Leader quotes

Discover inspiring quotes about leadership, motivation, and empowerment from renowned leaders in various fields. Gain wisdom and guidance from their experiences on being an influential and effective leader.

If we are both going crazy, then we will go crazy together.

- Mike Wheeler

Maybe you thought you were helping, but you weren’t. You hurt me, do you understand? What you did sucks.

- Mike Wheeler

Blank makes you crazy.

- Mike Wheeler

No, El, you’re not the monster. You saved me. Do you understand? You saved me.

- Mike Wheeler

We’re not even in the game; we’re on the bench.

- Mike Wheeler

If anyone asks where I am, I’ve left the country.

- Mike Wheeler

Hey, well, if we're both going crazy, then we'll go crazy together, right?

- Mike Wheeler

Mom! Just get-off-the-phone! How many times?

- Mike Wheeler

You do realize El saved the world twice, right?

- Mike Wheeler

I asked if you wanted to be my friend. And you said yes. You said yes. It was the best thing I’ve ever done.

- Mike Wheeler

El, are you there? El? It’s me, it’s Mike. It’s day 352, 7:40 pm, I am still here. If you’re out there, say something... or give me a sign, I won’t, I won’t even say anything, I just... I want to know if you’re okay.

- Mike Wheeler

I saw you guys laughing over there and I think that’s a real messed-up thing to do.

- Mike Wheeler

Why can't I just eat my waffle?

- Barack Obama

If you run you stand a chance of losing, but if you don’t run you’ve already lost.

- Barack Obama

You can’t let your failures define you – you have to let them teach you. You have to let them show you what to do differently next time.

- Barack Obama

We are the ones we’ve been waiting for.

- Barack Obama

Understand, our police officers put their lives on the line for us every single day. They’ve got a tough job to do to maintain public safety and hold accountable those who break the law.

- Barack Obama

The thing about hip-hop today is it’s smart, it’s insightful. The way they can communicate a complex message in a very short space is remarkable.

- Barack Obama

The role of citizen in a democracy does not end with your vote.

- Barack Obama

The future rewards those who press on. I don't have time to feel sorry for myself. I don't have time to complain. I'm going to press on.

- Barack Obama

Some things are beyond my control. For example, this whole controversy about Jay-Z going to Cuba – it’s unbelievable! I’ve got 99 problems, now Jay-Z is one.

- Barack Obama

Now, when you first become president, one of the questions people ask you is, what’s really going on in Area 51? … oh, I think I just became the first president to ever publicly mention Area 51… how’s that?

- Barack Obama

Now, as a nation, we don't promise equal outcomes, but we were founded on the idea everybody should have an equal opportunity to succeed. No matter who you are, what you look like, where you come from, you can make it. That's an essential promise of America. Where you start should not determine where you end up.

- Barack Obama

It’s important to realise I was actually black before the election.

- Barack Obama

In the end, this is what this election’s about – do we participate in a politics of cynicism or a politics of hope?

- Barack Obama

If you're walking down the right path and you're willing to keep walking, eventually you'll make progress.

- Barack Obama

Hope is the bedrock of this nation; the belief that our destiny will not be written for us, but by us.

- Barack Obama

Focussing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it’s only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realise your true potential.

- Barack Obama

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

- Barack Obama

Change doesn’t come from Washington; change comes to Washington.

- Barack Obama