Quotes About Leadership

Hunters for gold or pursuers of fame, they all had gone out on that stream, bearing the sword, and often the torch, messengers of the might within the land, bearers of a spark from the sacred fire.

He was too lazy even for a mere demagogue, for a workman orator, for a leader of labour. It was too much trouble. He required a more perfect form of ease; or it might have been that he was the victim of a philosophical unbelief in the effectivness of every human effort.

No wonder there are bandits in the Campo when there are none but thieves, swindlers, and sanguinary macaques to rule us...

The scrupulous and the just, the noble, humane, and devoted natures; the unselfish and the intelligent may begin a movement--but it passes away from them. They are not the leaders of a revolution. They are its victims.

History is made by men, but they do not make it in their heads.

things are wanted for the work of the world. To tear treasure out of the bowels of the land was their desire, with no more moral purpose at the back of it than there is in burglars breaking into a safe. Who paid the expenses of the noble enterprise I don't know; but the uncle of our manager was leader of that lot.

He drew men towards him by what was best in them.' She looked at me with intensity. 'It is the gift of the great

not by gunpowder but by those who invented it would matters be settled.

Black Jack did not object to sending his men into the French and British lines under American command, but he did not want them dispersed.

the western front on armistice morning, the commanders of seven judged the war essentially over upon receiving word of the signing and stopped; but the commanders of nine divisions decided that the war must go on until the last minute, with predictable results to the lives entrusted to them.

Antes que una reforma económica habrá que hacer una reforma política.

Trump doesn't have a plan to help the country; he has a plan to continue the robbery of the majority by those at the top.

Just as Guantánamo and Abu Ghraib have eroded America's moral authority, so the Bush administration's fiscal housekeeping has eroded our economic authority.

Es este desdén por la verdad, la ciencia, el conocimiento y la democracia lo que diferencia a Reagan, y otros movimientos conservadores del pasado, de la Administración Trump y otros líderes similares

Each university president has merely kept the pot boiling without noticing what wretched fare was cooking inside it. None has prevented or even slowed any of the continuing rot of the humanities and social sciences within their institution, nor even thought to do so.

In an otherwise perfectly mediocre presidency, the one savvy thing John F. Kennedy did, at least for his own reputation, was to bring these Cambridge intellectuals on board.

On a boat in the middle of a great storm, one wise, calm person can bring everyone to safety. The

Clevinger had a mind, and Lieutenant Scheisskoph had noticed that people with minds tended to get pretty smart at times.

You know, one good apple can spoil the rest," Colonel Korn concluded with conscious irony.

Colonel Cathcart had courage and never hesitated to volunteer his men for any target available.

Moses has the Ten Commandments, it's true, but I've got much better lines - King David

They might have occurred if either General Dreedle or General Peckem had once evinced an interest in taking part in orgies with him, but neither ever did, and the colonel was certainly not going to waste time and energy making love to beautiful women unless there was something in it for him.

Havermeyer was a lead bombardier who never missed. Yossarian was a lead bombardier who had been demoted because he no longer gave a damn whether he missed or not. He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt, and his only mission each time he went up was to come down alive.

That's my trouble, you know," Yossarian mused sympathetically, folding his arms. "Between me and every ideal I always find Scheisskopfs, Peckems, Korns and Cathcarts. And that sort of changes the ideal.