Quotes About Leadership

The one thing you can do for others is the manage your own life. And do it with conviction.

The name Cleopatra wakens the world to life.

And honored among wagons I was prince of the apple towns.

The hand that signed the paper felled a city;Five sovereign fingers taxed the breath,Doubled the globe of dead and halved a country;These five kings did a king to death.

There is a crisis in American leadership in the middle of the twentieth century that is partly due, I think, to the declining authority of an establishment which is now based on an increasingly castelike White-Anglo Saxon-Protestant (WASP) upper class.

A politician is an arse upon which everybody has sat except a man

A politician is an ass upon which everyone has sat except a man.

Great empires require great religions.

Great empires require great gods and great religions.

If Joan of Arc could turn the tide of an entire war before her eighteenth birthday, you can get out of bed.

It is better to be alone, she figures, than to be with someone who can't see who you are. It is better to lead than to follow. It is better to speak up than stay silent. It is better to open doors than to shut them on people. She will not be simple and sweet. She will not be what people tell her to be. That Bunny Rabbit is dead.

Never take a seat in the back of the room. Winners sit up front.

It is better to be alone, she figures, than to be with someone who can't see who you are. It is better to lead than to follow. It is better to speak up than stay silent. It is better to open doors than to shut them on people.

It is better to lead than to follow. It is better to speak up than stay silent. It is better to open doors than to shut them on people.

It is pleasant to be transferred from an office where one is afraid of a sergeant-major into an office where one can intimidate generals, and perhaps this is why history is so attractive to the more timid among us. We can recover self-confidence by snubbing the dead.

If a man cannot lead up to passion, he can at all events lead down from it

Remember the difference between a boss and a leader; a boss says "Go!" - a leader says "Let's go!"

The difference between a boss and a leader a boss says, 'Go' - a leader says, 'Let's go'

I don't care tuppence whether I'm forced into a leadership position or not. I'd much sooner not.

Fat Angie led the pack of runners as the town went from yawn to full awake. Dryfalls was abuzz with the sight. Snow sticking to the sidewalks, windshields, rooftops. Still they all ran. Together.

One of Russia's tsars, around 1580, was known as Ivan the Terrible, and rightly so. Beside him Nero was mild.

China is, in fact, the only country in the world to be ruled for hundreds of years, not by the nobility, nor by soldiers, nor even by the priesthood, but by scholars.

Never favour those who flatter you most, but hold rather to those who risk your displeasure for your own good. Never neglect business for pleasure, organise your life so that there is time in it for relaxation and entertainment. Give the business of government your full attention. Inform yourself as much as you can before taking any decision. Make every effort to get to know men of distinction, so that you may call on them when you need them. Be courteous to all, speak hurtfully to no man.

In this type of situation it soon becomes all too clear that in the eyes of the supporters of this sort of movement, there is only one sin, disloyalty to the Führer, or leader, and only one virtue, absolute obedience.