Quotes About Leadership

Capítulo XX. Se as fortalezas e muitas outras coisas que a cada dia são feitas pelos príncipes são úteis ou não

One must be a fox in order to recognize traps, and a lion to frighten off wolves. Those who simply act like lions are stupid.

He who is highly esteemed is not easily conspired against

There is no other way of guarding against adulation, than to make people understand that they will not offend you by speaking the truth. On the other hand, when everyone feels at liberty to tell you the truth, they will be apt to be lacking in respect to you.

Many have imagined republics and principalities which have never been seen or known to exist in reality, for how we live is so far removed from how we ought to live, that he who abandons what is done for what ought to be done will rather bring about his ruin than his preservation.

Fear is as dangerous an enemy as resentment.

He who is the cause of another's greatness is himself undone, since he must work either by address or force, each of which excites distrust in the person raised to power.

And it ought to be remembered that there is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things, because the innovator has for enemies all those who have done well under the old conditions, and lukewarm defenders in those who may do well under the new.

I also believe that he who adapts his policies to suit the times will succeed, and he who does not, will fail.

If a prince holds on to his state by means of mercenary armies, he will never be stable or secure.

Everything has contributed to your greatness. You must do the rest.

By studying the masters and not their pupils.

It had been Theodore Roosevelt's dictum — using a supposed West African proverb — that a successful leader should "speak softly and carry a big stick.

Nigel Hamilton

If a leader merely carried out what historical forces made inevitable, it is not the person that mattered, it is the moment in time

Ranked seventeenth in the table of world military strengths in 1939, the United States was now primus inter pares, with an all-American military, economic, and political agenda, based on the clear goals of the four freedoms, that the President was determined to fulfill come hell or high water — with or without Soviet participation.

As the cabinet members all said no, Lincoln had summarized: "Seven nays and one aye, the ayes have it"!

Plato thought that letting the people vote was like letting the passengers steer a ship – far better to let people who knew what they were doing take charge.

Poems have serious business to do They need to bring down presidents who Start wars they themselves wouldn't go to

so julian bond was elected president and rap brown chief justice of the supreme court and nixon sold himself on 42nd street for a package of winstons

The scientific man does not aim at an immediate result. He does not expect that his advanced ideas will be readily taken up. His work is like that of the planter — for the future. His duty is to lay the foundation for those who are to come, and point the way. He lives and labors and hopes.

Ideal teachers are those who use themselves as bridges over which they invite their students to cross, then having facilitated their crossing, joyfully collapse, encouraging them to create bridges of their own.

The greatest prophet on earth can give men no more than a watchword, and the vaguer the watchword the greater the prophet.

It is not uncommon for a leader to win a debate - or even an election - who is intellectually inferior to his opponent but is better able to incite the emotions of the masses.