Quotes About Leadership

Either one of you kill him, or I will." Shade, Wraith and Kynan raised their hands to volunteer. How special. Brotherly love ran like syrup in the room.

I love men who know when to put their foot down and when not to.

I love sharing the ball with my teammates. I see a lot of things before my teammates see them.

If the American people don't love me, their descendants will.

typically, our love for our leaders is one-sided: their successes become our own, while their failures are theirs alone.

I love directing and that's where I'm headed. That's where my head is at.

Politicians love change, but of details only.

Step 1 in casting vision is to make sure your people love Jesus more than they love the vision you are casting.

Ideally if I settled down with a wife I would love to form my own troupe of mini dancers!

I never imagined, never imagined I would have the opportunity to be governor of the state that I love.

Political life loves some volatility.

I love 'Wild 'N Out' so much - one, because it's my baby, but also I get to see others succeed and go on to lead their own careers.

I don't like shorts promoting their position.

Poor Miss Binney, dressed like Mother Goose, now had the responsibility of sixty-eight boys and girls.

Plainly something had to be done and it was up to Beezus to do it.

Uncle Avery, who was not only postmaster but mayor of Pitchfork as well.

Yes, we have an innate tendency to think in us and them categories, but we look to the leader to help us know who the us is and who the them is. The leader can define who is in and who is out... When the leader draws the circle in an exclusionary way, with the rhetoric of hostility, the sense of threat among the followers is heightened. When the rhetoric is expansive and inclusionary, the threat is reduced.

The leader has to ask the question, how is the circle being drawn? Who is inside it? Who is outside it? What can I do to name the circle bigger?

Whoever was the person behind Stonehenge was one dickens of a motivator, I'll tell you that.

How do migrating birds know which one to follow? What if the lead bird just wants to be alone?

I stood in a Burger King and studied, with absorption, the photographs of the manager and his executive crew (reflecting on the curious fact that people who go into hamburger management always look as if their mother slept with Goofy)

Ah," he said in a tone of genial wisdom, "a chancellor is rather like a bidet. Everyone is pleased to have one, but no one knows quite what they are for." A chancellor is nominally the head of a university, but in practice has no role, no power, no purpose.

Robespierre

The ship that took the Puritan leader John Winthrop to New England carried him, ten thousand gallons of beer, and not much else.)