Quotes About Leadership

Sometimes a scoundrel is useful to our party precisely because he is a scoundrel. V. I. Lenin

Joshua made this frustrating period of waiting a time of learning, planning and preparing. Then when the opportunity came, he was ready to go in, claim the Promised Land for his followers, and settle there.

I have no idea what to do." Which was my mom's way of saying, "Now you do something." When my mom said she was out of ideas, it meant I had to step up.

Sometimes when a kid's got nobody really running things in his life, he'll decide to take over and take charge of everything. Otherwise the world just seems to be spinning out of control. That seem to hit a note in you?

Sometimes when a kid's got nobody really running things in his life, he'll decide to take over and take charge of everything. Otherwise the world just seems to be spinning out of control.

Behind all political success is attention to detail." LARRY O'BRIEN, adviser to John F. Kennedy

Politics—good politics—is public service. There is no life or occupation in which a man can find a greater opportunity to serve his community or his country. —HARRY TRUMAN

I shall be an autocrat, that's my trade and the good Lord will forgive me, that's his.

In politics a capable ruler must be guided by circumstances, conjectures and conjunctions.

Power without a nation's confidence is nothing.

I may be kindly, I am ordinarily gentle, but in my line of business I am obliged to will terribly what I will at all.

I praise loudly. I blame softly.

Just remember that the only question in a house is who is to rule. The rest is only dancing around that, trying not to look it in the eye.

Humanity lived many years and ruled the earth, sometimes wisely, sometimes well, but mostly neither.

I have to do it myself. That's what a Queen does. She saves herself.

That's how kings are made, my brush-tailed girl—they pick a place, shove a stick in it, call themselves King and wait to see if someone gets angry about it. No one has gotten angry so far, so that makes the otters mine.

Mabry Muscat looked pleadingly at Mallow, and she could not understand why they all obeyed him -- except that of course the King could eat them, and of course he was King, and did not people everywhere do more or less as they were told when someone with a crown did the telling?

I suppose if you have ten children one of them might go into government, which is the same as losing a child really.

Doesn't sound like anyone cares about Rightful until they want to kick someone else out of the chair.

For all that they love to make kings, John's folk seem to have little interest in the actual business of ruling anything. They like to become, they do not like to be.

Being the oldest sometimes meant being everyone's boss, but mostly, it meant being everyone's pack mule.

after we get hitched. About time Blake and Maggie took over this here house

When President Obama was in the Senate, when he was a U.S. senator, he voted against raising the debt ceiling. And he said it was a lack of leadership that had brought us to this point.

The new education must prepare our students to thrive in a world of flux, to be ready no matter what comes next. It must empower them to be leaders of innovation and to be able not only to adapt to a changing world but also to change the world.