Quotes about Leadership

I've never directed, but it must be humbling.

Where there is humility, there is more success, and lasting success.

The most important criterion is this: hire someone whose character and humility and attitude you would like to have reproduced in your church and in yourself.

When we read of the great Biblical leaders, we see that it was not uncommon for God to ask them to wait, not just a day or two, but for years, until God was ready for them to act.

When people are not empowered to discover their identity and pursue their destiny in Christ, then they are not being discipled but used. They are not sons being fathered, but servants being given a job to do.

As long as there is a Church, there will be little Torquemadas

In one great case a man [Winston Churchill] who had been considered too brilliant and too reckless ever to be trusted with major office was the leader of the country [1941]. One of Rowe's last memories was of hearing him hissed by ex-servicemen from the public gallery of a law court because he had told an abrupt unpalatable truth about an old campaign. Now he had taught the country to love his unpalatable truths.

I have spent my entire adult life trying to make Liberty University the world-class Christian university that was envisioned at its founding.

I didn't design schools for poor kids. I'm designing schools to be world-class.

I worry that business leaders are more interested in material gain than they are in having the patience to build up a strong organization, and a strong organization starts with caring for their people.

When one is required to preside over the Church, and be entrusted with the care of so many souls, the whole female sex must retire before the magnitude of the task, and the majority of men also.

Americans are rising to the tasks of history, and they expect the same of us.