Quotes About Leadership

church planters need to be aware of their natural gifts as well as their spiritual ones.

Not enough church leaders understand and practice visionary strategic planning. According to an article in American Demographics, Gary McIntosh of the American Society for Church Growth estimates that only 20 percent of America's 367,000 congregations actively pursue strategic planning. In the same article, George Hunter, professor of evangelism and church growth at Asbury Theological Seminary, warns that churches without plans for growth invariably stagnate.[13]

These key messages are found in the following references: Matthew 4:19; 8:18–22; 10: 24–25; 16:24–26; 20:25–28; Mark 1:17; 8:34–38; Luke 5:27–28; 6:40; 9:23–25, 57–62; 14:25–33; John 1:43; 8:31–32; 12:26; 13:34–35; 15:8.

Christian leaders are servants with the credibility and capabilities to influence people in a particular context to pursue their God-given direction. The second builds off the first. Christian leadership is the process whereby servants use their credibility and capability to influence people in a particular context to pursue their God-given direction.

I'm interested in planting church-planting churches.

His view of war - and he had seen a great deal of it - was that a general made as many blunders as he fought battles, but, by the grace of the gods, the opposing generals' blunders were sometimes worse.

A true alpha does the right thing, regardless of what his pack thinks,

In the valley of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.

La admiración es más fuerte que el poder. El carisma es más intenso que las presiones.

No pocos dictadores tienen tanto aprecio por las palabras como por las armas

Todo político es un empleado de la sociedad pagado de dinero del contribuyente. Tener éxito es su obligación y no objeto de exaltación. El político que no se considera siervo de la sociedad, sino que se sirve de ella, no es digno del cargo que ocupa

The man who chooses to act pro bono suo, thereby turning a rule that was right into a wrong. that man is to be deemed a tirant, the wise king said, who, using the progress, wellbeing, and prosperitie of those he governs as a praetext, replaces the cultus of his people by that of his owne person, becoming thereby a fereful and fallacious pelican. His diabolical cunning turns those very men he doth claim to liberate into slaves.

After this time I surpassed all others in authority, but I had no more power than the others who were also my colleagues in office.

Quintilius Varus, give me back my legions!

I found Rome a city of bricks and left it a city of marble.

I worry that even those who want to reform are not quite sure how to go about it. There is so much to be done.

The good ruler sublimates his needs as an individual to the service of the nation.

I think it's time for the Army to understand that power should be enshrined in the people if we are to be a genuine democracy and not in any particular institution or organisation.

I've never thought that what they did to me was personal anyway. It is politics. And if you decide to go into politics, you have to be prepared to put up with this kind of -- with these kind of problems. I like a lot of the generals. I'm rather inclined to liking people.

The root of a nation's misfortunes has to be sought in the moral failings of the government.

One person alone can't do anything as important as bringing genuine democracy to a country.

In politics, you also have to be cautiously optimistic.

Democracy is when the people keep a government in check.

I don't want to see the military falling. I want to see the military rising to dignified heights of professionalism and true patriotism.