Quotes About Leadership

He that is greatest among you, let him become your servant. There is a great contrast in this attitude of mind in comparison to that of the man who only wants to make a living or just get by. Getting by is not true success. Man's motive must be greater, nobler, and more altruistic. He must serve others, thereby casting his bread upon the waters

Fifty men have run America, and that's a high figure.

Deborah agrees to accompany Barak, but can't resist a jab at the sexism of the Israelite society: "Very well, I will go with you. However, there will be no glory for you in the course you are taking, for then the Lord will deliver Sisera into the hands of a woman

the trait a leader most needs is a lack of fear. Many people of extraordinary capabilities are held back by fear, fear of challenging others, fear of rejection, fear of being laughed at or of appearing to be naive or foolish.

If you start buying your own bullshit, you risk becoming management material.

Congress was just a gray repository that got its OS replaced with each election.

Everything I do is going to contain the message that men who are going to be comfortable with powerful women are going to be more powerful men

It's not enough to bash in heads. You've got to bash in minds.

It's about women. It's about power and it's about women and you just hate those two words in the same sentence, don't you?

I'm not a leader now. I'm a whole damn army.

You can't just throw people at all your problems, dear.

I've Got Him! You've got to keep at her. Forget all your training--she's fought you a thousand times. Don't presume to run my team, you little tart- (Colossus throws Emma at Danger) Yes. I see how it works. Normally, I wouldn't have done that.

We will keep going despite dark Or a madman in a white house dream.

It is in times like these that we face the most cunning of tricksters. We might even find a trickster in the seat of power.

always, you want to impress them: men of authority)

Politics, the negotiating of power. Eros, the negotiating of power.

A wise administrator never admits to having enemies, and a yet wiser administrator never has enemies.

If I have to build a big company by mistreating other people then the Bible says WOE to me. I don't know what that is, but I don't want any of it.

On being in a position of leadership) Even if it's your dog, you've got authority over somebody. Start treating him better.

Common people with uncommon goals who make an uncommon commitment can help an uncommon number of people who can also lead other common people to do uncommon things. Develop your potential to the full. And as you do, lead others in developing theirs. Be all you can be. Then help someone else be all they can be.

Leaders are not born; I believe they are made.

Take the helm and sail your own ship. Don't just get into the boat with nobody at the helm and merely hope that the waves of life take you somewhere good.

That is exactly why we must keep a right heart attitude if we want God to continue to use us. There is a great responsibility to leadership. There is moreto ministry than just standing up in front of people and exercising spiritual gifts. Our lives must be right behind the scenes. We must always be on our guard against presumption. Presumption

Just because we are anointed for leadership does not mean that we get to move immediately into a position of leadership. There is a work that has to be done in us, a testing that has to take place first. Later, we will look at some of the tests of the heart of a leader that we must go through before we get promoted. After