Quotes about Leadership

If God has fit you to be a missionary, I would not have you shrivel down to be a king.

Show me the business man or institution not guided by sentiment and service; by the idea that "he profits most who serves best" and I will show you a man or an outfit that is dead or dying.

A leader who doesn't hesitate before he sends his nation into battle is not fit to be a leader.

In America the President reigns for four years, and Journalism governs for ever and ever.

There is a lot of people who got Confidence, but they are careful who they have it in. We have plenty of Confidence in this country, but we are a little short of good men to place our Confidence in.

Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.

I am President of all the people, good, bad, or indifferent, and as long as my opinions are known, ought perhaps to keep myself out of their squabbles.

In business or in life, don't follow the wagon tracks too closely.

I was black before I was a Christian. Martin and Malcolm, therefore, had to go together, which meant being unashamedly black and unapologetically Christian.

Nobody ever predicted, a week before President Sadat came to Jerusalem in 1977, that his arrival would be the beginning of a peace process that would end up in an - unhappy - Israeli-Egyptian peace. We have seen peace with Egypt. We have seen peace with Jordan. We have seen the handshake between Rabin and Arafat - things are possible.

I've said very clearly, including in a State of the Union address, that I'm against 'don't ask, don't tell' and that we're going to end this policy.

It is an absolutely unique success of the church community to have introduced such an epoch-making change, in just a few years, without having a serious division.