Quotes About Leadership

Anoint, v.: To grease a king or other great functionary already sufficiently slippery.

In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office.

Women must try to do things as men have tried. When they fail their failure must be but a challenge to others.

Some of us have great runways already built for us. If you have one, take off. But if you don't have one, realize it is your responsibility to grab a shovel and build one for yourself and for those who will follow after you.

Please know that I am aware of the hazards. I want to do it because I want to do it. Women must try to do things as men have tried. When they fail, their failure must be a challenge to others.

Now and then women should do for themselves what men have already done—occasionally what men have not done—thereby establishing themselves as persons, and perhaps encouraging other women toward greater independence of thought and action.

Women, like men, should try to do the impossible. And when they fail, their failure should be a challenge to others.

N'est-ce pas la vertu première du nationalisme que de trouver un coupable plutôt qu'une solution ?

Heureusement que les monarques vont parfois trop loin, sinon ils ne tomberaient jamais" (dans Léon l'Africain)

When I find a trustworthy man, he lacks ambition and scorns the apparatus of power; and when a man appears ready to jump at the first office I offer him, his haste unnerves me.

C'est en cet instant de gloire que le raïs prononça l'arrêt de mort de l'Égypte cosmopolite et libérale.

celui de l'Iran. Churchill en personne s'est démené pour abattre le gouvernement du docteur Mossadegh

Yöneticilerin en kötüsü seni sopalayan deÄŸil, seni kendi kendini sopalamaya zorlayand?r.

I had the chance to meet an extraordinary personality, one of those beings who cross History determined to leave their imprint on the generations to come.

Tell her that the qualities needed to govern are not those which are needed in order to accede to power.

the qualities needed to govern are not those which are needed in order to accede to power. In order to run things smoothly, one must forget oneself and only be interested in others – particularly the most unfortunate; to get into power, one must be the greediest of men, think only of oneself and be ready to crush one's closest friends.

De ce fait, s'il est raisonnable d'admettre que l'État, comme disait Reagan, peut parfois être « le problème », il est tout à fait légitime de se demander si l'absence d'État n'est pas, quelquefois, un problème plus grave encore.

They were all on government scholarships - men and women chosen to lead the countries one day soon across the post-independence horizon towards a new Africa where they would design bridges, run schools, plan towns, drain swamps, build hospitals or, as likely become deskbound bureaucrats.

one person, of whose acts a great multitude … have made themselves every one the author" in order that peace will prevail.

Majority has huge power, if guided with morality.

Small mind competes, big mind collaborates and great mind encompasses.

THE KING AND HIS PEOPLE

I did not resign from politics because of Bofors. I resigned because I do not know how to play petty politics. I did not know back then and I don't know now either.

Kanai, the dreamers have everyone to speak for them,' she said, 'But those who try to be strong, who try to build things - no one ever sees any poetry in that, do they?