Quotes About Leadership

Il n'y a de grand parmi les hommes que le poète, le prêtre et le soldat; l'homme qui chante, l'homme qui bénit, l'homme qui sacrifie et se sacrifie. Le reste est fait pour le fouet.

Joan of Arc had style. Jesus had style.

Are there good governments and bad governments? No, there are only bad governments and worse governments.

No hay guerras buenas o malas. Lo unico malo de una guerra es perderla. En todas las guerras ambos lados creen pelear por una buena causa. No se trata de saber quien tiene o no la razón, ¡se trata de comprobar quien tiene los mejores generales y el mejor ejercito!

Marajó never had the grand public monuments of a Tenochtitlan or a Qosqo, Roosevelt noted, because its leaders "couldn't compel the labor." Nonetheless, she said, Marajó society was "just as orderly and beautiful and complex. The eye-opener was that you didn't need a huge apparatus of state control to have all that.

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Dazzled as he was, Cortés was also aware that with a single command Motecuhzoma could order his army "to obliterate all memory of us." The Spaniards counteracted this threat by inventing a pretext to seize the tlatoani in his own palace, making him first their captive and then their puppet.

who held title to all the land and its produce, could vote down decisions by the male leaders of the League and demand that an issue be reconsidered. Under this regime women were so much better off than their counterparts in Europe that nineteenth-century U.S. feminists like Lucretia Mott, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Matilda Joslyn Gage, all of whom lived in Haudenosaunee country, drew inspiration from their lot.

Because he controlled food negotiations with Powhatan, the colony's men of consequence swallowed their displeasure.

Like all too many dictators, Cahokia's rulers focused on maintaining their hold over the people, paying little attention to external reality. By 1350 A.D. the city was almost empty. Never again would such a large Indian community exist north of Mexico.

At least 80 percent of Capital's most important decisions have been 'No' decisions: active, carefully thought-through decisions not to take a specific action. That's why one of the hallmarks of Capital is how seldom it makes major mistakes.

Take a king or a president or anybody. Put a heavy sack of gold in one hand and a feather-light declaration about freedom in the other. And then an outlaw sticks a pistol in his face and says give me one or the other. Every time—every ten out of ten —he'll hug the sack and throw away the ideals. Because the sack's what's behind the ideals, like the foundation under a building.

Because, like so many of them, he held no beloved idea or philosophy as tightly as his money purse. Take a king or a president or anybody. Put a heavy sack of gold in one hand and a feather-light

The mission statement provides the WHY that inspires the HOW.

Like politicians, they may pretend to be in charge and shape society – this is a large part of their hope and mental equipment – but it is mostly an accident if they do so.

Too many cooks spoil the broth, and half-a-dozen gentlemen aboard one ship are as bad as two kings of Brentford.

Psalm lxxviii. 71, 72, 73.  He chose David his servant, and took him away from the sheep-folds. 

Fully agreeing with Sir Richard Grenville's great axiom, that he who cannot obey cannot rule, Lucy had been for the last five-and-twenty years training him pretty smartly to obey her, with the intention, it is to be charitably hoped, of letting him rule her in turn when his lesson was perfected.

This did not mean that he had not been active in his own cause. On the contrary, he had been on the telephone all night, every night, feeding his advocates facts and phrases, suggesting sources of support and information, organizing telephone and mail campaigns, and above all guiding and nurturing journalists by reminding them, by tone of voice and vocabulary—though never in so many words—that he was the enemy of their enemies.

As of ten minutes ago, when he was sworn in by Albert Tyler in the President's Room with the leadership of both houses of Congress as witnesses, that's what he is." Busby was staggered by the audacity of this maneuver by the Old Guard. "But how could something like this happen just like that, with no warning, out of the blue?" "Because we have a Constitution which delivers us from evil

Reasonable people maintain the world. Passionate people change it. And wise people guide the change process.

A. W. Tozer says, A true and safe leader is likely one who has no desire to lead, but is forced into a position of leadership by the inward pressure of the Holy Spirit and by the press of the external situation.

A selfless devotion. High-impact people don't care about who gets the credit, and they never complain about the role they fill.

It was Sir Winston Churchill, in the midst of Nazi bombings, who said to the people of London, This is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.' He was the one who offered the best definition of success I've ever read: Success is moving from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.