Quotes About Leadership

True leaders apply law and grace, for those who only apply only law have little influence and those who apply only grace do not influence properly.

Men's Leadership Success Formula: Get up, Show up, Man up, Mentor up, and Move up!

What kills leadership growth isn't ignorance, but rather the illusion of knowledge.

You learn from mistakes so the best leaders are constantly making new mistakes on their success journey.

The greatest leaders are reluctant ones who lead because they realize that no one else seems willing to step up.

The cook's role is to feed the body while a leader's role is to feed the mind and spirit.

Do not mistake a leader's meekness for weakness.

Managers maintain the present while leaders create the future.

The true test of character is to live win-win even when promoted to positions where win-lose is possible.

If pigs could vote, the man with the slop bucket would be elected swineherd every time, no matter how much slaughtering he did on the side.

Money only buys the illusion of power. Real power is in the force of will will strong enough that others bend to it for its own sake, and follow it willingly. Power that is won through deception will evaporate under the hot light of truth.

Ender Wiggin isn't a killer. He just wins—thoroughly.

Only very intelligent people don't wish they were in politics, and I'm dumb enough to want to be in there.

Roosevelt used to say, "You and I are the two best actors in America.

If one is fashionable for the greater part of one's career, one will produce second-class work. Perhaps by chance one will arrive at being a success but this means that one is a follower and not an innovator. An artist should lead, blaze trails.

In short, contrary to the founders—and in ways they do not realize themselves—Americans today are heedlessly pursuing a vision of freedom that is short-lived and suicidal. Once again, freedom without virtue, leadership without character, business without trust, law without customs, education without meaning and medicine, science and technology without human considerations can end only in disaster.

It is no great feat to burn a little man. It is a great achievement to persuade him. ERASMUS, LETTER

Thus a good man, though a slave, is free; but a wicked man, though a king, is a slave. For he serves, not one man alone, but, what is worse, as many masters as he has vices. ST. AUGUSTINE, CITY OF GOD

The called-out assembly of God's people, which is subordinated to Christ as its head and coordinated with its fellow members of the body, lives its life by its practical obedience to God's call in Christ.

Your security is not in the hands of [Democratic presidential candidate John] Kerry or Bush or al Qaeda. Your security is in your own hands and each state which does not harm our security will remain safe.

Your security is not in the hands of Kerry, Bush or al-Qaida. Your security is in your own hands.

Bush the father did well in placing his sons as governors and did not forget to pass on the expertise in fraud from the leaders of the region to Florida to use it in critical moments.

America is a great power possessed of tremendous military might and a wide-ranging economy, but all this is built on an unstable foundation which can be targeted, with special attention to its obvious weak spots. If America is hit in one hundredth of these weak spots, God willing, it will stumble, wither away and relinquish world leadership.

Your security does not lie in the hands of Kerry, Bush or al-Qaeda. Your security is in your own hands.