Quotes about Leadership

You cannot build an empire hands folded.

Great nations need organizing principles, and 'Don't do stupid stuff' is not an organizing principle.

A group of players go out and win a game in a style that gets the best out of them. That's the key to management.

Our first remark on this subject is that the ministry is an office, and not merely a work.

Leadership is an act of submission to God. To be a leader means listening to all kinds of people and situations. Out of that listening, we are hoping to discern the mind of God as best we can. This is the price of leadership - it's an act of sacrifice. So leadership is part and parcel of the work of submission to God.

We all learn submission because we all have 'bosses', whether we're presidents of companies or not. The easiest place to learn it is in family.

Every reign must submit to a greater reign.

There are many men who would have done better than I did under the circumstances in which I found myself. If I had never held command, if I had fallen, there were 10,000 behind who would have followed the contest to the end and never surrendered the Union.

The best way to revive a church is to build a fire in the pulpit.

We don't have to be superstars or win championships…. All we have to do is learn to rise to every occasion, give our best effort, and make those around us better as we do it.

The best thing to do is go as far out as you can get... what you regard as 'too far' - and when others follow, as they will, move on

The best way a mentor can prepare another leader is to expose him or her to other great people.