Quotes About Leadership

We have not been called to hold the fort, but to storm the heights.

His concern was not with programs to reach the multitudes, but with men whom the multitudes would follow.

pattern of Jesus at this point means anything at all, it teaches that the first duty of a church leadership is to see to it that a foundation is laid in the beginning on which can be built an effective and continuing evangelistic ministry to the multitudes. This will require more concentration of time and talents on fewer people in the church while not neglecting the passion for the world. It will

When you allow the elevation of a man, one can be sure that you'll profit by his advancement.

How did you come to your crown, you and that black-faced pig beside you? Your fathers did the fighting and the suffering, and handed their crowns to you on golden platters. What you inherited without lifting a finger — except to poison a few brothers — I fought for. "You

I tremble for my country when I hear of confidence expressed in me. I know too well my weakness, that our only hope is in God.

You must be careful how you walk, and where you go, for there are those following you who will set their feet where yours are set.

Obedience to lawful authority is the foundation of manly character.

Cadets can neither be treated as schoolboys or soldiers.

I can not trust a man to control others who cannot control himself.

These are not ordinary times and this is not an ordinary election. At stake is not simply the leadership of our party and even our country. It is our right to the moral leadership of this planet.

The problem of power is how to achieve its responsible use rather than its irresponsible and indulgent use - of how to get men of power to live for the public rather than off the public.

Recent scholarship confirms the portrait of John F. Kennedy sketched by his brother in Thirteen Days: a remarkably cool, thoughtful, nonhysterical, self-possessed leader, aware of the weight of decision, incisive in his questions, firm in his judgment, always in charge, steering his advisers perseveringly in the direction he wanted to go. "We are only now coming to understand the role he played in it," writes John Lewis Gaddis, the premier historian of the Cold War.

One of the ironic things," Kennedy observed to Norman Cousins in the spring of 1963, "…is that Mr. Khrushchev and I occupy approximately the same political positions inside our governments. He would like to prevent a nuclear war but is under severe pressure from his hard-line crowd, which interprets every move in that direction as appeasement. I've got similar problems…. The hard-liners in the Soviet Union and the United States feed on one another."8

Exasperation over our struggle in Vietnam should not close our eyes to the fact that we could have other missile crises in the future—different kinds, no doubt, and under different circumstances. But if we are to be successful then, if we are going to preserve our own national security, we will need friends, we will need supporters, we will need countries that believe and respect us and will follow our leadership.

God help us, we can't keep up this pulling, that is certain. Amongst ourselves we are unendingly cheerful, but what each man feels in his heart I can only guess.

It is the curse of the powerful to be blind to their own faults.

The man who shouts wins battles; the quiet man wins the war.

En los años siguientes, los dirigentes estadounidenses y británicos negarían su responsabilidad en el multitudinario levantamiento iraquí que alentaron. En el norte de Iraq, decenas de miles de kurdos ya se habían sublevado contra sus opresores y —olvidando las traiciones de los estadounidenses— esperaban con ansia la ayuda de los aliados.

A desire to be in charge of our own lives, a need for control, is born in each of us. It is essential to our mental health, and our success, that we take control.

High office teaches decision making, not substance. It consumes intellectual capital it does not create it. Most high officials leave office with the perceptions and insights with which they entered they learn how to make decisions but not what decisions to make.

The statesman's duty is to bridge the gap between his nation's experience and his vision.

By working faithfully eight hours a day, you may eventually get to be a boss and work twelve hours a day.

By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day.