Quotes About Leadership

A commander's role is to model arete, excellence, before his men. One need not thrash them to greatness; only hold it out before them. They will be compelled by their own nature to emulate it.

The linebacker and the Army Ranger go into action as part of a team. But the artist and the entrepreneur enter combat alone. I take my hat off to every man or woman who does this.

This is how command passes from a weak officer to a stronger. No rank alters; no papers are filed. Without a word, every man understands.

Chapter 2: Managing Challenge

M]ission statements are treated as a substitute for leadership, and there's no substitute for leadership.

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Where ends the war without a brain and heart to conduct it ?

So while God gives the husband a position of leadership in relationship to his wife, He also requires the price of self-sacrifice from him. The

his ludicrously unqualified son-in-law says

There is nothing strange or unexpected about Donald Trump. He is the logical conclusion of what the Republican Party became over the last fifty or so years, a natural product of the seeds of race, self-deception, and anger that became the essence of the Republican Party. Trump isn't an aberration of the Republican Party; he is the Republican Party in a purified form.

With a Senate nominee voicing an opinion on "legitimate rape," the chairman of the Republican National Committee, Reince Priebus, called on Akin to withdraw from the race and blocked any official party support for him. But four years later, Donald Trump called for a ban on Muslims' entering the United States, a clearly unconstitutional edict violating the Constitution's Article VI clause against a religious test, and the Republican Party leadership did nothing.

The Republican Party was—and still is—afraid of Donald Trump.

Trump refuses to accept the terms of his own victory and incessantly conjures machinations against him, including coups d'état from within his own administration.

Mitt Romney stepped forward and called out Trump for what he clearly was—"a phony, a fraud.

This was their moment to stand for something, and they chose to stand for reelection. Let us remember.

Decency, kindness, humility, compassion—all touchstones of a Christian faith—have no value in today's Republican Party. All his life, Donald Trump has believed these to be weaknesses, and now that is the view of the party he leads.

In the Trump years, Republicans have sent a message that lying is useful and productive, racism is acceptable, the press is the enemy, and a strong-man authoritarian head of government is the ideal.

They broke a basic bond of trust that those handed a role of power in a functioning democracy would treat the gift as both priceless and fragile, what Abraham Lincoln called "the legacy bequeathed to us.

The Republican Congress now represents a party with very few significant defining principles other than the promotion of the president's impulses at that moment. —Republican former senator Judd Gregg of New Hampshire

Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!" to a Republican president who responds to Vladimir Putin like a stray dog, eager to follow him home.

The day I sat down to write this chapter, The New York Times broke the story that Donald Trump for over a decade had managed to lose more money than any other American and, in some years, twice as much as any other American. This is the man Republicans chose because of his business smarts and success:

The base price of admission is a willingness to accept that an unstable, pathological liar leads it and pretend otherwise.

Courage is not standing up to a ludicrous man-child like Donald Trump.

The RNC endorsed Roy Moore but ignores moderate governors. What else do you need to know?