Quotes About Leadership

I am a woman who makes things happen, and I am not defeated yet. I am not defeated by a boy with a newly won crown, and no man will ever walk away from me certain that he won't walk back.

Thomas More once told me: lion or king, never show fear or you are a dead man.

Getting a woman into power is not the point—it's getting a good woman into power who thinks and cares about what she does.

We say that we are rulers of this country, but we do not make a rule of law. We say that we command these people, but we do not lead them to peace or prosperity. We,their own lords, quarrel among ourselves, and bring death to their door, as if our opinions and thoughts and dreams are worth far more than their safety and health and children.

He smiled at me, his wolfish smile. 'We are making a new order,' he said, 'a new world. Everything is changing, and here we are, at the very front of the change.' 'If I refuse?' I asked, my voice very thing. He gave me his most cynical smile that left his eyes as cold as wet coals. 'You don't,' he said simply. 'The world's not changed that much yet. Men still rule.

We wait by the door for him to notice us and I think how wonderful it must be to be a man and put your initial on a command and know that at once, such a thing is done. I would send out commands all day just for the pleasure of it.

a powerful woman will always attract slander

We say that we are the rulers of this country, but we do not make a rule of law. We say that we command these people, but we do not lead them to peace or prosperity. We, their own lords, quarrel among ourselves and bring death to their door, as if our opinions and thoughts and dreams are worth far more than their safety and health and children.

And swore that whatever the obstacles before me, I should be Queen of England.

We say that we are the rulers of this country, but we do not make a rule of law. We say that we command these people, but we do not lead them to peace or prosperity. We, their own lords, quarrel among ourselves and bring death to their door, as if our opinions and thoughts and dreams are worth far

But there are good people whose safety depends on me speaking for them. I have promised to keep the king in one mind. It is easier to stand on your head than keep the king to one mind, Will observes, straight as a yeoman, but upside down. If I were you, Majesty, I would stand on your head beside me.

This is the man they call a great king, the greatest king that we have ever had in England. Does it not teach us that we should have no king? That a people should be free? That a tyrant is still a tyrant even when he has a handsome face under a crown?

We're in this together. This is for all of us: Boleyns and Howards. We all rise or fall on this. We're all waiting and playing the long game. You have to lead the charge, Anne. But we're all behind you." She

Child, you cannot change a king, you can only make him laugh.

He had that York gift, didn't he?" he presses me. "Of making people love him? Like your father King Edward did? Like you have? It's a blessing, there's no real sense to it. It's just that some men have a charm, don't they? And then people follow them? People just follow them?

They don't like to think of women in power, women as leaders.

She never thought when she overthrew a queen that thereafter all queens would be unsteady.

think of his cupping my mother's cheek in his hand and telling her that she is the cleverest woman in England and he will be guided by none but her; and then going his own way.

Really, if it were not for Joan of Arc, I would think that girls are completely useless

Nobody gets to be Queen of England by being loveable. You will have to play your cards right.

The queen is right. The queen is always right.

If you need to be rescued by someone, become that someone yourself. Become Princess Charming. She is you.

At any rate, they got the lead out—but paid a hideous price.

Call it what you will. One of you will stay—or all will stay. The tax will be paid." And the rocs dropped lower yet. "Poll your number to determine the one.