Quotes about Leadership

When it was all over, Pitt had overwhelmingly won the House of Commons, and as politically weak as he was before the election, he was now strong. It was an historic and glorious reversal, and little Wilberforce was at the very center of it all.

No one in the history of the world had ever conceived of the idea that there could be a rebellion against a leader that would end not in a new leader but in a new kind of leadership altogether—a leadership that was accountable to those whom it led.

Bonhoeffer contended in his address that if a leader's main objective was to idolize himself, that leader was not exhibiting true, godly leadership, but was in fact a "mis-leader" of the people he pretended to lead.

The good leader serves others and leads others to maturity.

But after all, it is a very pretty pass indeed. And how very glad we are that one man led us to that pretty pass, to that golden doorway, and then guided us through the mountains to a world we hadn't known could exist.

It was a case of the blind leading the blind, only worse, for Arnault seems to have been practically headless.

Wilberforce's time at Cambridge over two hundred years ago sounds extraordinarily like the experience of many college students today.

It is hoped and believed," he famously wrote, "that the Lord has raised you up for the good of His church and for the good of the nation.

Of the many societal problems Wilberforce might have thought needed his attention, slavery would have been the least visible of all, and by a wide margin.

A real man's gotta be a hero to his wife before he can be a hero to anybody else- or he ain't a real man.

Governments do not govern, but merely control the machinery of government, being themselves controlled by the hidden hand.

The Youth of a Nation are the trustees of posterity.