Quotes About Leadership

We're busy exporting Democracy abroad to Afghanistan and Iraq, which is fine, but what we really need to do is a better job at making our Democracy work right here at home.

Democracy is a form of government in which it is permitted to wonder aloud what the country could do under first-class management.

He who has great power should use it lightly.

An unpopular rule is never long maintained.

The arts are the servant; wisdom its master.

When leaders betray their people and the people don't overthrow them, it's not just the leaders who should be blamed.

The secret of leadership is simple: Do what you believe in. Paint a picture of the future. Go there. People will follow.

A tribe is a group of people connected to one another, connected to a leader, and connected to an idea. For millions of years, human beings have been part of one tribe or another. A group needs only two things to be a tribe: a shared interest and a way to communicate.

In a battle between  two ideas, the best one doesn't necessarily win. No, the idea that wins is the one with the most fearless heretic behind it.

Change isn't made by asking permission. Change is made by asking forgiveness, later.

Leadership, on the other hand, is about creating change you believe in.

Contrary to his infallibly "honest" image, Abe wasn't above lying so long as it served a noble purpose.

Emotion is emotion, and politics is politics, and one has nothing to do with the other.

But I promise you… this country will never be destroyed from the outside. Not by any ideology or foreign power… and certainly not by you.

one might find men in Congress who possess twice your good looks, but not one who possesses half your good sense.

Look at what you've done" he said after a sickened silence. "You've killed us" "On the contrary... I've killed him." "More will come." Abe had already begun to walk away. "Then I shall need more stakes.

Abraham Lincoln comes from nothing, has no education, no money, lives in the middle of nowhere on the frontier. And despite the fact that he suffers one tragedy and one setback after another, through sheer force of will, he becomes something extraordinary: not only the president but the person who almost single-handedly united the country.

Some would think the leader of a people should be a model of what to strive for. But maybe God knew trying to be perfect is just not healthy, or maybe God could not find any perfect human beings. Maybe it's just not possible to be perfect.

When Cimbaoth died this able woman took up the reins of government herself, becoming the first Milesian queen of Ireland. But the record above all others by which this distinguished woman lives to fame. is her founding of the ancient and much-storied stronghold — named after her — of Emain Macha, which henceforth, for six hundred years, was to play a most important part in the fortunes of Uladh (Ulster) and of Ireland. Macha's

Macha's foster-son, Ugani Mor (the Great), who succeeded her, led his armies into Britain, and had his power acknowledged there.

Cathair Mor was succeeded by Conn who overthrew him in a great battle in Meath.

It doesn't matter that Bush scares the hell out of me. What matters is that he scares the hell out of a lot of very important people in Washington who can't speak out, in the military, in the intelligence community.

True leaders have their own selves firmly in control; they are in command of their actions, their feelings, their attitudes, and their perspective.

I am a prince(ss) of peace, sitting on the throne of poise, directing my kingdom of activity.