Quotes about Leaders

The state and its leaders have not only a responsibility but also a vested interest in defending the sacredness and value of every human life.

To summarize, there are three words that characterize this brand of fundamentalism: pride, domination, and exclusion. In sharp contrast, Jesus espoused humility, servanthood of leaders, and breaking down walls between people.

Followers tell you what you want to hear. Leaders tell you what you need to hear.

Poet and novelist James Joyce said, "Your mind will give back to you exactly what you put into it." The greatest enemy of good thinking is busyness. And middle leaders are usually the busiest people in an organization.

I show in a subsequent chapter how the Democrats were the party of slavery, and how the slave-owner mentality continues to shape the policies of Democratic leaders today.

Hundreds of leading socialists, initially in Italy but subsequently in Germany, France, and other countries, also became fascists.

How interesting that the Democrat, Martin Luther King, is identified with a principle that the Republican, Frederick Douglass, expressed even more eloquently so much earlier. How bizarre that the Democrats are presumed to be the party of civil rights when the very content of civil rights was formulated and developed by the GOP.

All the figures who upheld and defended American slavery—Senators John C. Calhoun and Stephen Douglas, President James Buchanan, Supreme Court Chief Justice Roger Taney, architect of the Dred Scott decision, and the main leaders of the Confederacy—were Democrats.

Example from the StoryBrand one-liner: Most business leaders struggle to talk about what they do, so we've created a communication framework that helps people clarify their message. When you clarify your message, word starts to spread about your company and your business grows.

The dreamers are the saviors of the world.

Let's not forget that the little emotions are the great captains of our lives and we obey them without realizing it.

Excellence is being thwarted not only by laziness but by reckless attachment to causes, programs, and - in some cases, leaders.