Quotes About Leadership

Choose you this day whom ye will serve. Joshua 24:15.

The higher the position a man occupies, the greater the responsibility that he has to bear, the wider will be the influence that he exerts and the greater his need of dependence on God. Ever should he remember that with the call to work comes the call to walk circumspectly before his fellow men. He is to stand before God in the attitude of a learner. Position does not give holiness of character.

If women can sleep their way to the top, how come they aren't there?

The successful leader may be the person who recognizes that we all have talents and who thus sees her or his main job as encouraging mindfulness in those being led.

The future belongs to us, because we have taken charge of it. We have the commitment, we have the resourcefulness, and we have the strength of our people to share the dream across Africa of clean water for all.

To maintain his rule, King Abdul Aziz had to show the people of Saudi Arabia, in material ways, that they were his subjects. Without the funds to do so, his rule would crumble.

At a time when we are facing threats from nations such as North Korea and Iran, and attempting to convince others such as India and Pakistan to become responsible nuclear powers, it is vital that America reclaims the leadership we once had on arms control.

Who fills an office must learn to bear reproach and blame.

What do Hitler's inner circle, Nixon's close advisers, and NASA administrators have in common, aside from the fact that they made terrible decisions? Each was a relatively cohesive group isolated from dissenting points of view.

Voters in a so-called democracy may depose tyrants or crooks in isolated cases but they cannot give birth, full grown like Minerva, to honest and experienced statesmen to take their places.

Personality can open doors, but only character can keep them open.

Also, to build a million-member church, the pastor must have the evangelistic power of Billy Graham, the expositional ability of Charles Spurgeon, the apologetic answers of Josh McDowell, the teaching focus of John MacArthur, the organizing skills of Bill Bright, and the persuasive ability of Ronald Reagan.

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eres de los que piensan que una mujer cerca arregla el mundo. Mendieta no era de ésos. Al contrario, creo que si el mundo estuviera gobernado por mujeres el caos sería generalizado.

The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.

I have great respect for President Bush, Secretary Powell and Secretary Ridge.

Science cannot stop while ethics catches up -- and nobody should expect scientists to do all the thinking for the country.

were charged with getting the computer to obey their commands, as if it were a wild, untamable beast. They were the princes of

A pragmatic leader's core job is not just to create more followers. Rather, it should be to create more leaders i.e. those who will take over from him/her. That's the way/what it should be.

A true leader is expected by God/populace to be as good as his/her words i.e. to fulfill all he/she has said that he/she will do.

A true leader is meant to be courageous/unyielding i.e. he/she should act and keep on acting in spite of challenges/tasks and without fear/favour.

A true leader is meant to be thinking and asking of what he or she can do for his or her subjects and not at all what his or her subjects can do for him or her. -Emeasoba George

A true leader ought to be responsible and responsive too to the affairs/welfare/well-being of his/her followers/subjects.

A true leader ought to be taking his or her followers to where they actually need to be rather than to where they just want to be. Yes! and that's exactly what God (almighty) does. He is more concerned with taking you to where you really need to be in life rather than to where you merely want to be (mark you). ~Emeasoba George