Quotes About Leadership

I urge the Iraqi leadership for sake of its own people... to seize this opportunity and thereby begin to end the isolation and suffering of the Iraqi people.

As study after study has taught us, there is no tool for development more effective than the empowerment of women.

He is very calm very, very calm. Never raises his voice. Well-informed, contrary to the sense outside that he is ill-informed and isolated. And decisive.

First organize the inner, then organize the outer ... First organize the great, then organize the small. First organize yourself, and then organize others

First make yourself unpopular, then people will take you seriously.

Diriger, selon Murdo, c'est faciliter le cours de la vie, pas lui faire barrage.

we are moving from a hierarchical leadership model to an heir-archy, as we are heirs with Christ to the throne of God

Bernice III was the first queen of Egypt to rule without a consort in over a millennium. Though her reign was brief, her example inspired her descendant Cleopatra to rule alone.

Alexander did not name an heir to his empire. When asked on his deathbed, he cryptically replied, "To the strongest.

Adopt a Brownie Troop. Memoir classes. Field trips and blood drives.

I am honored that my freshman class colleagues have put their trust in me to represent our historic class at the leadership table. The incoming freshman class of Representatives is large and diverse but we share many common goals including cutting wasteful spending, getting our economy back on track and making government smarter and more efficient.

A WOMAN'S PLACE IS IN THE HOUSE...AND THE SENATE.

Word and sacrament define the task of the pastoral office in simple, beautiful, and powerful terms.

Inviting people to laugh with you while you are laughing at yourself is a good thing to do. You may be a fool but you're the fool in charge.

I won't take my religion from any man who never works except with his mouth.

Sovereign is he who decides on the exception.

It is time for us to keep in mind that it requires more to make and preserve a Republic than the mere absence of a king, and that when a Republic decays its soul is apt to die first, which its outward form may still be lasting.

What we should admire is the acute fulfillment of the unspoken assumptions, the smooth harmony of the whole activity, which only become evident in the final success.

The talent of the strategist is to identify the decisive point and to concentrate everything on it, removing forces from secondary fronts and ignoring lesser objectives.

The first, the supreme, the most far-reaching act of judgment that the statesman and commander have to make is to establish by that test the kind of war on which they are embarking; neither mistaking it for, nor trying to turn it into, something that is alien to its nature.

Where execution is dominant, as it is in the individual events of a war whether great or small, then intellectual factors are reduced to a minimum.

The commander's talents are given greatest scope in rough hilly country. Mountains allow him too little real command over his scattered units and he is unable to control them all; in open country, control is a simple matter and does not test his ability to the fullest.

Everything is very simple in War, but the simplest thing is difficult.

The political object is the goal, war is the means of reaching it, and means can never be considered in isolation from their purpose