Quotes About Leadership

Kings associate themselves with one god or another, sometimes Re, but generally Osiris or his father Horus.

Apollo succeeded at critical moments like this because the bosses had no hesitation about assigning crucial tasks to one individual, trusting his judgment, and then getting out of his way.

Tears were coursing down the faces of Kennedy's moonstruck recruits. John Kennedy had inspired us with his vision. One by one, we left work to grieve in private. The flag was at half-staff in our hearts.

High-risk leadership beckons many, but few accept the call.

without the likes of him we would not have made it to the Moon.

Leadership is fragile. It is more a matter of mind and heart than resources, and it seemed that we no longer had the heart for those things that demanded discipline, commitment, and risk.

always hire people who are smarter and better than you are and learn with them.

There is no right or wrong apart from what you decide. Who you chose to defend deserves to be defended simply because you chose them. You are the Fire Lord. What you chose, by definition, is right.

He shook his head. Everyone fears me, except you, Latro. When a man is respected, no one wants to plant a dagger in his back. When he is feared, everyone thinks upon it, and tests the point.

These chaps everyone's been shouting at to change things, they're the very chaps that do so well as things are. Think they're going to make new rules for a game they always win? Not ruddy likely.

My men will follow me in battle," I told him. "You'll see." "Of course they will. They know you're a fine fighter. But where there is no danger, your danger will be from them." I

He was the subject of a little respectful ribbing. But he was, of course, the captain, which meant he had to do lots of the ribbing himself.

You always use that word remember,' said Milena. 'You say, remember, team. You never tell us to think.

Three years went by in happiness and health; He bore himself so well in peace and war That there was no one Theseus valued more.

And Christ's law and His Apostles twelve he taught, but first he followed it himself.

For thus men seyth, That on thenketh the beere, But al another thenketh his ledere.

This noble example to his sheep he [the Parson] gave | that first he wrought, and afterwards he taught.

And, therefore, I pray God both day and night that, to a wrathful man, He send but little might. It is a great harm and, for certain, a great misfortune to place an angry man in high position.

Out of the gosple he tho wordes caughte, And this figure he added eek therto, That if gold ruste, what shal iren do? For if a preest be foul, on whom we truste, No wonder is a lewed man to ruste; And shame it is, if a prest take keep, A shiten shepherde and a clene sheep. Wel oghte a preest ensample for to yive, By his clennesse, how that his sheep sholde lyve.

Vergüenza ha de tener el gobernante que no tenga piedad, si actúa y habla como un león a los que están arrepentidos y temerosos, del mismo modo que a los poderosos y altaneros que persisten en sus propósitos. Un príncipe tiene escaso discernimiento si no sabe distinguir en casos así y pasa al orgullo por el mismo rasero que a la humildad.»

But Hengist, hearing that Vortimer was dead, raised an army of not less than three hundred thousand men, and fitting out a fleet returned with them to Britain.

Even so, Churchill's path was well-nigh unique in deserting one party for another and then deserting back again.

If Sunny had died without begetting an heir, Churchill would have become Duke of Marlborough, and would never have sat in the House of Commons, let alone become prime minister. As it was, he entered the Commons, where he would sit for more than sixty years.

Die Staatsform muss ein durchsichtiges Gewand sein, das sich dicht an den Leib des Volkes schmiegt.