Quotes About Leadership

Only Skystar looked unconvinced. "So the rule on boundaries comes last now?" Gray Wing looked at the SkyClan leader. "Perhaps it should have come last all along.

has always been the natural leader of all the Clans," she pointed out. "For that reason, we have to hold ourselves to a higher standard.

Lostface!" Cloudtail spat suddenly. The venom in his voice startled Fireheart. "I hate that name," he hissed. "What right does Bluestar have to remind her of what happened every time a cat speaks to her? Well, I'm not going to use it again. And if Bluestar objects, she can . . . she can go and eat snails!

Tigerclaw will be the new deputy of ThunderClan.

Was this Tigerstar's new way to shake up the Clans? If so, what was his ultimate goal—and how would it affect RiverClan?

And Sky isn't crazy—far from it. He has kept alive the memory of the Clan for many seasons.

With this life I give you courage," Lionheart murmured. "Use it well in defense of your Clan.

The devil take the hindmost!

No people are so easy to govern as the intelligent, and none are so hard to govern as the ignorant.

The mischiefs of anarchy have been equaled by the mischiefs of government.

No church can be prospered in which all the ministration comes from the pulpit.

If any man is rich and powerful, he comes under that law of God by which the higher branches must take the burnings of the sun, and shade those that are lower; by which the tall trees must protect the weak plants beneath them.

Trouble is," Paul smiled his most charming smile, "a teacher has to be so many things at the same time: actor, policeman, scholar, jailer, parent, inspector, referee, friend, psychiatrist, accountant, judge and jury, guide and mentor, wielder of minds, keeper of records, and grand master of the Delaney Book.

In many cases the office of captain was more or less automatically voted to the person who had been most active in raising the company; to some extent this was true also in the choice of colonels.

Women will change the nature of power, rather than power changing the nature of women.

Women have been trained to speak softly and carry a lipstick. Those days are over." -

Great leaders, like great actors, must be confident, energetic, empathetic, inspirational, credible, and authentic.

Rule of policing number one – when something good falls into your lap, pass it up the chain of command as quickly as possible before something else bad can happen.

I think you're going to find Marcus Aurelius particularly useful.' 'For what?' I asked. Nightingale hesitated. 'Quoting, mainly,' he said. 'And thus maintaining an air of erudition and authority.

We can't have your people fighting each other," I said. The 'royal we' is very important in police work; it reminds the person you're talking to that behind you stands the mighty institution that is the Metropolitan Police, robed in the full majesty of the law and capable, in manpower terms, of invading a small country. You only hope when you're using that term that the whole edifice is currently facing in the same direction as you are.

God bless busybody community matriarchs, and all that sail in them.

The main purpose of an administrative meeting is to establish collective guilt for whatever fuck-up arises out of its decisions.

One of his more famous sound bites was, 'If you want something done, hire someone competent and then give them what they ask for.

But I wasn't some terrified peasant, I was an apprentice and I had been trained by the man who led the reguard at Ettersberg.