Quotes About Leadership

I would never have become music director of the Chicago Symphony, which would have been an extremely sad loss.

Amid the pressure of great events, a general principle gives no help.

Governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on principles deducted from it.

What experience and history teach is this - that nations and governments have never learned anything from history, or acted upon any lessons they might have drawn from it.

Once the state has been founded, there can no longer be any heroes. They come on the scene only in uncivilized conditions.

If we go on to cast a look at the fate of world historical personalities... we shall find it to have been no happy one. They attained no calm enjoyment; their whole life was labor and trouble; their whole nature was nothing but their master passion. When their object is attained they fall off like empty hulls from the kernel. They die early, like Alexander; they are murdered, like Casear; transported to St. Helena, like Napoleon.

Power and position often make a man trifle with the truth.

Some are born great; some achieve greatness, and others have it pinned on them.

You cannot drive people to do things which are right, but you can love them into doing them, if your example is of such a character that they can see you mean what you say.

The moment for action has arrived, and I know that I can trust in you to save our country.

the politicians have inherited the stone age syndrome of the tribal chieftains, who take for granted that they can rule their people only by making them hate and fight all other tribes," Alfvén continued. "If we have the choice of being governed by problem generating trouble makers, or by problem solvers, every sensible man of course would prefer the latter.

The best government rests on the people, and not on the few, on persons and not on property, on the free development of public opinion and not on authority.

Consequently, if the church is going to leave a permanent mark on the community through a growing body of changed lives, it must constantly expand its leadership capacity, which entails both an increased number of leaders and an enhanced quality of leaders. Also

Are you satisfied with the nature of your church today but simply want your church to be bigger?

A visionary pastor is a successful pastor.

Although they are good people and have been called to ministry, most senior pastors do not have an understanding of God's vision for the ministries they are trying to lead—and, consequently, most churches have little impact in their community or in the lives of their congregants.

The wheels of government go on, though wound up by different hands.

He knows nothing and thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.

Pothinus: "Is it possible that Caesar, the conqueror of the world, has time to occupy himself with such a trifle as our taxes?" Caesar: "My friend, taxes are the chief business of a conqueror of the world."

The art of government is the organisation of idolatry.

The art of government is the organization of idolatry.

The notion that the colonel need be a better man than the private is as confused as the notion that the keystone need be stronger than the coping stone.

He knows nothing; and he thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.