Quotes About Leadership

The role of Empress became a full-time occupation.

If you have the gift of frustration and the deep sense that the world is a mess, thank God for that; not everyone has that gift of vision. It also means that you have a responsibility to lead us in new ways.

Protesters are still on the fringes like satellites, revolving around the system. But prophets and poets lead us into a new world, beyond simply yelling at the old one.

When we begin enacting the new world, the nations will follow. Nations will not lead us to peace; it is people who will lead the nation to peace as they begin to humanize the nations.

One thing that's clear in the Scriptures is that the nations do not lead people to peace; rather, people lead the nations to peace.

We are equally glad and surprised at Winston's return to office. It shows that he was built for success that he should have declined to withdraw and sulk over a superficial failure.

My dad has no control over who works with me. Me, me and me alone has to take responsibility for anything.

When the people are weak, the state is strong; hence the state that possesses the Way devotes itself to weakening the people.

When the affairs of the world change, one should implement a different Way. … Therefore, it is said: "When the people are ignorant, one can become monarch through knowledge; when the generation is knowledgeable, one can become monarch through force".

Ruling the world is overrated. It would really cut into your leisure time.

People with low self-esteem seldom try to take over the world." Suddenly,

I'm not bossy - I just happen to be more capable than most everyone else.

A heart's a heart, in a child or a man. You are tougher than you feel right now. Your roots are deep, your canopy's spread wide. You're going to show everyone what it means to be a king.

Sometimes doing the right thing was hard… and potentially messy. But a good leader always did the right thing.

Whenever I get bird meat, I like to eat it in the open, let the falcons and hawks see who the boss is. Me. I'm the boss.

You slew Khasar, you healed me, and you have perfect ankles. I really don't think this is a question we need to debate. -Khan Tegus

Sean, this is Paulie Reed, my head bartender, assistant manager and all-around right-hand man. Woman. Person. Right-hand person.

And I want to do it the right way, like everybody else, not just a famous figurehead that gets a job because he is a famous basketball player. I want to really learn the business.

Richard, might I ask you something? We've talked tonight of what you must do, of what you can do, of what you ought to do.But we've said nothing of what you want to do.Richard, do you want to be King?" At first, she thought he wasn't going to answer her. But as she studied his face, she saw he was turning her question over in his mind, seeking to answer it as honestly as he could. "Yes," he said at last. "Yes...I do.

The art of governing, Dickon, is that of making use of talent wherever you do find it. Trust is too rare an attribute to make it your prime prerequisite for holding office. If I relied only upon those I truly do trust, we'd have a council of empty chairs!

In the end it is the quality and character, a leader's understanding of how to be, not how to do, that determines the performance, the results. —FRANCES HESSELBEIN

The people need the road. The people own the road. The Bosses only guard it!

Our team hasn't done anything special. They don't need to. They have me.

It is very easy to shun someone who is deliberately cruel, and everyone loathes a man who is brutal and vicious. Such people have a hard time winning followers. But an individual who is gracious, who is attractive, who smiles and flatters and praises - that is a person who can lead whole nations to disaster. Who would not want to follow such a man or woman? Everyone is drawn to beauty and wit.