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Quotes About Leadership

I've paid my dues," I told him. "I've learned a lot from Jack Weede, and from you, and I've formed strong working relationships throughout the building. With all due respect, I believe I'm the most qualified person to lead Green Meadow High School into the twenty-first century.
~ Tom Perrotta
When you are called to lead, the last thing you want to do is vacillate, show fear, display weakness and indecisiveness, or fail to act.
~ Tom Reilly
It's hard to say who's a greater threat to the world, an ambitious CEO with a big ad budget or a crafty cleric with an obsolete Bible verse.
~ Tom Robbins
Most people do not have the guts to direct their own movie - let alone star in it.
~ Tom Robbins
They accepted my donation, so they're aware they'd better serve my interests or I'll buy some leadership that will.
~ Tom Robbins
Since when has leadership been a criterion for sanity? Or vice versa. Hitler was a gifted leader, even Nixon. Exhibit leadership qualities as an adolescent, they pack you off to law school for an anus transplant. If it takes, you go into government.
~ Tom Robbins
Should you fail to pilot your own ship, don't be surprised at what inappropriate port you find yourself docked.
~ Tom Robbins
What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make other people's decisions for them?
~ Tom Robbins
Ideas are made by masters, dogma by disciples, and the Buddha is always killed on the road.
~ Tom Robbins
As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you think.
~ Toni Morrison
I don't think a female running a house is a problem, a broken family. It's perceived as one because of the notion that a head is a man.
~ Toni Morrison
At least she's willing to figure it out, do something, risk something and take its measure. I risk nothing. I sit on a throne and identify signs of imperfection in others.
~ Toni Morrison
I tell my students, 'When you get these jobs that you have been so brilliantly trained for, just remember that your real job is that if you are free, you need to free somebody else. If you have some power, then your job is to empower somebody else. This is not just a grab-bag candy game.
~ Toni Morrison
When you get these jobs you have been so brilliantly trained for, just remember that your real job is that if you are free, you need to free somebody else. If you have some power, then your job is to empower somebody else. This is not just a grab-bag candy game.
~ Toni Morrison
recevoir le pouvoir de dominer autrui est chose difficile ; s'emparer de force de ce pouvoir est chose erronée ; donner ce pouvoir sur soi-même à autrui est chose mauvaise.
~ Toni Morrison
Craignez les anxieux, le jour où ils n'auront plus peur, ils seront les maîtres du monde.
~ Tonino Benacquista
There may be a hundred reasons that a husband is not fulfilling his role as the head of the home. But a wife who rebels against her head is only introducing a new element of spiritual sickness and dysfunction into the family.
~ Tony Evans
A lot of us will be able to show how God's gifts benefited us. But that's not the question. The issue with a steward is, how did the King's business fare under your management? Is the King better off? Was His agenda furthered?
~ Tony Evans
a kingdom man may be defined as a man who positions himself and operates according to the comprehensive rule of God over every area of his life. And every area of life should feel the impact of a kingdom man's presence.
~ Tony Evans
This is what separates the men from the boys. Because as a kingdom man, you get to name things. Better yet, as a man under God's authority, you get to name things
~ Tony Evans
Don't wait until you become a big shot to do big-shot
~ Tony Evans
Churches must extend their influence beyond the lives of church members to impact the broader community that they serve.
~ Tony Evans
El hombre que no está bajo el liderazgo y la guía de la iglesia local no está viviendo bajo el liderazgo de Cristo, porque la iglesia es el cuerpo y la plenitud de Cristo.
~ Tony Evans
When men begin to function in their homes, accountable to the guidance and direction of a leader in the church, things change.
~ Tony Evans