Quotes About Leadership

It's a pretty good rule to remember that every time we come into contact with another person, even though just walking a block, our job is to lead him to a higher plane than that one on which we found him.

The mind of a General makes one a General.

The genius of American business lies in risk-taking, creativity, invention, and ambition.

i suspect that the first dictator of this country will be called coach.

By its nature, government was either small and personal, something on the level of a town hall meeting, or it was tyranny, with the few ruling the many for their own benefit, no matter how representational that government might be in theory.

My brother, Major General Lawrence Heinlein, once told me that there are only two promotions in life that mean a damn: from buck private to corporal, and from colonel to general officer. I made corporal decades ago Ã¢â'¬Â¦ but now at long last I know what he meant about the other. Thank you.17

No man can follow Christ and go astray.

I'm not, nor is anybody I know in government part of a nasty right wing clique.

The people of Britain want a Home Secretary who will give them back their streets. They want a Home Secretary who will speak up for the victim, not the criminal.

When the Lord Chancellor violates the trust of his great office of state to solicit party donations from people whose careers he can control, and then says I'm not sorry, and I'd do it again no wonder the public think that power has gone to their heads.

It's really necessary for the United States to continue to give strong leadership to the Middle East peace process, supported by European countries at the same time.

I think Britain would be alright, if only we had a different Government.

Inspiring scenes of people taking the future of their countries into their own hands will ignite greater demands for good governance and political reform elsewhere in the world, including in Asia and in Africa.

I trust the people.

It is the mission of the next Conservative Government to build the Responsible Society.

Those who can command themselves command others.

No really great man ever thought himself so.

The virtue of its Citizens is the only Support of a Republican government

The only legitimate right to govern is an express grant of power from the governed.

We are imperfect. We cannot expect perfect government.

I do not know much about politics, but I am trying to do the best I can with this administration until the time shall come for me to turn it over to somebody else.

I'll be damned if I am not getting tired of this. It seems to be the profession of a President simply to hear other people talk.

We are all imperfect. We can not expect perfect government.

I am going to do what I think is best for the country, within my jurisdiction and power, and then let the rest take care of itself.