Quotes About Leadership

Some people say I would love to take a selfie with Moses. Do you understand the gap between Moses and God?

I love President Bush. I think it's great we have a president who always looks like he's looking directly into the sun.

Don't play the victim role, empower yourself instead. Place yourself and others around you in a position to win.

Think good for yourself, good will follow you.when you think good for others, happiness will follow you and when happiness follows you, people will follow you.

We cannot expect to lift others unless we stand on higher ground ourselves.

Tolstoy to Gandhi to Martin Luther King to Me and You

Just fancy! He is only nine-and-twenty, and he has an immense lunatic asylum all under his own care.

what good are peasants without a leader?

he bore himself through it like a moral Viking.

If America can go on breeding men like that, she will be a power in the world indeed.

and they open their hearts to him.  It seems that this Oolanga is quite a great person in

Talented or not, I would never assign anyone as young as you two to oversee any preserve, let alone a dragon sanctuary, except as a last resort.

there were two kinds of men: strong men, who remained true to their internal compasses regardless of all else; and weak men who were easily misled and wound up cheating themselves of all they could be. He'd told Gabe he only wanted strong men

I, for one, am grateful that you were able to overcome what you've been through. You didn't let it break you—no sir—and that acts as a beacon for others. That's why football is important. It's football that put you up in front of everyone, so they could see your example.

To my second-oldest daughter, Megan, for her strength of spirit, her leadership ability and her constancy. Meg, you're a light to everyone who knows you, someone capable of great things because at twelve years old you've already learned the power of self-discipline. I can always depend on you to choose the right and stay the course, and that has been an incredible blessing. If you forget everything else I've ever taught you, remember this: my love is everlasting.

A growing proportion of smart and honest Christians of each new generation will abandon the sinking ship, just as they have been doing for centuries in Europe and decades in the United States. In the not-too-distant future, Christianity will only exist in those enclaves where authoritarian leaders rule over submissive flocks who enfold their religious lives within the assumptions of the first axial age.

a patriarchal religion with a violent past it has yet to acknowledge and address, a haven for authoritarian leaders and the followers who serve them, happy to exploit the labor and enjoy the adulation of women, people of color, and sexual minorities, but defiant against accepting them as equal partners in ministry.

Some people--and I pray I will be one of them--never forget what it was like, which enables them to mentor people of any age.

do we Christians want to continue to enfranchise scoundrels who hold the right beliefs but perpetuate harm?

Since many Christians see God as an absolute authoritarian, we shouldn't be surprised when they prefer authoritarian leaders to democratic ones.

A strategy is only as good as the steps you take to execute it.

If you are born to power, you must prove you deserve it through good works—or give it up. To do any less is to act without conscience.

The successful executive is like a poker player, either concealing his emotions or showing false ones, so that others cannot use them against him. —AURELIUS VENPORT, The Legacy of Business

Each of us influences the actions of the people we know. —XAVIER HARKONNEN, comment to his men