Quotes About Leadership

War with smiles and firm handshakes.

Beside her, Edwin stirred. Rædwald the overking was dead and under the dirt. Now Edwin was overking. Hild could feel him swelling like bread.

Her back was very straight as she walked away, despite the fact that, on top of jet lag, she must have been up all night taking charge of my life.

To hear you talk is like hearing him talk when he first become king.

A man was lord of his own hall, king or no.

This is your wyrd," Hild said. "You'll be a queen. You'll have children.

The thought of going alone into the king's tent full of men who had just killed other men made her feel dizzy.

The priests had had a network before Paulinus unraveled it. Hild would reweave it, to her own purpose.

She stood alone at the empty heart of a gone god, staff in the crook of her arm, one hand on her seax and the other on her cross. She would not wear and weather. She was Yffing. She would be totem and token for her people, the light of the world.

There is one thing Margaret Thatcher said that I agree with: if you have to tell people you're important, you're not.

The revolt always begins when the steward wants to be king. A lesson the Franks never seen to learn.

Hild looked down at the water, at herself, a woman. A woman who knows. Standing like a queen. Light of the world. Queen of the world.

She had sworn to be totem and token to her people, to light their path, not darken it.

There was no world in which she would be queen to another's king. Eanflæd would be peaceweaver. She was the light of the world.

Los políticos, en la democracia, son los condensadores de la imbecilidad.

Authority is not delegating men, but procuring values.

Among the vices of democracy one must count the impossibility of someone occupying an important position there without it being his ambition.

Power more surely corrupts the man who covets it than the man who exercises it.

When they die, aristocracies explode; democracies deflate.

Where everyone believes he has a right to rule, everyone eventually prefers that one man alone rule. The tyrant frees each individual from the tyranny of his neighbor.

Having lots of ideas doesn't mean you're clever, any more than having lots of soldiers means you're a good general.

On n'est point un homme d'esprit pour avoir beaucoup d'idées, comme on n'est pas un bon général pour avoir beaucoup de soldats.

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Successful, self-starting individuals seek responsibility. They take calculated risks; they don't make excuses to cover up their inactivity.