Quotes About Leadership

Americans need to learn from the Wilson era, that there is a connection between racist presidential leadership and like-minded public response.

By idolizing those whom we honor, we do a disservice both to them and to ourselves. . . . We fail to recognize that we could go and do likewise. —CHARLES V. WILLIE

We need to take out the trash." As it happens, I have no intention of actually analyzing that data. Nor am I proposing to my son that we take a family outing to the trash bin. In many situations, people use the word we when they mean you. It serves as a polite form to order others around.

The Northern army was most often run like a business, solving a problem. The Southern army was run like a family, confronting a human crisis.

the common good is defined by who wins at the polls, and the policies they make. Like it or lump it.

There was serious reason to pay attention. Those of us who would be leading rifle platoons in the infantry had frequently been reminded that the odds of our being killed or wounded were better than 50 percent.

Government requires motion, perhaps even more than wisdom. And there is a constant temptation to depend on those who know how to keep it moving, rather than demanding that it stay on any particular course.

Unless you have chains around your ankles, I want to see your elbows pumping down the hallway now!' Isn't it nicer, however, to be asked to "drop by"?

I have no individual goals. We play for one reason and that's to win the title. Practice is more important than the games, and I will practice when I'm hurt, when 95 percent of the players in this league would sit out. I expect all of you to do the same thing. You will follow my lead." – Michael Jordan

Ad hoc committees can be a sign of a prescient leadership structure, proactively dealing with serious topics of concern, or they can be a sign of ineptitude at the board level, which then shove off issues to some subsidiary group to deal with, rather than facing unpleasant truths.

It's amazing the hours you pull when you're the lead of a show.

Leadership is therefore defined as the ability to influence those whom we do not control.

I respect the office of the president.

So you know, I think that the federal government, the Democrats, and President Obama are selling a lot of hope and change, but no delivery of any of those promises.

By the heavens!' he exclaimed. 'Anyone who can save the captain's life and tame that wild beast certainly deserves to be a member of this crew, female or not.

The Bible summarizes it: "The Son is the radiance of God's glory and the exact representation of his being" (Heb. 1:3). That means the Creator God is humble, self-giving, and the safest kind of leader—because that's who Jesus is. If you see Jesus, then the Bible claims you are seeing God.

To play the Boss is Easy but to be it is a Different Story

Be not a Follower, because of others want that, be always the Leader from Ourselves. Jan Jansen

The motto of Groton—cui servire est regnare, "to serve is to rule"—was part of his and Roosevelt's DNA. On

Maybe you done stepped aroun' th' Lord an' tryin' to lead th' way.

Hillary Clinton was her protégée, even when she was the nation's First Lady and then a U.S. senator from New York. Some of the cracks in the glass ceiling were put there by Ann.

The House Republican leadership has simply run out of ideas.

Beter één vuurpijl in de lucht, dan tien in de kast, heeft de koning geschreven

The king reigns, but does not govern.