Quotes About Leadership

[Peace] cannot be honorable or secure, if the sovereign betrays a pusillanimous aversion to war.

There are in most states one or two ministers of war, one of whom is the minister of naval affairs.

When the advice of Moscow ran counter to [Ho Chi Minh's] own ideas - as in the 1930s - he kept his head down and waited until the situation changed in his favor with the beginning of the Pacific War.

Churchill says the Government had to choose between war and shame. They chose shame. They will get war, too.

At the beginning of this War megalomania was the only form of sanity.

I can tell you this: If I'm ever in a position to call the shots, I'm not going to rush to send somebody else's kids into a war.

Hence it happened that all the armed prophets conquered, all the unarmed perished. [It., Di qui nacque che tutti li profeti armati vincero, e li disarmati rovinarono.]

But I feel convinced, and I venture even to prophesy in this regard, that the time will come when there will also be a minister of peace in the cabinet, seated beside the ministers of war.

In the Soviets' view, chess was not merely an art or a science or even a sport; it was what it had been invented to simulate: war.

Good order and discipline in any army are to be depended upon more than courage alone.

The enlightened ruler is heedful, and the good general full of caution.

Success in war underpins the claims to greatness of many presidents.

War should be the politics of last resort. And when we go to war, we should have a purpose that our people understand and support.

War brings out thieves and peace hangs them.

I call a complete and generous education that which fits a man to perform justly, skillfully, and magnanimously all the offices, both private and public, of peace and war.

Generals cannot be trusted with anything, not even with war.

If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it.

If not in the interests of the state, do not act. If you cannot succeed, do not use troops. If you are not in danger, do not fight.

Muchos de Mis líderes están engañados y están engañando a los demás, porque ellos creen que hacer muchas obras y mantenerse ocupados en Mis iglesias es el camino a la seguridad eterna, pero eso es un engaño. Eso sólo se logra a través de la intimidad, de Conocerme de veras, de pasar tiempo, de dedicar tiempo para Conocerme. Esa es la clave de la salvación eterna y la seguridad.

The game of football makes men out of boys. Let's see if it can make a woman out of you.

What happened with Hurricane Katrina was the American electorate was forced to look at what lay behind the veneer of chest-beating. We all saw the consequences of having terrible government leadership.

Many a business depends for its success on some girl who is smart enough to see to it that her boss gets his work done, who sometimes even does his work for him, who keeps everybody satisfied and happy, and who has enough foresight to control new situations as they occur. How do you go about finding such a jewel? … RICHARD and RUBIN, How to Select and Direct the Office Staff

Hugh had led men into battle with success and was on reasonably good terms with the king, though they would never be intimates; in any case, his father had been so close to his king that this would probably have to suffice for whole generations of Dipensers.

Nobody is more of a patriot than I am, but I've very little confidence in politicians and even less confidence in wars.