Quotes About Leadership

Washington offered a republican substitute for the dignity of royalty.

Inspiring words are potent, and sometimes dangerous, things. They can inspire idiots and devils as well as great man.

Lincoln was a master of small group theatrics.

Jefferson could strike up the band even when he was being lazy or fearful.

The towering genius is not apolitical.

Good politicians know when to move on, sooner or later.

Lincoln had a stubborn concern for first principles.

It is new design by architects versus world revolution by political leadership.

A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will all say: we did it ourselves.

Being a leader involves choosing the right men to do the right job and letting them do it their way.

A leader is someone who can effectively exercise his influence on people that he can make them believe something he wants them to believe.

The Kennedy brothers seemed neither as grand and omniscient as the "court histories" that sprang up after the president's assassination portrayed them, nor as cunning and shameless as later books, such as Seymour Hersh's The Dark Side of Camelot, argued. They were both self-creative and self-destructive.

Indeed, this is what modern and postmodern masculinity has been all about-men behaving like little boys forever, serving themselves in the name of self-discovery. (Can we imagine someone like Ronald Reagan or Winston Churchill talking about going on a quest to find his masculine self? They were too busy changing the world.)

Christian men who are not yet called into formal church office should never complain that they have nothing to do. We all have much to do in our own hearts and lives, and the requirement for well-qualified men to serve as leaders in the church is always urgent and vital.

John MacArthur writes: "[Andrew] did not seek to be the center of attention. He did not seem to resent those who labored in the limelight. He was evidently pleased to do what he could with the gifts and calling God had bestowed on him, and he allowed the others to do likewise."2

It is the male arm around the shoulder or pat on the back that God allows to have the quickest access to the heart of a child or employee. Men who are seeking to live out the Masculine Mandate will be nurturers.

He calls us to do this by being leaders and servants in the ultimate cause of displaying God's glory and bearing the fruit of God's love in real relationships.

That is the Masculine Mandate: to be spiritual men placed in real-world, God-defined relationships, as lords and servants under God, to bear God's fruit by serving and leading.

Der Triumph der Taktik über die Strategie hat unser Land gelähmt.

Politicians should be changed regularly, like diapers, and for the same reason.

Will the United States ever have a black woman president?

Power I defined as personal influence of an effective sort on governmental action.

In all such instances of which I am aware, the Presidents do not think hard enough, carefully enough beforehand, about foreseeable, even likely consequences to their own effectiveness in office, looking down the line and around corners (xviii).

You could pick your friends, but not your Presidents.