Quotes About Leadership

I honestly think I was put on the Earth to be some sort of prophet.

All leaders in the Lord's Church are called by proper authority. No prophet or any other leader in this Church, for that matter, has ever called himself or herself. No prophet has ever been elected.

Mr. Trump is a false prophet.

Brigham Young had a prophetic vision.

We should never lose an occasion. Opportunity is more powerful even than conquerors and prophets.

False prophets like Joe Biden have asked us to sacrifice our lives so that they might deliver us from death.

Mormonism is a male religion, a dream of prophets and patriarchs.

Prophets have no other purpose, no other mission except to serve God.

If you are a speechwriter, you have to know what the person you're writing for thinks. A lot of foreign policy advisers are thinking, 'How can I get my proposal into this guy's speech?' I was just thinking, 'What does he want to say?'

The Way of an enlightened ruler is to make it so that no minister may make a proposal and then fail to match it with actions and results.

The Democrats have no actual policy proposals of their own unless constant carping counts as a policy.

The populists themselves are dangerous, but they are far more dangerous when the traditional, classic parties adopt their harmful proposals.

It is the duty of the President to propose and it is the privilege of the Congress to dispose.

It is because I believe that it is in the power of such nations to lead the world back into the paths of peace that I propose to devote myself to explaining what, in my opinion, can and should be done to banish the fear of war that hangs so heavily over the world.

If it doesn't have a full delay or defund of Obamacare, I know I and many others will not be able to support whatever the leadership proposes.

In 2010, I proposed that Congress take its first pay cut in 77 years, and my effort had bipartisan support. And as part of leading by example, I returned 5 percent of my paycheck every month to pay down the debt.

Whenever I've had to make a major decision as a doctor, cop or for a company I've worked for, I ask myself: What is the value proposition here? Will my decision bring added value to the population I have the privilege to serve?

I was a dramatic kid. I remember, I was very young, and once I knew what I wanted to do I, like, created a theater company, and I would direct, and we would sell lemonade to buy props.

There are pros and cons of experience. A con is that you can't look at the business with a fresh pair of eyes and as objectively as if you were a new CEO. Fire yourself on a Friday night and come in on Monday morning as if a search firm put you there as a turn-around leader. Can you be objective and make the bold change?

The two centre-backs, Rob Huth and Wes Morgan, are in many ways journeyman pros, but they have that wonderful attitude and never-say-die spirit that has culminated in them being top of the league.

I just follow great people. If you want to play like a pro, you learn from the pros.

Any time you get guys who are super professional, we call them pros' pros.

Lincoln, steeped in the Bible and Shakespeare, set an impossibly high bar for presidential prose.

I didn't say 'former president,' I said 'president,' and I have the constitutional rights according to the constitution, including immunity from prosecution.