Quotes About Leadership

All the great heroes of old, you know - the great kings, the great generals - they all faced adversity from time to time." Jezal looked up. He had almost forgotten that Bayaz was there. "Suffering is what gives a man strength, my boy, just as the steel most hammered turns out the hardest.

A King must win. The rest is dust.

A minister stands for Father Peace, but a good one is no stranger to Mother War.

But things are always going to be better, or were better long ago. No politician ever got anywhere by telling people things are just right as they are.

You want to be merciful. To stand in the light. I understand it. I admire it. But, my queen...Only the victors can be merciful.

In violent times folk like to kneel to violent men. In peaceful times they remember they're happier standing.

She was not a woman to be deterred by hatred: not from her workers, not from her rivals, not from the men she bullied, bribed or blackmailed to get her way. It is when they truly hate you, after all, that you know you have won. So she met the seething dislike with effortless superiority, paraded past with her shoulders back and chin high. If she was to be cast as the villain, so be it. They were always the most interesting characters anyway.

Even now, I found it difficult to believe that my father could or might be dying. He had always been a strong man, a good leader. No one had ever seen him with his head bowed in despair or defeat, no one had ever seen him slump in resignation, nor had anyone ever had even so much as a hint from him that he might ever give up. It was hard to picture all that strength drained from my father's body.

How Leo Tolstoy had inspired Mahatma Gandhi, who had in turn inspired Martin Luther King, Jr. William

I am the head cookie bitch and this is my party.

When she was in high school she had believed that white people wanted their children to be president of the United States; that most of them worked hard with that goal in mind. And if not president--well, perhaps a cabinet member.

Well, you know, too much democracy is a sort of sad thing.

Jesse Jackson is a leader and a teacher who can open our hearts and open our minds and stir our very souls.

I travel all over the country making speeches for people I believe in.

The public does not like you to mislead or represent yourself to be something you're not. And the other thing that the public really does like is the self-examination to say, you know, I'm not perfect. I'm just like you. They don't ask their public officials to be perfect. They just ask them to be smart, truthful, honest, and show a modicum of good sense.

It's the moms of this nation - single, married, widowed - who really hold this country together. We're the mothers, we're the wives, we're the grandmothers, we're the big sisters, we're the little sisters, we're the daughters. You know it's true, don't you? You're the ones who always have to do a little more.

Just like these sheep, what distinguishes us is not so much the "pen" we inhabit but the shepherd we follow.

[In response to a question about her legacy:] How about, "She changed the economic future of Texas." And that really beats what I feared my tombstone was going to say, and that was, "She kept a really clean house."

Sometimes the best plays are performed behind the scenes

I think we need leadership that helps us remember that part of what we are about is caring about more than the person right next to us, but the folks across the way.

There are some people just the thought of whom makes us behave better.

Only the Black woman can say when and where I enter, in the quiet, undisputed dignity of my womanhood, without violence and without suing or special patronage, then and there the whole Negro race enters with me.

This is what happened: we were completely abandoned. No one had the courage to attempt the impossible. We were slaves without honor. We were strangers in our own land. Then one man stood up. A nameless man, without any money, without a crown. One among millions. He lifted our hearts up to the stars. We followed him and swore him allegiance. The best of us died for him. We all would die for him. If he unfurls the flag we are ready to march against hell for him and for Germany. A

Just be true to yourself, and listen as much as one is able to to other people whose opinions you respect and look up to but in the end it has to come from you. You can't really worry too much by looking to the left and the right about what the competition is doing or what other people in your field are doing. It has to be a true vision.