Quotes About Leadership

A tearful queen was being led

The magistrate was harsh with his subordinates, ruthless to his enemies, and pitiless to his people. All feared his wrath, and when he roared his orders the people trembled. Behind his back, they called him Magistrate Tiger.

When people are not empowered to discover their identity and pursue their destiny in Christ, then they are not being discipled but used. They are not sons being fathered, but servants being given a job to do.

Religion may in most of its forms be defined as the belief that the gods are on the side of the Government. —Bertrand Russell

That was the difference, he had always known, between his faith and theirs, the political leaders of the people who cared only for things like the state, the republic: this child was more important than a whole continent.

It's always the same wherever one goes- it's not the most powerful rulers who have the happiest populations

In one great case a man [Winston Churchill] who had been considered too brilliant and too reckless ever to be trusted with major office was the leader of the country [1941]. One of Rowe's last memories was of hearing him hissed by ex-servicemen from the public gallery of a law court because he had told an abrupt unpalatable truth about an old campaign. Now he had taught the country to love his unpalatable truths.

Is the colonel seriously telling us,' Granger said, 'that he's had time to count the enemy dead and not his own?

Heroism began where politics stopped.

It's always the same wherever one goes—it's not the most powerful rulers who have the happiest populations.

On the People's Democratic Dictatorship

all under control." "It's all under control, is it? Four good men have been blown to

I suppose that's all a man can hope for during his lifetime,' nodded Horus, 'to set an example, and when he is dead, to be an inspiration for history

When you are strong, appear weak. The first warmaster

I know that words cannot move mountains, but they can move the multitude.

I have no trouble with my enemies, Miss Vivar. I can take care of my enemies in a fight. But my so-called allies, my damned allies, they're the ones who keep me walking the floors at night. - Warmaster Horus

The higher we are placed, the more humbly we should walk.

There are those who fashion history and those who contemplate it; there are those who make things happen and those who ask why.

A government based on fear attracts the worst elements, who corrupt it from within. A shaky edifice, a government against its people, any of its people, must soon collapse.

What are Captain

Go get wood, Nuckal, grumbled the skeleton. 'Pick up those rocks, Nuckal.' 'Stop eating all the donuts, Nuckal.' Orders, orders, orders, that's all I ever hear.

Did the fact that Martin Luther King diddled all those women change what he did for his people? Or Franklin Roosevelt? General Eisenhower? Not one whit. Men are men, and gods are for storybooks. And if you've read your Edith Hamilton or Jane Harrison—or the Old Testament, for that matter—you'll know that gods acted like men most of the time, or worse.

Willie Stark's eternal rule: There is always something.

He hired people who were either barely qualified or lacked credentials, so they didn't have the courage to challenge him. He kept a few competent people to whom he channeled the bulk of the work he didn't understand. And his superiors had less technical knowledge than he did.