Quotes About Leadership

At that time, the army leadership said the implementation of this agreement would allow everyone, including the IRA, to take its political objectives forward by peaceful and democratic means.

Opinion is death. Opinion is plague. When it comes to web site management, trusting your gut is the last thing you should do.

I know what Germans are. They are a funny people. They are always choosing someone to lead them in a direction which they do not want to go.

Monarchies conform best to human nature and therefore constitute the most durable form of state.

If your heart is bigger than the biggest guy on the team, then you're the biggest guy on the team.

It's hard to get recognition when your team is losing.

Individual honors come with team success.

A good teacher is a determined person.

People who make history know nothing about history. You can see that in the sort of history they make.

When a politician is in opposition he is an expert on the means to some end; and when he is in office he is an expert on the obstacles to it.

Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated

Joshua was trembling, for he knew what lay before him, and he wanted to cry out and run after the man who had been his master for so many years. But he knew he must not. At last the figure disappeared in the distance so that even the keenest-eyed Israelite could not see him. And then Joshua turned to Caleb, tears streaming down his face. "Never again," he whispered, "will we see a man like Moses!

The author is leading and the spectator is following, but their path is the same.

There again, the acceleration of history is the job of ruthless men.

Mais c'est toujours ainsi en temps de guerre : les chefs aiment à décréter, du fond de leur quartier général, l'ordre de se faire tuer sur place, alors même qu'il suffirait d'un léger déplacement latéral pour éviter l'obus.

Something like hope begins, as if times can turn, the world change course. Maybe black-hearted boys in love with death won't blow themselves and us to smithereens, guns fall silent, the powerful cease slaughtering the weak, the rich will not gorge as the poor starve. Maybe good men will again come to power, truth speak, and words have meaning again. - New Moon

The man who can keep order can rule the world, but the man who can bear disorder is truly free.

It is their country, sergeant. You only hold the keys.

Russian government

I think the American government is now the most corrupt government in the world.

I felt unsteady as I lead Xerxes to his seat. Women in his kingdom were but dressing for a man's bed and a satisfactory way to provide heirs. The king had once banished a queen on the advice of his counsel. Now would he accept the word of his queen and banish the adviser? Dear God, I pleaded silently, how can it be that I should change history? I am a prisoner myself – how can I asked for the freedom of a nation?

You know, there's nothing damnable about being a strong woman. The world needs strong women. There are a lot of strong women you do not see who are guiding, helping, mothering strong men. They want to remain unseen. It's kind of nice to be able to play a strong woman who is seen

there is no head of state in the world today who is not in virtuality a criminal . Those who shoulder the dreary mantle of sovereignty know that their turn may come to be branded a criminal by their colleagues. We certainly will not be the ones to complain. For the sovereign, who freely consented to donning the executioner's clothes, is now finally manifesting his originary kinship with the criminal.

Governments must be conformable to the nature of the governed; governments are even a result of that nature.