Quotes About Leadership

Your Majesty, what I am saying is that I have never seen him driven, and rarely led either. However, if you were to twist him around your finger and could conceivably grind him under your heel in the process, you have to know that I would be eternally grateful. I would die a happy man.

If she pardons people because she loves them, someday someone that she loves will betray her and all of Attolia with her. A queen must make sacrifices for the common good.

Kings don't move mountains as a favor to a friend

Weak kings who lost their tempers were notoriously destructive.

I'm sure Gen has a plan," Sounis said as he held Eddis in place. "If that doesn't frighten you, it should," said Eddis, glowering.

That is it, Sophos. You have hit upon my greatest fear. Someone who named himself Bunny is going to outshine me on the battle field.

Speaking of the king to the queen--He didn't marry you to become king. He became king because he wanted to marry you.

That one"—he nodded toward the closed door—"will rule more than just Attolia before he is done. He is an Annux, a king of kings.

Of course the servants had chosen not to follow me; I'd failed them already by refusing to be a man they could believe in.

You are Eddis. Go smack him! Eddis shook her head. Smacking people will not persuade them.

And she had the most appealing of feminine virtues, especially in a queen. She's easily led.

Sang raja tidak perlu menggantungnya, karena dia akan mati kelelahan dalam waktu satu bulan.

Sometimes, if you want to change a man's mind, you have to change the mind of the man next to him first." ? Megan Whalen Turner, The King of Attolia

Elevating such extraordinary figures as Martin Luther King Jr. and Rosa Parks and concentrating on their accomplishments to the exclusion of the foot soldiers who sustained the Civil Rights Movement, for example, implies that only a few people are called to change the world, especially within low-income and/or nonwhite communities, and that everyone else might as well stand aside.

Un mejor liderazgo también tiene que ser algo más que nuevos métodos y técnicas. Las herramientas son necesarias, pero lo que realmente precisamos es sustancia.

I don't trust an organization that would make policy out of fear.

This is why he never took these jobs anymore, Wes realized. It was too much-he couldn't save everybody-he couldn't even keep his solders alive, let alone in a line. Daran was lost, and while he was a jerk and a lowlife, he had still entrusted his life to Wes and Wes had failed him. He couldn't keep doing this, there were so many . . .and he was too young to watch so many kids die. Now he was being asked to save a few more . . . for what? So he could watch them starve?

Yes, she had seen Alex's temper flare over his disappointment with a lack of his own regiment to command, but she saw that as merely the fighting spirit of an ambitious and confident leader. Yet, wasn't that what appealed most to her about him? A spirit and impetuousness that could match her own and challenge her to be better herself in this new democracy? A man who could honor her own values?

Oh, wonderful, a president who hates immigrants.

But that was the thing about Alex, a nameless orphan from the Caribbean, who had written his way up to General Washington's side, he was nothing if not determined.

endless meetings. Ever since she'd assumed the title of Regent, Mimi felt as if her life was measured out in marathon conference calls and discussions that went nowhere.

But the ability to lead a nation is not a heritable trait like hair color or skin tone. It is a rare skill, indeed, and manifests itself only in persons whose unique combination of temperament, training, and experience have made them capable of seeing past the benefits that they can derive from their country, to the benefits that they can bestow upon that country.

When she met Kingsley he was sex on legs; he was the head of the Venators, a cocky, mouthy, devilishly handsome alpha, whose life was as big as his heart and as busy as his outsize personality. Now he was a stodgy farmer. She hated to admit it, but she missed the guy he had heen

We do not lead others into the Light by stepping into the darkness with them.