Quotes About Leadership

Whenever they are reproached for such actions and for the many other disgraceful things they do, they think they can unload the heaviest charges by replying, 'Do as we say and not as we do'—as if constancy and steadfast behavior came more easily to the sheep than to their shepherds.

Do as we say, and not as we do

Orice guvern va conduce lumea, eu voi fi mereu în opoziÅ£ie.

Per far da papa bisogna saper far da sagrestano» –

Early in 1943, when the Germans had ordered that the 25,000 Jews of Sofia be deported to Poland, one man – Monsignor Angelo Roncalli, Apostolic Delegate to Turkey, later Pope John xxiii – acted without thought of political expediency or of what the Nazis might do.

c'est nous qui, dans cette phase, avons reconstruit l'imaginaire collectif du pays. Toutes les autres institutions s'étant écroulées, c'était à la télévision d'indiquer le chemin.

a única qualidade indispensável a um homem de poder é a capacidade de se apoderar das circunstâncias. Não pretender dirigi-las, mas apoderar-se delas com pulso firme.

Le pouvoir est comme le soleil et la mort, il ne peut se regarder en face. Surtout en Russie.

Como diz Fausto: «Quem comanda deve encontrar a sua felicidade no comando.»

Quando se neutraliza um atentado antes que ele se produza, ninguém se apercebe disso, ao passo que reagir com força, denunciar os culpados, isso sim, produz capital político.

única qualidade indispensável a um homem de poder é a capacidade de se apoderar das circunstâncias.

Poucas coisas são mais tristes do que os lugares de poder abandonados, onde os fantasmas do passado são mais fortes do que os homens de carne e osso que se obstinam em habitá-

Il ne faut jamais sous-estimer la nature sentimentale des rapports politiques.

Digamo-lo com franqueza: não há ditador mais sanguinário que o povo; só a mão severa mas justa do chefe lhe pode temperar o furor.

La plupart des hommes de pouvoir tirent leur aura de la position qu'ils occupent. À partir du moment où ils la perdent, c'est comme si la prise avait été arrachée. Ils se dégonflent comme ces poupées qui se trouvent à l'entrée des parcs d'attractions. On les croise dans la rue et on ne réussit pas à comprendre comment un type de ce genre a pu susciter autant de passions.

I offer neither pay, nor quarters, nor provisions; I offer hunger, thirst, forced marches, battles and death. Let him who loves his country in his heart, and not with his lips only, follow me.

Manažery jen žádáme, aby své spole?nosti ?ídili, jako by šlo o to jediné, co jejich rodiny vlastní a co také budou vlastnit v následujícím století.

How could one engage the world and yet not be cheapened by the aggressive dumbing-down that was the lifeblood of the commercial culture, the festering underbelly of the polity he sought to lead?

Thomas Paine was kind of the oh, I don't know. My apologies to Thomas Paine, but kind of the me of the genera I mean, I can't think of anybody else. A guy just saying, "Hey, really, stand up. Come on. We can do it." He was kind of the he was the media guy, really. He just did pamphlets, the rest of us just do TV.

We just put General Motors in the hands of people who can't even run our own government.

Always remember where we come from, how we got here, and Who led us into the warmth of the sunshine.

If you don't find a leader, perhaps it is because you were meant to lead.

It is no longer enough to just be a good person. We must work to be the next Abraham Lincoln or Martin Luther King. It is noble to strive to be the size of the bronze giant they dedicated this morning in the building behind me. Fredrick Douglas' time was in the 1800; King's time has passed. This is our time. This is the next long march toward civil rights and we shall overcome.

On Obama Administration] "I've never heard any administration or any business or anybody ever claim incompetence more than this group of people,