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Quotes About Leadership

When the wicked come to power, people hide themselves; but when they perish, the righteous flourish.
~ Proverbs 28:28
When the righteous flourish, the people rejoice, but when the wicked rule, the people groan.
~ Proverbs 29:2
By justice a king brings stability to the land, but a man who exacts tribute demolishes it.
~ Proverbs 29:4
If a ruler listens to lies, all his officials will be wicked.
~ Proverbs 29:12
A king who judges the poor with fairness—his throne will be established forever.
~ Proverbs 29:14
Where there is no vision, the people cast off restraint; but blessed is he who keeps the Law.
~ Proverbs 29:18
the locusts have no king, yet they all advance in formation;
~ Proverbs 30:27
a lion, mighty among beasts, refusing to retreat before anything;
~ Proverbs 30:30
a strutting rooster; a he-goat; and a king with his army around him.
~ Proverbs 30:31
Do not spend your strength on women or your vigor on those who ruin kings.
~ Proverbs 31:3
It is not for kings, O Lemuel, it is not for kings to drink wine, or for rulers to crave strong drink,
~ Proverbs 31:4
lest they drink and forget what is decreed, depriving all the oppressed of justice.
~ Proverbs 31:5
Her husband is known at the city gate, where he sits among the elders of the land.
~ Proverbs 31:23
She opens her mouth with wisdom, and faithful instruction is on her tongue.
~ Proverbs 31:26
I, the Teacher, was king over Israel in Jerusalem.
~ Ecclesiastes 1:12
Wisdom makes the wise man stronger than ten rulers in a city.
~ Ecclesiastes 7:19
For the kingís word is supreme, and who can say to him, “What are you doing?”
~ Ecclesiastes 8:4
If the rulerís temper flares against you, do not abandon your post, for calmness lays great offenses to rest.
~ Ecclesiastes 10:4
Woe to you, O land whose king is a youth, and whose princes feast in the morning.
~ Ecclesiastes 10:16
Blessed are you, O land whose king is a son of nobles, and whose princes feast at the proper time—for strength and not for drunkenness.
~ Ecclesiastes 10:17
Your rulers are rebels, friends of thieves. They all love bribes and chasing after rewards. They do not defend the fatherless, and the plea of the widow never comes before them.
~ Isaiah 1:23
I will restore your judges as at first, and your counselors as at the beginning. After that you will be called the City of Righteousness, the Faithful City.”
~ Isaiah 1:26
the mighty man and the warrior, the judge and the prophet, the soothsayer and the elder,
~ Isaiah 3:2
the commander of fifty and the dignitary, the counselor, the cunning magician, and the clever enchanter.
~ Isaiah 3:3