Quotes About Leadership

I think that what people want is for government to function... not through temper tantrums and saying we are not going to participate, we are not going to play ball.

The Queen rarely loses her temper, but when she does, she brooks no argument.

I got a temper. But part of my role is to steady the ship. That's just to try to control your emotions.

In many aspects of government, as in the tech world and investing, brains and temperament smash experience and seniority out of the park.

There are a number of issues that I disagree vehemently with Mr. Trump on. I question whether he's got the temperament to serve as president.

I don't have the temperament of being a director.

For the record, I was heartbroken when my brother Jeb dropped out of the race for president, not just because he's my brother but because he was clearly the best-qualified candidate, in both experience and temperament to lead the nation.

Quite frankly, I don't want someone with the temperament of a middle school pubescent boy in the president's office.

I am far from the first to conclude that Donald Trump lacks the temperament to be president.

It's better for candidates to suggest ideas that are responsible, not ones that are incapable of being executed. People are influenced by what their leaders tell them. And bringing the level of rhetoric down brings the temperature down.

Whenever the Ram temple is built, it will be by the BJP only.

Shirley Temple opens doors for Shirley Temple Black.

If the Knesset is a temple, then Feiglin is the idol. A Knesset where Feiglin presides is an impure Knesset.

My father, in 1952, just in his 20s, my father became the chief spokesman for the Nation of Islam. From 1952 to 1959, there were four temples. My father was responsible and credited for having maximized this membership. From four temples to 50 temples, there was so much work involved.

It's important to have players like Schweinsteiger and Khedira, the connectors, the symmetry-makers in the game. They can take the tempo out of the game or pick it up.

The government should not be guided by Temporary Excitement, but by Sober Second Thought.

In some South Pacific cultures, a speaker holds a conch shell as a symbol of temporary position of authority. Leaders must understand who holds the conch that is, who should be listened to and when.

At his direction, I have taken command as the temporary Head of the Republic.

So long as war is the main business of nations, temporary despotism - despotism during the campaign - is indispensable.

After taking temporary charge last season he took us from looking down at the fringes of another relegation scrap, to within a kick of getting into Europe.

Abraham Lincoln did not go to Gettysburg having commissioned a poll to find out what would sell in Gettysburg. There were no people with percentages for him, cautioning him about this group or that group or what they found in exit polls a year earlier. When will we have the courage of Lincoln?

The black children I have come to know in different parts of this country, even those from relatively well-off homes, say critical things about America and its leaders at an earlier age than white children do — and connect their general observations to specific experiences. A black child of eight, in rural Mississippi or in a northern ghetto, an Indian or Chicano or Appalachian child, can sound like a disillusioned old radical.

To get something done, a committee should consist of no more than three men, two of whom are absent.

To get something done, a committee should consist of no more than three people, two of whom are absent.