Quotes about Leadership

There is nothing to keeping a band together. You simply have to have a gimmick, and the gimmick I use is to pay them money!

If people are really narcissistic or have a need to be seen as more than they really are, or to be admired as having it all together, then they cannot be followed and trusted by others.

The essence of leadership is relationship; influencing people to achieve things together that can't be achieved alone.

And I have no doubt that every new example will succeed, as every past one has done, in showing that religion and Government will both exist in greater purity, the less they are mixed together.

It is not the man that can preach the best that is the most successful, but the man who knows how to get his people together to pray.

I heard the main reason the Israelites spent forty years wandering in the desert looking for the Promised Land was because Moses refused to ask directions.

I and they, my chosen friends, my fellow-builders, shall write the firsts chapter in the new history of man

Eddie, what do we care about people like him? We're driving an express, and they're riding on the roof, making a lot of noise about being leaders. Why should we care? We have enough power to carry them along — haven't we?

One doesn't get to be first in anything without the strength to make some sacrifices.

Architects are servants, not leaders. They are not to assert their little egos, but to express the soul of their country and the rhythm of their time. They are not to follow the delusions of their personal fancy, but to seek the common denominator, which will bring their work close to the heart of the masses. Architects -ah, my friends, theirs is not to reason why. Theirs is not to command, but to be commanded.

It's only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.

The American story has never been about things coming easy. It has been about rising to the moment when the moment is hard. About rejecting panicked division for purposeful unity. About seeing a mountaintop from the deepest valley. That is why we remember that some of the most famous words ever spoken by an American came from a president who took office in a time of turmoil: The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.