Quotes About Leadership

It doesn't feel good exactly, to be in danger, but it does feel good to be the cause of events rather than being swept along into them.

He pushes himself to standing and offers me his arm. 'Come, let us charm and confound our subjects.

If he could not get the High King's attention for something good, then perhaps he could get it for something really, really bad.

El poder es mucho más fácil de adquirir que de mantener.

One of his primary duties as the High King appears to be reminding her she isn't personally responsible for solving every tedious problem and carrying out every tedious execution in all of Elfhame. He wouldn't mind causing a little torment here or there, of a non-murdery sort, but her view of their positions seems overburdened with chores.

It's ridiculous the way everyone acts like killing a king is going to make someone better at being one,' Vivi says. 'Imagine if, in the mortal world, a lawyer passed the bar by killing another lawyer.

After seeing what Balekin is like, I want Dain on the throne more than ever.

Amanda was in the forefront of my

I'm not entirely sure what my end goal is, but I'd love to get involved in city politics and broadcast TV.

Being a mother was like being a ship's figurehead: you had to keep moving forward through the waves and weather, your head high, even when an iceberg was clearly on the horizon, too big to go around.

The outcome of the war is in our hands; the outcome of words is in the council.

Always to be bravest and to be preeminent above others.

Great-hearted Stentor with brazen voice, who could shout as loud as fifty other men.

A councilor ought not to sleep the whole night through, a man to whom the populace is entrusted, and who has many responsibilities.

You will certainly not be able to take the lead in all things yourself, for to one man a god has given deeds of war, and to another the dance, to another the lyre and song, and in another wide-sounding Zeus puts a good mind.

Peter the Hermit, Calvin, and Robespierre, each at an interval of three hundred years and all three from the same region, were, politically speaking, the Archimedean screws of their age, at each epoch a Thought which found its fulcrum in the self-interest of mankind.

Power is action, and the elective principle is discussion.There is no policy, no statesmanship possible where discussion is permanent.

Small natures require despotism to exercise their sinews, as great souls thirst for equality to give play to their heart.

There's nothing so fearsome as the revolt of a sheep," said de Marsay.

Unluckily, Governments cannot be enlightened, and a Government which regards itself as a diffuser of light is the least open to enlightenment.

Christianity and monarchy are twin principles.

Today, when everything is intellectual competition, a man must be capable of sitting in his chair at a desk for forty-eight hours straight just as a general had to sit for two days in his saddle on horseback.

There is still a way to harmonize all interests," said Solonet, uttering this sentence in a high falsetto tone, which silenced the other three and drew their eyes and their attention upon himself. This young man was not unlike a skilful coachman who holds the reins of four horses, and amuses himself by first exciting his animals and then subduing them.

We go into rural communities, and all we do — like has been done in this room [at TED] — is create the space. When these girls sit … you unlock great leaders.