Quotes About Leadership

Minimize inappropriate encouragement.

People asked us, "Do you read history?" "No," I answered. "We are too busy making it.

I do not know the method of drawing up an indictment against an whole people.

To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men.

I have never yet seen any plan which has not been mended by the observations of those who were much inferior in understanding to the person who took the lead in the business.

A disposition to preserve, and an ability to improve, taken together, would be my standard of a statesman.

The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny.

Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.

Kings will be tyrants by policy when subjects are rebels from principle.

Boys were emerging in increasing numbers to greet, guide and control their apprehensive kin.

Bram Stoker] wrote in his diary: "Must be President some day. A man you can't cajole, can't frighten, can't buy.

I would rather go out of politics having the feeling that I had done what was right than stay in with the approval of all men, knowing in my heart that I have acted as I ought not to.

One person who met him during these dark days was Bram Stoker, the author of Dracula. After watching Roosevelt in action at a literary dinner table, and afterward dispensing summary justice in the police courts, Stoker wrote in his diary: "Must be President some day. A man you can't cajole, can't frighten, can't buy.

Seminary is for men who are seriously considering the ministry; it is a place where a man may test his gifts and calling in the service of the Word...Uncertainty about a call to the ministry may indicate with certainty a call to theological training. Even when God does not call a man to pastoral work, he often leads through seminary study to other ministries of teaching and to informed leadership in the work of the church.

Private soul-searching is not enough to determine your call to the ministry. The judgment of the people of God must be sought; long before the time when it must be given formally it should be sought informally.

Ill can he rule the great, that cannot reach the small.

phase, before the restoration of epaulettes. And in Grant there was a genuine diffidence.

with superb courage, and the decision and intelligence of a man.

No me extrañaría que se hayan arrepentido de sus ambiciones en el instante mismo de ocupar la presidencia al darse cuenta que trataban de dirigir un país ingobernable.

nuestra orfandad de líderes competentes"

Trabajaba en un Juzgado que había sabido funcionar bien, pero que ahora estaba en manos de un boludo. Y un boludo de la peor especie: un boludo con ansias de rápidos ascensos.

Baseball serves as a good model for democracy in action: Every player is equally important and each has a chance to be a hero

Hierarchical institutions are like giant bulldozers-- obedient to the whim of any fool who takes the controls.

The tragedy of modern war is that the young men die fighting each other - instead of their real enemies back home in the capitals.