Quotes About Leadership

has all the benefits of being a king with none of the burdens. He does not have to feed his kingdom or keep his citizens safe. He does not have to worry about the disfavor of the church or infighting in his court. He has no court, no successors. He

The Bible must be considered as the great source of all the truth by which men are to be guided in government as well as in all social transactions.

I am opposed to the accumulation of executive power anywhere.

All that technical expertise isn't worth a damn if you don't get the best out of people, though. . . . These were leaders who saw strength in ordinary people and showed them how to break tyranny.

Courage is contagious: When one person of courage stands up, others are affected and stand up with him

by God he has the right sow by the ear.

She doesn't realize it, but she steers others in a good direction.

The playwright's rendition of Abraham Lincoln remembers a pitiful little paddlewheel he saw that he could only generate steam to EITHER blow the ship's whistle OR move the wheel. Just as the little ship could not do both, Lincoln fears that very few can actually think and speak at the same time.

the Entente Powers, far from aiding Poland, regarded her activities with irritation. Poland won her independence for twenty years by her own efforts under the leadership of Pi?sudski.

Moskowitz became a world leader in the use of neuroplasticity for treating pain only after making some discoveries while treating himself. A

In response to [the Philistine] threat [in the ninth century B.C.], the Hebrews could no longer rely on the leadership of 'judges,' ad hoc military leaders (some of them, peculiarly, women; perhaps reflecting as feminists claim, and earlier matriarchal society).

The day after, bloody revolutions seem always to disappoint, and in the scramble to the top, those with the most blood on their hands seem always to get there first.

I think the greater responsibility, in terms of morality, is where leadership begins.

In the area we're discussing, leadership begins on Madison Avenue, on the desks and in the offices of people who spend hundreds of millions of dollars buying what will get them ratings.

What's the difference between Chamberlain and Hitler? Chamberlain takes a weekend in the country, Hitler takes a country in a weekend.

Churchill replied: "To fire willfully[23] on women and children is a disgraceful act, and I am surprised you do not order the officers responsible to be tried by court

Fools rush in where incumbents fear to tread.

It doesn't take a hero to order men into battle. It takes a hero to be one of those men who goes into battle.

I was lucky enough to lead a very successful war.

He is neither a strategist nor is he schooled in the operational arts, nor is he a tactician, nor is he a general. Other than that he's a great military man.

Well, unfortunately, I have always regretted the fact that I have a temper, but I also have, you know, have great love and respect for all of the people that have worked for me. I think like everything else, this is one of those things that has been blown out of proportion.

Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy.

You learn far more from negative leadership than from positive leadership. Because you learn how not to do it. And, therefore, you learn how to do it.

It ain't power that corrupts, it's the changes you put your head through getting it.