Quotes About Leadership

ask yourself, Who's getting the glory in this ministry? You see, if we do ministry OUR way, it won't be for His glory, because our ways are not His ways.

The late President Harry Truman often referred to leaders as people who can get others to do what they don't want to do-and make them like doing it!

When God puts His hand on a plain, ordinary person whom He has destined for leadership, that person is given mountain-matching abilities, whether he be a Roosevelt, a Lincoln, a Nehemiah-or a person like you or me.

Fiorello La Guardia, Mayor of New York City during the 1930s, used to say, I don't fail often. But when I do, it's a beaut!

Remember those who led you, who spoke the word of God to you; and considering the result of their conduct, imitate their faith. Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today, yes and forever. Do not be carried away by varied and strange teachings; for it is good for the heart to be strengthened by grace, not by foods, through which those who were thus occupied were not benefited. (Heb. 13:7–9)

Hay una línea de separación muy delgada entre el liderazgo responsable y el control dogmático.

As we shall see, the best leaders are actually servants. Unselfishly

Nehemiah i is a blend of prayer and action.

Britain is relying on you, Bob, so try not to make your usual hash of things.

There is good management and bad management: good management is like air—you don't know it's there until it's gone away.

We shouldn't even be here, I think distantly as I raise my weapon and take aim, we're management, not heroes.

This is a woman who models herself on Margaret Thatcher, only without the warmth and compassion.

where it's not unusual for certain senior personnel to keep such a low profile that only the payroll computers in HR can remember their names.

But what are we going to do with a load of guns?" asks Pete. "I don't know, Brains, what are we going to do with a half-track full of guns?" Pinky asks. Brains chuckles. "Same thing we do every night, Pinky—" "Fort up and wait for reinforcements," Pinky says flatly.

They'll like it even less if I hear any words from them," I said. You have to be firm with colonial troops: they have only as much backbone as their commanding officer.

America is the place where you cannot kill your Government by killing the men who conduct it. The only way you can kill government in America is by making the men and women of America forget how to govern. —Woodrow Wilson, 1919

The PM smiles, and for a moment I see a flickering vision where His face should be: an onion-skin Matryoshka doll of circular shark-toothed maws, lizard-man faces, and insectile hunger. "A word in my study if you don't mind. Right this way.

Revolutions (she'd long since learned) ran on committees just like any other government, once you got past the screaming-and-shooting stage.

The idiot child they've placed on the throne does not impress with his acumen.

Being management means having to hold your hands behind your back while your inexperienced junior staff crap all over a job you could have done in five seconds—and then taking their mess right on the chin.

the United States is structurally an imperial project, it's in our political DNA. We're always looking for a frontier to expand into, we can't back down, anyone who admits we're overmatched gets sidelined and booted out of office by an upstart who insists that we can never be defeated, only betrayed.

I picked you for this task, Colonel, precisely because you won't do it lightly.

Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men, even when they exercise influence and not authority; still more when you superadd the tendency of the certainty of corruption by authority. —Lord Acton

Like so many other French generals in the Peninsula, he was soon to find that victory is not the same thing as conquest.