Quotes about Leadership

When things go well, the quarterback is the one who sees all the attention. When things go wrong, they are the ones who get criticized the most.

Throughout my 20s and early 30s, I had jobs that I loved. I worked in city government. I ran a youth organization. I served as an associate dean at a university. And I couldn't imagine how a baby would fit into all of that.

People make a big fuss over you when you're President. But I'm very serious about doing everything I can to make sure that it doesn't go to my head.

When I negotiated the ceasefire in Gaza with President Morsi, he was, you know, very involved.

A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.

All politicians, no matter how gifted, ultimately depend on circumstances for their success.

Very often, it's the director that I'm attracted to. If it's a really good director, I don't even have to read the script to say yes.

They were great in their day and generation.

Added to the natural good qualities of Mr. Covey, he was a professor of religion—a pious soul—a member and a class-leader in the Methodist church. All of this added weight to his reputation as a nigger-breaker.

Weak men in high positions surround themselves with little men, in order that they may seem great by comparison.

If it be true that the world has lost its respect for authority, it is only because it lost it first in the home. By a peculiar paradox, as the home loses its authority, the authority of the state becomes tyrannical.

The porter who took my bag said to me: "Everybody knows you; it must be wonderful to be a bishop." And I said to him: "Suppose you had four hundred children and ten were very sick and five were dying. Would you not worry and stay awake at night? Well, that is my family. It is not as wonderful as you think.