Quotes about Leadership

My sword I give to him that shall succeed me in my pilgrimage, and my courage and skill to him that can get it.

No one need think that the world can be ruled without blood. The civil sword shall and must be red and bloody.

Of course, being the synagogue president, for me it was a great blessing.

Too many executives I've met over the years have the mentality of a bodybuilder; they've come to accept the idea that growth is synonymous with success.

I have always been driven to buck the system, to innovate, to take things beyond where they've been.

The highest type of leadership maintains itself by its intrinsic worth, sans panoply, pomp and power. Of course, there are never enough real leaders to go around. Wherefore it becomes necessary to dress some men up and by other artificial means to give them a prestige and a power which they could not win by their own resources.

that the failure of governments is due to the pressure of economic interest upon them rather than to the "limited capacities of human wisdom.

Democracy is finding proximate solutions to insoluble problems.

Christ leads me through no darker rooms than He went through before.

Direct. IV. Be a good husband to your wife, and a good father to your children, and a good master to your servants, and let love have dominion in all your government, that your inferiors may easily find, that it is their interest to obey you. For interest and self-love are the natural rulers of the world.

If only preaching be necessary, let us have none but preachers. What needs there, then, such a stir about government? But if discipline (in its place) be necessary too, what is it but enmity to men's salvation to exclude it?

Take heed to yourselves, lest your example contradict your doctrine, and lest you lay such stumbling—blocks before the blind, as may be the occasion of their ruin; lest you unsay with your lives, what you say with your tongues; and be the greatest hindrances of the success of your own labors. It