Quotes About Leadership

The President ordains the bee to beImmortal.

You can design and create, and build the most wonderful place in the world. But it takes people to make the dream a reality.

Of all the things I've done, the most vital is coordinating those who work with me and aiming their efforts at a certain goal.

I only hope that we don't lose sight of one thing - that it was all started by a mouse.

The star player must slay his ego and learn teamwork and communication skills before he can achieve the ultimate in sport

Produce great men, the rest follows.

O Captain! my Captain! our fearful trip is done,The ship has weather'd every rack, the prize we sought is won,The port is near, the bells I hear, the people all exulting.

The greatest power is not money power, but political power.

Royalty is a government in which the attention of the nation is concentrated on one person doing interesting actions.

In every particular state of the world, those nations which are strongest tend to prevail over the others; and in certain marked peculiarities the strongest tend to be the best.

The best reason why Monarchy is a strong government is, that it is an intelligible government. The mass of mankind understand it, and they hardly anywhere in the world understand any other.

So long as war is the main business of nations, temporary despotism - despotism during the campaign - is indispensable.

The abstract thinking of the world is never to be expected of persons in high places...

The splitting of sovereignty into many parts amounts to there being no sovereign.

The English constitution, in a word, is framed on the principle of choosing a single sovereign authority, and making it good: the American, upon the principle of having many sovereign authorities, and hoping that their multitude may atone for their inferiority.

You may be great to serve under, difficult to serve alongside, but you sure are hell to serve over!

The royal dynasty of King David, as portrayed in the biblical text, was a tax-collecting, labor-exploiting, surplus-wealth-exhibiting regime.

This exceptionalism is deeply present in American public rhetoric and every political leader must subscribe to it. Moreover, appeal to this exceptionalism as God's chosen people can cover a multitude of sins, for example, economic injustice and political oligarchy, all in the name of chosenness.

Second, the elders of the city (Bethlehem) are trembling. They want to know why he comes. They do not even know yet whose side he is on. They presume he is still an agent of Saul. If so, the Judeans tremble because Saul is no friend of southerners. Or if he is not an agent of Saul, it is even more dangerous, because then he may come to include them in an act of betrayal, which is more risk than they want.

Those who sign on and depart the system of anxious scarcity become the historymakers in the neighborhood.

The outcome is to delegitimize and deconstruct the kings in effective ways in order to show that while they occupy the forms of power, they lack the substance of power.

We are not educated well enough to perform the necessary act of intelligently selecting our leaders.

The least of us is improved by the things done by the best of us, because if we are not able to land at least we are able to follow. (July 20, 1969 CBS Moon Landing Coverage)" ? Walter Cronkite

The least of us is improved by the things done by the best of us, because if we are not able to land at least we are able to follow. (July 20, 1969 CBS Moon Landing Coverage)