Quotes About Leadership

Nations, empires and movements boom or collapse according to greater forces than the personal traits of their leaders.

Not-so-fun-fact: If the people who work most closely with your ministry end up wanting nothing to do with Jesus, it is no longer a ministry.

Abraham Lincoln, a predecessor of Barack Obama in both the White House and the Illinois state legislature, had eighteen months of formal education and became a soldier, surveyor, postmaster, rail-splitter, tavern keeper, and self-taught prairie lawyer. Obama went to Occidental College, Columbia University, and Harvard Law School, and became a "community organizer." I'm not sure that's progress--and it's certainly not "sustainable.

I consider myself a student of success. I'm no better or smarter than anyone else. I'm just another starving man showing others where the food is.

If you stay too close to someone like Hitler, you are going to burn someday.

You never want to be the absolute leader in the game of life, the man out front, the one everyone sees and looks to," Leyers said. "That's where my poor Willy made his mistake. He got out front, right there in the light. You see, Vorarbeiter, in the game of life, it is always preferable to be a man of the shadows, and even the darkness, if necessary. In this way, you run things, but you are never, ever seen. You are like a . . . phantom of the opera. You are like . .

You see, Vorarbeiter, in the game of life, it is always preferable to be a man of the shadows, and even the darkness, if necessary. In this way, you run things, but you are never, ever seen.

You never want to be the absolute leader in the game of life, the man out front, the one everyone sees and looks to,

You never want to be the absolute leader in the game of life, the man out front, the one everyone sees and looks to," Leyers said. "That's where my poor Willy made his mistake. He got out front, right there in the light. You see, Vorarbeiter, in the game of life, it is always preferable to be a man of the shadows, and even the darkness, if necessary. In this way, you run things, but you are never, ever seen. You are like a . . . phantom of the opera.

You never want to be the absolute leader in the game of life, the man out front, the one everyone sees and looks to," Leyers said.

power was bleeding from Benito Mussolini's grasp like joy from a young widowed heart.

in the game of life, it is always preferable to be a man of the shadows, and even the darkness, if necessary. In this way, you run things, but you are never, ever seen.

You never want to be the absolute leader in the game of life, the man out front, the one everyone sees and looks to," Leyers said. "That's where my poor Willy made his mistake. He got out front, right there in the light. You see, Vorarbeiter, in the game of life, it is always preferable to be a man of the shadows, and even the darkness, if necessary. In this way, you run things, but you are never, ever seen. You are like a . . . phantom of the opera. You are

Francis also did everything in his power to get his people to stay at the bottom or at the edge and never at the top. He didn't even want his friars to be priests/clergy. He said, "You can't preach the gospel if you're part of the structures of power.

The former head of the Indian Air Force, Air Chief Marshal Arjun Singh, was told to prove that he was not going to demonstrate at the Games. Lieutenant-General Jagjit Singh Aurora, who took the surrender of the Pakistan army after the Bangladesh war, suffered the same indignity.

The Akali Dai's decision to adopt Bhindranwale was rank political opportunism.

Operation Blue Star

The decision to release Bhindranwale was taken by the government.

In India all politicians, except members of the Gandhi family, have to protect their base.

To lodge all power in one party and keep it there is to insure bad government.

In statesmanship get the formalities right, never mind about the moralities.

I am different from Washington; I have a higher, grander standard of principle. Washington could not lie. I can lie, but I won't.

I have a higher and grander standard of principle than George Washington. He could not lie; I can, but I won't.

All kings is mostly rapscallions.