Quotes About Leadership

I'm really thankful and complimented when people come to me and say, thank you for the great times for all these years. But I don't think about it as being a leader.

If Romney explains why where we are with Obama is unacceptable, why whither we are tending is even worse - and why his own alternative path forward is superior - then we trust the American people to make the right choice in November.

Patton was living in the Dark Ages. Soldiers were peasants to him. I didn't like that attitude.

All coaching is, is taking a player where he can't take himself.

Arnold Schwarzenegger, signing new energy legislation: "I want to make California No. 1 in the fight against global warming. This is something we owe our children and grandchildren." And Arnold at the United Nations: "We hold the future in our hands. Together we must ensure that our grandchildren will not have to ask why we failed to do the right thing, and let them suffer the consequences.

These words are mine, I tell them to my boys. You have walked in my footsteps, and now you walk beside me, but eventually pass me by, so that I can see you in front of me.

If we buy into our culture's lies about manhood and leadership, we will never place our trust in God alone.

Ideas are great arrows, but there has to be a bow. And politics is the bow of idealism.

I have great respect for directors who know what they're doing.

There are people who drove me crazy, but they got the job done. And when I see that person again, I nod my head. Respect.

People think because they employed you they're allowed to treat you like a dictator, or whatever the worse word for dictator is. And that's always been a problem for me. Opening the door for someone behind you is as important as designing a building.

Humans Control the Earth; Nerds Should Guide the Humans

As an engineer trained in the U.S., I look at the assault on evolution—which is actually an assault on science overall—as much more than an intellectual issue; for me, it's personal. I feel strongly that we need the young people of today to become the scientists and the engineers of tomorrow so that my native United States continues to be a world leader in discovery and innovation. If we suppress science in this country, we are headed for trouble.

I feel strongly that we need the young people of today to become the scientists and the engineers of tomorrow so that my native United States continues to be a world leader in discovery and innovation. If we suppress science in this country, we are headed for trouble.

General Grant's decision has now been made for him. After months and years of men obeying his every order, he bows to an even greater authority than the president of the United States: his wife.

LEGEND HERE The initial euphoria of being named commander in chief has long since passed for Washington, replaced by the fear that he has made a very big mistake. "I have often thought how much happier I should have been if, instead of accepting a command under such circumstances, I had taken my musket on my shoulders and entered the ranks," he has written to a friend.

He watched a lot of cable news and did not like what President Obama was doing. He would have fired Mr. Obama from The Apprentice.

Lincoln never fought in battle nor fired a single round at the enemy, but Blackhawk's War is the making of him.

made to the American people. He

Reagan will later write

The decision to use force should not be determined by men who's careers depend on the use of force.

Two days after slapping Kuhl, he writes a memo to each of his commanders, ordering them not to allow men suffering from combat fatigue to receive medical care. "Such men are cowards and bring disgrace to their comrades," he writes, "whom they heartlessly leave to endure the danger of battle while they themselves use the hospital as a means of escape. You will see that such cases are not sent to the hospital." On

Your greatest fault," Eisenhower tells Patton, "is your audacity.

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