leaders who offer blood, toil, tears and sweat always get more out of their followers than those who offer safety and a good time. When it comes to the pinch, human beings are heroic.
The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on.
The very essence of leadership is that you have to have vision. You can't blow an uncertain trumpet.
Become the kind of leader that people would follow voluntarily; even if you had no title or position.
Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.
No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit for doing it.
Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others.
People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader leads, and the boss drives.
In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still.
Leadership is defined by results not attributes.
The challenge of leadership is to be strong, but not rude; be kind, but not weak; be bold, but not bully; be thoughtful, but not lazy; be humble, but not timid; be proud, but not arrogant; have humor, but without folly.
Be strong, but not rude; Be kind, but not weak; Be bold, but not bully; Be humble, but not timid; Be prooud, but not arrogant.
It is better to lead from behind and to put others in front, especially when you celebrate victory when nice things occur. You take the front line when there is danger. Then people will appreciate your leadership.
In this world a man must either be anvil or hammer.
Leaders aren't born they are made.
Leaders are not born, they're made.
The most difficult thing is the decision to act!
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.
A leader is best when people barely know that he exists.
A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.
Often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.
Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out.
Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.