Quotes About Leadership

Somewhere out in this audience may even be someone who will one day follow in my footsteps, and preside over the White House as the President's spouse. I wish him well!

To young women, black and white, Baker embodied the possibility of escaping the restrictions that defined conventional femininity. Authoritative yet unassuming, self-confident and assertive, forcing others to take her seriously simply by presuming that they would, Baker was a revelation.

She was anxious to monitor the political rumblings back home in the United States.28 A new Black leadership was emerging there and changing the social, cultural, and political landscape.

Never take hold of a dog's collar and pull him to where you want him to be, as this is a direct confrontation to a dog and can make a strong-minded dog want to be dominant and a gentle or sensitive dog may be made to feel submissive, neither of which you want in your dog. There

Always present yourself as a woman who expects to succeed.

Yes, damn it, I love you! But the bedroom is not the boardroom, Robert. In the boardroom only one person can be in charge.

Dead battles, like dead generals, hold the military mind in their dead grip.

War is the unfolding of miscalculations.

Only Nicky [Nicholas Romanov II], the Czar, was [Kaiser Wilhelm]'s friend, neither clever nor strong like himself, but at least malleable.

Insensitive people are powerful and the thoroughly thick-skinned are the most powerful. They make the best tyrants.

Nothing so comforts the military mind as the maxim of a great but dead general.

One constant among the elements of 1914—as of any era—was the disposition of everyone on all sides not to prepare for the harder alternative, not to act upon what they suspected to be true.

Had all the world been a school and Wilson its principal, he would have been the greatest statesman in history.

Strong prejudices in an ill-formed mind are hazardous to government.

Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together.

The occasions when an individual is able to harness a nation are memorable, and Grey's speech proved to be one of those junctures by which people afterward date events.

Can the military art be learned in the games and hunts in which you pass your youth?" The

General Gallieni, dining in civilian clothes at a small café in Paris on August 9, overheard an editor of Le Temps at the next table say to a companion, "I can tell you that General Gallieni has just entered Colmar with 30,000 men." Leaning over to his friend, Gallieni said quietly, "That is how history is written.

No more distressing moment can ever face a British government than that which requires it to come to a hard and fast and specific decision.

Government was rarely more than a choice between the disastrous and the unpalatable.

To be right and overruled is not forgiven to persons in responsible positions, and Michel duly paid for his clairvoyance.

the Home Secretary, a young man of thirty-seven, impossible to ignore, who, from his inappropriate post, had pelted the Prime Minister during the crisis with ideas on naval and military strategy, all of them quite sound, had produced an astonishingly accurate prediction of the future course of the fighting, and who had no doubts whatever about what needed to be done. The Home Secretary was Winston Churchill.

Know, my son, with how little wisdom the world is governed.

The feelings of the men who had raised Urban over their own heads probably cannot be adequately described. Some thought that the delirium of power had made the Pope furiosus et melaneholicus—in short, mad.