Quotes About Leadership

Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases.

In general, our generals were out generalled.

A taste for literature and a turn for business, united in the same person, never fails to make a great man.

The nation which will not adopt an equilibrium of power must adopt a despotism. There is no other alternative.

If you don't run your own life, someone else will

If you don't run your own life, somebody else will.

John B. Hattendorf

When it comes to leadership, silence is nonverbal communication. It communicates agreement and grants permission by saying, "What you're doing is fine.

Not unlike Saul, many leaders in our homes, corporations, and churches are more concerned with their goals than with their offspring. Because of this attitude, these leaders view God's people as resources to serve their vision instead of seeing the vision as the vehicle to serve the people. The success of the vision justifies the cost of wounded lives and shattered people. Justice, mercy, integrity, and love are compromised for success. Decisions are based on money, numbers, and results.

In times past when the nation strayed, the leaders would guide the people back to God, but these leaders pushed the people away with their persistent abuse of position and perversion of power.

estava fora de questão. Na qualidade de cristãos, o caráter deve ser a nossa prioridade máxima e a nossa busca maior. O que nosso Pai procura não é poder, mas caráter. É triste saber que muitos na igreja buscam o poder e a unção do Espírito enquanto deixam de lado a busca por um caráter devoto. O

I believe we are trying to understand kingdom principles with a democratic mindset. It is programmed into our core thinking and reasoning. God is a dictator. Thankfully he is a benevolent one. but he has the final say in all aspects of life…..If we are going to try and follow God, we simply cannot use democratic reasoning in the way we respond to his leadership

Jesus never used the benefits of the kingdom to entice people to follow him. When he called Peter, James, John, and the others, it wasn't follow me for what I can do for you, it was follow me for who I am.

Our lives must be submitted to and built upon His position of lordship, not upon His work as Savior. Another

We give our lives completely because we are confident of His perfect leadership, character, and love and that He knows what's best. Though He intensely desires our freedom and loves us perfectly, He is the King of all kings and Lord of all lords and will not come into our lives as second to anything or anyone else.

Most men are not as smart as women and yet they continue to hold all the power. They fear a change of the world order.

It has always astonished me, Georgy Daniilovich, that those who are most repulsed by autocratic or dictatorial rule are among the first to eliminate their enemies once they take on the mantle of power themselves.

Throughout history, only a small number of people have done the serious thinking for everybody.

Consider the world we could live in if all of our local and global leaders, if all of our personal and professional friends and foes, recognized the defeasibility of their beliefs and acted accordingly. That sure sounds like progress to me. But of course I could be wrong.

You find hate more among journalists and politicians at home than among fighting men.

Hideous, and yet comic too; for the spectacle of these feverish cranks toiling to create a new heaven and a new earth and thinking themselves the leaders of mankind, when they were dancing like puppets at the will of a few scoundrels engaged in the most ancient of pursuits, was an irony to make the gods laugh. I asked who was their leader. Macgillivray said he

Great leaders have good people skills, and they can get people to compromise and work together. But they also take a stand when needed. Courage deals with principle, not perception. If you don't have the ability to see when to stand up and the conviction to do it, you'll never be an effective leader. Your dedication to potential mus remain stronger than your desire to appease others.

Transformation is within reach of anyone who is willing to change themselves, live good values value people, and collaborate with others to bring about lasting positive change. p182 Change Your World

For finally, "you can always count on Americans to do the right thing," as Churchill pointed out, "but only after they've tried everything else.