Quotes About Leadership

It's a dominance thing, Lissa chimed in. Like dogs. He was making clear to you that he is the alpha dog. I looked at her. I mean, you're the alpha dog, she said quickly. But he doesn't know that yet. He's testing you. I don't want to be the alpha dog, I grumbled. I don't want to be a dog, period.

If life is a journey, wouldn't you rather be the person behind the wheel than the one just being carried along?

It is the ones who keep you in thrall to more than their snatches who command the houses and the gowns to go with them. And for that they have first to love themselves.

Puppies, like people, are drawn to confidence, so you need to act with authority and self-assurance even if you have to fake it.

Stay cool. Frustration makes you look foolish. As you work toward off-lead control, your puppy may act confused and unresponsive because your guidance is gone. You used to give the direction and guide them with the lead.

I like to be in charge of my destiny.

Maybe we should hear Jack's plan first," Jonah says. "He hasn't even thought of one," I say with an edge. "I'd like to hear Abby's idea," Jack says. Right answer, kid. "Yeah, me too," Jonah says, smiling at Jack. I give Jonah the side-eye.

After Dickinson and Adams had it out over the Olive Branch Petition, Adams wrote to his wife, Abigail, that he and Dickinson "are not to be on speaking terms." How sad is it that this tiff sort of cheers me up? If two of the most distinguished, dedicated, and thoughtful public servants in the history of this republic could not find a way to agree to disagree, how can we expect the current crop of congressional blockheads to get along?

The newly dubbed General Lafayette was only nineteen years old. Considering Independence Hall was also where the founders calculated that a slave equals three-fifths of a person and cooked up an electoral college that lets Florida and Ohio pick our presidents, making an adolescent who barely spoke English a major general at the age I got hired to run the cash register at a Portland pizza joint was not the worst decision ever made there.

Steuben explained to his friend, "You say to your soldier, 'Do this,' and he does it; but I am obliged to say, 'This is the reason why you ought to do that,' and then he does it.

If two of the most distinguished, dedicated, and thoughtful public servants in the history of this republic could not find a way to agree to disagree, how can we expect the current crop of congressional blockheads to get along?

As Beaumarchais gathered blankets and grenades in France, William Howe's redcoats came ashore and slaughtered Washington's forces on Long Island, in Brooklyn, and then in Manhattan. A humiliated Washington could do nothing to stop his troops' shoddy retreat from Kips Bay, swatting at them with his horsewhip and howling, "Are these the men with which I am to defend America?

Abraham Lincoln had a soft spot for deserters, whom he called his "legs cases." Though many of his military commanders grumbled about Lincoln's leniency — traditionally, runaways were shot — the president preferred incarceration to execution, asking, "If Almighty God gives a man a cowardly pair of legs how can he help their running away with him?

The fact that a child that age was allowed to go out looking for the four-legged serial killer that the king has dispatched his personal gun-bearer to track down speaks of an older, hands-off parenting style.

asked the boy to "consider himself at all times as one of his family." Washington was referring to his military family or aides-de-camp, the same way John Adams described the aide Alexander Hamilton as "one of General Washington's Family." So when Washington said "family," he meant "chummy minion." The orphaned Lafayette heard "son.

And the Americans were told they were going to attack this heavily defended position with unloaded muskets, just with their fixed bayonets. It was a nighttime attack and they didn't want to be shooting each other. They were commanded by that gentleman on your ten-dollar bill, Alexander Hamilton, the future secretary of the Treasury.

Hamilton, aware the war was winding down and that this was likely his last shot at glory, went over Lafayette's head and appealed to Washington, who overruled Lafayette and allowed Hamilton to lead.

we all still bask in the glow and the warmth of Mr. Franklin's rising sun." Sounds good.

Besides the money and land, Lafayette inherited a six-foot-tall hole in his heart that only a father figure like George Washington could fill.

What are you going to do? Will you soon begin the siege of the Capital?

I like to call him the current president because it's a hopeful phrase, implying that his administration is only temporary.

The idea of Plato that philosophers must be the rulers and directors of society is practiced in India.

Blind, materialistic leaders guide the blind masses, and everyone is falling into the ditch of repeated birth and death.

In the beginning the organizer's first job is to create the issues or problems.