Quotes About Leadership

If you would know a man's good and evil points, you should know the underlings and retainers he loves and employs, and the friends with whom he mixes intimately. If the lord is not correct, none of his friends and retainers will be correct.

If life is a party, you should be the one throwing it!

I think once you're in the public eye, whether you're a boss, a teacher or whatever you do, that you're automatically in the position of role model. You have people looking up to you, so whether you choose to accept it or not is a different question.

The problem is not that Afghans unite and then cannot be conquered; the problem is that Afghans fragment and then cannot be governed

I've decided to run for the U.S. Senate because I believe Wisconsin families need a senator who will work hard to deliver results for the middle class - a leader with the courage to do what's right, no matter how tough the odds or how powerful the special interests we have to fight.

Rule Number Three, and Four and Five and about a dozen more: you do not go with the flow in this job. You make the flow go with you.

Today Henry would be running a banana republic with serious border issues and a dodgy nuclear-weapons program.

the king led his men into battle. Always. That was what the ruler was: both on a practical level and on a mystical one, he was the one who stepped forwards to lead his tribe, put his life at stake for them, become the sacrifice for their safety. If he had refused to do that most crucial thing at that most crucial moment, they would have ripped him apart—and rightly so: he would have shown himself to be an impostor, with no right to the throne.

Michel, the tight-jawed president of the Black Student Caucus, who called her "little sister" and would have had potential if he'd remembered to sprinkle in some fun between bouts of righteous indignation.

Most people don't care who's in charge as long as someone is.

One, if I'm behind the wheel we go by Winchester rules: driver picks the music, shotgun shuts his cakehole.

If you don't build your dream, someone will hire you to help build theirs. – Tony Gaskins

Proximity to power has an unsurprising ability to mutate a politician's spinal cord into bright yellow jelly.

We are a model country where gender equality is concerned.

These included the top of Mount Everest and up the chief's rear passage.

Since becoming chief minister four years ago, Baba Dhobi had sought to consolidate his cult standing by using state funds to build lavish monuments and statues to the leaders of the Dalit movement, himself included.

Politics is a delicate business. I understand that well. But if a party is not willing to stand up for what is right, does it deserve to win back control of the government?

Had you been born in a society that treated women as the equals of men, it would never occur to you that Miss Carter shouldn't lead a dig or that men would balk at her orders." "We have free will, but we are not free from original sin," Mr. Taylor said.

of their own, one that will not support suffrage, and I'm afraid the Liberal Party leadership may prefer their priorities. What good is fighting for women's rights if those rights don't include being able to vote?

When it comes to the president, we have to respect him, we have to protect him, and we have to correct him. And in my career, since he'd been on the national stage at least, I've had - I've always respected the president.

White America has told Doc: We have created a space for you. We have allowed you to be the leader of your people for your cause. We have become comfortable seeing you in this space. This space has resulted in your receiving a Nobel Peace Prize. But that leadership and prize do not allow you to address issues outside your space.

Even a dog can make a bunch of puppies, but a real man raises his kids.

what was needed in any battle was not the wise and the thoughtful, but the unwary who would follow their leader to the death, like sheep if need be, without too much counting the cost or the cause.

Were Cicero alive in the America of today he would be aghast and appalled. He would find it so familiar.