Quotes About Leadership

History of the United States in the Administrations of Thomas Jefferson

Stephen E. Ambrose

British and Free French in the Mediterranean were fighting to retain their colonial empires. Roosevelt said he hoped to

During the third week in July, Lewis had two new rivers to name. Previously he and Clark had used the names of the men, of Sacagawea, of relatives, or of unusual features or incidents. Now that they were past the Great Falls, they changed their references. It was as if they suddenly recalled that they had some political responsibility here, that no politician can ever be flattered too much or too brazenly, and that nothing quite matches having a river named for you.

Pvt. Felix Branham was in that boat. "Colonel Canham had a BAR and a .45 and he was leading us in," Branham said. "There he was firing and he got his BAR shot out of his hand and he reached and he used his .45. He was the bravest guy."23

Invoking the story of David, Davies implored his students to "imbibe and cherish a public spirit. Serve your generation. Live not for your selves, but the public. Be the servants of the Church; the servants of your Country; the servants of all." He exhorted them to "esteem yourselves" not by how much "more happy, honourable and important" you can become but by how much "more useful you are!

Those who rule the world get so little opportunity to run about and laugh and play in it.

I believe one of the greatest human failings is to prefer to be right than to be effective

Thos who rule the world get so little opportunity to run about and laugh and play in it.

Agamemnon heaved the gusty sigh of one much put upon by the weight of office, the malice of chance, and the endless incompetence of underlings.

Espero que en el futuro, incluso cuando yo ya no esté, las personas con poder puedan mostrar creatividad, coraje y liderazgo. Dejémosles ponerse al nivel del desafío de los objetivos de desarrollo sostenible, y actuar no por su propio interés sino por el interés común.

hope that going forward, even when I am no longer here, people with power can show creativity, courage and leadership. Let them rise to the challenge of the sustainable development goals, and act, not out of self-interest, but out of common interest. I

he was a man of politics and a man of action.

In the year 2025, the best men don't run for president, they run for their lives. . . .

Men who find themselves late are never sure. They are all the things the civics books tell us the good citizen should be: partisans but never zealots, respectors of the facts which attend each situation but never benders of those facts, uncomfortable in positions of leadership but rarely unable to turn down a responsibility once it has been offered . . . or thrust upon them. They make the best leaders in a democracy because they are unlikely to fall in love with power.

My father had taught me - mostly by example - that if a man wanted to be in charge of his life, he had to be in charge of his problems.

Hairstyles change, and skirt lengths, and slang, but high school administrations? Never.

No community is easier to govern than one that rejects the very concept of community.

Uneasy lies the head that wears the crown

Trump and his cronies took it all back. They understand culture no more than a donkey understands algebra.

But the people didn't elect buffoons to Washington. Well—hardly ever.

Ballot papers do not define leaders. Leadership is defined by conviction, vision, passion and inspiration.

I HAVE been around at a time when important things needed to be done

If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles.