Quotes about Leadership

When I am asked what my vision for the Brooklyn Tabernacle is, I always respond, "I don't have one. Last time I read my Bible, it said it was Christ's church, not mine.

As a preacher myself, let me be blunt here. Preaching itself can easily become just a subtle form of entertainment. When I stand at the Judgment Seat of Christ, he is not going to ask me if I was a clever orator. He is not going to ask me how many books I wrote. He is only going to ask whether I continued in the line of men and women, starting way back in the time of Adam's grandchildren, who led others to call upon God.

A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better.

Leadership is the challenge to be something more than average

We must make it clear that a platform of 'I hate gay men and women' is not a way to become president of the United States.

I don't want to tell President Obama how to make a speech. He's a much better speech maker than I am. But I think always to tell the truth in a sometimes blatant way, even though it might be temporarily unpopular, is the best approach.

A simple and a proper function of government is just to make it easy for us to do good and difficult for us to do wrong.

The whole world steps aside for the man who knows where he is going.

There are always too many Democratic congressmen, too many Republican congressmen, and never enough U.S. congressmen.

Divide and rule.

I'm glad to take on the role of a domestic because many of your black leaders, your educators, your professionals came from domestic parents who made sacrifices to see that their children didn't go through what they did.

Bad leaders believe that they have to project control at all times.