Quotes About Leadership

Perhaps one day they will add about you as their leader, "And you made a difference" That is the true reward of Leadership

The price of excellence in teamwork is eternal vigilance

A manager will take six months to get to know his staff, but they will take only six days to get to know him

You cannot be a military leader without physical courage. But there are Plenty of soldiers with physical courage who are not leaders

Developing self-confidence is always the preliminary to becoming a leader. but don't let it become overconfidence, the first station on the track leading to arrogance

There is a useful distinction between good leaders and leaders of good

Leadership is essentially an other-centred activity not self centred one

Ten soldiers wisely led, Will beat a hundred without a head Euripides (fifth century BC)

So, what qualities must you have to be a good delegator? There are five main tips: 1 Choose the right staff. 2 Train them. 3 Take care in briefing them, and ensuring their understanding of the `why' and `how to' oftasks delegated to them (and in imparting to them an understanding ofbusiness aims and policies). 4 Try not to interfere - stand back and support. 5 Control in a sensible and sensitive manner by checking progress at agreed intervals.

We know now that someone in a leadership role has three core and overlapping functions: to achieve the tasks, to hold a group together as a unity, and to meet individual needs.

Apart from the qualities of muruwaa - courage, generosity, integrity, fairness, and honor or good reputation - a Bedouin chief needed practical wisdom, for he needed to be a skilled negotiator, to be able to resolve quarrels between his followers before they got out of hand, and to deal with allies from other tribes" p54

I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.

While all other Sciences have advanced, that of Government is at a stand; little better understood; little better practiced now than three or four thousand years ago.

My fixed principle never to be the tool of any man, nor the partisan of any nation, would forever exclude me from the smiles and favors or courts.

Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases.

I pray Heaven to bestow the best of blessings on this house and all that shall hereafter inhabit it. May none but honest and wise men ever rule under this roof.

Fear is the foundation of most governments.

The essence of a free government consists in an effectual control of rivalries.

Metaphysicians and politicians may dispute forever, but they will never find any other moral principle or foundation of rule or obedience, than the consent of governors and governed.

Great is the guilt of unnecessary war.

While all other sciences have advanced, that of government is at a standstill - little better understood, little better practiced now than three or four thousand years ago.

Thomas—Jefferson—still surv—

Had I been chosen President again, I am certain I could not have lived another year.

There is nothing which I dread so much as a division of the republic into two great parties, each arranged under its leader, and concerting measures in opposition to each other. This, in my humble apprehension, is to be dreaded as the greatest political evil under our Constitution.