Quotes About Leadership

She is only a woman, the mistress of half an island, and yet she makes herself feared by Spain, by France, by the Empire, by all!" (Pope Sixtus V referring to Elizabeth I).

What would it be like if the highly visible figures in the life of a nation started to set examples of moderation and humility rather than excessiveness and arrogance?

Dare to be different. Be a pioneer. Be a leader. Be the kind of woman who in the face of adversity will continue to embrace life and walk fearlessly toward the challenge. – Oprah Winfrey

We have a cancer within, close to the Presidency, that is growing.

You really have to experience the feeling of being with the president in the oval office. ... It's a disease I came to call Ovalitis.

A PRESIDENT WEARS MASKS

His rough tongue is a sign of a president who is dismantling the traditional presidency.

Nothing comes to my desk that is perfectly solvable," President Obama explained to the author Michael Lewis. "Otherwise, someone else would have solved it. So you wind up dealing with probabilities. ... You can't be paralyzed by the fact that it might not work out." Thomas Jefferson explained this to his secretary of the treasury: "What is good in this case cannot be effected. We have, therefore, only to find out what will be least bad.

Let our government be like that of the solar system. Let the general government be like the sun and the states the planets, repelled yet attracted, and the whole moving regularly and harmoniously in their several orbits.

I can support going in after Saddam Hussein, but I want to make sure I don't go alone.

This is one of the major problems we have. By the way, it was endorsed by leadership on both sides of the aisle and both ends of the Capitol, by the NRA and also by the gun control groups.

An earlier image in which Theoklia and Paul were equally authoritative apostolic figures has been replaced by one in which the male is apostolic and authoritative and the female is blinded and silenced.

She is all states, and all princes, I. Nothing else is.

With his trademark courage and conviction, President Reagan led us out of the Cold War, spreading his vision of freedom, resulting in the release of millions of people from the yoke of communism.

1) If God moves your heart to make a difference, He will see you through even though you may not feel the most qualified, and (2) Some of your best ministry leaders may come from the fruits of your current ministry programs.

War is the trade of Kings.

Better one suffer, than a nation grieve.

All empire is no more than power in trust.

The people are fashioned according to the example of their kings; and edicts are of less power than the life of their ruler.

For those who lead, they have an obligation to create a better life for the people around them.

I think it's time we had a president who carried the same life experiences into the White House as most ordinary Americans.

All my life I've dealt with politicians. I know politicians better than anybody. And honestly, if you can't deal with a politician, there's something wrong with you.

I never talk about being leaders and all the rest of it. I can only remember one or two occasions in my life when I actually issued orders, and I felt thoroughly miserable after doing it.

Every woman in public life needs to develop skin as tough as rhinoceros hide.