Quotes About Leadership

The Master is cordial yet stern, awe-inspiring yet not fierce and respectful yet at ease.

Find out what people want to do, then tell them to do it. They'll think you're a genius.

If King Harold had had swans on his side, England would still be Saxon.

Management is proving beyond a shadow of a doubt they don't have enough to do, she murmured back. So they've invented a new acronym.

It takes very little to govern good people. Very little. And bad people cant be governed at all. Or if they could I never heard of it.

It takes very little to govern good people.

Do you know what happens with people who cannot govern themselves? That's right. Others come in to govern for them.

Like King, we need to put on our cemetery clothes and be coffin-ready for the next great democratic battle.

QUALITY leadership is neither the product of one great individual nor the result of odd historical accidents. Rather, it comes from deeply bred traditions and communities that shape and mold talented and gifted persons. Without a vibrant tradition of resistance passed on to new generations, there can be no nurturing of a collective and critical consciousness—only professional conscientiousness survives.

We need serious strategic and tactical thinking about how to create new models of leadership and forge the kind of persons to actualize these models.

King never confined himself to being solely the leader of black America—even though the white press attempted to do so.

Lady Cora,' he said, 'sometimes one has to do things which are unpalatable. When great issues are involved one can't toy with the situation in silk gloves. No. We are making history.' Mervyn Peake, Titus Groan

Humans so liked to choose the wrong men as their leaders.

Their prince had weightier matters on his mind just now than the troubles of a farmer whose neighbour had stolen his pig, a cobbler who had bought poor quality leather from a dealer, or a seamstress whose husband beat her every night when he came home drunk.

Resa stroked the dried flower-heads. 'They obey you,' she said to the Prince, when the women had gone again. 'Why?' 'Oh, because they've chosen me as their leader,' replied the Prince. 'And because I'm a very good knife-thrower.

I'm not magic. You lead yourselves.

Was it just a coincidence that the only women who rose through the ranks in this industry acted like poster children for toxic masculinity? Was that my future, if I stayed in the business?

The gentleman that succeeded Mr. Endicot was Mr. Richard Bellingham, one who was bred a lawyer, and one who lived beyond eighty, well esteemed for his laudable qualities, but as the Thebans made the statues of their magistrates without hands, importing that they must be no takers;

He was, indeed, a governour, who had most exactly studied that book which, pretending to teach politicks, did only contain three leaves, and but one word in each of those leaves, which word was, MODERATION.

Sometimes a King has to do terrible things in order to protect those he has sworn to look after. When the stakes are so high, dreadful decisions have to be taken. It is the responsibility of a King to take on that burden, that guilt.

A Chief must show no fear, no worry... A Chief is a leader first, and a man second...

I wanted to be a King who would found a New World, not in some misty country far across the seas, but right here, right now, at home.

Most of us are lucky not to be Kings and Heroes, because we do not have to make the choices that Kings and Heroes have to make.

The world will need a Hero, and it might as well be you.